Guardian Cryptic #28003

2019-12-13

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Across

8a

Post that supports article probing loud and aggressive speech (8)

9a

Something eaten by 26, at first reluctantly imitating another rodent (6)

10a

A better man than I am, nudging cryptically about 1st April (5,3)

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11a

Wife initially trimmed plain bit of sister's outfit (6)

12a

A strange pursuit involved getting soaked more than is normal? (15)

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15a

Theme: books and some poetry by male (5)

16a

One out of the 2 just starting baked potato (5)

20a

Me, foolish? OK, with LP mistaken for a book (4,2,5,4)

21a

Tastelessly loud and insolent supporters, extremely surly (6)

23a

Old PM touring a land, drunk on the road hither? (8)

25a

Jazz style shows lack of clarity, with fiddle missing (6)

26a

English country gent bites tail off rather large rodent (8)

Down

1d

Bland stuff a pub's cookedleft with little hesitation (7)

2d

Film article dropped by little woman ingesting fluff when cycling? All right (6,4)

3d

Sort of poker 10 removed from drawing room? (4)

4d

Stone from a ring, replaced before the centre's fallen out (7)

5d

Reply rudely? It's in shrew's nature (6,4)

6d

Check if baseball team turned up (4)

7d

Linesman having a little nap? (7)

13d

Cooking fish in prisonone with new governor at its head (4-6)

14d

Cocaine and heroin? Me? I'm a mythical creature (5,5)

17d

Quick! Hot spicy food going coldout of bed! (5,2)

18d

Sailor sitting in first class in Taiwan once (7)

19d

Fish consumed in Belvoir regularly (7)

22d

Quickly read second novel (4)

24d

Playing 25? Not if you've common sense (4)