Independent Cryptic #11525

2023-09-19

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Across

1a

Working with CIA somewhere in the Midwest (7)

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5a

US footballer left Maine cycling north (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

L (left) MAINE with the ‘ma’ moved to the back or ‘cycling’ + N (north)

10a

Principal banker in Frankfurt (4)

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11a

Newspaper students rejected (3)

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12a

Noble head of Yorkshire or Lancashire? (6)

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13a

I'd come round with the greatest festival of light (6)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

A reversal (‘come round’) of I’D + W (with) ALI (Mohammed Ali – ‘The Greatest’)

14a

Put too much burden on D-Day operation area prioritised for Resistance (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

OVERLO r D (‘D-Day operation’) with A (area) replacing or ‘prioritised for’ ‘r’ (resistance)

15a

Attention-seeking actions got Piers aroused (8)

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17a

Starts to write incredibly rude electronic message (4)

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18a

Gather American has quit the valley (4)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

GLE a N (gather) with the ‘A’ (American) missing or ‘quitting’

19a

Clan arrived outside empty pub by large loch (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

CAME (arrived) round or ‘outside’ P u B (missing the middle letter or ’empty’) + L (large) L (loch)

23a

Very advanced scam involving a Thailand island holiday (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

V (very) A (advanced) CON (scam) round or ‘involving’ A T (Thailand) I (island)

24a

Stress backing for Ulster skills (6)

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26a

Condescend to accept second plan (6)

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27a

Nick getting suspension overturned (3)

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28a

Small present which we hardly ever get at Xmas? (4)

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29a

Extend length of prison sentence (7)

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30a

Disturb Joe visiting ace art gallery (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

GI (‘Joe’ – American soldier) in or ‘visiting’ A (ace) TATE (art gallery)

Down

2d

Visualise the Three Wise Men - popular outgoing Eastern (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

MAGI (‘the three wise men’) with IN outside or ‘outgoing’ + E (Eastern)

3d

Dye found in Madras nowadays? (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

Hidden in c HEENA i (new name for Madras)

4d

More delicious Italian plonk (in theory) regularly downed (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

ASTI (‘Italian plonk’) in alternate letters (‘regularly downed’) of ThEoRy

6d

Longed to dump husband having just got married (6)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

h ITCHED (got married) missing or ‘dumping’ ‘h’ (husband)

7d

It's only fair for politicians on TV hustings to order tequila on Knut (9)

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8d

Set off tense when heading north transported by hot shot pilot (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

A reversal (‘heading north’) of TAUT (tense) in or ‘transported by’ ACE (‘hot shot pilot’)

9d

I gulp cinnamon swirls without any fuss (13)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

An anagram (‘swirls’) of I GULP CINNAMON

16d

Anagram of Evita Peron not quite efficacious (9)

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18d

Most serious parties enter the fringes of government (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

RAVES (parties) in or ‘entering’ G T (first and last letters or ‘fringes’ of government)

20d

Mail coat of lead and silver for East German (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

PB (chemical symbol for lead) AG (chemical symbol for silver) round or ‘coating’ OST (East in German)

21d

Yobbo nicking charity money knocked to the ground (7)

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22d

Spread out? (6)

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25d

Scripture group at school put back to square one (5)

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