Guardian Cryptic #28915

2022-11-15

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Across

1a

Laureate's wiles manipulated with delicacy (5,3,5)

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10a

Suggest taking off front wagon that could be so split (2,5)

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11a

Help a councillor get returned by a rural area (7)

12a

Organised data for board (5)

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13a

Fight some paper disposal scheme (9)

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14a

Squeezed wife and spoke (5)

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16a

Complains at length when volume's zero (6,3)

18a

Popular English composer has died? I'm flabbergasted (1,5,3)

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19a

Mass behind small hill in bad weather (5)

20a

Tricky in the extreme? Shorten it drastically (9)

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23a

Expand length and sound menacing (5)

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24a

Note pocketed by sweet little thing needing no deciphering (2,5)

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25a

Saint, tortured about a month, sustained energy (7)

26a

Getting rid of car in industrial park (7,6)

Down

2d

Almost speak up, wretch: you a traitor too? (2,2,5)

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3d

Wild creature that is about (5)

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4d

Having drunk last of gin, passes on eats (5)

5d

All the work of Dickens, never a week off (4-5)

6d

Daring moveskey, a spade finesse (9)

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7d

Country I may represent (5)

8d

With wrongly set kilts, I show organ (4,1,8)

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9d

Maybe granny often seen with foot above head among friends (13)

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15d

Could this identity document reverse a dismissal? (5,4)

16d

Native American's needs grew after development (5,4)

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17d

Medical man I wish to report first (9)

21d

Unblemished award? (5)

22d

Discrimination not as terrible, if limited (5)

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23d

Two soldiers are enormous (5)

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