Independent Cryptic #11179

2022-08-11

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Across

1a

Simplistic account contained in dossier (6)

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4a

Aggressive speech managed to stop Major's replacement (8)

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9a

Half-fat jams spoilt rice cake (6)

10a

Authentic report of sizeable Scottish settlement (8)

11a

Who would prohibit the use of colour? (6)

12a

Skill provided that routine result of human endeavour (8)

14a

Qualification perhaps revised article containing loose end (10)

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18a

Sportsman unlikely to run against British member of parliament and head of state (4,6)

22a

Flaring up again having lost it in power (8)

23a

Love of cruelty in the modern era is encapsulated by Stalin and Mao primarily (6)

24a

New cadet due to be trained (8)

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25a

Remarkable apparatus for conveying information (6)

26a

Urgent request to have access controls (8)

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27a

Quite popular and moving record? (6)

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Down

1d

Supply vital input to support informative response (8)

2d

What could be nicely defined, top or bottom, by radius (8)

3d

Mooched about, stopping to idle aimlessly (8)

5d

Lingering symptom of consumption? (10)

6d

Expert in origin of transistor radio's development (6)

7d

Instrument starts to generate useful information through automated reasoning (6)

8d

Wagner's first to abandon important scores (6)

13d

Acquisition by staff involved in corruption (10)

15d

Revolution helping to suppress religious work (8)

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16d

Everyone intended to ignore first serious relationship (8)

17d

Low frequency noise in recording decayed (8)

19d

Broadcast removes restrictions on moratorium (6)

20d

Raise last of very small steps partners could take (6)

21d

Relief as nutritionist recalled sandwiches likely to cause harm (6)

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