Times Cryptic #28402

2022-09-22

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Across

1a

Embellish book's jacket, receiving retrospective grant (6)

4a

Judge leaving kid bearing crown is Walter Mitty type (8)

10a

Arab once struggling across line in Olympic venue (9)

11a

Average temperature implied (5)

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12a

Clothing for Tokyo's nobility largely unused (3)

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13a

Absurd assistant sweeping around old cross (11)

14a

Unfinished section of minster creating hazard (6)

16a

Coastal city below Wash (7)

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19a

Detective officer, man of concern to women (7)

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20a

Look at me outside Yemeni port, returning at some point (3,3)

22a

Soft glow is potentially charming, encircling loch (11)

25a

Noughts on end of digit in addition (3)

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26a

Carry mark as symbol of clan membership (5)

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27a

Working on one line in poem, showing adaptability (9)

28a

Continue speaking with an artist, getting final word? (8)

29a

It links extremely healthy writer with hospital investment (6)

Down

1d

Primate voiced displeasure entering bar (6)

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2d

Recalled verse concerning boring food for Muslim ascetics (9)

3d

Steal lead from church and take a close look round (5)

5d

Gossips circulating primarily among shoe shop staff perhaps (14)

6d

Like to come round by Tuesday to see compound (9)

7d

Patriarch's untaxed investment about to be raised (5)

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8d

Guardian's gripping article is utterly bizarre (8)

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9d

A forceful, eccentric fan's a rare find (4-4,6)

15d

Region's last Neanderthal? He didn't quite make it (6,3)

17d

Sorted out the law I'd broken, getting time inside (5,4)

18d

East European charging money for Shylock's tutors (8)

21d

Single man disheartened and glum (6)

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23d

Indecent, having name for sergeant major's barking (5)

24d

Emotional rent boy's base (5)