The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,693 - Mar 1 2022

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Armadillo's articulated body marking TATOU
Award Savage a very low mark for wit OSCARWILDE
Basic failure to meet storytelling quota? UNDERLYING
Brief from foreign leader spreading fake news FLYING
Class relied on reform to get aircraft squadrons in France ESCADRILLES
Current undergarment for a woman lacks opening EDDY
Disease has politician stretched out flat in bed COMPLAINT
Do the same as prisoner with criminal record CONFORM
European bridge: one should start leading hearts SPANISH
Fail to qualify? Don't go falling into the canal! MISSTHECUT
German region we backed way before failure, some might say WESTPHALIA
Getting people to talk in a form of Inuit is nothing, without question INQUISITION
In miniature, because an instrument REBEC
In revolt, mean and tense UPTIGHT
Last of air removed from high cloud and carbon injected as entertainment CIRCUS
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Leave wrapping right round bird PARROT
Note name assumed by wild alpine plant PERENNIAL
Old military leader is well (sadly not internally) MONTY
Removes barriers as protection from the enemy DEFENCES
Sailor's girlfriend with yen to yield to independence — the virgin kind? OLIVEOIL
Seaside feature: sex initiation plus nude swimming SANDDUNE
Set your sights on a state-backed scholarly environment ACADEMIA
Shaker town holding back migration TREK
Southern French town's excuse, when independence lost ALBI
Sporting grannie almost won National NORWEGIAN
Street seller's recipe involved with rice? CRIER
Tending to shake, a bit like a flight case? QUIVERISH
They put the squeeze on Hypnos, cast outside Troy PYTHONS
Unimportant person describing a weak wine NOBODY
Very numb DEAD