Sunday Times

Cryptic Crossword

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ACROSS 1 Coming from abroad, one left on board falls in sea (8)

9 Trick requiring skill if leading diamonds (8)

10 Cut initial sources of needles (4)

11 Start business with 1,000 workers and stick together (12) 13 A pass from wing in the French game (8)

15 If a car is going astray, it has a horn (6)

16 Design section of aeroplane near rear (4)

17 Go after one European friend or another (5)

18 Belt, or other article of clothing or clobber (4)

20 Went off, upset about nothing (6)

21 Isolated state of Australian­s felt, ultimately, as madness (8) 23 Finding fault with service, enough to produce reaction (8, 4)

26 What’s writ large for either Aphrodite or Artemis, or another Greek goddess (4) 27 Behave imperiousl­y as person who’s active around pit (8)

28 Make little of sad tragedy, for instance (8)

DOWN

2 Animal is tangled up in large piece of canvas (8)

3 Resisting enlightenm­ent, having messed up subtractio­ns (12)

4 Name Gray had for Welsh poet (6)

5 May first, for example, become old-fashioned (4)

6 Disconnect­ed way to play toccatas in new arrangemen­t (8)

7 Graves found in cellar, say (4) 8 Part of French capital deposited with moneylende­r (4, 4)

12 Models act as crew that’s needed for shooting (12)

14 Legally remove some of the victims (5)

16 Job English medic set up that helps with deliveries (8) 17 Like office trainees, perhaps, object over board’s conclusion (8)

19 Island restricted by absurdly erratic standards (8)

22 Follow performanc­e with commercial break? (6)

24 Part of poetic line — the writer is British (4)

25 Ruler producing line on circle — radius, then diameter (4)

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