Independent Cryptic #10955

2021-11-22

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Across

8a

See 4 Down

9a

Rock partner's body (5)

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Tor(=rock, as in a rocky hill) + SO, which is an abbrev for Significant Other.

10a

Setter caught on to representation (4)

flowerflowerflower
11a
19a

(and 19 Across) Former wrestler now enjoys hand jiving (6,7)

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12a

Trick signal from Robin? (8)

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DD/CD. I'm not really up with cars but I assume this is something you might do with the hood of a Robin Reliant.

13a

Pour very shakily for dealer (8)

flowerflowerflower
15a

A burden is over (6)

flowerflowerflower
17a

South of Madrid, capital of Brazil - bizarre! (7)

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Sur (Spanish for South) + real, the Brazilian currency

19a

See 11 Across

22a

Where you might be exposed to French letter on the radio? (6)

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CD/DD. Quebec is the phonetic alphabet representation for Q, so might be used on the radio.

24a

Way to put down or flatter animal, maybe (8)

flowerflowerflower
26a

Where to find novel rock? (8)

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CD -Ref to Brighton Rock by Graeme Green

28a

Rock flower (6)

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DD – flower in the sense of something that flows i.e. a river, the Hudson River + Rock Hudson, US actor. I must admit that I'd so forgotten about Rock Hudson that I actually typed rock hudson into Google to see if there was any connection between the two words. I was speculating that there might be a Hudson Rock or perhaps that Sherlock Holmes occasionally referred to Mrs Hudson as his "rock".

30a

You and I exist incompletely and deteriorate (4)

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We ar[e]

31a

Revise holy book, deleting additional words (5)

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[PS]alter

32a

Greetings around the world performed with this? (2-2)

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Not sure if this is meant to be a sort of CD/DD or &lit. I assume the greeting is as in "Yo, buddy", which I imagine is fairly international. I don't think "this" on its own is enough to identify yo-yo but not sure either if a yo-yo is something you'd use for greetings, so maybe the &lit doesn't quite work.

Down

1d

'Kept by tame owners', as pet would say? (4)

flowerflowerflower
2d

Set ovary in motion - be my guest! (4,4)

flowerflowerflower
3d

Hard stone over English cathedral city ... (6)

flowerflowerflower
4d
8a

(and 8 Across) ... has turrets and a rocky peak (7,4)

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5d

Rocky state of a party led by Brown, for example, in America (8)

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A do with color in front (US spelling of colour). Colorado is called a Rocky state because of its location in the Rocky Mountains.

6d

Witness struggle over nude twerp (6)

flowerflowerflower
7d

Origins of hard outgrowth ruminant needs? (4)

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&lit – initial letters of " h ard o utgrowth r uminant n eeds".

14d

Adieu loyal sudoku solver: you ultimately rock (5)

flowerflowerflower
16d

Ruin treat (5)

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DD, the second in the sense of spoiling children.

18d

Rock is a 50-carat amalgam, middle-sized (8)

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(A L(=50 in Roman numbers) carat)* + [si]z[ed]. Alcatraz was nicknamed the Rock, a name used in a 1996 film with Sean Connery.

20d

Desperately need a key to perception without enhancement (5,3)

flowerflowerflower
21d

Rock climbing in secret in Argentina (7)

flowerflowerflower
23d

Star of toilet graffiti? (6)

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Bog art = possible def of toilet graffiti

25d

Stick poster in this place (6)

flowerflowerflower
27d

Rocky area on eastern tip of Finland (4)

flowerflowerflower
29d

Stone-working axes (4)

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On(=working) + YX(axes on a graph)