Independent Cryptic #11591

2023-12-05

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Across

1a

Temporary accommodation frowned on by 3 affected hearing vision (8)

5a

A small sailing boat put back in constantly (6)

9a

Knut will soften spleen (9)

11a

When retired Betty Ford pens a classic song (5)

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12a

Single male reluctantly jailed endlessly? (5)

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13a

Zip slightly less rubbish? (9)

14a

On top of that acquiring large hotel building on turnpike (8)

15a

Long to make some money after end of study (5)

17a

Steers clear - occasionally volatile firm run by an odd dude! (5)

18a

Poor Keir's adrift regularly gambled (8)

21a

Charlie and his sister left Midge in the groove (9)

22a

Carnivore longing to occupy an area of land (5)

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23a

1st XI took food before noon (5)

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24a

Gets along well with this weird initially irritating nob (9)

25a

Trip over uniform object husband left (6)

26a

Landlord's sardonic next-day offer to deliver better times scrapped (8)

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Down

1d

About Sunak's lacking height: it's a major problem (6)

2d

Falsely claim debts in 19 on 1A? That's wickedness! (15)

3d

Heroine of the far right - a sort of smaller Eva Braun (15)

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4d

Break in/half tame a piebald nag (7)

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6d

Long sentence technique inherently echoic e.g. 8 18D for (15)

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7d

Enter Tel Aviv to a new way of expressing democracy (15)

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8d

Oozing a bit of liquid injected when unconscious (8)

10d

Starts to read extremely tasteless Conservative homeless gag (5)

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16d

Instruction to players to set up musical whip round (8)

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18d

Trump sounding coarse (5)

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19d

Housing - very steep housing - for subaltern (7)

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20d

US economist famous for his curve sounds like (6)