Independent Cryptic #10882

2021-08-28

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Across

1a

Harry Belafonte and I entertaining member of crew (11)

7a

Ask about Jamaican music (3)

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9a

Joke about extremely unethical prison camp (5)

10a

Scratching an ace copper plate finish (9)

11a

Apes' food (5,4)

12a

Believe lecturer's cleared of deceit and bias (5)

13a

Characters occasionally dropping in on our Nan, near my sister's house (7)

15a

Close market (4)

18a

Time bomb failed to open vault (4)

20a

Present greeting bishop in doorway (7)

23a

Shackled by flipping extreme dominatrix's device (5)

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24a

School again discover Greek coin before start of excavation (2-7)

26a

Star making record on champagne (9)

27a

British Liberal politician embracing international reactionary sort (5)

28a

Help! in calypso style (3)

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29a

Playing 17, hung, without a bit of string - it could stop the big game (8,3)

Down

1d

Legislative body's sub-par elements limiting government bond (8)

2d

The Dutchman, say, regularly likes doin' smoke rings (4,4)

3d

Soft, wet lad touring empty 9 (5)

4d

After crashing car the man goes by railway to get to sport (7)

5d

Exploits work's weakling (7)

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6d

Little sweeper turned Ian Rush - initially left back's taken in (9)

7d

Fast cooker with a recipe for cow's heart (6)

8d

Ancient Head of Entertainment dividing a TV channel (3-3)

14d

Online business is drug trafficking? (1-8)

16d

Smash-and-grab, I find grating (8)

17d

It might accompany Harry Belafonte - troupe's outsiders must visit Italian city on the way back (5,3)

19d

How a boxer might read poem on the radio - its lines are, crucially, of different sizes (7)

20d

Why ease off moonshine? (7)

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21d

Strange times, son. Abso-bloomin-lutely? (6)

22d

Remodels contemporary apartment second (6)

25d

Half your collar turned up in town (5)