Independent Cryptic #10977

2021-12-17

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Across

6a

Conclude network's regressed? That's annoying (8)

7a

Historic instrument? It sounds dreadful (4)

9a

Impenetrable song offered by drunk (8)

11a

Proof impudence repelled you once (6)

12a

Man (possibly): “I knocked off, finishing early” (4)

13a

Keeps circling quiet trees, deriving pleasure (9)

15a

Fugitive American breaching part of airport (7)

16a

Couple on the radio distressed chum? That’s excessive (3,4)

18a

Account after trial in one US state (not a state where you’ll be leaving) (9)

21a

Observed borders of early England (4)

22a

Feasible to pay for travelling most cheaply? (2,4)

24a

A blog comment, say, wrecked defection (8)

25a

Dreadful confusion in Times supplement (4)

26a

Like a man, agreed to block the French in error (8)

Down

1d

Four articles about Frenchman? Not something I can stand (8)

2d

Ghastly new tangles from end to end (10)

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3d

I note domestic animals turning up together (2,4)

4d

Stuff in college record (4)

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5d

Develop nothing after elevating half of nothing? (6)

8d

Things everyone knows? One respects dissembling (4,7)

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10d

Foreign cousin’s reserve suppressing an air of carelessness (11)

14d

One drawing on key material in accusation of remoteness (5,5)

17d

Mass too wild to accommodate overture’s ending in grand style (8)

19d

Philosophy is subordinate to love in what goes to a Scotsman’s head (6)

20d

Good deal of surprise on locating river (6)

23d

University cricketer upset, being out (4)