Guardian Cryptic #28227

2020-09-01

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Across

7a

Acknowledgement came out: yours truly wrong? (3,5)

9a

Giantess, great runner (6)

10a

See 6

11a

Flies in flight, perhaps, circling druggie in Australia (7,3)

12a

Savoury pudding crony fails to finish? (6)

14a

In acerbic manner, money invested in presidential coinage? (8)

15a

Squat plastered in refusehow stupid? (7)

17a

Rodents cooler in student accommodation? (7)

20a

Ground is wet in a country in Africa (8)

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22a

See 24

23a

Times analogy failing to comprehend point, to say the least (2,1,4,3)

24a
22a

Artful Dodger, say, best Dickens character (10)

25a

Release attention-seeker in relative, shortly (6)

26a

Ultimately, wad super fat (8)

Down

1d

Background: what a lady may not wish to reveal about it (8)

2d

Some land already claimed, Russians excited, first of all (4)

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3d

Release of this undesirable unlikely, initially confined to accommodation in block? (6)

4d

Voice disagreement after brief collapse (8)

5d

Cypriot man (Greek to me?), Giorgiou son of Georgios, for example (10)

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6d
10a

Flipping English cram onto perfect Greek island, visiting nightclubs etc (6,4)

8d

Having smuggled in drugs, a Mafia leader on Alcatraz moving cell (6)

13d

Plastic bags Belgian hasn't opened, carrier of basket (3,7)

16d

Percussion instrument, altering when beaten (8)

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18d

Three quarters of team recognise shape (8)

19d

In short film, female animal seen (6)

21d

Saw not going to lose teeth, originally (6)

22d

Therapist calling for sparkling water? (6)

24d

Channel going in deep I pulled towards the surface? (4)

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