Guardian Cryptic #27611

2018-09-11

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Across

8a

See setter embracing individuals lacking love (8)

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9a

Reluctant lover's initial vow (5)

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10a

Funny person brings forward time for threesome (4)

11a

Lover's vow shocked artless female lover (10)

12a

Playboy or Spooner's certifiable criminal? (3,3)

14a

Risk passion, following break-up (8)

15a

Japanese leader with fat lover (7)

17a

Lover in transit, on the move (7)

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20a

Italian lover: see one repeatedly be so frisky (8)

22a

Drugs blocking awful feeling of lover (6)

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23a

Try dry fleece worn by hot, dishy type (5-5)

24a

Attractive Polish lover (4)

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25a

Endless waiting to get 4? (5)

26a

Lover in group styled hair before ball (8)

Down

1d

Entrance part of party crowd in gilded ball (8)

2d

Lover's part in Swedish erotica (4)

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3d

Follow around flipping idiot in love (6)

4d

Suitor admitting, say, what he wants? (3-4)

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5d

Lover with nothing on makes a bloomer (8)

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6d

Supports two boys one dates half-heartedly (10)

7d

Lover introducing the verse from Larkin? (6)

13d

Married slim girl with a fluctuating weight (10)

16d

Again, do up rogue's clothing, about to pinch bum (8)

18d

A warning about lubricant: it gives you a lift (8)

19d

Shortly accepting ordinary kind of love (7)

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21d

One playing lute's a lover (6)

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22d

Maybe sleeping around leads to tense, edgy argument (6)

24d

Lover picked up ribbon (4)