Independent Cryptic #11441

2023-06-13

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Across

9a

Spook hiding information in case of accident (5)

10a

Friars at a resort for religious movement (9)

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11a

Big cheese judged and damned (9)

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12a

Seed rating announced (5)

13a

Siberian spooks cutting City Hall line (7)

15a

Punch Australia's opener after arsing about (7)

17a

Old spook in Utah getting leg-over (5)

18a

Sink or basin (3)

20a
7d

(and 7 Down) Spook in tree getting into Prince and Queen (5,6)

22a

Foreign character recalled spook with wild lion (7)

25a

Unmotivated American spook’s discipline returning? Not so much (7)

26a

Spook in Territorial Army (5)

27a

Frank Ocean originally changed tune about heartless spook (9)

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30a

Spooks infiltrating Syrian city are very small men (9)

31a

Spook is good company (5)

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Down

1d

Headless spook gives concern (4)

2d

Spook ran event frightfully (8)

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3d

Looking up in mirror at spook’s heavenly body (4)

4d

Talked nonsense with spook in Palladium (8)

5d

Assistants covering up spook's initial digressions (6)

6d

Historical spook somewhere in Norfolk (10)

7d

See 20 Across

8d

Mark Zuckerberg ultimately engaged in crime (4)

13d

Government spook in Jamaica decapitated fish (5)

14d

Spook failing with men badly (3,7)

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16d

Buried in baby's sand pit (5)

19d

Spook rebuilt man's path (8)

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21d

Winger goes after free hit in Portsmouth tie? (4,4)

23d

Spook leader's over-the-top in leather (6)

24d

Wally adapted opening of Lorna Doone (6)

26d

A red pine (4)

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28d

Spook essentially embracing German punk movement (4)

29d

Mark in revolutionary breeding ground for spooks? (4)