Guardian Cryptic #28586

2021-10-26

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Across

1a

Report of chronicler on burial site, potentially a cracker (12)

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8a

Perhaps quote too much love poetry with uniform content (7)

9a

Robin flying around church's inner passages (7)

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11a

Stern composed features female's lacking (7)

12a

An ancient Greek is charged with negativity (7)

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13a

Most of sole behind cat's third claw (5)

14a

Toddlers kept engaged by this dramatic series? (9)

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16a

Interminable street party growing louder (9)

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19a

Variety of wine bar bottles 50 cents (5)

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21a

Enduring stars in stage terms? (7)

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23a

Moulded sink thrown away (3-4)

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24a

Emit cry of pain close to mummy, looking rather sickly (7)

25a

Whiff of sodium beginning to develop? (7)

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26a

I feel dry runs should be organ­ised and easy to follow (4-8)

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Down

1d

Oily liquid cools off, covering middle of street (7)

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2d

Agreed! And, if we're taking turns, I'm off (5,2)

3d

Engineers in open hut worried at that point (9)

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4d

Nile region once served up excellent cake (5)

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5d

Releasing toilet pipe (7)

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6d

Twinkling finale for virtuoso part in duet (7)

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7d

Jerk stabbing Caesar's associate, maybe with passion (12)

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10d

Immobilise one cover raised in Peru's old national gallery (12)

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15d

A worthless African party orig­inally encouraged shirking (9)

17d

Gives precious coat to US serviceman left wearing scraps (7)

18d

Means of preserving grim impartiality (7)

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19d

Revered head of board removing editor (7)

20d

Nutmeg's supporting commercial plugging superb college (7)

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22d

More furtive adult missed by violent killer (5)

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