Guardian Cryptic #28348

2021-01-21

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Across

1a

Following report of communist, letters must show these (9)

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6a

Suffer no fool: Canute misquoted about heresy, initially (4)

8a

Decreed: set gold before man of the North, reported journalist (8)

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9a

Old heartless Richard III in feud about filth (6)

10a

Stand for leadership of the youth party in free Yugoslavia (6)

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11a

Gave out (caught), left in, left out (8)

12a

Way a man embraces a queen (6)

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15a

Renovated seediest part of the North (8)

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16a

As at first, Henry VIII was intellectual (8)

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19a

In Scotland's valleys, Elizabeth's heart picks up (6)

21a

Plot to murder princes about nothing (8)

22a
1d

Terrible danger, with polit­ical activists at Buckingham House event (6,5)

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24a

Man of the North, as James I was in Scotland! (6)

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25a

Boatman, at heart European, in first part of Tory attack (4,4)

26a

Charles broadcast to listeners? (4)

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27a

Lorry then diverted in the direction of Scotland? (9)

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Down

1d

See 22 across

2d

Perhaps Victoria is not at fault (7)

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3d

Unwashed masses taking king's head (5)

4d

Alfred: he atoned partly for the result of a fire (3,4)

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5d

Snack in foil, say pig's foot (6,3)

6d

Edward, our sovereign, showed passions (7)

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7d

King, to be beheaded, takes sanctuary somewhere near Wembley (9)

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13d

Oh, I parted sadly from love's image (9)

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14d

Exercising restraint, as the Queen is said to do in spirit (7,2)

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17d

More unpleasant than retsina? Unlikely! (7)

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18d

Getting bigger, King George: one defined by his appetite? (7)

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20d

Boatman placed between noble and royal persons previously (7)

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22d

Harold at first confessed rising up to snap in anger (5)

23d

Good to leave the upper class no way out (5)