Independent Cryptic #11299

2022-12-29

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Across

1a

Posh boring models express disapproval (3)

3a

Branching out Republican dullard wears a fragrance (11)

9a

At first during sex one is accompanied by partner (9)

10a

Tea's served in this empty galley that's unpleasantly humid (5)

11a

One scaled the walls of Guardbridge and Carnock followed by a duck (5)

12a

How to capture the king led by public? (9)

14a

Muslim official's snores interrupting an arrangement of unfinished minuet (7)

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16a

In America gossip with a woman about revolutionary videoconferencing software (7)

18a

Animal I found in dilapidated stable (7)

20a

Band starts to tune trumpets and euphoniums for a dance (7)

21a

Your setter replacing one singer with another to make music (9)

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23a

A quote from [Cats Revolutionary Road] or (5)

24a

Lines or line delivered by one emerging from closet? (5)

25a

Get key from German city before it's returned by a student (9)

26a

Logs - wood that is cut (11)

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27a

Brian is given the freedom to blossom (3)

Down

1d

Skinny like a rabbit - maybe it's your uncle whatshisname (11)

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2d

Hidebound individuals with secret organisation lacking a base (9)

3d

In the morning I leave with friend (5)

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4d

Rise quickly and dance with nothing on (7)

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5d

P Macbeth o (7)

6d

Occasionally 'a cry for help' is overwhelming self-indulgence (9)

7d

Enthusiastic diner has the wrong end of goblet (5)

8d

Old city from which Romeo is exiled in play (3)

13d

Children's picture quiz the answer to which is 2 4 10 and (11)

15d

Both taking drugs swelling soldiers ultimately represent the spirit of the age (9)

17d

Boycott 'great' retrogressive art by cis male (9)

19d

They slip on bread outside of Exeter station's north facade (7)

20d

Unmissable tops of mountains and tors surrounding American diocese (7)

22d

Weaken one in French island dependency (5)

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23d

Vermin skulking about city (5)

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24d

Ideas discharged by say Marx or Mao initially (3)