Independent Cryptic #11097

2022-05-07

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Across

7a

Happy to see revamp (6)

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8a

Wine - mostly very strong on board SS Enterprise and Endeavour? (4-4)

10a

Voluntary leave without payment to begin with (4-4)

11a

Popular female soldier's child (6)

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12a

Dog's regular I see for say going on supplement in addition to routine courses (15)

14a

Heroin addict abandoning us for £1 (7)

15a

Some critics pan Dexy's material (7)

18a

About 100 tons of copper batteries fly out all over the place (6,2,7)

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20a

Quote work from the east - it's imaginative (6)

21a

Perhaps Stallone's accepting old agents' bill, initially in a friendly manner (8)

23a

Wally or Edward, briefly mixed (8)

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24a

Worry safecracker's opening lock (6)

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Down

1d

A topless dominatrix pops up to provide rough ideas (14)

2d

Star finally stripping naked for Playboy (4)

3d

Disappointing change in Raleigh Cycling - with brownish-yellow colour trimming handlebars at first (8)

4d

They'd put saddles on in fancy stores - bolts, essentially, must go in the middle (7)

5d

Cycle unfinished - in India one comes in two pieces (6)

6d

Meeting to study viral infection with nurse and chemical engineer (10)

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9d

Good time girl with northern charm ignoring an orthodox viewpoint (14)

13d

Reading about award (10)

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16d

Perhaps Charlotte, North Carolina's filling ministers' time away (8)

17d

They might draw the line at this in Stockley Park (7)

19d

River around large town with back of dinghy leaving wake (6)

22d

Without a shred of doubt, who made Thomas crooked (4)