Independent Cryptic #11207

2022-09-13

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Across

1a

Between drinks, Republican starts to cry (5,2)

5a

Hems in vegetables containing sulphur (6)

8a

Cook and Hudson - old proles shocked to receive King (9)

9a

Live like perches? (5)

11a

Back in Sydney Zoo, wombats confused and unsteady (5)

12a

Cutter has a way of not working on this (4,5)

13a

Part of organ Sheeran featured in strange poster (4,4)

15a

Gift storybooks (6)

17a

20 possibly even less sensitive (6)

19a

Support American Revolutionary's complaint (8)

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22a

Exercising authority at home, nationalist deportations beginning (2,7)

23a

Warning about vice grips (5)

24a

20 character cries back-to-front (5)

25a

Lacking fragrance, rose should be moved away from front of house (9)

26a

Listened to turn and complained (6)

27a

Where Superman would be in his element (7)

Down

1d

Grinding stone wore thin on 20 show (3,3,7)

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2d

Son of Welsh prince to wander, OK? (7)

3d

Ordinary toys broken by 20 character (5)

4d

Iron crate which contains reporters (5,3)

5d

Piece about small city district cut in half (6)

6d

Polite conversation shops obsessively follow around (5,4)

7d

Support for one article brought up under 20 (7)

10d

Teaspoons tend to bend on 20 show (7,3,3)

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14d

Terrible poem as 10 secretly get at others' mail (5,4)

16d

Instructions Spooner's group catch (8)

18d

King invests American subject with decoration (7)

20d

Actor queen laid in bed (7)

21d

20 character to keep being found outside topless bar (6)

23d

Pitiful 20 show (5)