Independent Cryptic #11420

2023-05-19

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Across

7a

Educational staple and other things - no time for teaching aids (6)

8a

Flightless bird making Iran home? Unlikely (8)

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9a

Oxford University set to back editor on the losing side? (8)

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10a

Cost to bring in new pop singer? Here’s one from the past (6)

11a

Pub brought back in cold item on menu leading to hissy fit from a Yank (10)

13a

Axeman taking front off storage container (4)

14a

Expressions of pleasure surrounding tourist’s first holiday experiences (6)

16a

American beauty queen is a married woman (6)

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19a

Register part in drama on the radio (4)

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21a

Hopeful eye will accommodate one blockage to vision (10)

23a

Readily dismissing male Brontë sister accepts a second (6)

24a

High voice offering confusion of tenor with soprano of late (8)

26a

Not keeping working with fish in the middle of the day (8)

27a

A foe of Superman overlooked by lead writer (6)

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Down

1d

Sensible attitude about blue swirling resembling astronomical phenomena (8)

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2d

Still supporting article from 8 an hour before (6)

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3d

Temperature very much rising? A great deal (4)

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4d

Collection of games: competition’s final one meeting with hesitation (10)

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5d

Cries to gain attention about shipping companies and consequences of pollution (8)

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6d

Save the others taking hint for closure? (6)

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8d

Medic enthralled by woman in European city (6)

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12d

Restaurant proprietor upset my cool omitting last family name (10)

15d

Old convict about to grab overturned liqueur (8)

17d

Waste disposal device promptly receiving Prime Minister’s name (8)

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18d

Suppress word that’s an anagram of itself (6)

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20d

Speaker cheers up when welcomed by men repeatedly (6)

22d

Rising against heartless top people without a lot of substance? (6)

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25d

Story-teller to use mocking language in revolutionary way (4)

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