Times Cryptic #28809

2024-01-10

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Across

1a

Time to abandon HGV and dismiss carrier (8)

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5a

Writer crossing key expanse of water (6)

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9a

Long tapering rod with copper point (3)

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10a

Chap, European, with ginger group, doing good (11)

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12a

Left to hosts the last word in singing technique (10)

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13a

Fellow attorney's notes at conclusion of work (4)

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15a

Set of signs originally observed in parts of Cadiz (6)

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16a

Exciting accommodation for Cockneys by river (7)

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18a

In French art, a seabird from Asia, perhaps (7)

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20a

Clear case first of investigators dropped (6)

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23a

End of novel this writer's not previously recorded (4)

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24a

Aromatic oil from metropolis endlessly attracting Reagan and Fitzgerald? (10)

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26a

Laying out tenner, I grew a woodland plant (11)

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27a

Chinese philosophy Hogarth regularly encountered, going back (3)

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28a

Terrible-sounding US politician's jewelled headband (6)

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29a

Able to extend sentence served by youth leader (8)

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Down

1d

Directions for making dish ready to eat around City (6)

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2d

Guerrilla leader overwhelming European port for so long (7)

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3d

Underwater crewman's regular payment, one grabbed by literary miser (10)

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4d

Supercilious criminal going down (13)

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6d

Mischievous Mike pulling out of parade (4)

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7d

Capital journey round Long Island (7)

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8d

Study dance, a former Stock Exchange procedure (8)

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11d

Best possible prediction, but it makes us tense! (6,7)

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14d

Support woman torn apart by decade attached to church (10)

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17d

Possible bride's day at Cornish resort? Not quite (8)

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19d

A vehicle principally noted in South Africa's grasslands (7)

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21d

Like a river: nothing to do with the ears (7)

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22d

Lad carrying American tool unknown in German state (6)

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25d

Old monk's sleeping-place at end of compline (4)

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