Independent Cryptic #11423

2023-05-23

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Across

7a

Upright officer I'll soon remember name (6)

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8a

Endless task getting band together in combined voices (8)

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10a

Life's final destination? Three steps back from where it started in the first place (4)

11a

Level of puzzle (5)

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12a

A lot of money for a turkey (4)

13a

Originally servants were inside and picked up the phone (8)

16a

Hard rock from Genesis rejecting the middle ground (6)

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17a

Sounds like I'm going to Tahiti perhaps (4)

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18a

Brilliant moves by police in uniform? No the reverse (5)

19a

Skin here's scraped occasionally (4)

21a

Autocrat knocking back drink in limousine? (6)

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23a

Unpaid old and not welcomed (8)

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25a

Wise perhaps to ignore first person to see flying predator (4)

26a

Mike disfavours all the vowels in part of a Persian's vocabulary (5)

28a

Legal document drafted with missing figure (4)

29a

Perhaps Descartes stuck without line changed his mind (8)

30a

Heard report of nay-sayer struggling with speech (6)

Down

1d

Things that make you smell nice clog nose unfortunately (8)

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2d

Unfeeling monarch abandons count (4)

3d

Useless refusenik turned up after I let down assassin (6)

4d

Copy husband wearing green (4)

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5d

Parking fees? Choose between short and long durations (8)

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6d

Judge criminal after the first sign of larceny? That's hard to say (10)

9d

Extremities oddly disposed of slain with support of Mohammed bin Salman initially (5)

14d

The end of Gove who's never compromised at any time (10)

15d

Party that disgusts me makes money (5)

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18d

The leading pair of criminal element (8)

20d

Original insiders to hear lies trumpeted (8)

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22d

A lake bird's nest (5)

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24d

Zip's briefly misbehaving (6)

27d

What Cummings was to Johnson: a set of uncoordinated instincts on Europe's finish (4)

28d

Raised hand grasping rector's blanket (4)