The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 2nd March 2020

There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 2nd March 2020. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	One's embarrassed to involve woman in smear
AAcross 5:	Eccentric involved in defending battleships
AAcross 9:	Verification is essential to clause ceding title
AAcross 10:	Abandoned area separating two sets of players
AAcross 11:	Red hot tape turned out to be highly informative porn!	DEEPTHROAT
AAcross 12:	City that can be stimulating after six
AAcross 14:	Worry about being disturbed as taxi lets gent in
AAcross 18:	Stone passage reportedly found in Europe
AAcross 21:	Nettle or grass?
AAcross 22:	Record film music first
AAcross 25:	Baseball player's casual clothing combination
AAcross 25:	Baseball player's casual clothing combination
AAcross 26:	See 14
AAcross 27:	Against the rules to have one buried in the neighbourhood	NOTFAIR
AAcross 28:	Close and terribly hot around where we live
DDown 1:	Strong drink makes bishop up for it
DDown 2:	Abandoned by commandos, comes back to life perhaps
DDown 3:	Goes drinking and nearly scores	HITSTHEBAR
DDown 4:	Remove dry pieces from red curry — they can repeat
DDown 5:	French philosopher who thought SS created mayhem
DDown 6:	Animal conservationist starting national organisation against hunting …
DDown 7:	… introduces British group with pride, perhaps	BRINGSIN
DDown 8:	Weird one tucked into end bits found on little piggies?
DDown 13:	Unwilling republican intervenes between countries
DDown 15:	It shows popular autocrat taking first time off
DDown 16:	Poet composed sonnet about New York
DDown 17:	In the end, brings together seat majority
DDown 19:	Voltaire, ridiculing error, gutted church official
DDown 20:	It helps to heal and keeps you from running
DDown 23:	Criticism of missing copy
DDown 24:	It blows up in Estonia occasionally