Times Cryptic #28266

2022-04-16

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Across

1a

As London club, wanting a liberal in charge (7)

5a

Underground drain hasn't rain around entry (5)

9a

Man in Macbeth, say, moving east (5)

10a

Perhaps arm cracking whip in some French dairy (9)

11a

A prison bordering on a quantity of land (7)

12a

Web article in French about Greek (7)

13a

Retire from hospital? Dismissal following appeal (3,3,4)

15a

Expert leaves saying part of speech (4)

18a

Something that is so out of time in religious book (4)

20a

Reasonable skirts silver and trendy (3,3,4)

23a

Extraction tool appropriate to mushrooms (7)

24a

Rotten king: terrible ruler going over outline of speech (7)

25a

Praising person famous for driving on the right (9)

26a

Folk knowledge about India is current in Europe (5)

27a

Taps into valuable material to make pigment (5)

28a

Surveillance operation ditching Sierra or Escort (4,3)

Down

1d

Dry shirt messed up attending houses (7)

2d

Get brown paper bag without good article (8)

3d

Comfortable spot according to Otto I in north-east (5)

4d

Firm understood to dismiss leader involved in crime (9)

5d

Strip of rank ham after days (6)

6d

Where workers may be seen in High Barnet (7)

7d

Student of French you support on course (5)

8d

Figure Homer represented eating butter up (8)

14d

Climbing mountains, call to spare no expense (6,3)

16d

British troops accordingly keeping queen's men in order (8)

17d

Group of mates round after lager is drunk (8)

19d

By losing energy, where poor driver may end up (7)

21d

Believer in a philosophical idea and its main ground (7)

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22d

Waste the money one's paid in the Home Counties? (6)

23d

Lifted picture from big book (5)

24d

Boat unaffected after capsizing? (5)