Times Cryptic #29466

2026-02-14

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Across

1a

Group returning after spring floods (6)

5a

Having something oily manufactured in self-contained unit (7)

9a

Speed up what grape-treaders do (4,2,3,5)

11a

Footballers in Europe struggle with selection process maybe (9)

12a

Sailor comes in drunkone on foot? (5)

13a

A youngster suffering setback in stage of biological development (4)

14a

Grace appears to hide wrinkles? (10)

18a

Not working to hold line, causing deviation (10)

20a

My cathedral city with saint forgotten (4)

22a

Office worker in US thus assumes control of X (5)

23a

Blood beginning to pour with a frenzy around hospital department (9)

25a

Have chap insert pipe wronglywhat you get with learning on the job? (14)

26a

Hesitant approach of amateur painter, maybe covering that place inadequately (7)

27a

Famous biochemist first to sequence nettle (6)

Down

2d

Vessels lean, capsizing in period where progress is halted (3,4)

3d

Exercises embraced by seaman to become thinner (5)

4d

Aware male’s dividing opinion (9)

5d

Nameless dupe must keep quiet? Bah! (5)

6d

Splendid Scot has joke, one being taken in (8)

7d

Minimal flow ending in dead river in northern England (7)

8d

Dirty revolutionary, over time, was domiciled (5)

10d

Plain hat worn by troublemaker (6)

15d

Make vicars agitated excluding American Nonconformists (9)

16d

One preserves church book with page missing (6)

17d

Italian seaport’s migratory birds gathering around mid-autumn (8)

19d

Cinema left abandoned, shelter for a Greek character (7)

21d

Avoiding temptress, like one against being ensnared (7)

22d

Southern district of city, green area (5)

23d

Foolish requirement for infant’s bedroom? (5)

24d

Car manufacturer losing sales ultimately in first month (5)