Guardian Cryptic #28808

2022-07-13

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Across

1a
9a

Boulder's smaller than this state capital, paradoxically (6,4)

4a

Removes edge or edges of blueprints (6)

9a

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10a

Taking object, servant I mistreated hides it (10)

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11a
23d

Wrapping material is secured by super tape after repacking (6,5)

12a

Carbon I found in vessel, likewise gold, in hold (8)

13a

Configuration of two digits, fraction and trig function, we hear (5,4)

15a

Doesn't acknowledge courtesy, oddly enough (4)

16a

This symbolically and literally is wrapped in 23 (4)

17a

Shrub with white, not red, flower (9)

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21a

Presents what players of a certain game finally have (5,3)

22a

Finishes off duck hidden by person in party to eat later on (4,2)

24a

Novice at wheel ex-students call a name: 'he who works with pots' (10)

25a

Sort of oil in sort of lamp (4)

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26a

Lives protected by others in combat (6)

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27a

Cryptic from some clever expert, being extremely selective (6)

Down

1d

In Pygmalion, is Eliza put on pedestal? (7)

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2d

Accepts parts in films (5)

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3d

Correspondence excluding girl and mother from legal matters (7)

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5d

Jenny, perhaps, appearing in fiction as young woman (6)

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6d

New indication of discomfort about news agency other than supposed (3,2,4)

7d

Emperor, you heard, in 15 (7)

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8d

What's shown by changing positions of hands? Different poses fit a game (7,2,4)

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14d

Diamonds hidden by female in barrelsthey're for buyers (4,5)

16d

Line used in good books showing taste (7)

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18d

Something disappointing leading journalist's written up in daily (2,5)

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19d

After hostile takeover, call for better service lines (7)

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20d

Reports on uninformative parts of books? (6)

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23d

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