Guardian Cryptic #28920

2022-11-21

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Across

1a

Arsonist in boat? (7)

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5a

Sadly, one may be in its depths (7)

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9a

Mark firm losing half of capital (5)

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10a

Exam is a sort of joke (9)

11a

Two men in a boat, working: one was a guitarist (6,8)

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13a

Corny stuff for listeners (4)

14a

A local perch? (3,5)

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17a

Consciously old-fashioned, suitable to modernise later (8)

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18a

Said to employ females (4)

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21a

School flag: red, green and blue, say (7,7)

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23a

Survive without food, broad­casting in real time (4,2,3)

24a

For the occasion, speaker's to take more white wine (2,3)

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25a

Ways one may be so far ahead? (7)

26a

Pot shot taken wildly in a potentially dangerous area (3,4)

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Down

1d

Contributor to second row that's in a canal (4)

2d

Jason's dog? (6,9)

3d

Drive to spear fish in part of the Arctic (6)

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4d

Repair broken sword (6)

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5d

Secure a point on the road to leave others behind (4,4)

6d

At the weekend I get up burlesque (8)

7d

Past caring for religion? (8,7)

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8d

Implacable, passed on loan with deductions (10)

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12d

To replace relic, snoop in cemetery (10)

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15d

Come across a drunkard, upside down and unconscious (8)

16d

In pond leaves large mixed display (4,4)

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19d

Not placed in a quarter? (6)

20d

What Humphrey hung in the loo? (6)

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22d

Highlander, perhaps heading away from the racecourse (4)