Guardian Cryptic #28082

2020-03-16

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Across

1a

Drunk chose to drink litres (7)

5a

Help in making out with good girls (7)

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9a

A Tory leader pockets profits? That's touching! (7)

10a

Dolly left the French in Ilium (7)

11a

Check when definite (9)

12a

Spiritual benefactor that is after information (5)

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13a

Light from church beyond hill (5)

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15a

Lateness of sailors holding banquets (9)

17a

Steak done differently in French city (9)

19a

Invest in experience without resistance (5)

22a

Having second thoughts about one making strides (5)

23a

Winger's distance from the line (5,4)

25a

A city fashionable in the past (7)

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26a

Determined effort from exhausted group (4,3)

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27a

Nine crashed into obstacle that's forgiving (7)

28a

Novel Italian church (7)

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Down

1d

Make believe there's agreement about poem (4-3)

2d

Opportunist finds sign about heroin (7)

3d

Queue getting onto river boat (5)

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4d

Diminished worth of pamphlet during performance (9)

5d

Hit it off board (3,2)

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6d

Bordering a hypotenuse? (9)

7d

License prepared to help mum (7)

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8d

Toss cape through timidity (7)

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14d

Seamen fish for friendly greeting (9)

16d

One replying to research on study (9)

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17d

Classic clay pit disaster (7)

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18d

Religious rite gets agreement out of court (7)

20d

Calls to give up immorality (5,2)

21d

Allow conservationists in elite organisation (7)

23d

Influence of Tory boor (5)

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24d

Warrant officer admits fighting in a crowd (5)