Independent Cryptic #11153

2022-07-12

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Across

7a

Heavy alligator, disorientated at being released (7)

8a

Mobil loses barrels after China supplies refinery product (4,3)

9a

My back, with constant tilt from one side to the other (4)

10a

Scandalous refusal to repay up-front debts (9)

12a

Organ found in male sculpture for example (5)

13a

Repeated again, er, cryptically? (2-6)

15a

Express broadband provider - not half! (4)

16a

Bowls, possibly left after soup for starters (5)

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17a

Obama re-activated housing sector (4)

18a

Doctor Henry has a gin and large port (8)

20a

Call time on the King, not the Spanish one (5)

21a

A rude Wren flashed knickers? (9)

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22a

Miss Johns picked up (4)

24a

Fashionable girl providing a substitute for heroin makes 1000 guineas? (7)

25a

Casually go around volcano country (7)

Down

1d

Twice cook old bird (4)

2d

Strong reaction from sweetener (8)

3d

Sketch alien's heavenly body (6)

4d

Earth is, I suspect, at most risk (8)

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5d

Small insect eats nothing but sand (6)

6d

A soft touch, monk is sold trousers! (4)

11d

Scare results from misjudgement entering dodgy site (9)

12d

Erica's very hard sandwiches ruined tea (5)

14d

First Lady leads non-violent extremists meeting (5)

16d

Maybe American football star is desperate, initially chasing the odds (8)

17d

Bale's out injured? 100% (8)

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19d

Clothes being taken off in films I'd unwittingly looked up (6)

20d

Mary, perhaps popular after overthrow of former Prince Regent? (6)

21d

Dung-fly regularly avoided one fruit (4)

23d

Pole is endlessly flash (4)