Guardian Cryptic #27903

2019-08-19

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Across

1a

Produce DNA sequence with speed (8)

5a

Victim of regime change? (6)

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9a

Where paper cash may be thrown eventually? (9)

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11a

Retreats in numbers, receiving permission (5)

12a

Such clothing perhaps taken by police, marked in red (12)

15a

Learning jurisprudence, some may say (4)

16a

Very tempting to eat, but it's stuck in the throat (5,5)

18a

A beauty of a musical (2,4,4)

19a

Vehicle I put on charge (4)

21a

I get strained terribly and fall apart (12)

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24a

Sort of green circuit carrying current (5)

25a

Pantry's such a quiet place (9)

26a

Moonlight, for example, in which boy's regularly astray (6)

27a

People gawping around king ‘in his new clothes' (8)

Down

1d

Cut Goodwood? (4)

2d

Annoy police informer (4)

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3d

Romeo appropriately with eager attention (6)

4d

Stage work long theorised to be faulty (3,10)

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6d

Graduate turning up in a state, raving (8)

7d

Stadium scheme in general outline (6,4)

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8d

Simple to make site changes: take it gently (4,4,2)

10d

Impostor tends to be represented as artist (13)

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13d

What the ideal home should have: cold salmon salad (3,3,4)

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14d

Calling for a declaration (10)

17d

Like sound from worst head­phones (Aussie cans), terrible at first (8)

20d

Sister admitting story is not so new (6)

22d

Such a thumb to stick out? (4)

23d

Half of them going to Americathey don't fly (4)