Times Cryptic #28070

2021-08-31

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Across

1a

Lifeless hair? There's no spring in it (8)

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5a

Clubs depressed bridge team, not the brightest people? (6)

10a

Small picture that's reduced by 50 per cent in album unfortunately (9)

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11a

Called, cancelling start of general preparatory period (3-2)

12a

Attractive forests are finally encountering axes (4)

13a

Deft clue I recast is misleading (9)

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15a

Green spots in food store leading to no serious comment (10)

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17a

Pencil marking circling a line rejected as nonsense (4)

19a

Letter from nine written in reverse (4)

20a

Abundance of banality? More work required, with one change (10)

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22a

Waters garden bordering river in curved shape (9)

24a

Party goer regularly finding the way out? (4)

26a

Picture I get by removing a name (5)

27a

Circulating damp polluted air in strange plant-holder (9)

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28a

Queen and King tucking into quiet drink (6)

29a

Henry is working to block agent, backing mind-control (8)

Down

1d

Assistant forgoing record tax (4)

2d

Place to gamble with mature, Damascene conversion (9,6)

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3d

Catalogue containing old book by political operator (8)

4d

Vegetable, cold and difficult to chew (5)

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6d

Poet, fat and benevolent, neglecting daughters (6)

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7d

Unexpected gains in turn decline for spells (8,7)

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8d

Gloomy corner church artist has come in to draw (10)

9d

Pick source of radioactivity on particle (8)

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14d

Runs off after snatching coat, to be precise (5,5)

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16d

Note rise of US writer they condemned as a mere beginner (8)

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18d

Excellent sewer sequestering carbon in damaging fluid (4,4)

21d

Something burning up oxygen in measuring device (6)

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23d

Very much forgetting day in the remote past (5)

25d

Way of working will fill a second book (4)

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