Times Cryptic #28148

2021-11-30

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Across

1a

Carefully considering one's options, unlike Charles the Fat, say? (8)

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6a

Sinister Tory lord returning at start of year (6)

9a

Revival of addict, back with second award (13)

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10a

Spot man in house holding bomb? On the contrary (6)

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11a

Goliath running wild, inspiring northern hatred (8)

13a

Possibly bitter about China supporter (10)

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15a

Top-class teacher having a lie-in? (4)

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16a

Music-maker's poetic invocation of lover in recital? (4)

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18a

Lusty deb drooled horribly (3-7)

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21a

Response to expulsion by university admitting not so much (5,3)

22a

Seemed happy moving southbut deluded (6)

23a

Head office exploiting position in Barbican perhaps (7,6)

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25a

The Speaker's faction expressed their disappointment? (6)

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26a

Unpromising areas in which son finds things to eat (8)

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Down

2d

Drugs making you a prima donna? (7)

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3d

Those curious poker yarns scoundrel initially concocted (4,7)

4d

Children resulting from affair? (5)

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5d

Examined closely, as swordfish might be? (7)

6d

A bishop trapped by two men in tangled vegetation (9)

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7d

Holy man in French island uprising (3)

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8d

Coppers accepting a new punishment (7)

12d

S for sovereign? (4,2,5)

14d

Catcher of worms, as the dodo was? (5,4)

17d

Layabout upset by occasionally chaotic dancers (7)

19d

Daughter in wig perhaps, having dropped an E? (7)

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20d

Beginner abandons most demanding challenge (7)

22d

Lawgiver playing part in generalissimo's escape (5)

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24d

Ailment dispatching commanding officer? How awful! (3)