The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,706 - Mar 16 2022

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Agreed to return after short dip CURTSEY
Anyone at first, latest in long sequence sick in crowded tenement ANTHILL
Apocryphal story very much shortened TOBIT
Boy in church worried his rector CHORISTER
Circular band nearly full of golden petals COROLLA
Examiner buttons lip for a term TRIMESTER
Falstaff, say, with bulge not even ready for surgery OPERABLE
Following plant surveys, ordered this one? VENUSSFLYTRAP
Goes to the gallows, not the first time, in dread ANGST
In hospital with curtain round after a bad fall AVALANCHE
Left TV programme, missing the forecast of good weather REDSKYATNIGHT
Let cash fall out of bag SATCHEL
Old cabs provided reversed over a wide area FIACRES
One in flight of birds finally falling to rook AVIATOR
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Poet mislaying his third watch VIGIL
Pop wants gradually to remove Thatcher at the beginning, that prickly character MRSTIGGYWINKLE
Prime minister's surreptitious bug MAYFLY
Resolve to be complicated now? EXPLAIN
Sees great possibility in Roman exploits RESGESTAE
Skewer doll on back of truck for return KEBAB
Superior-sounding greeting HIYA
Taps closed, gas turned up for warming drink SCOTCH
The body of male college mem­bers useless with scrambled egg ALLTHEKINGSMEN
To extend my range as Duke, I write poetry DIVERSIFY
Turn computers into a dishonest business SCAM
Type of company stock REPERTORY
Unscrupulous type locked in cells, hysterical SHYSTER
Warning notice: face cover finally mandatory ADVISORY