Guardian Cryptic #28310

2020-12-07

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Across

1a

Great faculty management (11)

9a

Tea with nightcap gives shocking wind (7)

10a

Spirit of staff having mushroom turnover (7)

11a

Loved to play by city racetrack (9)

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12a

Circles yacht, front to back (5)

13a

Attractive handout in part (4)

14a

Poor patron taking exam for believer (10)

16a

Fancy sequin soon becoming a must (4,3,3)

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19a

Thrash in return game (4)

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21a

Old jazz uncovered in dad's open space (5)

22a

Transport cafe providing tea, by the sound of it? (5,4)

24a

Wildly theorises, but not to successor (7)

25a

Love is almost deadwhat's left? (7)

26a

To a degree, Matilda depends on reason to sleep under the stars (3,8)

Down

1d

Flexible thought process is adding something (15)

2d

Specialist on Underground, extremely pleased with herself (5)

3d

Lutheran court full of bitterness (7)

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4d

What Ofsted does this month is to cover heads of primary English course (7)

5d

Boxer's entering the same move­ment with lofty aspirations (8)

6d

River dweller in countrywide draw (8,7)

7d

When the essence of Mr Jobs is iPhones at last resort (2,4)

8d

Across the Channel, I take special exotic trips, primarily with this lot (3,3)

15d

Start of summer as break is most traditional (8)

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16d

Drain soup for old poet (6)

17d

To exclude outsiders from party list, pay any skilled worker (7)

18d

Made soup with dopehead, that's uplifting God's work (4,3)

20d

Golf locales could be tricky to find? (1,5)

23d

Scoundrel reported in place for worship (5)