Independent Cryptic #11551

2023-10-19

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Across

1a

Me by the end of Middlemarch - this is a bit boring (3)

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3a

What makes you think it's a wild animal on college grounds? (11)

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9a

4 are given to Mum - God that's handy (5)

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10a

I doubt that Jackie tucked into large cake on vacation (9)

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11a

Shift 3 lbs with one exhausted groomsman (9)

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12a

What drunk people do quietly or loudly - drink (5)

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14a

Spooner? He played works by G Gershwin on the harmonica (6)

16a

Uncut rocks received by close associate on time (8)

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19a

False impression given by reference following AI mixup (8)

20a

His Majesty is repeatedly in trouble (6)

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22a

Fruit snack taken away from gorilla? (5)

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24a

Vital components from empty cars seen disintegrating by a railway (9)

26a

One next to bar falling in jacket following Trigger's remark? (9)

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27a

C In Our Time u (5)

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28a

Turns about monitor resulting in Windows getting wiped on drive (11)

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29a

Naked figure? (3)

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Down

1d

Putting L between P and L in 'misplaced'? (11)

2d

At the summits of/hazardous alps ibexes/kick unearthing this? (5)

3d

Perhaps the Crown's official residence (9)

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4d

West Ham fan's drawing winger (6)

5d

One struggling with gout fed unknown plant (8)

6d

Test matches by striking the first two in jars (5)

7d

Swingers cavorting nude covered in fruit (9)

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8d

Woman lying on the floor having forgotten PIN (3)

13d

The result of distilling petrol (with bases of hydrocarbon) commercially? Yes (11)

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15d

Pet of boy taken aback by alien showing no resistance (9)

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17d

Festivities during which people are crowned close to present-day Turkey (9)

18d

Burst blue pants by the sound of it (8)

21d

Unusual gangster movie in which Fanny Adams gets dispatched (6)

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23d

Stirred the giant's spirit (5)

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25d

Characters somersaulting in Bernstein/Nabokov musical (5)

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26d

Got up at once (3)

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