The Guardian - Cryptic - Dec 23 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

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

Clues	Answers
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
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	SUM
See 24	ERGO
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