Times Cryptic #28211

2022-02-11

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Across

1a

In Yorkshire town, large fruit's guarantee of freshness? (4-2,4)

6a

Composer's "very loud" alternative? (4)

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9a

Christopher to give up ringing his first relatives (4,3,3)

10a

Tight component in maladjusted gyroscope (4)

12a

Film of aviator, one whom we sent flying (1,4,4,1,4)

14a

Favour one make (6)

15a

Raise profit as symbol of oppression (8)

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17a

Not slow as Liberal Left to put in a sympathetic word (3,5)

19a

Sailor's secure? He might get the sack (6)

22a

Number dash to secure E European espionage facility (4-6,4)

24a

They're strung up and kept, equally securely, at the front (4)

25a

Fool's new pay cut works both ways (10)

26a

Aloud, runs down old preacher (4)

27a

Witnesses what's written beneath title of saintly Swede's book? (10)

Down

1d

Believer taking risks regularly in order to bring peace? (4)

2d

Volume of Poe'smaybe a line shows misprint (7)

3d

Repositioning hollow hidden log, lay back comfortably (2,1,4,5)

4d

Scorn drink after party (2,4)

5d

Chap runs, first to board public transport (8)

7d

Pole with fiddle meeting old composer (7)

8d

What'll silence buzzer going off initially when tyre's flat (10)

11d

Get behind trees overlooking motorway briefly and peer, mostly unseen (12)

13d

Assume nothing about a Lord Fauntleroy? (6,4)

16d

Good uniform one found tossed in vermin-infested tip (8)

18d

Drop holiday travel (5,2)

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20d

Couple beginning to talk without notes (7)

21d

I'm cool? The opposite, if not PC! (6)

23d

At college, a small tree (4)

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