Guardian Cryptic #28857

2022-09-08

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Across

8a

Food processor that is broken by small people (8)

9a

Final letters backed wise work plan (6)

10a

Poet joins volunteers providing cover for knight (6)

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12a

Sign of distress as fall follows sprint (8)

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13a

Greek letter in religious painting, not the consonant (3)

14a

Possible need for invalid inferior writer switching contents (6)

16a

Unusually veracious, apart from one piece that's bad for circulation (8)

17a

Deny having daughter's ring put in a car? (7)

20a

Deployed joint force European commanded, holding weapon (7)

23a

Willing to admit nothing after the atom disintegrated (2,4,2)

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24a

Neither posted nor moved? (6)

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26a

Valley's width in metric unit (3)

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27a

Second question in 30 — answer's 'trees' (8)

28a

A youth going on lake for sail (6)

31a

Nasty person curate had to endure? Not entirely (3,3)

32a

What's old in phony antique? Solve that! (8)

Down

1d

State we hear spelt without consonants? (4)

2d

Tiny bit in audiotape (4)

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3d

Ordered Democratic president outside (6)

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4d

Once a TV broadcast is ready, used in some countries (7)

5d

Like solo organ performance in audition (8)

6d

Comedians disturbed about upper-class lying (10)

7d

In heartless prison, I lowered blind (8)

11d

Start to grow capital, having got rid of a pest (3)

14d

Delivery info initially upset person (3)

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15d

Pitch checker's routine nap disturbed (5,5)

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18d

Wear thin, possibly becoming bare (2,3,3)

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19d

Holes launches (8)

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21d

What I must have, but not in that case (3)

22d

Sections of vessels with three parts removed (7)

24d

What's German city got that Irish quarter hasn't? (6)

25d

Female contributing to the website we've viewed regularly (3)

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29d

Dance costume pronounced excessively dated (4)

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30d

Frenzied expression as English promise to pay up (4)