Guardian Cryptic #28266

2020-10-16

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Across

1a

Charlotte races about in this? (7,7)

9a

Copy of Two Thousand and One, with music finale (5)

10a

Runs out of air? Oh dear! (9)

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11a

Supports bar locks (10)

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12a
21a

Tie the knot after most excellent love is given (8)

14a

Get some sleep before family calls for tableware (6,5)

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18a

See 3

21a

See 12

22a

Each letter is liberal (10)

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25a

An underground place of humiliation (9)

26a

See 24

27a
28a

19 artist's work to fade out ultimately, such a recipe for disaster (3,4,2,5)

28a

See 27

Down

1d

Meet something funny with B Ford (4,2)

2d

NY Times singularly spreading hatred (6)

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3d
18a

Celebrity passes what sounds like ambulance during a limo trip (3,7,6,5)

4d

Range in the Arabian desert (5)

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5d

In train wreck, old Sophocles? (9)

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6d

Wrong to be suspicious with a promotion (4)

7d

Pony went bust worth not much money (8)

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8d

Drive to evaluate Spooner's lily pad? (4,4)

13d

Are you, as they say, taken in by strong Arab commander leaving home course? (5,5)

15d

Starts to put record straight about some current spoilers (9)

16d

Endlessly going off on tirade is not clever (8)

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17d

Website tribute about the centre of Aleppo (4,4)

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19d

Life in Paris before Napoleon evacuated a capital city (6)

20d

Scarcity put right inside 28 (6)

23d

'Head off, bottom up' as a slogan (5)

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24d
26a

Surgeon's first working rule: man, I like the aortic valve! (9)