Independent Cryptic #11446

2023-06-19

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Across

1a

Hawker's bucket quickly filled by younger PM (8)

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5a

Penny tied in third or better (6)

9a

Reflective box empty enough to hold chocolate orange (11)

11a

Short distance literally km's midway point (3)

12a

Butterflies veer crazily in opposite directions (6)

13a

Search engine admits lower approval (8)

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15a

Surprised car gave up the lead (13)

18a

Delight fussy ROH sorts with Annie (13)

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22a

Fellow diner's confusion given herbal tea (8)

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24a

Fitting into kayak I'm both bent and sticking out (6)

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26a

Banana's remains shortly something to slip on (3)

27a

Customs stops wine passing through Asian capital (11)

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28a

Son good at fixing weak cocktail (6)

29a

Club where British judge has gone dancing (8)

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Down

1d

Serious-sounding writer who invented (6)

2d

Come into empty Iranian hotel with flag raised (7)

3d

American's cross marked with the opposite (9)

4d

Old letters turn up in the morning (4)

6d

Ground nuts sold with recipe included (5)

7d

Crack squad reduced by cramp (7)

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8d

Removing key say worried agent (8)

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10d

Piece of cheese a plebeian picked up in Italian dairy (8)

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14d

Curvaceous prop regularly gets brutal in a scrum (8)

16d

King made horsey noises wearing pants (9)

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17d

Contracts for Messi redrawn (8)

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19d

Jewish school certainly welcome given tax cut (7)

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20d

Mothers spotted cycling together (7)

21d

Share email with police officer on the dark side of the force (6)

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23d

Bike lacked direction (5)

25d

Young detective climbing tree (4)

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