Guardian Cryptic #28042

2020-01-29

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Across

1a

Covert behaviour's appropriate, though heartless (7)

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5a

Bail due for revision in hearing (7)

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9a

Bare minimum of instructional bookseffectively treat as one (2,3,10)

10a
11a

Gifts of pink and yellow roses to make up? (5,9)

11a

See 10

12a

Reason address fails to start? One may be drunk (9)

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14a

Vestment about to be given extravagant lining (5)

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15a

Gathering clamour breaks record (5)

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16a

Powerful ray left sea bream floundering (5,4)

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18a

Glimpses tenor in embrace of lovelorn soprano (9)

21a

New acid revitalised battery (5)

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22a

A tyrannical male condemned food processor (10,5)

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23a
24a

Showcase clothing in general (7,7)

24a

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Down

1d

There's no end of unstable footwear (7)

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2d

Particularly reliable source of cash among sweetshop's stock? (5,6,4)

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3d

Vassal's superior, grand persona sent up in song (5,4)

4d

Below-zero greeting? (5)

5d

Distance from a kid climbing headland (9)

6d

Bleak start for Doctor Foster (5)

7d

Like badly-synced dialogue offstage? (6,3,6)

8d

Set up a route regularly crossing one continent or two (7)

13d

Favourite leader's lost weight where some US VIPs have gained stones (9)

14d

Extremely little basis for appalling narrative (9)

15d

Slavonic firms on fire (7)

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17d

A rum old collection assembled bit by bit (7)

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19d

Sufficient power to operate choppers (5)

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20d

Perceptive wife cleared out grate (5)