GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1 City physicist finally splitting subatomic particle (6) 4 City speed is beyond me (7) 9 One with great desire going after detailed stuff, delicately formed (9) 10 Bloke spending nought, ultimately? (5) 11 A racket inspiring head of mafia organisation (5) 12 Surgery ends in the clinic with extensive bandaging — gosh! (9) 13 Open-air better, on the other hand (7) 15 Strange chest for city (6) 17 City a dollar? (6) 19 Lady hunter aims, their odds not looking good? (7) 22 Ball player from 1966 about to block star (9) 24 Doctor behind huge beast dropping in lozenge (5) 26 First on back row missing capital city (5) 27 Silver in an assignment for city (9) 28 Great, a city (7) 29 City in Laos, a pleasure to recall (2,4)

DOWN

1 City auditor’s cushion on the ground? (7) 2 City festivals coming up (5) 3 Part of church lost for a long time (5,4) 4 Nice house around back of cardboard city (7) 5 Take off soprano part on opening

of Carmen (5) 6 Chart right, so wrong in the

morning (9) 7 Guys about right as drifters? (6) 8 City singer (6) 14 Initially, terrible judgement about

state moving slowly (9) 16 Formerly outstanding openers going in , two wickets later out for ducks? (9) 18 Irish victory accepted by relative

leader in Anthony Eden (7) 19 Daisy wants me out of the country,

ban finally secured (6) 20 Last letter required to fill old

puzzle, flipping bitter! (7) 21 Brief tactic to overcome a state (6) 23 Pronounced blemish develops (5) 25 City centres in Hoboken, Bamako

and Peshawar (5)