Guardian Cryptic #27727

2019-01-25

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Across

5a

Beetle to traumatise backward scholar (6)

6a

Make a mistake with commission (6)

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9a

Charlie inclines to abdominal pain (6)

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10a

Team cuts lease for occupier (8)

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11a

Does one river meet another? (4)

12a

Thought to be against partiality of the left (10)

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13a

Wind down temper when the game is safe (5,6)

18a

Winger is an Oxford player with courage (10)

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21a

Illicit drugs found in storage area (4)

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22a

Writer is to wallow in drink (8)

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23a

Mean to entertain Indian poet (6)

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24a

Insecurity makes director fret (6)

25a

Wrongly aspire to approbation (6)

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Down

1d

Something soothing uttered in royal retreat (8)

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2d

Prevents Bill making wine (6)

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3d

Unfaithful lover is scared off (8)

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4d

Women confuse totter (6)

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5d

Mortar used for levelling a long passage (6)

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7d

Silly fool is to slip on island (6)

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8d

Nurse keeps Rex and me, an avant-gardist (11)

14d

Being upset, Kitty's done with the night's billet (8)

15d

Ignored a change of material (8)

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16d

Ruddy girl's relieved (6)

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17d

Head eats a new type of savoury (6)

19d

Genial criminal in west London (6)

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20d

Great power of representative in republic (6)

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