The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,672 - Feb 4 2022

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Clues Answers
1-1: only in second half is eleven beaten badly ANEVENBET
As if this country could be construed to be Afro-Asiatic! CROATIA
Broadcast desire to land and soon lose consciousness (2,3,4,1,5) GOOUTLIKEALIGHT
Checker, perhaps, who won't be sticking at twenty-one TWISTER
Dressing job performed in theatre smashes European finals elastoplast
Duke, licensed to fly, drops DOWNSWINGS
Empress turned up when cross TSARITSA
Erstwhile plum duffer PRUNE
Free hit to leg LETGO
Girl's top, simply ghastly part of uniform GYMSLIP
Having variations in tune quality UNEQUAL
Initiates of alphabetical jigsaw and Araucaria's Xmas Club AJAX
Is this clue like an Alka-Seltzer? SOLUBLE
Clues Answers
Little girl's make-up case guards PIN, enigmatically SUGARANDSPICE
Mark's boy holding onto old record company pass SEMICOLON
Misleading, as stationary ship may be? LYINGTO
One settling on bark after wind PAYER
Pop's broken tea service CHINA
Pressure applied to a US felon PERP
Remember what, until her rude awakening, Goldilocks didn't have? BEARINMIND
Tick brown cans you need to recycle INSTANT
Tries on pants off the shelf? INSTORE
View from another wing, beneath the lower part SECONDOPINION
Where each August competitive sailors may be offensive INSOLENT
Why we'll never please everybody who neatly erases goofs? THERESALWAYSONE
Work for printer — me? TYPESETTING