Guardian Cryptic #25190

2010-12-10

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Across

1a

The naval disaster in which Boatman is eaten by a whale? (9)

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6a

Takes in endless parodies (4)

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8a

Colleagues' inspiration: say barren block gone (8)

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9a

Winter footwear with metal insidewow! (6)

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10a

Boatman's work is usually in the Mediterranean (6)

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11a

Costume formerly worn by oriental tart? (3-5)

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12a

What I should make, for my sins, at noon? (6)

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15a

Drops the shattered piece of a vessel (8)

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16a

Where, you might say, disk-breaking leads to sudden reversal? (4,4)

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19a

Hate for Guardian boss back on trial (6)

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21a

First entry in old book of songs about fish behind ship's stern mid-ocean! (5,3)

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22a

Divers use natural heat to remove water (6)

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24a

Droop like dead fish (6)

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25a

Boatman's report on whale found in the Mediterranean (8)

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26a

Sex kittens slipping an unreasonable extent in winter footwear (4)

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27a

Split upadmit mistake on reflection and give in (9)

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Down

1d

Wood-roasted char after lobster starter (5)

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2d

A vain imposter? Creative prose wasted, perhaps (7)

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3d

Pungent? Sour? That's about right (5)

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4d

Poncho folded round centre pleat in place of layers (7)

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5d

New leader chosen: Gordon's first in, then left out (9)

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6d

Not in everyone's interest to market cod: could be left wanting? (7)

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7d

Cod, sprats, flounder typically found at the seaside (9)

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13d

Deadly sea creature runs amok, followed by silence as boat goes under (4,5)

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14d

Naval nations exude water (yours and mine, say) (3,6)

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17d

Floods spread sludge around Mile End (7)

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18d

Vessel attending in the Mediterranean, perhaps French marine zone (7)

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20d

Starting to embrace a lot more (7)

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22d

What you need to do with a fish to take victory (5)

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23d

Cruiser is abandoned, sunk, only to be seen again later (5)

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