Guardian Cryptic #28702

2022-03-11

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Across

9a

Penny-pinching pillager, crooked Frenchman on the fiddle (9)

10a

Greeting daughter with extremely emotional call off peak (5)

11a

Where order is kept to release criminal at first (7)

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12a

Start, as thieves may, to engage with two breaking in (3-4)

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13a

Places to park behind vehicles from Spain (5)

14a

Stone to crushthis is just breaking now! (4,5)

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16a

What mum does, receiving letters about the future for Bill? (3,2,10)

19a

Club sandwiches have to be nearer the mouth (9)

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21a

More precise haulier ditching fashion label (5)

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22a

Showing a complex palinode, wanting name translated (7)

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23a

It downplays setter getting eaten by 50 bears (7)

24a

Muslim group welcoming very revered Indian (5)

25a

Feeling less clear over site of recent parties (6,3)

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Down

1d

Urge VIP to tuck into stock food: it's sweet stuff (3,7)

2d

Spar with graduates boxing in street (8)

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3d

Drugs? Being on these, one would be broke (6)

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4d

It's not bubbly in large heavy bottles (4)

5d

Better description of a tsunami, possibly (4,6)

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6d

Mince pasty I'd stuffed with nothing in awful state (8)

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7d

Guidance in case of acknow­ledged wrongdoing (6)

8d

This is one prompt to pen line (4)

14d

Girl set out with van, one that's utterly empty (10)

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15d

Taking off coat in Swansea, turning it upward (10)

17d

It creates excitement on behalf of online work (8)

18d

Emit gas and perhaps smoke around gallery (8)

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20d

Soldier punching awful weed pulling prank on American (6)

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21d

Gossip heard in bourgeois magazine (6)

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22d

Fight on horseback with no leader to unseat (4)

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23d

Dancing bishop leaves one stretched out on the road (4)

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