Times Cryptic #28503

2023-01-18

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Across

1a

Note queen occupying house, say (10)

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6a

Love last of chess captures winning back piece (4)

10a

Cutting time on ring road fellow circles (7)

11a

On vacation, amusement in that place in play area? (7)

12a

Procession of figures not unknown in part of Ireland (9)

13a

Short introduction to Armenian song and dance (5)

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14a

Drive, coming out of Malmo, to Riga (5)

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15a

Low Head of News turned to round of features (4-5)

17a

Increase in sweet food taken into kind of blue movie (9)

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20a

Delayed expression of approval? (2,3)

21a

East to west, head for German city (5)

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23a

Examiner not precise in translation out of English (9)

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25a

Nab criminal wearing soft fabric, one running the cooler (3,4)

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26a

Somewhere in California I see in Maine, surprisingly? (7)

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27a

In France the art remains shunned by consumers (4)

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28a

Animal trainer securing right means to get milk (6,4)

Down

1d

Amount added to account? It may bear fruit (5)

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2d

Decorative veneer sample with leading brand (9)

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3d

Put up with one hammering meat (7-7)

4d

Maybe music class getting answer right at first (3,4)

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5d

Corrode a metal in periodically scratched section (3,4)

7d

Aide saving regular tranches of venture capital once (5)

8d

Start to scarper, fly, go off and leg it (9)

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9d

What witches do with e.g. worker's legal agreement (4,2,8)

14d

Old lady's looking sad, abandoned by a virtuoso (9)

16d

Strong drink stirred reaction, you heard (9)

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18d

A thousand I withheld from lousier clothes-maker? (7)

19d

Hosting East German, bit a kind of pancake (7)

22d

Feel this could make 21 (5)

24d

Concerned with politician concealing a plot again (5)

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