Times Cryptic #28096

2021-09-30

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Across

1a

Test clothing case right for several players (10)

6a

Taps with hard metal back one found in kitchen (4)

9a

Imaginary number probed by new technology (7)

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10a

Out of doors, old songwriter may do so (4-3)

12a

Hit with vigour, at first, producing a shiner (6,4)

13a

Female ravers might well! (3)

15a

Sick note doctor put in resting place (6)

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16a

Jazz circle met up, wanting Miles in Kind of Blue (8)

18a

Cups boy gold plates somewhere in Canada (8)

20a

What barker calls smoke (4,2)

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23a

Beers emptied along with a six-pack? (3)

24a

Lukewarm self-assessment? If so, there's no getting over it (10)

26a

Drugs in small on-line trysts? (7)

27a

Wreck or use loo, pushing the one in front back a bit (7)

28a

Manoeuvre soldiers around America (4)

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29a

Current wage packages issued again before 1st of December (7-3)

Down

1d

17 men and two females (4)

2d

Prepare to fire stone in battleground (7)

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3d

Saw producer of Marmite tip gas freely (13)

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4d

Go without lunch, say, in agreement (6)

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5d

Welsh politician in speech ignoring right and wrong (8)

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7d

More challenging to catch ball for keeper (7)

8d

Let go of key safety measure (4,6)

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11d

Hawking lecture's audience will do so upon arrival (13)

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14d

Who may get drunk with real relish, misbehaving (10)

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17d

One producing pieces from organic bin missing tons (8)

19d

Less well-known tracks around east too (7)

21d

I'm amused by fat religious reformer (7)

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22d

Venerated Egyptian flag, really raised on high (6)

25d

Victor seized by Turkish ruler quails (4)

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