Independent Cryptic #11170

2022-08-01

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Across

1a

Put your hands together to catch balls (8)

5a

Wife an American beauty queen? (6)

10a

Minor manufacturer failing to open plant (5)

11a

Pattern for suit cut around pants (9)

12a

Tory from London area fearing parliamentary scrutiny (6,7)

14a

American books hotel, bad army accommodation (7)

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16a

Jeans cut on both sides, hole obvious (7)

17a

Seat on plane, mine next to a knob (7)

20a

Horse-riding brawl (5-2)

22a

Baggage misplaced by a Lapp in Harare (13)

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25a

English boy in China cooked hot snack (9)

26a

Urge one has next to empty dragster? (5)

27a

Unhappy waiting around, I dropped hamper (6)

28a

Bloody easy one holding you up? (3,5)

Down

1d

Ford Fiesta, perhaps, in shade (10)

2d

Orange left out of tropical cocktail (7)

3d

Right-hander who smashed mugs in Liberty's once (5)

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4d

Clothes dismay hosts right before start of event (7)

6d

Home schooling automatically produced knowledge (9)

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7d

English rocks, lots of tiny ones? (7)

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8d

Children the result of two dates (4)

9d

New pupils confusing tea with ink (6)

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13d

New mother perhaps arranged Peter Pan's clothes back to front (4-6)

15d

Just one Roman poet investing Pliny's capital (9)

18d

Better green salad in the east part of Massachusetts (4,3)

19d

Best tile perfectly cut by local (3,3)

20d

A servant around always is what a lord has (7)

21d

A measured amount of assistance (7)

23d

Left-hander who smashes nothing with that hand (5)

24d

Part of England where flowers grow (4)