Independent Cryptic #11025

2022-02-12

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Across

1a

It's fated, all the time children will ask 'are we nearly there yet?' (14)

9a

Multi-volume work about a king kept in wood (5)

10a

Connoisseur of beastly habits squeezed zits outside flipping work toilet! (9)

11a

Regular payment some native Americans, lacking capital, received (7)

12a

Dramatic incident following live programme that's indecent (7)

13a

Singing praises of bloc's singular handling of operations (10)

15a

Fancy that man pursuing women (4)

17a

Football bosses note Portuguese performance (4)

18a

Allowing leeway in how courier might be paid? (10)

22a

Regret engaging a left-leaning barrister, taking time to find what's needed for court battle (7)

24a

British walk (one way or another) to pick fruit (7)

25a

Poet, republican, reinterpreted myths about eastern queen (9)

26a

Take the mickey out of tense relative (5)

27a

Say opium eater is a calculating type (6,8)

Down

1d

For neuralgia, I dropped ecstasy - it's a gas (7)

2d

E-reader in US state supporting English lit (9)

3d

Media boss longing to get spinning (7)

4d

Sleep after sex, getting up before end of day in confused state (5)

5d

Endless money and gold is melted down for coinage (9)

6d

Revolutionary trading extremes for religion (6)

7d

Skin of cattle in East End compound (5)

8d

Rest, stirring before morning run (6)

14d

Magazine laid out in Pret and Costa (9)

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16d

Edit out first husband - it's helpful to groom (9)

17d

Look out for the ball! Are you caught up in excitement? (6)

19d

Boom and bust leaving business with an austerity champion (7)

20d

I'll dismiss judge in case of ecocide - court in uproar after union's barred (7)

21d

Ahead, having broken Djokovic? Fantastic! (6)

23d

Carp droppings picked up by SA rodent (5)

24d

Georgia's brother picking up a streaker? (5)