Times Cryptic #28421

2022-10-14

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Across

1a

Love given to cleaner reforming strict policy (4,9)

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8a

Stole hit repeatedly broadcast (4)

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9a

Paraphrases vignetteproper text is regularly ignored (10)

10a

Cook entertains news boss and European publisher (8)

11a

OS showing circuitous routes? (6)

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13a

Approve recording 50 in random sporting format (6,4)

16a

Academician getting measure of wit around Asian land (4)

17a

Jack at hostelry serves spirits (4)

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18a

Branching chart complete: right to divide dog and sheep (10)

20a

The wine in Provence is sent back? Complain tearfully (6)

22a

Wasteful gourmand round bar with beer in short measure (8)

24a

Brownish-orange peels from the tikka covering grated carrot (10)

26a

Old German wants no second extension to cell (4)

27a

Mature males on staff in film showing organisational incompetence (13)

Down

1d

Believer in Arizona sort that needs conversion (11)

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2d

Fleet applying pressure in attack (5)

3d

Australian bird's hangover symptom? (9)

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4d

Unimaginative drunk left after considerable time (7)

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5d

Painter Foster's spilled a thinner on the ground (5)

6d

Speed up Bletchley Park genius, providing support (9)

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7d

Cold-blooded creature clever duke abandoned (3)

12d

Unable to catch fast doe running without delay inside (4,2,1,4)

14d

Everyone in Rome crowds quartet there: men who'd take it all in? (9)

15d

Long drink in beer garden? (4,2,3)

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19d

Horse adopted by Pathan represented fiery mixture (7)

21d

Edges to lightly cover with a stretchy fabric (5)

23d

Seeing red in abattoir at Edgware (5)

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25d

Line the writer grasps when climbing tree (3)