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)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

An anagram (‘upset’) of CINEASTES after R (take)

16a

One considered monstrous is therefore sent back (4)

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19a

Reside in west Liverpool (4)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

LIVE erpool (first four letters or ‘west’ part)

20a

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

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

A reversal (‘returns’) of BUS (vehicle) + A QU (Queen) AT + I C (first letters or ‘tops’ of its crows-nests)

22a

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

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

A reversal (‘tipped over’) of ART’S (‘perhaps sculpture’s) + WHAT (my – as an exclamation)

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)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

MUSE (‘that which inspires’) D (Dutch)

Down

1d

In California hatred is stirring and building (9)

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2d

Subject newspaper to political correctness checks (5)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

I (newspaper) in or ‘checked by’ TO PC (political correctness)

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)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

N E A (last letters or ‘bits’ of brokeN vasE and aspidistrA) + TEN (10)

7d

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

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

A ILL (lousy) in or ‘drilling’ TIGHT (firm)

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)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

A L (line) in or ‘snorted by’ NATURIST (‘naked bloke’)

15d

Without external influence independent state finally governs freely (9)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

An anagram (‘freely’) of I (independent), E (last or ‘final’ letter of state) and GOVERNS

17d

Traded in old coins and pennies (9)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

EX (old) CHANGE (coins) D (pennies, before decimalisation)

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)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

SACK (‘destroy town’) S (square)

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)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

I (one) IS (lives) after or ‘next to’ B (last letter or ‘back’ of drab)