Guardian Cryptic #27891

2019-08-05

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Across

1a

Thoughtful writers I have to follow (7)

5a

Leave the ground: why I have to use the stairs? (4,3)

10a

Also about to seize island (6)

11a

This has one in mansion tossing and turning (8)

12a

Delay girl's return (3)

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13a

Religious leader you once made into cartoon character (6)

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14a

Stockpiling a large display board (8)

15a

From fancy niche one takes a jaundiced view (5)

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16a

Incompatible ingredients in strong spirit (9)

19a

Prepare to forge currency (4,5)

21a

Daughter finished the port (5)

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24a

Sharp replies to stories circulating about parking (8)

26a

An upper-class girl? A girl (6)

27a

The high point of a Devon holiday (3)

28a

Just this big? Not any more (2,6)

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29a

Supports holding large implement (6)

30a

Insult a political organisation in speech (7)

31a

One inactive as supporter of the railway (7)

Down

2d

Prudent management shows class of airline (7)

3d

Period one could see as emptier (5,4)

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4d

Flowerlove it to bits (6)

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6d

Emphatically how contract may be reached (2,6)

7d

Swollen stomach: girl's knocked up (5)

8d

Pottery smashed by fiancee (7)

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9d

Unsightly dirt spread by producers of consumer goods (5,8)

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17d

Hypotenuse is close (9)

18d

A regular figure in defence of America (8)

20d

Small reduction is unfair (1,3,3)

22d

General change is swell (7)

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23d

In fish, a length of bone (6)

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25d

Old and sullen by repute (5)