Times Cryptic #28268

2022-04-19

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Across

1a

Little bird, one moving around Baltic capital (10)

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6a

Character on staff in bicycle factory (4)

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10a

Extremely savvy academic backing church council (5)

11a

Free, but worried by old ruse, we hear (9)

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12a

Physicist gets back, carrying article for monarch (5,3,6)

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14a

Complex woman's chosen academician (7)

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15a

Fixes high-backed benches (7)

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17a

What we learn by securing established award (7)

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19a

Sadly pensive husband leaving game, for unhurried lunch, primarily (7)

20a

Comparison made by petulant judge before new church (5-9)

23a

Stage work the writer's penning finally about worker (9)

24a

Host reading out a couple of letters (5)

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25a

American tug (4)

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26a

Be leader of school group, finding source of river (10)

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Down

1d

Play for cash, initially beside Welsh river (4)

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2d

Officer surrounded by mounds of sand on southern headland (9)

3d

Eminent politician, say, cutting shrubs on island (5,9)

4d

Sluggishness of one on illegal drug in train, tripping (7)

5d

Unfeeling Cockney lacking skill, we hear? (7)

7d

Everyone turns up? Not at allthat's plain (5)

8d

Diabolically his vacillating stops amiable Republican leaving (10)

9d

Musical interlude Verdi composed: it's transmitted around Maine (14)

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13d

Unmanageable soldiers, spanner finally thrown in works (10)

16d

Series of changes demanding energy on bike? (4,5)

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18d

Solitary responsibility welcomed by Europeans (7)

19d

Specific time tiny fellow meets daughter (7)

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21d

Main old container touring east (5)

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22d

Steering equipment made from hard wood (4)

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