Times Cryptic #28295

2022-05-20

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Across

1a

Brats go up to vandalise superior hostelry (9)

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6a

Important person with a billion banked? (5)

9a

In part of East End that's housing for the toffs? (7)

10a

Bit of food? Child eats seconds with a mother going short (7)

11a

River for you to sit beside somewhere in Sussex (3)

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12a

One takes the biscuit, as against a donkey? (11)

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14a

About to dive into water? Hold it! (6)

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15a

Giant oil spills making a sort of design (8)

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17a

One grand splashed out for something to make man a man? (8)

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19a

Religious proviso one gets in a church offering words of wisdom? (6)

22a

Tom maybe has a fit of temperexplosive meltdown? (11)

23a

Bird, one sadly missing outit can't fly! (3)

25a

American playerssee them briefly in undergarments? (7)

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27a

Gentleman sent back fish dish (it's ''crumby'') (7)

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28a

Ultimately that unwanted plant is a border flower (5)

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29a

Quiet and strangethat is street most badly built? (9)

Down

1d

Mollusc that has one looking amazed? (5)

2d

Chief has drink with engineers (7)

3d

Moves made by members of the family holding firm after upset (11)

4d

Characters that could be hard up in social isolation (6)

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5d

Second-rate monarch is moving (8)

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6d

Bright light upsets these Greek characters (3)

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7d

In quarrel notice piercing tool (7)

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8d

Bishop has deficiency, predicament from which there's no getting away (5,4)

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13d

Like message passed on to be perused, having got tidied up? (11)

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14d

Bit of wood left at back of farm in risky operation (9)

16d

Small balls in position one doesn't want to lose (8)

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18d

Relaxation of French taking wine with English (7)

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20d

This writer's needing to demonstrate progress (7)

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21d

City circles infiltrated by the Left (6)

24d

Visitor with touch of embarrassment breaking wind (5)

26d

Crazy girl I dumped (3)