Independent Cryptic #10901

2021-09-20

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Across

1a

Split, or stick together, being caught with time off (6)

5a

Radar perhaps surprisingly protected after power cut (8)

9a

Permit, or penalise, criminal actions? Not at first (8)

10a

Hide, or show, Native American between two poles (6)

11a

Rifle protecting a revolutionary, or an officer (10)

12a

Moving rapidly, or stuck when grabbed by foot (4)

13a

Sides with, or switches before saying "cheerio" (6,2)

16a

Wasn't mad about type of string sounds from banjo, maybe (6)

17a

After a short time, gained back unimpressive catch (6)

19a

Member wearing man's clothes (8)

21a

Look for someone at one's own level, or higher? (4)

22a

Skill of crew aboard the Hindenburg? (10)

25a

Husband follows peculiar scent or horrible smell (6)

26a

Bold, or at first lost in terrible perdition (8)

27a

It has the same shape as Moorish palace's first construction (8)

28a

Leave (or again join) regime restricting society (6)

Down

2d

In Mali, a natural climber (5)

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3d

Sent up a Roman Catholic to state capital (5)

4d

Teaches nonsense if ideas only partly recalled (7)

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5d

Stupidly refuse to accept bottomless ego (7)

6d

Suggest, or reject, flip of coin elsewhere (4,3)

7d

One of the limits of canteen: very small plate for breakfast cereal (9)

8d

Supervision (or neglect) of deliveries, given stated location (9)

14d

Parisian can work before I briefly return (9)

15d

Against hollow man and Tory cavorting? That's self-contradictory (9)

18d

Become worn down, or endure topic of desultory conversation (7)

19d

Add or take away new gaudy covering (7)

20d

Nuclear device's designer about to be demoted (7)

23d

Removes or supplies kernels (5)

24d

Seeing all but not the top of the cake (5)