Independent Cryptic #11574

2023-11-15

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1a

Responsible for cards arriving late (10)

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7a

Knight on foot is slow man (4)

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9a

Trash that Wossy would call table tennis? (8)

10a

Screw back for black again perhaps (6)

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11a

Soap dish on Ben's side (6)

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12a

Close behind them improving (8)

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14a

Great answer possibly brilliant in retrospect (4)

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15a

Old Arab's one quiet mother very classy (10)

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17a

Ref that is not allowed out in different colours (10)

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19a

Sulk finishes in which you eff off (4)

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21a

Excellent returning on grass hard court likewise (8)

23a

This protected by Asdic on voyage? (6)

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24a

Women change becoming male (6)

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26a

Report of a good innings remarkable one with your bat (8)

27a

Sound of exhaust one of four on Lambo? (4)

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28a

Overdose in graduate college top grade white powder (10)

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2d

Record India's poetry for programme (7)

3d

News of independent country taking shape (11)

4d

Clergyman sliced with iron during golf so blasted (9)

5d

Father child at work with mate shocking director (15)

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6d

Good to interrupt dreadful sad song (5)

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7d

Director giving secretary a lift home (3)

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8d

Shelving unit that now wobbles (7)

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13d

Simple Hindu arranged flowers (11)

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16d

Habit back for good in a manner of speaking (9)

18d

Inexplicable sight of a famous restaurant literally empty (7)

20d

E.g. 5D shortly clutching big white telephone befuddled (7)

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22d

Beat from start to finish of Beethoven's first (5)

25d

Match level wanting run at the end (3)