Independent Cryptic #10822

2021-06-19

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Across

1a

The Spanish miss having enough characters to fill all this! (8)

5a

Shakespeare’s to be second person, first could be Francis Bacon (6)

10a

Objective and popular speaker’s pulling power (9)

11a

Giant bird with origins in Arabian Nights (5)

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12a

Quit wasting good dope! (5)

13a

News coming in supports witness for the state (9)

14a

They make good soldiers among those on furlough (9)

17a

Odd glimpses of station terminus from Fleet St (5)

18a

It is absent from 7 disease record (5)

20a

Savour speed, making Hamilton’s start time (9)

23a

It could improve your mood to snore in turns (9)

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25a

Armchairs should be this material (5)

27a

Tin symbolically represented German industrial centre (5)

28a

Flower against Vauxhall bridges (9)

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29a

Former statesman and astronaut’s body's pronounced sound (6)

30a

Parasite going into eyes via the ear feasted on blood (8)

Down

1d

Wind-up twizzle-stick (7)

2d

Staffroom paper undelivered? Letters quickly written (5)

3d

Encountered turbulent start of Russian nation (3,4)

4d

Corrupt document finally isn't (5)

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6d

River mammals in river, snakes in the grass (7)

7d

Gut instinct's three-quarters about outwardly tangible energy (9)

8d

The least roofless car in the competition (7)

9d

Sanctions designed to exclude foremost of caber tossers (8)

15d

The panel of ‘Mock the Week’? Is it sprinkled with stars? (9)

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16d

Stone circles one by one revealing Uralic language (8)

18d

Great for Brunel as each ship's back (7)

19d

European IT errors holding up our pupils’ targets? (7)

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21d

Without hesitating spinster stripped naked in front of six-footer (7)

22d

Japanese teacher said "Time I’m going" with feeling (7)

24d

Unsportsmanlike yo-yoing? (3,2)

26d

Meal including fillets of tender fish (5)