Independent Cryptic #11348

2023-02-24

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Across

7a

Mother’s heading in to make a meal (8)

9a

Cans not opening with buttons? (6)

10a

Trick Judge with copy (4)

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11a

Mistakenly tenderising steak initially not required as part of recipe (10)

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12a

Coat Picasso’s article in which celebrity appears (6)

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14a

Don’t go and suspend deliveries (8)

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15a

Dickens’s foremost eponymous character is a downtrodden worker (6)

17a

Part of speech: sailor taking in Democrat version (6)

20a

Crazy Americans missing first fish in place for angling? (8)

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22a

Superior person backing classy but unusual form of gardening (6)

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23a

Cricket side allege fiddling bringing in a top lawyer (10)

24a

Look for overturned fortresses that have yielded power (4)

25a

Concealed passport possibly caught in part of wash cycle losing front (6)

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26a

Single unknown item to exist in grasp of that male worker? (8)

Down

1d

Assigned soldiers exhausted to abandon river (8)

2d

Unconvincing fellow ditched by lover (4)

3d

Sexy lady lit up about revolutionary gear (6)

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4d

Driven wild after young adult broached source of booze (8)

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5d

Hint on poem given in articles from far away (10)

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6d

American sausage to go with German one picked up (6)

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8d

Grand university in Australia displaying learning? (6)

13d

Main area out at sea nothing less? That’s where you’d have seen me! (10)

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16d

Wearing certain hosiery as variety of diet gear (8)

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18d

Couple departed having removed fine jewellery item (8)

19d

Period of fasting: hour covers good duration (6)

21d

Getting on? Getting on even after soldiers are withdrawn (6)

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22d

Indication of rebound protecting European aerospace company (6)

24d

Where you’ll find some Scots broadcaster superior to English (4)