Times Cryptic #28645

2023-07-03

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Across

1a

Male artist crossing a bar for a dance in Cuba (8)

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A BAN in HE RA

5a

Save container king left out for wine (6)

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10a

Military unit cheers celebrity joining club (9)

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11a

Move stealthily, principally pursuing rare bird (5)

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12a

Netting son installed in border going west (4)

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S in HEM reversed

13a

Sail south, having a kip at first in Greater London town (9)

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S A K[ip] in PINNER (area of London, once in Middlesex)

15a

Undemanding force in English stronghold changing sides (10)

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F (force) in E (English) FORT[r]ESS – L for r

17a

Intelligence required to frame right legal document (4)

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R in WIT

19a

Way you initially cross an underworld river (4)

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20a

Bird westerners originally precooked, unexpectedly (10)

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W[esterners] anagram* of PRECOOKED

22a

Extended opus rated badly (9)

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24a

Necklace identified in lecture on radio (4)

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26a

Prickly plant originally trapping antler, perhaps (5)

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T[rapping] HORN

27a

Defeat wife going on about steering apparatus (9)

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OVER (about) W (wife) HELM (steering apparatus)

28a

Midshipman Easy's head used in advert (6)

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E[asy] in REFER

29a

Steps over the top, twirling a dagger (8)

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Down

1d

Vagrant bowled over by house (4)

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2d

Movement in water of peacock, say, by river in Staffs city (9,6)

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BUTTERFLY (peacock butterfly) R in STOKE

3d

Articles digested by obsessive animal minder (8)

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A THE in NERD

4d

Endlessly regretting introduction to such decayed buildings (5)

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6d

A large tree growing in European mountains (6)

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7d

Farm animals reportedly damaged a career in affluent zone? (11,4)

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8d

Style of singing at our carol broadcast? (10)

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9d

Impartial peacekeepers stationed around India (8)

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14d

Child's toy that may set the pulse racing! (10)

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a peashooter fires a pea, i.e. a type of pulse

16d

Free fight in horse's compartment (8)

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18d

Award most agreeable old canon set up (8)

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21d

What a scrounger may do to get cake (6)

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a scrounger will sponge

23d

Lived in comfort briefly in outskirts of Detroit (5)

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WEL[l] in D[etroi]T

25d

It may include shellsfrom Brixham mostly (4)

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