Times Cryptic #28517

2023-02-03

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Across

1a

Alternative locks king removed from hot dwelling (6)

5a

Abundant crop, if spreading, smothers large island (8)

9a

Left route before wrong turning in Welsh town (8)

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10a

Pickled eggs from the east a big hit (6)

11a

Abandons currently popular ball at court (4,4)

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12a

Traitor briefly in charge of religion (6)

13a

Advertise target when putting in plumbing feature (8)

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15a

What's added to the pot, brewing tea around noon (4)

17a

Last bit of craft in work, going back and forth (4)

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19a

Excess from Oscar on daily bar tours (8)

20a

Petrify East German finally at the borders (6)

21a

Sort of lining used to be covering in bed (8)

22a

Stand experience of drug overdose (6)

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23a

Dieter ultimately has trouble with eccentric means to reduce fare? (8)

24a

Numerous staff getting on with uncertainty first (8)

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25a

Official old men backing one out on the tiles? (6)

Down

2d

Flipping insubstantial parts I'm going to name Olivia or Orsino? (8)

3d

Air carrier's current, seemingly good plane's outside (8)

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4d

Tom, say, fencing off grand and small grain store (9)

5d

Have to block that inept reformed Communist Party (5,3,4,3)

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6d

Leaves uniform during service etc at sea (7)

7d

Spanish Steps also taken in by lover on journey (8)

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8d

What meat cleaver might do quickly? (4,4)

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14d

Chemist has nothing in cracked vials? That is right (9)

15d

A slogan about limiting consumption, basically (2,6)

16d

Player succeeded in that specific instrument, mostly (8)

17d

One wine or another drunk by computer company (8)

18d

After one female goes astray, it's as expected (2,6)

19d

Cliff externally eroded with swell rising (4-3)