Guardian Cryptic #28543

2021-09-06

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Across

1a

Evil master has drink with leaders of Farc in Columbia (7)

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5a

Bird chewing a pencil (7)

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9a

One giving fellow at university gold (5)

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10a

Teams represented by band getting the upper hand (9)

11a

Minister put instrument into new ranch (10)

12a

Container for plant covering large part of garden (4)

14a

Search and rescue by operations leader into nasty gasses across large part of the North Atlantic (8,3)

18a

One end of cake covered in stuff from the dairy (6,5)

21a

Pressure to leave friendly colleague (4)

22a

Wealthy professionals drinking super old cocktail (10)

25a

Second small fib about Democrat's fall from grace (9)

26a

Jockey free to meet queen(5)

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27a

left at home with spouse forming connections (7)

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28a

Spaces hosting essential part of repeat performances (7)

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Down

1d

Piece of writing about short official order for health professionals (6)

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2d

Get gold carriage (6)

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3d

American forces let out of living quarters for the ship's crew (10)

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4d

Start to chase unruly male animal (5)

5d

Piece of music over before spoken introduction to evensong (9)

6d

Shelter given to base of weak vegetable (4)

7d
19d

Swindler chosen to play Hooray Henry? (8,6)

8d

Drink close to optic found in bar (8)

13d

One cart adapted to carry troph­ies returned lacking balance (10)

15d

Group covering English cloth in tape? (9)

16d

Saint broadcast short mass in Turkish city (8)

17d

Articles about German left in charge of the Church of England (8)

19d

See 7

20d

Egyptian god with large flag (6)

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23d

Vegetable seed scattered around bottom of hedgerow (5)

24d

Drink in plastic container (4)

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