Devlin’s Diabolic Cryptic Crossword

Across

1 Boast of clothes worn back to front? (4) 3 Hypothetical professor? (8)

9 Algeria designed magnificent attire (7) 10 Make progress – not, for instance, slipping back (3,2)

Either way, it’s unacceptable (3,2) Trees? Elders oddly don’t appear on atlas (6)

Have a stab at truth, with small admission perhaps (6)

Poem about fool arriving at Black Sea port (6)

A colonist’s first coin, in a manner of speaking (6)

Keep away from girl with poor grades? (5)

Police capturing leader in rebellious group of soldiers (5)

Crash into some wall (7)

Herb is heading to kill petrifying serpent (8)

Allow old hairy beast to come back (4)

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Dancing bears, not titled people (8) Anything naughty taking clothes off? (5) Prepares for battle after church appeals (6)

Find name tag of ugly dog, turning it over? (3,2)

Do they give birth to flying insects? (7) A solid shape once moulded (4) Supporters make little geese go away (6) From top of tree monkeys attempt hanging (8)

Extreme feats for breaking in minutes

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Lovely morning in squirrel’s home (6) Goggles let saint appear before god (6) Treacherous person not initially in support of artist (5)

Disconcerted by All Black attack that’s only half effective? (5)

One disparaged for going to work in small taxi (4)