Times Cryptic #28044

2021-07-31

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Across

1a

A little boy, Winchester's sixth former (8)

5a

Breeding ground cultivated to catch disease (6)

9a

Malevolent creature might, if out of bounds (3)

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10a

Attack the rice wine, with days in November being dreary! (11)

12a

Gave in a hundred pounds to get hold of key drug (10)

13a

Broadcast clip showing match (4)

15a

Go to town three times, the last two prematurely (3,3)

16a

Tie that's displaced the first semi, indeed (3,4)

18a

Carter's wife doomed! (7)

20a

Fare reducing entails EU ministers backtracking (6)

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23a

Building extensions taken to extend much more than an inch? (4)

24a

ie, being ill adapted? (10)

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26a

Quietly getting shot of horse in one (in some way)? (5,6)

27a

Bounder deposing the king of the castle (3)

28a

A magpie, for example, heard devouring small cuckoo (6)

29a

At home, maybe take time away from flood (8)

Down

1d

"Save our NHS", say hospital nurses to Chronicle (6)

2d

An eccentric revolutionary, that Spanish primate (7)

3d

Pasta to follow: one fabricating popular starter for Italians (10)

4d

After motorway, turned up sideroad on the way to work (5,8)

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6d

Books containing pictures for everyone to remove (4)

7d

Roast cut by ladies, perhaps, and a cake (7)

8d

Scales down, at the outset, original RAF fund (8)

11d

Such as Maggie Tulliver, oddly in love: a rarity! (3,2,1,7)

14d

Buttress with ends of segment touching, and no good, therefore (10)

17d

Climber's later course, kilometre from summit (8)

19d

Suffers with effect of freefall here? (7)

21d

The state in which old police chief's bearing left one (7)

22d

Part of snooker's scoring system given a makeover? (6)

25d

Forbidding party game to be taken up (4)