Independent Cryptic #11047

2022-03-10

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9a

Very naughty boy born our bastard High King (5,4)

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BRIAN BORU ( BRIAN BORU [941-1014] was one of the High Kings of Ireland)

10a

Schweinehund one good to be released as stray? (2-3)

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PI-DOG (in Asia, an ownerless or half-wild dog)

11a

Tory woman in support for corporation? (5)

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TRUSS (reference Liz TRUSS [born 1975], Foreign Secretary in the current Conservative government; Tory woman)

12a

Mother outside hotel beginning to enter drunk state (9)

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MINNESOTA (one of the 50 States of the United States of America)

13a

Old poetry university dons do to death (7)

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OVERUSE (do something too much such that it loses its effect; do to death)

14a

Non-oven-ready option: create vacancy for 11? (7)

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DEFROST (thaw out to make suitable for cooking)

16a

Maimonides for one having no time to talk (5)

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RABBI (Maimonides [1138 – 1204] was medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher and RABBI who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars)

18a

Wrong end of torpedo going off (3)

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SIN (a moral offence or wrong)

19a

Tasty plant in porridge, we hear (5)

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THYME (plant used in cooking; tasty plant)

21a

Soldier likely to dropalmost deadreveals pattern (7)

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PARAGON (model of excellence; pattern)

22a

Trickery from the French in great deal (7)

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SLEIGHT (trickery)

24a

Find outskirts of Langley weird (9)

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UNEARTHLY (weird)

26a

Spotted scavenger bringing money into hot area (5)

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HYENA (carrion feeding carnivore.  There is a species known as the spotted HYENA .  Spotted scavenger)

27a

Limerick perhaps shortened to make an impression (5)

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COUNT (make an impression)

28a

Getting fine: villain at last going straight? (9)

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NARROWING (getting fine [becoming narrower])

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1d

A club to set up church teaching? Proper shambles (8)

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ABATTOIR (slaughterhouse; SHAMBLES can also be defined as fleshmarkets or slaughterhouses)

2d

Tees had turned old instrument tone down (6)

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DILUTE (make less strong; tone down)

3d

Modest disrobing? (10)

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UNASSUMING (modest)

4d

Red route south from Leeds seen in advance (6)

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COMMIE (communist; red)

5d

Got going? By implication no! (6,2)

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TURNED ON (switched on a machine on; got a machine going)

6d

Son breaks mirror in domed recess (4)

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APSE (semicircular [domed] or polygonal recess,)

7d

Philosophy old yogi developed around energy (8)

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IDEOLOGY (philosophy)

8d

Shocked at gash that looks nasty (6)

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15d

Huge great king around house being old man? (10)

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FATHERHOOD (being a dad [old man])

17d

Hunks crossing ring road to get port or claret (8)

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BORDEAUX (a port city in France or a type of claret wine)

18d

Ignore symptom Spooner reports in good weather (8)

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SUNSHINE (good weather)

20d

Separate book top class won't need (8)

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ESTRANGE (cut off or remove; separate)

21d

Quiet snow leopard to attack as cats do (6)

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POUNCE (when cats attack they POUNCE )

22d

Crime writer speaks about leading lady (6)

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SAYERS (reference Dorothy L SAYERS [1893 – 1957], English crime writer)

23d

Green part in smoke that rolls over tongue (6)

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GAELIC (language; tongue)

25d

Corrupt English teaching system (4)

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