Guardian Cryptic #28188

2020-07-17

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Across

9a

They are not being true lovers (9)

10a

Search for something in the baroque style (5)

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11a

Gold pens hide fiction (7)

12a

In-house pansies, primarily as flower arrangement (7)

13a

They appear in recital to sing (5)

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14a

Conveniently ignored area of revolting snot build-up? Not us! (5,4)

16a

By which to take control, organising checks often to incarcerate 50% of ruffians (6,2,3,4)

19a

One possible choice for Hamlet appearing before jolly or unknown island town (9)

21a
22d

Reject one way or the other (5)

22a

Where birds breed round New Yorker circles (7)

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23a

Holiday item? (4,3)

24a

Small part of what comes next said you fell in love head over heels (5)

25a

Candy gadgeteers nod off (6,3)

Down

1d

Old radio's last cry? (7,3)

2d

Philistine's job, on the other hand, is a fake (8)

3d

Against Lewis larking about (6)

4d

Jacques Derrida served up wines for communists (4)

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5d

Whereby patient session starts with therapist's bottom in designer chair amid wise pronouncement (10)

6d

Soldier is one of four captured by other side (8)

7d

Friend we would back may, at a stretch, be 16 at the front? (6)

8d

In obstetrics, is it best to ignore the odds and take no action? (4)

14d

Mostly, you and I grappled with problem protein, for one (10)

15d

Seek asylum in UK, get a free settlement (4,6)

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17d

Rummaged for a slice of pomme de terre frite from the east (8)

18d

At the centre of next spy plot, free warrior and adventurer (8)

20d

Second-rate heel for shoe (6)

21d

Dropping preliminaries, sleep with newly-wed in storage space (6,4)

22d

See 21

23d

Donald Trump, the first American king (4)

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