Guardian Cryptic #28583

2021-10-22

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Across

1a

Guy in Love Island is a horny bounder (5)

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4a

Public figure giving hint (8)

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8a

Stage direction stops working in theatre play (3,11)

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10a

Pro card player's inspired about project (8)

11a

Happened by chance to ring, interrupted by heavy metal (6)

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12a

Pastry crust of canapé, something consumed in bits (9)

15a

Traditional motifs in piece of music caught by solver in France (5)

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17a

Comparative magnitude of bits east of desert (5)

18a

Less wild path for conquering warrior (9)

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19a

Hollow area poor driver ends up inhe leaves it (6)

21a

Summons a vehicle back across open ground (8)

24a

Poet, reading the Iliad, mostly stunned (5,9)

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25a

Imported copper: high grade, half mended (8)

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26a

Deity in religious books with pale covering (5)

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Down

1d

Like a pub where all the hard liquor's been drunk down (3,2,7)

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2d

Where birds are devouring corn seriously (2,7)

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3d

Barring Connery's lead, classic version of Bond (5)

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4d

Tardily, woke Liberal goes on record, boring new voters (9)

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5d

Fare pocketed in voyage at sea (4)

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6d

Abridge Old Testament book, suppressing hard term (9)

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7d

Subtle, absorbing end of tale one's related (5)

9d

Feature of Love's Labour's Lost nothing but repetition (12)

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13d

Rich man from South Africa confined, having been given a stretch? (9)

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14d

English following type of stock car (9)

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16d

Post mountain-climbing setter in building (9)

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20d

Amerindian's poetic apostrophe to a wise man (5)

22d

It's said to dismiss Poland's No 1 playmaker (5)

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23d

Rolls topped with unwrapped spam or fish (4)

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