Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Used car more, DoT having moved (7)

5. Do expel it thus and go off (7)

9. Pretty young thing may become old by twisting right lid (5-4) 10. Chemical may be rendered inert (5)

11. An entry in California effected by Panama (5)

12. Cutting a foxhole with a worker or soldier (9)

13. Get-togethers are grim as can be (9)

16. What Charles would be king in the interval? (5)

17. Ball game for which a bunch of them is fisted (5)

18. They produce models for my sake? Rot! (9)

20. It may be the wave or the way that’s there to stay (9)

23. Bird of variable age taken by the French (5)

25. Verbal expression Di used in the Isle of Man (5)

26. Power of thought let client get upset by it (9)

27. Dejected expression may go with hand George the Fifth dealt (7)

28. Can rely on it turning to theft (7)

DOWN

1. Small amount of mud I’m slinging with company (7)

2. The 23’s claw sunk in rabbit, a lone victim (5)

3. What author gets for story – a lie, perhaps (9)

4. Snow piled up by doctor, one foot short (5)

5. Sells in error, and be in to deny how it goes on and on (9) 6. Sudden fear in a constable is wrong (5)

7. Send one to Coventry to raise Scot in revolution (9)

8. The Spanish deceit one may have left at being voted in (7) 14. Return of property after event is never — or might be (9) 15. Inferring that there’s a meeting (9)

16. One on a journey may revert, all being worked out (9) 17. Dandified or posh version, if quietly turned out (7)

19. Style we adapt in sugary fashion (7)

21. Having weapons to be made about right (5)

22. Los Angeles child turns up, and that’s all (5)

24. Birds may be got from these eggs when turned (5)

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