Times Cryptic #28206

2022-02-05

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Across

1a

For meals, leaves one's school in grassy area (5,5)

6a

Third child in eighth group (4)

8a

Item tossed by figure turning red (8)

9a

Cross Russia's capital, carried by driver (6)

10a

Drops of the hard stuff from prince hosting yours truly (4)

11a

Drifting in river, like male cattle (10)

12a

Uncooperative individual fires nuke off (9)

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14a

Publication covering travel in Biblical land (5)

17a

Returned free packaging from Amazon in worst moment (5)

19a

Is divine sun best for Old Testament figure? (9)

22a

Bagging loaf, some asparagus for those in the van (10)

23a

Where to park behind Spanish car (4)

24a

Beyond the pale to entertain current idea (6)

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25a

European daily swallowing a drink (8)

26a

Baguette conceivably a source of irritation (4)

27a

Erato's lute playing is a feature of Homer's work (5-5)

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Down

1d

Senior grabbing a cold drinkcool, sweet stuff (9)

2d

Wearing underwear, hiding bottom quickly (2,5)

3d

Islands in North America beset by decay (8)

4d

Detective storycryptically, read end? (1,5,2,7)

5d

Where the accused is extremely evident in legal register (6)

6d

Slow delivery, in all, is failing to secure a maiden over (5,4)

7d

Bill a small business making condiment (7)

13d

Making water with iodine in primitive land (9)

15d

Stars ultimately fuming about a complaint by listener (5,4)

16d

Many a Mandarin test with problems about answer (8)

18d

Cough and cold remedy, with no top on a jar (7)

20d

At home, cut up coat: at the edges it's woolly (7)

21d

Losing heart, what separates us from the French designer (6)