Guardian Cryptic #28726

2022-04-08

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Across

1a

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5a

Cold cuts well inside cheese roll (7)

10a
27a

Sweet tone? (4,4)

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11a

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12a

Verbally, one suddenly attacking country (6)

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13a

Question about trimmer border (8)

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14a

Worshipping establishment, peculiar old leader (9)

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16a
3d

Garment: top on which written soldiers' 4? (5,5)

17a

Keep cooking liquid (5)

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19a

Paradise Lost originally penned by chap in fear (9)

23a

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24a

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26a

Determined, Blair acted recklessly (10)

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27a

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28a

Request wood, including bark of sycamore? (7)

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29a

Back on form in poetry (7)

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Down

2d

Correct, labyrinthine route north of Switzerland (7)

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3d

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4d

Commemoration: what about inscribing it in gibberish? (7)

6d

Bad hair day, having abandoned a city in the Middle East (6)

7d

This minute chicken's split at the back? (2,3,4)

8d

Hold garment up, one of 24 dresses (7)

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9d

Male gathering old maestro and commoner up, creative (8,5)

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15d

Puzzling trick covered by journalist in solemn observance (9)

18d

Secured by spike, deadly scrap metal objects (7)

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20d
24a

14's 12, a puzapuzapuzzlezlezle? (1,6,7,2,1,7,6,2,6)

21d

Endless beauty in cojonesfor those showing them? (7)

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22d

Fungus in a bulb, light initially extinguished (6)

25d

Misery at the front in an unspecified battle (5)