Guardian Cryptic #29004

2023-02-27

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Across

1a

Get down from there and stop pulling my leg (4,3,2)

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6a

Farm animal to lower head in river bend (5)

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9a

Gore beginning to drop into tube (5)

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D[rop] in VIAL (tube) Gore Vidal – American writer

10a

Vigour I am contributing to a country (9)

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I’M in A NATION (a country)

11a
22a

Detect person's elastic slipping, a source of optim­istic views (4-6,10)

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12a

Sounds from cat in fashionable street (4)

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14a

Numbers of species left common (7)

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15a

Grouse distractedly about Conservative whip (7)

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17a

An improved partner in crime? (7)

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19a

Not yet in bed, drunk and unable to relax (7)

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20a

The besetting sin of the Greens? (4)

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22a

See 11

25a

Exhausting journey to get computer equipment (4,5)

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26a

Name of songbird, extremely large (5)

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27a

Being tense, ramble about buried valuables (5)

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28a

Big rodent on the loose in Kentish Town (9)

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Down

1d

Substitute fielder? (5)

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2d

Crazy set of directions were rational (4,5)

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MAD (crazy) + E S E N S E (directions)

3d

Demolish old book, well read (10)

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4d

Evasive talk from the cloth (7)

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5d

Tours round church build muscle (7)

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6d

Only women in emirate? (4)

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O MAN (only women)

7d

Wait around altar finally for her? (5)

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BIDE (wait) round [alta]R

8d

Dishevelled, after a series of blows (9)

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Cryptic (?) definition

13d

Swindle over farm machinery one is engaged to supply (10)

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14d

Fruit cooked? It used to be fired (9)

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16d

Great duel contested under formal rules (9)

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18d

Salesman isn't commonly going to change decor (7)

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19d

Pawnbroker has a name like muck (7)

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21d

In Spanish port, a Republican sign (5)

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23d

Part of play understood when listening (5)

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24d

Slacking, paid lessonly half (4)

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