Times Sunday #5200

2026-01-25

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Across

1a

Drink a little king knocked over big cheeses (8)

5a

Old country in a continent leader has fled (6)

10a

MC Hammer or nun with acne (9)

11a

Foreign city perhaps right to cordon off isle (5)

12a

A French track overgrown with grass? (5)

13a

Europeans travelling around San Marino (9)

14a

I deliver vocals with music producer directing (10)

17a

Reach with difficulty old chap who can't get off Madeira? (4)

19a

Country girl shortly to win boy's heart (4)

20a

Rebelling about Republican cuts, I start ding-dong (4-6)

22a

British in numbers touring a northern city abroad (9)

24a

Dead fruit that's first come across in backwoods (5)

26a

A tyrant making a comeback one dreaded? (5)

27a

One quietly infiltrating military objective (9)

28a

Guy making first starter from yams and chicken (6)

29a

They're our guests and joke with us ultimately (4-4)

Down

1d

Gift from France by tasteful tie or pants (6,2,7)

2d

One stuck in rubbish opening of cat flap (5)

3d

Old specialist having shaken blues is jubilant (8)

4d

Blemish found on the bottom of old award (5)

6d

Corroding European silver-plated container (6)

7d

Son studying about power dissemination (9)

8d

Snob messing with Irish urinal has a bad time (5,10)

9d

Outrageous fence? (8)

15d

German rings essentially sell weed (9)

16d

Get cracking piston fixed around ten, not noon (4,2,2)

18d

Gas left by son in places where people get high? (8)

21d

Work in which a beat is repeated from the start (2,4)

23d

Chuck out cap Catholic left for page (5)

25d

Posh head ousted from vegetable association (5)