Independent Cryptic #11074

2022-04-11

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Across

1a

Extreme torpor partly receding for now (3,3)

4a

Beer smuggled by Captain in book Island Capital (3,5)

9a

Who needs 20 beforehand to get drunk? (5)

10a

Mammals wild cat can see (9)

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11a

It can hold a bun or a buck, you might say (7)

12a

Left out 'hand' in abridged dictionary (7)

13a

Bring up what you can bring up (4)

14a

Potato skins perhaps go with fish (8)

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17a

First institute established by nobleman (8)

19a

Tiller in shelter onboard essentially destroyed (4)

22a

Electronic wheels on back of car in use again (7)

24a

Bear with oddly brash character in G&S opera (4-3)

25a

Those mares mostly reprocessed (9)

26a

Stuff stored in empty glass units (5)

27a

Riveting place for novel launch (8)

28a

Get down from sill on front of farmhouse (6)

Down

1d

Footage upset tough little swimmer (8)

2d

Irregular beat is not very firm (9)

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3d

Old lodger rejecting a new amount (6)

5d

Pi representing something that goes on forever? (10,3)

6d

Choice of words daughter used for fellow in tale (7)

7d

Accepted award (briefly revealing behind) (5)

8d

Fiend and swindler together regularly doing time (6)

10d

Queen finally going to eat eastern fruit (9,4)

15d

Kids climbing over A-road? Might be right (9)

16d

Nut aches badly having fallen (8)

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18d

Fan of 23s feeds boxer in part of garden (7)

20d

Male composer in female clothing on ship (6)

21d

O2 deleting digit in writer's long number (6)

23d

Graphics technology captures outline of our dog (5)