Guardian Cryptic #28680

2022-02-14

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Across

1a

Joint with soft drink brought round: thanks for the snack (9)

6a

Trophy I had as boy archer (5)

9a

The nose one looks down? (5)

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10a

One day this person will be caught out (5,4)

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11a

Fake medic turned away (3)

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12a

Sweeping, managing to cover stretch of river (3-8)

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14a

One's beaten by hostile tribe (3,4)

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15a

Prominent foreigner in the way (7)

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16a

The start of everything, a very noisy affair? (3,4)

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19a

Quarrelsome when talking in takeaway shop (7)

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22a

Brendan and his dog? (5,6)

23a

Stick parts of biro delicately together (3)

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24a

Finished in a group, so left alone (9)

26a

Was he just a monk before? (5)

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27a

Having lived, died with mark of beating (5)

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28a

All but one of the team drop out of this (5,4)

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Down

1d

Realise Daisy is a source of easy money (4,3)

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2d

Tidy home, given command (2,5)

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3d

How one might make the bar, panting (3,2,6)

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4d

The sort of letters one finds in a crossword (7)

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5d

Close and commonly bald (7)

6d

Endlessly chilly in depression (3)

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7d

Biographical sketch is for dossier (7)

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8d

Dance, heartlessly frivolous pleasure (7)

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13d

A good hand graphically represented (11)

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16d

Ship with pirate (7)

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17d

Serious expert's dissatisfied look (7)

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18d

One picking up scraps in general mess (7)

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19d

Easy shot, we hear, over key stronghold (7)

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20d

Piece of Bach, perhaps: leave it alone to start with (7)

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21d

Approve of Red Nose fooling (7)

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25d

Dorothy comes to a full stop (3)