Guardian Cryptic #28706

2022-03-16

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Across

1a

In hospital with curtain round after a bad fall (9)

6a

Turn computers into a dishonest business (4)

10a

Poet mislaying his third watch (5)

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11a

Type of company stock (9)

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12a

Let cash fall out of bag (7)

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13a

Anyone at first, latest in long sequence sick in crowded tenement (7)

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14a

Left TV programme, missing the forecast of good weather (3,3,2,5)

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17a

Following plant surveys, ordered this one? (6,3-4)

21a

Agreed to return after short dip (7)

22a

One in flight of birds finally falling to rook (7)

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24a

Examiner buttons lip for a term (9)

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25a

Skewer doll on back of truck for return (5)

26a

Superior-sounding greeting (4)

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27a

Sees great possibility in Roman exploits (3,6)

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Down

1d

Warning notice: face cover finally mandatory (8)

2d

Goes to the gallows, not the first time, in dread (5)

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3d

The body of male college mem­bers useless with scrambled egg (3,3,5,3)

4d

Circular band nearly full of golden petals (7)

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5d

Resolve to be complicated now? (7)

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7d

Boy in church worried his rector (9)

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8d

Prime minister's surreptitious bug (6)

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9d

Pop wants gradually to remove Thatcher at the beginning, that prickly character (3,5-6)

15d

To extend my range as Duke, I write poetry (9)

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16d

Falstaff, say, with bulge not even ready for surgery (8)

18d

Unscrupulous type locked in cells, hysterical (7)

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19d

Old cabs provided reversed over a wide area (7)

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20d

Taps closed, gas turned up for warming drink (6)

23d

Apocryphal story very much shortened (5)

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