Independent Cryptic #10992

2022-01-05

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Across

9a

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10a
9a

(and 9 Across) Song extolling tradition with Thatcherism is absurd (5,9)

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11a

Snake has nothing for a voodoo priestess (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

MAMB a (snake) with O (nothing) replacing the ‘a’

12a

Perhaps the lower classes use banger for cooking (9)

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13a

Shown how rock and roller carries bucket down (7)

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14a
18d

(and 18 Down) Disturbance in East Berlin as DHL delivers Girl with the 21 Down 23 (7,8)

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16a

Leader in congregation cuts talk short (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

RABBI t (talk) without the last letter or ‘cut short’

18a

Beginners in studio photographed as well (3)

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19a

Cold beer initially bought spy in Canaan (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

C (cold) ALE (beer) B (first or ‘initial’ letter of bought). The one clue we had to check – again not unusual in a Tees puzzle. He could have used CELEB instead.

21a

Finished with girl in Irish county (7)

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22a

Man’s address to encompass New York cathedral? (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

MISTER (‘man’s address’) round or ‘encompassing’ N (new)

24a

Begin play about man eviscerated by a Greek hero (9)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

GAME ON (‘begin play’) round M a N without the middle letter or ‘eviscerated’, after or ‘by’ A

26a

Can't stand, as the drunk (5)

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27a

Frodo urgently concealing scent (5)

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28a

Tons in river added to hold pressure without planning (9)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

T (tons) in EXE (river) + MORE (added to) round or ‘holding’ P (pressure)

Down

1d

Mark from wound, cut by one Bavarian with sword (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

SCAR (mark from wound) round or ‘cut by’ I (one) MIT (German for ‘with’, as spoken in Bavaria)

2d

Constant frost beginning to abate in peninsula (6)

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3d

Phenomenal temperature found in a measurement at sea (10)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

T (temperature) in A SOUNDING (measurement at sea)

4d

Adult thought caused a smile (6)

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5d

Female's first victim seen in religion endlessly (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

ABEL (‘first victim’ – as in the Bible) in ISLA m (religion) without the last letter or ‘endlessly’

6d

Affected material finally deleted (4)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

TWEE d (material) without the last letter or ‘finally deleted’

7d

Genuine support given for team of stars? (8)

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8d

Watched painfully having lost wife in divorce (6)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

An anagram (‘painfully’) of w ATCHED without or ‘losing’ the ‘w’ (wife)

15d

Where one occasionally lives in sin? (6,4)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

SECOND (‘s’ ) HOME (in)  a crafty ‘lift and separate’ clue

17d

Stop providing roof for a disreputable house? (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

BUNG (stop) ‘providing a roof for’ (coming before in a down clue) A LOW (disreputable)

18d

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20d

Bidders mad to accept European chicken feed? (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

An anagram (‘mad’) of BIDDERS round or ‘accepting’ E (European)

21d

Inhale smoke from flame-thrower (6)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

DRAG ON (inhale smoke from – as in smoking a cigarette)

22d

Very small child receives letter from Greek (6)

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23d

Needlework that’s liberating husband as well (6)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

T h AT without or ‘liberating’ ‘h’ (husband) TOO (as well)

25d

English brought to anger in country around Dublin? (4)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

E (English) + IRE (anger)