Times Cryptic #28223

2022-02-25

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Across

1a

Piece of music has magnificent opening (5)

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4a

Vitamin primarily alleviating discomfort if colic's bad (5,4)

9a

Diligent help almost keeping couple united (9)

10a

One on flight to watch carefully, we're told (5)

11a

No Yankee reactionary has Socialist backing over there (6)

12a

Enriched fruit drink, sophisticated sort (8)

14a

Frantic partners put on odd bits of dress (10)

16a

Retro science facility, source of medicinal lotion (4)

19a

Marketeer's minimal stock purchased in Vienna (4)

20a

Changed side for Lord's is fully updated (8,2)

22a

Dispatch book left behind by somebody (8)

23a

Bear to the left, reaching city's stall at fair (6)

26a

Defective weight or, conversely, any number of grams (5)

27a

Mum forming part of twosome getting spliced at sea? (4,5)

28a

Freshly brewed tea missed cup (9)

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29a

Theologist invested in home improvements very little (5)

Down

1d

Big Eddy's circumspect bids scuppered (9)

2d

Child follows retreating gunners, firing irregularly (5)

3d

Gothic gong I've improperly seized (8)

4d

Small section of verse also fine on reflection (4)

5d

Take time to record final? (4-6)

6d

Court order restricting American patronage (6)

7d

Runs into region where there's money maybe for pancake? (5-4)

8d

Woeful setting for grand part of requiem (5)

13d

Conclude activity on field to lure foxes (4,6)

15d

Large pantry not yet full? (9)

17d

Unnamed lady cleared out ground in routine manner (9)

18d

Beaten cricket coach ultimately cheated (8)

21d

Promising biographer's first title (6)

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22d

Cried like a corvid deprived of heart, so we hear (5)

24d

Material lodged underneath piano (5)

25d

Increase in price for walking tour (4)