Independent Cryptic #11484

2023-08-02

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Across

1a

Writer's cheap tools gripping like staples (6)

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4a

BlackRock's contribution to foreign aid is borrowed back (8)

10a

I managed to enter pub with a nipper from school (7)

11a

Bunk on board liner's repeating design? (7)

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12a

Let me think about that sweet sexy woman (10)

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13a

Objections overturned - a bad point? (4)

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14a

Terribly British queen's not amused (5)

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16a

Old printer's broken but green and grey's left (9)

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18a

Bats metabolise without oxygen in August (9)

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19a

Bag Maggie's opening that's symbolic (5)

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21a

Husband given long list of words separated stems from roots perhaps (4)

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22a

Completely change walls he got rebuilt (10)

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25a

Roughly a hundred in dirty old set of little nuts and bolts etc. (7)

26a

Emma's husband delivered without fail in bed (7)

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27a

Mobilise PM on idea for nerve agent (8)

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28a

In the mirror Chinese father's a male model (6)

Down

1d

Hum very quietly accompanying a lot of Irish dancers (7)

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2d

Fight for packs as nearly all take fruit (5)

3d

It's hard to understand sister being taken in by counterfeit Bacardi say (9)

5d

Where the units and tenths go is irrelevant (14)

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6d

Wrought iron little medicine box (4)

7d

Person on ward one wearing obvious bandages (9)

8d

Container for oats perhaps that Simon Montefiore unusually has? (7)

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9d

Once an MoD highflier pub crackpot tackles complex algebra (14)

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15d

B Complete Mug's Guide to Dairy Intolerance o (9)

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17d

Embarrassingly beaten at football head girl agreed to be dropped every so often (9)

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18d

Former archbishop dead and buried? On the contrary (7)

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20d

Dead principled people try to reform in a hostile world (7)

23d

Darling nurses the very thing to try and seduce (5)

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24d

Friendly disagreement resolved by killing millions (4)

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