Guardian Cryptic #28313

2020-12-10

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Across

8a

Let go of everything, including WPC's protection (8)

9a

Returning live president's vehicles (1-5)

10a

Determined to hide kiss in explicit message (4)

11a

Unfortunate snag in camp grooming activity (10)

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12a

Characters covered in lava: perspiring, but they aren't exactly smoking (6)

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14a

Sharing one's thoughts with cute touch, briefly (8)

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15a

Believer in fake news article, Republican keeping dull routine (7)

17a

Mass of waste paper cut by a composer (7)

20a

Refuse further contact with a foreign fellow in red pants (8)

22a

Nationalist policy from monarch getting in scrap (6)

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23a

One new chronicle with current text, like the across answers here (10)

24a

Very extensive, nameless posts online (4)

25a

Man United star that is as Aeneas to Achates (6)

26a

Musical cycle has style and contemporary sound (8)

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Down

1d

Dog in cable host's opening show (8)

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2d

Fast, but not when in France! (4)

3d

Greek island with quiet ambiancenot half! (6)

4d

Time to invest in kitesthey're seen in the sky (7)

5d

Funny hue by red borders of reseda plant genus (8)

6d

Make invalid's absorbing phrase open to debate (10)

7d

Keep writing about new standard (6)

13d

Put in grinding toil with hard calculus (10)

16d

Efforts of heartless foes seizing empty Reichstag (8)

18d

Descartes's logical bit of algebra is on news (8)

19d

Shot as a dart from Caesar heavenwards (2,5)

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21d

Required for reporter, any editors (6)

22d

Sailors thus about to enter Rolls (6)

24d

Mark an X in 18 consecutive letters brought up (4)