Independent Cryptic #11329

2023-02-02

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Across

1a

Item of military dress worn mostly flush (7)

5a

Monopolise department on small Scottish plant (7)

9a

Intrusive binary responses one sent back (5)

10a

Irish pet maybe embarrassed me (3,6)

11a

Greeks struggling in heat since about noon (9)

12a

Baffled fellow leaving worse for wear (5)

13a

Outbreak is equally reckless (4)

15a

Sheep herder originally re-dug yonder pit (8)

18a

Get going with best-performing ticket seller (5,3)

19a

Administration that launches 9 perhaps endlessly (4)

22a

Roughly trim back of ornate tile for bishop (5)

24a

Very busy certainly with head-to-toe treatments (9)

26a

Local wine and half a curry university covers (3,2,4)

27a

Sailor regularly at chic counters (5)

28a

Spiny thing moved inches across back of bayou (7)

29a

Hesitant when switching articles in journal (7)

Down

1d

Art of growing up among Asia's nobility (6)

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2d

Harass healers to despair (4,5)

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3d

Fabric drawers with sides having split (5)

4d

Find fault with account linked to satellite dish (9)

5d

God cheated over empty eulogies (5)

6d
25d

(and 25 Down) Order music (9,5)

7d

Praise former partner over large amount raised (5)

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8d

Mock the German papers on centre of shelf (6)

14d

Clown discovered King and Queen at home (9)

16d

Lost in details written in Ovid's language (9)

17d

Appear again outside of refuge with beach dude? (9)

20d

Mark in Jersey possibly missing new film (1-5)

21d

Often subjects set in first year initially get harder (6)

23d

Fish snare upset children (5)

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24d

Resources tight before middle of recession (5)

25d

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