Guardian Cryptic #27977

2019-11-13

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Across

1a

Provider of charge account, cocaine addict (7)

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5a

Wrongly label title with the French equivalent (7)

9a

Content, round figure with right clothes (5)

10a

Clownish entertainer to produce a ball in party kit (9)

11a

Grouse stew a strong, rancid dish (4,10)

13a

Tea from China (4)

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14a

Tour 9 runs, one moving with the speed of light? (8)

17a

Little pieces of iron dinosaur swallows (8)

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18a

Black stuff that could be blue (4)

21a

One unable to make a killing getting fired? (5,9)

23a

Awfully bad lover hugs you the French way (9)

24a

Mark looked older, it's said (5)

25a

Car models, including carbon copies (7)

26a

What overzealous Remainers do to expose support (7)

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Down

1d

Aperitif taken out of case for wine (4)

2d

Politician submitted good bill last month, one fit for Congress (10,5)

3d

King in female clothing, which may be short? (6)

4d

Standing up, tree collapsed (6)

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5d

Spooner's Chinese spies showing means to go underground (8)

6d

Too much emotion in school dance has head spinning (8)

7d

A riot commencing somehow, an irritation for nationalists (8,7)

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8d

Vans kind fellow left in ditches (4,6)

12d

Tall child misbehaving with Nick Sharp (10)

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15d

I want to be seducedit's stimulating! (4-2-2)

16d

Votes against saving old pile of cash for the present (8)

19d

Bookish American must leavethat's flat! (6)

20d

Right out of the cooler, thief's beginning to show unease (6)

22d

Bachelor's left with lots of ale and rum (4)