Independent Cryptic #11373

2023-03-25

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Across

1a

Lead in to a fool's headline act (9)

6a

Regularly welly-boot wanging's beginning to build up part of arm (5)

9a

March 25: social media bad boy joined Tea Party finally (7)

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10a

Respectable post (7)

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11a

The rope's new unbound lacking length (5)

12a

Called Jack over to provide proof of ownership (9)

13a

Hide pay for escort first (9)

15a

Agents seizing church roughly (5)

16a

Registers tips (5)

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18a

Abundant common sense making good Charlie's thieving (9)

20a

Inspired by Red Sea - Queen's getting rest (9)

23a

Presents Bluth has with extremely gorgeous wrapping (5)

25a

Lavish meal - it's what winds up audience on Question Time following prohibition (7)

26a

Come across excellent friend (7)

27a

Striking effect of some revolutionary dental cement (5)

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28a

Write study on case for divorce - it ultimately leaves one needing financial support (9)

Down

1d

Short story's touching - one's hooked (5)

2d

Old man took too many drugs in retirement - coke occasionally and grass within limits? (7)

3d

Crowds dine out after Gold Card's express service starts (9)

4d

Budget airline heading off ignoring Japan - until now (5)

5d

Trade rule rewritten for Boris Johnson say (9)

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6d

Nest egg principally to support European over year one (5)

7d

Error - stop assuming end of nose produces bogey (7)

8d

Leaves husband after comic sketches (9)

13d

Fantastic baller breaks toe - it's okay (9)

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14d

Confirmed somewhere to go climbing I saw (9)

15d

For example Spooner once put hundred pounds on Germany collapsing (9)

17d

Without assuming that penultimate round of competition will be important (7)

19d

Prevent rebuilding above it (7)

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21d

Forgetting a tense in divine language (5)

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22d

Venture capitalist's summary (5)

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24d

Perfume's dispatched by the sound of it (5)

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