Guardian Cryptic #27826

2019-05-21

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Across

1a

Feature of Trump and PM putting the Queen off (6)

4a

Takes apart splinter group in contemptuous talk (8)

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9a

Building block of wood, what's backed with board in port (6)

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10a

Able to move quickly for a take-off in an emergency (8)

11a

Old Testament book's terribly crude and emotional (14)

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13a

Bother in big house having a plant with narcotic properties (10)

14a

Worry when study is neglected in research establishment (4)

16a

One of two Nobel physicists said to swank (4)

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18a

Figures in trouble at sea, reportedly Germanic folk (10)

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21a

Disappoint others giving first instruction to unload the truck? (3,3,4,4)

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23a

Sunday cruciverbalist, maybe, who has cutting edge? (8)

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24a

Symphony offering racy stuff (not Beethoven's Fourth) (6)

25a

Last thing you want in head and on collar? (8)

26a

Commercial to air in busy shopping season (6)

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Down

1d

Person who is horrible, just a bit, about nothing (4)

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2d

A short song about aged Greek (7)

3d

Fellow curtly abandoning diocese and ecclesiastical groups (8)

5d

One caught entering square reprimanded, treated as trash? (11)

6d

Being obsequious would put Mrs May off (6)

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7d

Small room, not half brilliant for accommodating superior writer (7)

8d

Renders Happy Birthday, say, with nicely introduced bumps (9)

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12d

Untidy employees making a contribution to Warwickshire's coat of arms (6,5)

13d

Crowd is idle, wandering round, to be got going (9)

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15d

Lacking special apparel, knight is thrown out, not admired (8)

17d

What could play music in particular key, hard stuff (7)

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19d

Towel I'd discarded, when lots of bits are dry (3,4)

20d

Bit of paper stuck on yellow garment worn by some women (6)

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22d

Like school pupil sounding unrelaxed (4)

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