Times Cryptic #28576

2023-04-13

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Across

1a

Pair winning almost immediately? (6)

4a

Married woman or country boy featured in curse (7)

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9a

Old piano delivered before time for stage performance (5)

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10a

Forswearing group full of English hypocrisy (9)

11a

A boy given time becomes VIP (9)

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12a

Instrument costing nothing no good? Return it! (5)

13a

Payment slashed? (4)

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14a

Remarkable chum hugging female and old blokes (10)

18a

Trade ad is out to catch people ultimately, offering essential items? (10)

20a

One church had to be decorated (4)

23a

Projection of sentimental stuff suiting the nobs? (5)

24a

What makes Oxford look bright? (9)

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25a

Officer studies information schematically presented (9)

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26a

Piece of cloth I found behind organ (5)

27a

Duck is some swimmer, seriously! (7)

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28a

Hearing that is very irritating (6)

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Down

1d

Publicity bod hurried round about and was successful (9)

2d

Series of deliveries managed but took too long (7)

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3d

Table with a flower still to be put up outside (6)

4d

Fellow consuming cold mineral (5)

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5d

Solitary advance amount of cash reported (8)

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6d

Bird with leg in something mouldy (7)

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7d

Country boy with change of direction finally (5)

8d

Bishop back, having embraced the brief time out? (8)

15d

Ignore heartless nut spouting gas (8)

16d

Heather coming across snake and running (9)

17d

A revolutionary socialist restricts fair person who'd make small changes (8)

19d

Problem gripping Rex in a state (7)

21d

Drink? Church worker imbibes oneand another one (7)

22d

Bird losing tail, pinned down by wood and stone (6)

23d

A court beset by a hundred and one plants (5)

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24d

Black farm building time's forgotten (5)