Times Cryptic #28441

2022-11-07

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Across

1a

Loafer, perhaps, with small gardening tool (4)

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4a

Opening wooden instruments to cut plant (4,6)

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ASH (wooden) WIND (instruments) in SOW (plant, as verb)

9a

Not crazy to collect silverit's very popular (3,3,4)

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AG in ALL THERE

10a

Dye made from vanilla extract (4)

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11a

Cool spell I learned by phone (3,3)

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12a

Responsibility to deliver cut-price merchandise (4-4)

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14a

Opposed to predatory insect shedding skin (4)

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15a

Epitaph for one expressing incredulity? It's a humdinger! (10)

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‘RIP Snorter!’ might be found on the headstone of a sceptic in a cemetery in Crosswordland

17a

Terrible weather for every small hill, in sum (10)

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PER (for every) S (small) TOR (hill) in SUM

20a

Bit one postman occasionally (4)

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I (one) [p]O[s]T[m]A[n]

21a

Certain letters with kind features (8)

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23a

Business practice (6)

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24a

Refusal, then agreement, for recess (4)

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25a

Time that guy gets threatening without a bit of drink? (10)

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T (time) HIM (that guy) B[a]LEFUL (threatening without the letter a)

26a

Called in to search movie's last shooting location (5,5)

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RANG (called) in RIFLE (to search) E (final letter of movie)

27a

Revenue from wager, not small (4)

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Down

2d

Felt raunchy turning fifty! (4-7)

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3d

Taxi meter fiddledpenalties might follow this (5,4)

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4d

Old kingdom right to imprison English female in fur? (3-4)

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5d

Hold water, rum and ice to accommodate old male entertainer (5-2,8)

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6d

Consume stuffing with chickenit's made from grain (7)

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EAT (consume) in (stuffing) W (with) HEN (chicken)

7d

Took off identification when turning over money (5)

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reversal of RAN (took off) ID (identification)

8d

Writer passed by talking (5)

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13d

Reckon flute is playing modern dance music? (7-4)

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16d

Antwerp is awfully wet and windy (9)

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18d

Final part of Madmen shown first? Fall to pieces! (7)

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HATTERS with the s going to the front; a nod to Lewis Carroll and his quirky hatter

19d

Ghastly creature pinching taxi (7)

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21d

Singer's tone (5)

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22d

Academic holding over preliminary text (5)

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