Independent Cryptic #11611

2023-12-28

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Across

1a

Quotes from [Chicago Paris Texas] and (5)

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4a

One's contracted to halt downfall of business (9)

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9a

Parts of bureaucratic process are switched becoming less extensive (7)

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10a

Where Oscar Wilde spent time studying (7)

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11a

An excerpt from Poulenc or Elgar that's requested by the audience (6)

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12a

Paper put on the front of library books giving place in schedule (8)

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14a

Opposition from cineastes upset with take (10)

16a

One considered monstrous is therefore sent back (4)

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19a

Reside in west Liverpool (4)

20a

Amphibious vehicle returns with a queen at the tops of its crow's-nests (10)

22a

Perhaps sculpture's tipped over by my headwear (8)

23a

She often gets high and performs her party piece (6)

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26a

Red China slightly damaged? Then take it back (7)

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27a

3.15 appointment (7)

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28a

Immoral behaviour by America? It's a common complaint (9)

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29a

That which inspires Dutch thought (5)

Down

1d

In California hatred is stirring and building (9)

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2d

Subject newspaper to political correctness checks (5)

3d

Start dispersing uprisers (8)

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4d

Wolves among others moaned out loud (4)

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5d

Squatter discovered in bed with lit match and brier (10)

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6d

Tidy up the last bits of broken vase and aspidistra before (6)

7d

Car-part produced by a lousy drilling firm (9)

8d

Just one of the first two flyers delivered (5)

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13d

A line snorted by naked bloke that might be David Attenborough (10)

15d

Without external influence independent state finally governs freely (9)

17d

Traded in old coins and pennies (9)

18d

Space supporting Pulp get really big really quickly (8)

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21d

Might they hang around in the park with southern fried chicken? (6)

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22d

Fires destroy town square (5)

24d

In the grip of dysentery Bluebird makes a mess (5)

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25d

One lives next to the back of drab chain hotel (4)