Guardian Cryptic #28672

2022-02-04

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Across

1a

Work for printerme? (11)

9a

Having variations in tune quality (7)

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10a

Tries on pants off the shelf? (2-5)

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11a

1-1: only in second half is eleven beaten badly (2,4,3)

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12a

Free hit to leg (3,2)

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13a

Initiates of alphabetical jigsaw and Araucaria's Xmas Club (4)

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14a

Remember what, until her rude awakening, Goldilocks didn't have? (4,2,4)

16a

Duke, licensed to fly, drops (10)

19a

Pressure applied to a US felon (4)

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20a

One settling on bark after wind (5)

21a

Mark's boy holding onto old record company pass (9)

23a

As if this country could be construed to be Afro-Asiatic! (7)

24a

Misleading, as stationary ship may be? (5,2)

25a

Dressing job performed in theatre smashes European finals (11)

Down

1d

Why we'll never please everybody who neatly erases goofs? (6,6,3)

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2d

Erstwhile plum duffer (5)

3d

Is this clue like an Alka-Seltzer? (7)

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4d

Checker, perhaps, who won't be sticking at twenty-one (7)

5d

Where each August competitive sailors may be offensive (8)

6d

Broadcast desire to land and soon lose consciousness (2,3,4,1,5)

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7d

Little girl's make-up case guards PIN, enigmatically (5,3,5)

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8d

View from another wing, beneath the lower part (6,7)

15d

Empress turned up when cross (8)

17d

Tick brown cans you need to recycle (7)

18d

Girl's top, simply ghastly part of uniform (3,4)

22d

Pop's broken tea service (5)

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