Times Cryptic #28074

2021-09-04

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Across

1a

Notoriously surreptitious tirade by convict on the inside (10)

6a

Vagrant starts to head off before others (4)

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8a

Heartless fool stopping 23 about cure (8)

9a

Enjoy something saucy (6)

10a

State of symmetric pair of Autobahn sections (4)

11a

Matt O'Brien trained flowering plant (10)

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12a

Blackmail divorcee, perhaps twisting, getting caught (9)

14a

Defeat following no-score draw between sides (5)

17a

Finish off project number one for Bronski Beat (5)

19a

Dog, rushed into duties, recalled across river (2,7)

22a

Cheap show by awful medium entertaining me, later us (4,6)

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23a

Regularly observed Neptunian mountain (4)

24a

Finish, as do Gog and Magog (6)

25a

Where to find third man to duel if ill (8)

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26a

Boss of film company refusing one Oscar (4)

27a

Subordinate settles in courtroom clothes (10)

Down

1d

Pretentious uniform United hire out around November (9)

2d

Allure cheers up area (7)

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3d

English couple backtracking after a company order (8)

4d

Hope to stop at this one theft, hoarded for distribution (3,3,2,3,4)

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5d

Solvers bagging second in arts degree in a foreign language (6)

6d

Handle left on extremely lofty north Lakeland peak (9)

7d

Old president overseeing pledge of intended code of chivalry (7)

13d

Agreed over leg measurement in turn up (2,3,4)

15d

Animals spared and set free (3,6)

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16d

Trucker loading tonnes into ship after moving cover (8)

18d

Lock-keeper from Tehran travelling around India (7)

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20d

Reassert case over including player (7)

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21d

Oriental art work ultimately attracting deep breath perhaps when removed from case (4,2)