Independent Cryptic #11009

2022-01-25

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Across

1a

English staff incorporate special gap in text (2,5)

5a

Hunchbacked historian contracted American (7)

10a

Rock producer guaranteed some returns (4)

11a

Scheme regularly yielded missile (10)

12a

Smell authentic in the north (6)

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13a

A big number burn one in fashionable style (8)

14a

Reckoned European writer's declared limits (9)

16a

Polish husband spotted cops (5)

17a

It doesn't matter which one's left a number (5)

19a

Some stars with lawyer hedging capital (9)

23a

Myths occupying old priest's first US mission (8)

24a

Horrible green Yankee spirit (6)

26a

Drug group's early receiver possibly needing cans (7,3)

27a

Judge put away rebel's leader first (4)

28a

What's the point of cricket ground without grass? (7)

29a

Racy novel about woman's sport (7)

Down

2d

Measuring devices incorporating old night lights? (7)

3d

Gym has inbuilt stage (5)

4d

Star has a piano in basement briefly (7)

6d

Pacific island with nicer bananas (6)

7d

Stake regularly helped trim noted stable here (9)

8d

Free places to go in Unionist northeast (7)

9d

Oz stars shorten courses drastically, wasting 24 (8,5)

15d

Highly regarded papers cover dotty ladies touring east (9)

18d

Cab mostly unoccupied is exempt from duty (3-4)

20d

What shuttle had to do to repeat record? (2-5)

21d

Follow street Arab, Ancient Mariner's guide? (3,4)

22d

Install old shower daughter imported (6)

25d

Shortage - no top soil (5)