Independent Cryptic #11433

2023-06-03

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Across

1a

City where you get cheese sandwiches hot (5)

4a

Heartlessly edge alongside the place people eat celery? (9)

9a

Blast shotgun to get ducks (7)

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10a

Figure made from copper and silver stuff (7)

11a

Main part of monumental dish left unfinished (9)

12a

Simpleton's excrement going in opposite directions (5)

13a

A phoney journalist is 'sorry' (7)

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14a

Taps against loose rock creating harsh sound (7)

16a

Maternal figure put on the fronts of narthexes and altars (7)

19a

Beginning in island west of Thailand one finishes in Haifa Israel (7)

21a

Vehicles belonging to Dr No's antagonist? (5)

23a

Specks of sea spray whirl and waft (9)

25a

Holiday in rugged isle with uniform on (7)

26a

This 'animal' incapable of change is misguidedly paroled (7)

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27a

Seated players toss a ring about (9)

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28a

Unsavoury record on the radio (5)

Down

1d

Hop move about and start to circle one's bottom (5)

2d

Rude French king Henry taking time (7)

3d

Exotic creature supplied by setter new in Berlin on Monday (9)

4d

Went to rest one's feet during battle and died (7)

5d

Beautiful woman in gold dress wiping both hands (7)

6d

They cross the road en masse towards a vacant Debenhams (5)

7d

The law? It's often black and white (7)

8d

Helmet man fiddled with resulting in a sort of cheese (9)

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13d

Bony creature's wing put on a herb bagel (9)

15d

A shower of swirling drips on a rambler's head? (9)

17d

D Götterdämmerung e (7)

18d

A cardinal points above the tops of Rome's skyline thereby responds (7)

19d

Eavesdroppers spy on Communist representatives according to reports (7)

20d

Parrot from India fed outside Cambridge University (7)

22d

Brush off special ashcan? (5)

24d

One in bed beginning to turn and twist (5)