Guardian Cryptic #27813

2019-05-06

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Across

1a

American chose to cook eastern dish (8,6)

8a

Proper mess in front field (5)

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9a

How kangaroo may be caught unawares? (2,3,3)

11a

Lucky to be not so much asleep? (7)

12a

Party-giver shortly meets reflective girl, glory be! (7)

13a

Wardrobe likely to conceal daggers (5)

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15a

Criterion for replacing dirty cask (9)

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17a

Unsympathetic, like a rhino? (4-5)

20a

Share out much broadcasting (5)

21a

Supersede corded cloth with fine fabric (7)

23a

Money being short, settled down with a sweet (7)

25a

Sanctioned, having peddled drugs round province (8)

26a

Due to be in old part of mansion (5)

27a

Pastoral events demanding reform (8,6)

Down

1d

Funny group, Karl and The Monks (4,8)

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2d

Bird often seen on building site (5)

3d

Slackening corps' objective (9)

4d

Almost nobody died? Yes, twelve (7)

5d

One with claws caught her slip, perhaps (7)

6d

Rugby game doesn't start at these odds (5)

7d

One eating fish given charge for cutlery? (9)

10d

Good sitting posture for part of course (4,8)

14d

Transport: repeat run when ordered (9)

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16d

Material for carving kinky teaspoons (9)

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18d

St Wenceslas's feast day? (7)

19d

A month, helpers said, appearing as a very long time (7)

22d

Kingsley & Son put together wrongly (5)

24d

Sort of acid, could I be? Wrong (5)