Guardian Cryptic #28755

2022-05-12

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Across

8a

Order solicitor to go and fight (5-3)

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9a

Get to give a sermon, not quietly (5)

10a

Fair, say, I shall be heard (4)

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11a

Old craft may be long hidden (6,4)

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12a

See 22

14a

See 22

16a

Plan yet to be devised for England, not a happy one before 8 (7)

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18a

Evacuate old island in the Mediterranean (7)

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21a

They learn to start dangerous exercises in tricky performances (8)

23a

Preserved a paper dress (6)

24a

Instrument carried in this larger one as a precaution (6,4)

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26a

Top archbishop, extremely sexy when defrocked (4)

27a

Adjustment for Heathrow's terminal during take-off (5)

28a

Yeats composed 'Plead for a Piece of Cake' (4,4)

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Down

1d

What's coming up on the first of September in nouveau riche county? (8)

2d
5d

Get real lament chasing traveller in space (4,4)

3d

Dogs for my soldiers (6)

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4d

Pole working to make dairy product (7)

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5d

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6d
26d

Graduate musician with role reversal, so upset about wind (8,2,4)

7d

Missing golf, whine and moan (6)

13d

Light rice pudding inspires composer (10)

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15d
17d

Church officer making love to woman, finally (6)

17d

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19d

Cross party set up as extremists ignored lines (8)

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20d

Humiliated by a bogus journalist (7)

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22d
14a

Price of evil shyster? It may be (6,6,2,6)

23d

1 or 4 said to produce a smile (6)

25d

Heading north in seeking victory? (4)

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26d

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