Times Cryptic #28090

2021-09-23

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Across

1a

Legal officer has trouble breaking strike (7)

5a

Game withdrawing place for quiz buff (3,2)

9a

Writer phonesbiographer rings back (5)

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10a

Doctor, initially kept in barracks, works in kitchen? (9)

11a

Anchor held by hideous, headless phantom (7)

12a

Marked student's first, abridged unseen? No (7)

13a

Aid when sewing up chinos in fragments (10)

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15a

Right to remove mouse's head from trap (4)

18a

Husband and child after return fare (4)

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20a

When unlikely to be welcomed into a hotel owned by us? (2,3,5)

23a

Reason given to those being punished (4,3)

24a

Tossing carrot to black kid in Golf (7)

25a

Developed from birth in US, different from US! (9)

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26a

Swindlers, at least eight, after dope ... (5)

27a

... one more coming in to give out pot (5)

28a

Article removed from slope off ramp (7)

Down

1d

Musician with good news for impatient undergraduate? (7)

2d

Aug 1 isn't especially for a saint (8)

3d

Irritating incident that can harm you at first (5)

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4d

Support coming from old Labour leader's flunky (9)

5d

Outlaw to plunder gold, lifting unknown amount (3,3)

6d

Fish from lake caught by one out on it? (7)

7d

Displaying calmno one was affected (5)

8d

What's most impressive about albatross spawning mutant? (8)

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14d

Random greeting to Romeo by young lady (3,2,4)

16d

Army officer and doctor, each ringing when desperate (4-4)

17d

Powerful feller appearing in series 12 (8)

19d

Pensioners putting up singular fight for platform to be heard? (7)

21d

Public service, something with no end, no beginning (7)

22d

Workplace no longer being kept ready? (6)

23d

Did snake bite? (5)

24d

Belief, revolutionary one, obsessed captain (5)