Independent Cryptic #11062

2022-03-28

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Across

8a

Worm boring around inside swelling (8)

9a

Electronic tag left in coat (6)

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10a

Beat back section of Royal Fusiliers (4)

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11a

Extremely selfish communist has scrap (5)

12a

Tart note written by university Romeo (4)

13a

Get hint about grabbing husband in horror movie (3,5)

16a

Keep placing players beside short leg (6)

18a

Powder found by detective arresting posh model (4)

20a

Endless nonsense is eschewed by all? (5)

21a

Starts to extol Ambassador Suite, emphasising comfort (4)

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22a

Inspector's son kidnapped by hideous crone (6)

23a

Article about holidaymaker spurning old stripper (8)

26a

Weapon's power deployed by Eisenhower (4)

28a

Covert resistance fostered by Tory minister (5)

30a

Beginning to engrave lines on bishop's ring (4)

31a

Nationalists collecting money for intelligence cell? (6)

32a

Right admitted to bias in education (8)

Down

1d

Whitman, perhaps, capturing English hotel's opulence (6)

2d

Young man suppressing yen to be a woman (4)

3d

A snob set up institute for Japanese art (6)

4d

Like heartless queen's lascivious look (4)

5d

Pain commander inflicted on a revolutionary (8)

6d

Musical elements of play about reaching the top (4)

7d

Charms Elvis originally displayed in disastrous GI Blues (8)

14d

Emperor's footman essentially wearing outfit wrong way round (5)

15d

Love interrupting elderly relative's lament (5)

17d

Having captured Troy, oracle castrated bull (5)

19d

Original couple touring Spain and Germany with daughter (8)

20d

Haughty king stops upcoming artist performing tango (8)

24d

Lowlife got over being given time inside (6)

25d

Left welcomes new support (6)

27d

Noble prematurely abandoning leader of Yorkists (4)

29d

Read Orwell's letters regularly; they epitomise wisdom (4)

30d

Outlaw ultimately overcame nemesis (4)