Times Cryptic #28615

2023-05-29

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Across

1a

Tramps on front of porch, one attracted by our neighbour (6)

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5a

One's not expected America to back British pronunciation to increase (8)

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9a

In election meeting Conservative on look out for Liberal to interrupt (8)

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CON + C(L)AVE.

10a

Times covers revolutionary Iran in a sort of code (6)

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B(anagram of IRAN)Y.

11a

In team playing left half, powerful winger (6)

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12a

A tactic I deployed to find lake (8)

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14a

Mysterious object Alice might have seen in the Duchess's kitchen? (6,6)

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17a

As a result of hard work cracked a new profession (3,4,5)

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Anagram of A N PROFESSION.

20a

Spare new driver always having to cover paper round (4,4)

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L + E(FT,O)VER, one that most solvers will just biff.

22a

The story, in short: depressed, being fat (6)

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23a

In the front beautiful arrangement in flowerbed (6)

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25a

Steal in? (4-4)

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26a

Useless people on this stage? (4,4)

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An allusion to the Deadwood Stagecoach in the Doris Day movie of Calamity Jane.

27a

Omen to take railway not street in holiday month (6)

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Down

2d

Catch a husband, a smoker (6)

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3d

WW1 soldier at end of leave gets this order wrong (4,2,5)

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4d

Don't sack old city: keep it under your boot perhaps (5,4)

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5d

Old poet all bones, lacking later energy (7)

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6d

It's inhuman to black men needing a lift (5)

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TO B OR, upside-down

7d

Function in series (3)

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8d

Wounded with gun, strain to get inside (8)

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13d

Almost consider retail a kind of therapy (11)

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15d

Crime against ploughman reported in a flash (9)

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16d

Left individual with a few in solitary (8)

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18d

Dry chapter trimmed all round (7)

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19d

Agree scam must get old police turning up (6)

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CON + RUC upside-down….our old friends, the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

21d

Successor to Leo VI right to abdicate (5)

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24d

Dandy dropping Ecstasy is a failure (3)

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