Times Sunday #5023

2022-09-04

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Across

1a

Music hall playing every hita treat! (7,7)

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Before cruises, outspoken sailor lets himself down (7)

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11a

Vote against either side in Carlsbad agreement (7)

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12a

Food lovers try with rums and nuts (9)

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13a

Lush plant in fresh soil from the east (5)

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Thoroughly trendy dog found in Oz (2,4)

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Boat's front bit attached to its prow at sea (8)

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18a

Afraid of current, next to river keeping dry (8)

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20a

Good health argument supporting rest (6)

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23a

Acute accent (5)

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25a

Killer before entering beat back bodyguards (9)

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26a

Keen to pay without delay (7)

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27a

Staff guarding the new chopper (7)

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28a

Regular fee one ground typically slashed (10,4)

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Down

2d

A rating on a phone battery (7)

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3d

Graduate's silly to go round speaking like a native (9)

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4d

Bergamot is a neat ingredient for herbal tea (6)

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5d

Gathers hard work is in store for pupils (4,4)

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6d

Painter in Arles is fed drink periodically (5)

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7d

Soldier's uplifting story about love (7)

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8d

Doyens, say, among Bush's people (5,9)

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9d

Rod getting caught by joint provides leverage (10,4)

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16d

Desire, perhaps represented by Sartre, etc (9)

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Married in Croatia, plastered with perfume (8)

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19d

Big name placed over new business (5-2)

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21d

Worker in a novel initially, not still here? (7)

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22d

Textbook three, maybe third of three (6)

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24d

Wear what the chap did on 'is 'orse (5)

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