Independent Cryptic #11027

2022-02-15

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Across

1a

International group genuinely leaderless and out of control (6)

4a

Not making a profit, perhaps? Awkward (8)

10a

One duck winged around, circling another (7)

11a

Ploughman's perhaps wiping mouth, eating out with no manners (7)

12a

The first girlfriend, right as always (4)

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13a

Flip-flopping Tories rule badly (10)

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15a

Endless delay with large catalogue (6)

16a

Cool drink setter had in flat (7)

20a

Bore and thug taking advantage of the same good cavalryman (7)

21a

Wishy-washy, but offered bolder ingredients occasionally (6)

24a

Recovery of space in defective computer (10)

26a

Official record secreted in Cluniac tabernacle (4)

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28a

Regular, somewhat boring colour (7)

29a

I'll drive on the right and tear around in this brand of tyre (7)

30a

New Age philosophy according to some: a sort of oneness with nature, primarily (8)

31a

Pure and mostly humble (6)

Down

1d

Clumsy French article widely misinterpreted (8)

2d

Socialist message, like the words of Jesus? (3-6)

3d

To Schubert, a song told a story (4)

5d

It makes you sick seeing North America exploit worker (8)

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6d

People in solitary confinement? Turkish city-dwellers, some say (10)

7d

Island's gold found in capsized vessel (5)

8d

One most revered? Question of motive raised about article he brought up (6)

9d

Turn around, very unwelcome still (5)

14d

Dreadful day, resulting in upset (10)

17d

Those who are stupid as I live in foreign climes (9)

18d

One of the sides of gym's not as dim (8)

19d

Pessimistic, no? (8)

22d

Admirer, they say, supporting soldiers someone abandoned (6)

23d

Clumsy writer from the South defined by sex (5)

25d

Bishop is at first trapped in toilet in passenger section of plane; ... (5)

27d

... supporter of cathedral gets him a promotion (4)