Guardian Cryptic #28150

2020-06-03

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Across

8a

Good sense to include winter pear in what restaurant may offer (4,4)

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9a

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10a
26a

Musical scores for No 1s? (8)

11a

South African club has male member that is touring Irish county shortly (10)

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12a

Butt of a gendarme's covered (3,3)

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14a

Musical seen by one lecturer during a month off (8)

16a

Number clever enough for game show (7)

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18a

Into pieces like a French and German article (7)

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21a

Frightfully honestextremely lazy in secret (2,3,3)

23a

Number of pills required by queasy sea dog (6)

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24a

Flooding, with one sister (not Ida) affected (10)

26a

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27a

Time musical is current (5)

28a

Former non-flyer reporting dull conversation (5,3)

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Down

1d

Rarely digress from prima donna scandal? (8)

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2d
13d

Making new version of Annie's hard, even a one-off musical (4,4,6)

3d

Musical that might be very good or very bad (6)

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4d

Bit of choral singing Hot Press briefly hammered (7)

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5d

Satirise musical overdoing carnal knowledge, for starters (4)

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6d

Worried less about one news­paper initially concealing Conservative plots (10)

7d

Italian singer finally in charge in English opera company (6)

13d

See 2

15d

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17d
15d

There's not so much about military intelligence in a musical, commonly (3,3)

19d
26d

Panel show score indicating pretty good musical (5,3,2,3,4)

20d

Phone in, say, about making 5 orange or lilac (7)

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22d

Somewhat excessive number (6)

23d

Sleep? Perchance, except those seen in schools in dorm, oddly (6)

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25d

Singer featuring in musical today (4)

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26d

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