Guardian Cryptic #27995

2019-12-04

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Across

1a

Predict yacht can become a form of psychotherapy (8)

5a

Cordial hospital not in the frame (6)

9a

Weapon religious group deployed round a water source (8)

10a

Items finish in oven (6)

12a

Curious opposites are back-to-back (5)

13a

As tailor, may be? That's about right (9)

14a

'Latch heartless Doctor Faust', wrote von Goethe, bitter at the end (4,8)

18a

Haughty Louis IV moving forwardchasing fancy cup, sire? (12)

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21a

Tasty offshoot in book (9)

23a

Hungary's borders accessible (5)

24a

Cultural Revolution's end, in principle (6)

25a

Disappear, having heard comic 'encore' (2,2,4)

26a

Tries to be outrageously sassy after early start (6)

27a

Come together with capacity to contain revolutionary chaos (8)

Down

1d

Champion among nationalists turned nuts (6)

2d

Dense fogCentral tube station first to get disrupted (6)

3d

Delighted with the Guardian's stated time for an economy round (5,4)

4d

Only one to escape being stamped on? (4,8)

6d

Stalag ground is filled with hostility (5)

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7d

Aware of extremely subversive and evil intent (8)

8d

Trivial as whitebait? (5,3)

11d

Indigenous person, putting head down among tribe, starts to show superb ingenuity (12)

15d

Firmness and kindness to start hand in glove after outbreak (5,4)

16d

We are its reincarnation, so to speak (2,2,4)

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17d

Stop, but not to see the woman's frolics in water (8)

19d

Internet mob broken up (6)

20d

Solvent sexy male, fine bottom half (6)

22d

Treacherous, unlike Jacob (5)