The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,636 - Dec 23 2021

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5 17 for 11? COGITO
Author understands what 7 had in 1 PENSEES
Blight on the plant? This needs fencing PENTATHLON
Caught bringing in line put out NETTLED
Centre half in home game is fab MEGA
Compete over parts in theatre — one gets them in shows VIEWINGS
Composer and artist traversing the way from Paris to Marseilles MASSENET
Dance club we left, returning after band's performance GIGUE
Drives without a third and second gear DRESS
Eg including this artist is superficially damaging RODIN
Express statements of resistance in French and English NONSTOP
Graphic artist who often shows latitude at work? MAPMAKER
Grave statements, perhaps wrong (not right) about it EPITAPHS
Has turned over pages, one chapter relating to poetess SAPPHIC
Heartless old Tory interrupting man who repairs sculpture THETHINKER
How 7, 11 or 26 across might have announced his resignation? CEST
Kind of speech I had given shortly after power drink PIDGIN
Clues Answers
Mathematician contributing to group as calculator PASCAL
One of those points of great danger heroic Frenchman's between EPICENTRE
Part of friendship that meant nothing to 7, 11, or 26 RIEN
Pay attention to theme of this puzzle MIND
Reformulation of René's adroit justification for existence RAISON
Savoir faire includes the writer being understood TACIT
See 24 ERGO
See 24 SUM
See 5 DETRE
See 8 LAVIE
Some travel guides in his language for philosopher DESCARTES
Source of information that bears fruit GRAPEVINE
Statue, for example, friend of 26 across returned IMAGE
Tours in France, say — plane came with parts around middle switched PLACENAME
Uncovered figures like 14 in hundreds — every second NUDES
Weapon European repeatedly used, seizing power EPEE