Independent Cryptic #11306

2023-01-06

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Across

1a

Island’s cold - month curtailed (5)

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4a

Three card players in lively 5 moving to upper level? (9)

9a

Perhaps bypasses telephone and sticks around area (9)

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10a

Concrete motorway doing for the country (5)

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11a

Negative mark appended to wine to make point (4)

12a

Bloke covering beat in part of New York (9)

14a

American’s rotten luck with southern city (8)

16a

Bad opening to summer distressing after father leaves (6)

19a

Religious festival brings attention about holy woman (6)

20a

Strategy sees piano being encircled by exotic instrument (8)

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22a

User began to change smaller groups (9)

24a

Engineer once providing question on the radio (4)

26a

Positive quantity of booze will be supplied by party (5)

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27a

Doctor finally probing widespread disease of the skin (9)

28a

Special use of language? It’s often cutting (9)

29a

Island about to enter into obligation (5)

Down

1d

Limitation to common foot complaint? (4)

2d

Security number supplied by idiots produces irritations (9)

3d

Sports venue’s one special viewing area hosting Republican (5)

4d

Worrying and not initially soothing about Arabia (8)

5d

Mostly planning to burgle old gambling venue (6)

6d

King and scoundrel taken in by simple story (9)

7d

I go out on time - or at the wrong moment? (5)

8d

New Arab state left to probe content of desert a waste region (10)

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13d

Keep display facilities containing foremost of sports bags (10)

15d

Superior Belgian city? Good grief! (9)

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17d

Boy taken on by cloth worker as everyday employee (9)

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18d

Came down on unknown figure supporting injunction making dull observation (8)

21d

Church study reduced large contribution to Harvest Festival? (6)

23d

Ditch game of skill for game of chance (5)

24d

Question from 24 across about European farm product (5)

25d

River passing through excellent piece of ground (4)