Times Cryptic #28553

2023-03-17

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Across

1a

It'd be out of place in crab menu (5,3)

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5a

Ingredient in plaster put over spot in face (6)

9a

Settle amount in empty beer glass? (3)

10a

Bebop's insiders interrupting one of Stones, who are troublemakers (4,3,4)

12a

For an audience, musical collection bore a small organ (10)

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13a

Oh, endless joy to behold with desire (4)

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15a

Mutilate man's title from edition being recalled (6)

16a

Incisor's coating of enamel seen on outside of head (7)

18a

Innumerable other ranks including private following uniform (7)

20a

Time lost to abacus at last in turning beads (6)

23a

Reflection of petrifying monster would show no such spirit (4)

24a

Oil rig labourer to supplant sailor in rabble (10)

26a

Light support of container in case carried by Richard (11)

27a

A childcount some 23? (3)

28a

No tension in parishioners clutching cross (6)

29a

Maybe use too few items plucked from cushion or bolster (8)

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Down

1d

Particular church rings Stepney's boundaries (6)

2d

Seen in context, remedy is immoderate (7)

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3d

Mum more properly binds leg for one in the long run (10)

4d

Low-key coronation may be so rude (13)

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6d

Perhaps Klein bottle volume with positive sign? (4)

7d

Temporary odds, absorbing for golfers? (7)

8d

Protective one's maintaining alternative line (8)

11d

Strange sins or original one (13)

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14d

More than one older lamb chop lasagne's crust's not kept well (10)

17d

Of operations, precise as military ones (8)

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19d

Fire survivor's tool ultimately seen in photos (7)

21d

Maximally delay start of demonstration to shout from here? (7)

22d

Not quite saying what'll reduce cholesterol (6)

25d

Digs away from hills? (4)

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