Guardian Cryptic #27684

2018-12-05

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Across

1a

Cover put around album not working? It's beyond remedy (14)

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9a

Behind blocking name of offensive broadcast (7)

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10a

Things one has to discuss by phone (7)

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11a

Foreign royal smuggled drug repeatedly (5)

12a

Mixture to decant into pan, covering for ravioli (9)

13a

Notice incompletely attired earl, one getting a talking-to? (9)

14a

Power of great city is ebbing (5)

15a

Some abstaining, others in bar (5)

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17a

Flee or fly in traveller's seat (9)

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20a

Frantically on the go, I see, like the Houses of Parliament (9)

22a

Retrograde and the like in religious book group (5)

23a

What mums do at night, bored by routine (7)

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24a

Time for fooling around carnival city, theoretically (1,6)

25a

Thus drinking in break, one leaves wine cocktail (9,5)

Down

1d

Hold reason for beheading number of revolutionaries (14)

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2d

Turned down drive with little room to reverse (7)

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3d

Transported again after theatre show (9)

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4d

Main inhabitant has work after a month (7)

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5d

Gent's clothing down, on the game (7)

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6d

Recalling medic for a mission (5)

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7d

Charged after having departed Roman site (7)

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8d

Knackered wife to relax with swimmer's sport (3-2,9)

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14d

Rocky base affected roads in coastal regions (9)

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16d

Coaching cooking, tossing out a dish (7)

17d

Swimming, Phelps maintains top speed in hard journey (7)

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18d

Put plainly, any number tucking into cake (2,5)

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19d

Horseman and I went off to the north (7)

21d

Primate called round to begin with (5)

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