Independent Cryptic #11555

2023-10-24

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Across

6a

Mark is badly shamed (2,4)

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8a

Show disapproval at exam covering one lesson (8)

10a

Female icon occasionally backed fossil fuel producer (3,3)

11a

Sin party? (8)

12a

Horse-racing daughter dumping a mad scientist (11)

18a

Settled by itself (7)

20a

See 24 Down

21a

12's 29 maybe wanted thus? (4,2,5)

26a

A relative of Juliet gets company for movie in seaside resort (8)

28a

Bash Companion in Reserves, resulting in controversial headline (6)

30a

Dreadful crimes to chill event (3,5)

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31a

Savage endless dance includes mating display (6)

Down

1d

Take back band found inside topless gown (9)

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2d

Mike's confused over love for indigenous North American? (6)

3d

Carpet lifted by university teacher (4)

4d

No sure winner accepted after hollow Calypso performance (8)

5d

Board aircraft, your Majesty, but don't carry drug! (5)

7d

Key indicator rising (3)

9d

One upset teacher means to cut pupil down to size! (4)

11d

Female elephant's heading north for watery place (3)

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13d

Drag prince wearing uniform? On the contrary (4)

14d

State excerpt from Lenin diaries (5)

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15d

Gunpowder plotter to show the way: nothing substitutes for explosives at first (5)

16d

Meeting places for Oxford college intake - beginners (4)

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17d

As a rule, Yankee supports Confederate expelling English more than once (9)

19d

I dropped out of bus ride to ruined sections of fort (8)

22d

You dingbat - covering up a 'pair'! (3)

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23d

God, calm down Brian, ignore the odds! (4-2)

24d
20a

(and 20 Across) Tritium, for instance: does it pair with two Oxygens, somehow? (12)

25d

Snake - not Early European - could be Mexican? (4)

27d

Crop my name! (4)

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29d

Scourge of outdated hospital equipment (3)