Guardian Cryptic #28570

2021-10-07

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Across

5a

Improvise as supplier of a cross, exactly what's needed (4,2)

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6a

Varied across goals achieved by top players (6)

9a

Go across for game (6)

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10a

Walk across, having finished backing favourites (8)

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11a

Kind of word that either part of down clue can be, never across (4)

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12a

Like some politics across the pond in programme about alliance (10)

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13a

Stretch over and right every thing this makes with 8 (5,6)

18a

Moves across battlefield making me a nervous wreck (10)

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21a

Cross made by removing ends of protective jewel (4)

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22a

Puzzle producing what sounds like a bad-tempered sign of approval (8)

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23a

60% of bars across France produced this wine (6)

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24a

More precisely, repeatedly runs across two articles (6)

25a

Wild animals that may be camouflaged when crossing? (6)

Down

1d

Lie in bed, poorlyit's impossible to get down (8)

2d

End of chase, heading off people on horseswe get down from them (6)

3d

Person who agrees with fool put down (8)

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4d

About employer who makes things go down in America? (6)

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5d

Perturbed re snow, go downhill (6)

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7d

Observe, in present and past, move up and down (6)

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8d

Drink with Irish patron in Ulster town (11)

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14d

Down amongst them is one of the shortest company releases (8)

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15d

Looking down on king, old hat (8)

16d

One taking steps to provide first part of down clue's requirement, we hear (6)

17d

Breaking law, say, that describes how things fall down (6)

19d

Oddly deficient, down to last husband? Bound to be honest (2,4)

20d

Warship went down, part of larger group (6)

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