Independent Cryptic #11154

2022-07-13

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Across

9a

Estate manager stealing diamonds from The Confessor (7)

10a

It’s able to change form - clasp it tight (7)

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11a

He looks out as former remote-controlled vehicle enters bike races (9)

12a

Measure depth of safe inlet of the sea (5)

13a

Every one sat in a desk? That’s how pupils need to be (9)

14a

Freelance soldier infiltrating summer camp (4)

17a

Mum's best lesson, diligence is wasted (7,2,6)

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22a

Where across clues are creating arguments (4)

24a

Most like squalor, smut and slime when working (9)

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27a

Prof’s post has nothing for a group of singers (5)

28a

Came across a sailor initially stranded on island - Bones (9)

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29a

Endless energy seen by seabird on the wing without end (7)

30a

Cardigan possibly to court little Eleanor on return (7)

Down

1d

A call for help when holding first-rate insulating material (8)

2d

Cooked lamb left around to munch - in this form perhaps? (8)

3d

California firm’s fake American hullabaloo (9)

4d

Part of speech promoted with second half pulled by bishop (6)

5d

Perfectly clean cooking utensil the French kept on board (8)

6d

A flat stone turned up in a wood (5)

7d

Get used - it’s a tense time with one Parisienne (6)

8d

Ill-natured old leader of Uganda featured in account (6)

15d

Leader abandons genuine regret (3)

16d

Caught by public area of land I’ll go in to stir (9)

18d

A Nigerian island's bad smell (3)

19d

Women’s emblem includes this band (8)

20d

With boring MO and doctor I dropped in ahead of time (8)

21d

E.g. almond, almost entire, prepared as sustenance (8)

22d

It’s a scam nicking book from top of shelf (6)

23d

Chief god clasps ring fashioned from Yggdrasil perhaps (6)

25d

Higher urban area now put in disarray (6)

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26d

Some memoir on Yeltsin as a form of satire (5)