Guardian Cryptic #28671

2022-02-03

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Across

1a

Playful old chef using lime tips in beer (7)

5a

Jump into suit and dive (4,3)

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9a

Walk out in opposition to arrest (3,2)

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10a

Repair to new roof is a bargain (3,3,3)

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11a

Feeling exhausted and isolated (3,2,5)

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12a

Make 25% by getting one over it (4)

14a

Customised leather rafts sail over the edge, if they're right (4-8)

18a

It is answered with relief (4,2,6)

21a

Demand silence on party money (4)

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22a

Ideal power structure embraces force (10)

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25a

Mutated rural mice become erratic (9)

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26a

Europeans make eyepiece with high finish (5)

27a

Fall for rotter in action (7)

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28a

Being drug-free, one avoids exploitation (3-4)

Down

1d

Clash finished? Not quite and few may understand it (6)

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2d

Old king is engaging with an insider (6)

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3d

Poet expressing pain after desire waned (10)

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4d

Relationship formed by medium putting time in for daughter (5)

5d

Watch Flora dancing without a sequence of steps to follow (4,5)

6d

School sited between Derby and Oxford, initially (4)

7d

One pushing for union member­ship expected to bend the knee (8)

8d

Golden-hearted believer may provide some ideas (8)

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13d

Temptation to clean out account with purchase (10)

15d

Submission issuer occasionally supports to soften things up (9)

16d

Unexpectedly, I came across rogue professor (8)

17d

A ramble up around Stein Head provides variety (3-5)

19d

Bond's capture of copper puts things straight (6)

20d

Herculean chore involves stop at sea (6)

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23d

Criminal attacked one left out (5)

24d

Restaurant has a certain atmosphere (4)

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