Times Cryptic #28091

2021-09-24

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Across

1a

First to move the panel, shifting piece of junk (5,8)

9a

Check temperature on car (5)

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10a

Not keen on new rival type of drug (9)

11a

Period in which one's at home drinking tea; Alice never quite made it (5,5)

12a

Farm worker finds nothing in sty (4)

14a

Start and finish not clearly defined (4-3)

16a

Having secret knowledge, lied perhaps about credit being short (7)

17a

Chests: some, we hear, having trouble with them? (7)

19a

One cutting ration admitting the end of futile resistance (7)

20a

City Mike succeeds in radioing (4)

21a

One practising with principal coach, not second (10)

24a

Unstable, upper-class, suicidal emperor's story (1,8)

25a

Added salt of copperrevolutionary! (5)

26a

Encourage somebody's effrontery? That's just embarrassing (3,2,4,4)

Down

1d

All day without Charlie? Dreadful: I can't put words to that (4-4-4-2)

2d

Loading spin-drier, one seen in Madagascar (5)

3d

Not demanding all the competitors appearing honest? (5-5)

4d

Secured page nearly dropped (7)

5d

Feeling for small coin, one to place on drawing (7)

6d

Aussie PM has a bible, the opposition leader too (4)

7d

Set among woods, hotel given one rating or another (5-4)

8d

One actor fired perhaps, with nothing written on sort of paper (5,9)

13d

Permitted variations aren't close when worked out (10)

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15d

All fine with me, getting changed at home? (2,7)

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18d

Halt in assigned place (7)

19d

Double offence in which king is absorbed (5,2)

22d

Standard upheld by a Druid priestess (5)

23d

Called and spoke (4)

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