Guardian Cryptic #28743

2022-04-28

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Across

1a

Cooked last of three dishes perhaps lacking third of meat? (9,4)

10a

Little-known degree held by Guardian's head of entertainment (7)

11a

Snappier person coming over (7)

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12a

Call up first wife, having received go-ahead (5)

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13a

Left in pieces after contestant finally made a mistake (7,2)

14a

Smarten up pages around margin (5)

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16a

Thought to have left out light meal (9)

18a

NB regular treatment needed for part of arm (3,6)

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19a

Delayed training in troublesome communications app (5)

20a

Transport official parking in trendy part of town (9)

23a

Father certainly repelled love goddess (5)

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24a

Suffer to keep up (7)

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25a

Receding storm in film of the open seas (7)

26a

Feign reluctance to give reason for theatre closure? (4,4,2,3)

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Down

2d

Could it be confusing to an Irish student of old? (9)

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3d

Feet heard to stop for a while (5)

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4d

Employ pundit, regardless of pressure (5)

5d

Edit clue, first of four condemned as underhand (9)

6d

Views from master with time to go into particulars (9)

7d

Moved cautiously and led on, scratching head (5)

8d

Oppose return to university: student on vacation (4,2,7)

9d

Majority think again briefly when cutting caper (13)

15d

Earth's level area included in test (9)

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16d

Imagined country united after one king, then another, beheaded queen (9)

17d

Frantic Yale fugitive not fit, sadly, for such a place (3,6)

21d

Fibre's length unchanged on rotation (5)

22d

Bound work with scarlet cover (5)

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23d

Large leaf taken from soil often flipped over (5)

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