Independent Cryptic #11303

2023-01-03

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Across

1a

See 14 Across

5a

One isn't convinced Conservative with sex appeal and muscles could be returned (7)

9a

Policeman facing a long cycle is undecided (9)

10a

Ruin close to tourist spots (5)

11a

Fashionable hosts stripped beds from IKEA, perhaps (7)

12a

Rail transport from Turkey packing in sheep roughly (7)

14a
1a

(and 1 Across) A succession of outlandish numbers in dream about money? (10)

15a

Weak beer on tap, no thanks (4)

17a

Fit back four in place for Czechs (4)

20a

Good for France and Germany to stick together (4)

21a

Ophir's case in point as trading place (4)

22a

Traitors heading west act the hero (4)

25a

Gorge needing second pair of gloves before visiting (7)

26a

Tearjerking art on show, going round holding hanky (7)

27a

Mike and I leave Belgium drifting in balloon (5)

29a

Upsetting effect of hair roller? (5,4)

30a

Plane tree whose leaves conceal the cuckoo and rook (7)

31a

Subway adjust large sandwiches back in kitchen (6)

Down

2d

Where data is on disc or on form (2,3,6)

3d

Airline from eastern Russia avoided by Poles (6)

4d

Dictator's refusal to sound like a nag (5)

5d

Tourist insults English monarch - that's out of line (9)

6d

Preserve former emperor after swapping tips for mummification (5,3)

7d

Drink driving zone, you might say (3)

8d

Military unit cold or hot on manoeuvres (6)

9d

Pinocchio's maker desires whittled kids to bring up (6)

13d

Cover chip on bodywork after taking learner out (11)

16d

New satire about the course Cameron took that might encourage him to get stuffed? (9)

18d

Devotee shaking head over the cost of living somewhere (8)

19d

Irish sound mischievous, British superior (6)

23d

Boris bothered fellow Brits in France (6)

24d

Can family visit? (4-2)

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26d

Street full of Spanish for la Vuelta, perhaps (5)

28d

Cricket side that's fifty for one (3)

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