Times Cryptic #28094

2021-09-28

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Across

1a

Tiny little daughter fighting shark? (8)

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5a

Mount near Jerusalem to be found in Old Testament (6)

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9a

Bob not half a scoundrel (3)

10a

Destroyer of trees and fruit initiated by a man (5,6)

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12a

Drug supplier peaceful type? Not if embracing hurt (10)

13a

Dublin money once used for gamble (4)

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15a

Young bird caught finally by good trap (6)

16a

Poem about child who lived in biblical nation? (7)

18a

Hoarding silver is bizarre? It's a scandal (7)

20a

Issue of this writer securing little work after office's closure (6)

23a

Quiet hours allowing you and me to tuck in (4)

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24a

Old instrument given new lifesomething worth having husband collected (6,4)

26a

One of the aspirations of the French inventor to make national symbol (7,4)

27a

Something maybe in freezer that is keeping cold (3)

28a

Track has one slipping, left abandoned (6)

29a

Food in shell is French, load being imported (8)

Down

1d

Bill in old accommodation set up again from the start (2,4)

2d

Gangster gets money as early as this (7)

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3d

Broken-up female thinking about practical joke (10)

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4d

Awfully shy PE teacher keeping quietencouragement needed to talk (6,7)

6d

Parrot shows resplendence with head concealed (4)

7d

Physicist inventing tube is daringno good missing out (7)

8d

Group of soldiers in army secures agreements (8)

11d

Vulgarity that may render everything bland (13)

14d

Container with a lentil mistaken for another plant (10)

17d

The pools could disguise these awful pits (8)

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19d

Endlessly irritable educationist means to create experimental environment (4,3)

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21d

Golf and aquatic sport becoming more popular? (7)

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22d

Trendy girl coming out, student ultimately needing a loan? (2,4)

25d

Monarch at home in poetic isle (4)

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