Times Cryptic #28217

2022-02-18

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Across

1a

Service for which you may pick up scooters? (7)

5a

Learner opening iron box finds mineral (7)

9a

Traffic just arriving at mercantile event (5,4)

10a

Approve boomerangs as prepared by native Australian (5)

11a

Picking up speed, run in at an angle before camber (8,5)

13a

Hasten current quietly flowing back through river (8)

15a

Warning at Caped Crusader's residence earlier (6)

17a

Soak occupied drinking Freixenet at first (6)

19a

Good fortune's met with old college linguist (8)

22a

Loves details moved around with creative accounting? (3,5,5)

25a

Legally land aquatic reptile, leaving trap (5)

26a

Statesman's boys in grand school taking English last (9)

27a

Despair's endingtwo biblical characters help (7)

28a

Rotten manoeuvres to keep millions in pain (7)

Down

1d

Beastly healer having zero power to stop (4)

2d

Order placed in shop to send out hot shellfish (7)

3d

Russian female revolutionary in American election (5)

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4d

Do nothing when grub on the rise devours insect (8)

5d

Perhaps deeply embedded, needing a meal (6)

6d

Something awful is compared with madness (4,5)

7d

Plain in Peru occasionally windy as reported (7)

8d

Others getting beer in consumed spread (4,6)

12d

Police almost there to crash in hovercraft? (10)

14d

Waste one's drinkhave to see about that (9)

16d

Guerrillas in Nicaragua beginning to tell the difference (8)

18d

Supporting union, not broken, involving sides in dispute (7)

20d

Moving supply, hence parts miles off (7)

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21d

French article put forward case: right to leave union (6)

23d

Beam to cut from Lebanese cedar regularly (5)

24d

Ecstasy in club for pound (4)