Independent Cryptic #11015

2022-02-01

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Across

6a

A flower's sad, diminished beauty (8)

8a

Roll about outside official building (6)

10a

In mid-April, a locust flies too high to be heard (10)

11a

Lead extract from bituminous tarmac (4)

12a

Recycles electronic drilling devices (6)

14a

Music from 'Mexico's Madonna' with an elemental energy (8)

15a

Edible seaweed?! Me neither! (4)

17a

Very fashionable brand's producing belts (5)

18a

Piano in the middle of Argos making high-pitched sound (4)

19a

Reported the status of my deputy - dead (8)

20a

An angel of the highest order, he's returning to accept punishment (6)

22a

One's suffering knock-backs (4)

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23a

Tim Rice's plays about Private Investigator, based on direct experience (10)

26a

Well-stirred gruel containing iodine is stickier (6)

27a

Rock band reversing in van kept by artist (7)

Down

1d

Initially, trunks are back-to-front, resulting in damage (4)

2d

Doctor beheaded asses and aye-ayes (6)

3d

Singlet repeatedly discovered tangled round the midriff of Seb Coe? (4)

4d

Greek, 23, ambitious and posh, meets Queen and starts to utter sallies (8)

5d

Paparazzo stalks sunburnt swimmer (3,7)

7d

Island races wiped out (by leprosy, primarily) in small arrondissement (5)

9d

At the back of Anantara Hotel, snorting gak with an affluent Arab (3,4)

13d

Singular look inspired by look upon quarterdeck? (6,4)

14d

Just over half of Alexander's kingdom is defended against attack (5)

16d

Allow object to cause self-inflicted injury (3,4)

17d

Nina's fearful quality that's not quite possessed by this grid (8)

20d

In the environs of Sancerre, a sculpture, perhaps Rodin's original 'Le Penseur'? (6)

21d

The letters in alphabet soup, say, beyond A (5)

24d

Whiff - from the bottom area of dog? Nope (4)

25d

Chief's Z car outside (4)

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