Guardian Cryptic #27737

2019-02-06

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Across

1a

Voice complaint leading to Nutmeg's end (9)

6a

Hot drink, second cuppa? (5)

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9a

Learn to handle worthy com­mittees with no yen to adapt (4,2,5,4)

10a

Unlikely way to lose weight (4)

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11a

Man's close kin digging into tall grass for source of oil (8)

14a

River into which two run somewhere in Texas (4,5)

15a

Antelope's niff embodying another left by papa (5)

16a

Field unaffected by motorway (5)

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18a

Home in Tyneside continues to be Kitty's expectation (4,5)

20a

Sweet and innocent youngster admitting woman's in charge (8)

21a

Illegal drug supplied by son came first from east (4)

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25a

Artfully trap crook, shut up periodically for remedial treatment (5,5,5)

26a

Drug limited in urban areas? (5)

27a

Fluid not listed, added where appropriate (7,2)

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Down

1d

Particularly large guards right about killers, in the main (5)

2d

Increasingly nervous, one pierces top (7)

3d

Censor cinema and theatre obscenities to start with (4)

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4d

Part of joint osteopath's enthusiastic about? (4)

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5d

Deserving party comes in for new criticism (10)

6d

Doctor Holding questioned everybody's function (6,4)

7d

War, an illegal act starts it (7)

8d

Rear exit keeping spa hotel free from water (9)

12d

Dimwits use explosive in Bikini, for instance (10)

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13d

Food helping to keep you regular is flourishing (10)

14d

Anticipates key periods of abstinence for Spooner (9)

17d

Solvent of superb quality (7)

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19d

Vehicle's contents I removed from empty street changing hands (7)

22d

Arouse suspicion ultimately at end of trail (5)

23d

Contributor to choirboy's mounting enthusiasm? (4)

24d

On odd occasions insanity doesn't occur (4)