Independent Cryptic #11647

2024-02-08

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Across

1a

Settee Moir abused in bits of Shooting Stars ? (10)

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7a

Stalk 9 criminals with police backing (4)

Generating...

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

S ( final letter of [ AT LAST , entry at 9 across]) CRIMINAL S ) + MET ( MET ropolitan Police) reversed (backing)

9a

One who held up Heaven gets time in the end (6)

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10a

Four involved in archly contrived gallantry (8)

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11a

Piece of rabbit that a couple will share? (8)

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12a

A shelter for little piggies in Wellington? (6)

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

TOECAP (shelter for toes [little piggies])

13a

Promote Delaware and Maine repeatedly as all the same in Paris (10)

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16a

Old red line some players must not cross? (4)

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17a

Star necking bit of temazepam gets surprise (4)

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

SUN (star) containing (necking [drinking]) T ( first letter of [a bit of ] T EMAZEPAM)

19a

Sadly got AA memo about McLean's end just now (10)

Generating...

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

Anagram of (sadly) GOT AA MEMO containing (about) N ( final letter of [end] McLEA N )

22a

Priest shot retired gypsy in organised persecution (6)

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

P (priest) + GO (attempt; shot) reversed (retired) + ROM (gypsy man; ROM any)

23a

Huge firm with a large holding in forfeiture (8)

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

( CO [company; firm] + A + L [large]) containing (holding) LOSS (in forfeiture)

25a

Dis nurse in charge related to very old Greeks (8)

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26a

Hard to entertain tenor showing no interest (6)

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

SOLID (hard) containing (to entertain) T (tenor)

27a

One that might have a hand in a bungled action (4)

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

MUFF (clumsy or bungled action) double definition

28a

Picture that doesn't say a thousand words? (10)

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2d

Use up a bit of energy doing no good around north Ohio (7)

Generating...

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

E ( first letter of [a bit of] E NERGY) + ( AT IT [engaged in criminal activity; doing no good] containing [around] N [North]) + O (abbreviation for the US state of Ohio)

3d

Demand Congress must release last of files (5)

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4d

Singer on drug taking break in squalid room (7)

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

( RAT [American slang term for someone who informs on others; singer] + E [ecstasy; drug]) containing ( HOL ( HOL iday; break)

5d

Facial hair of jazz fan sent up by the Man (5)

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6d

Pin hoax on model-type and the French (7)

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7d

As dope cut fantastically might become thus? (9)

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8d

Bachelor in Barking hears Aussie's gas constantly (7)

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14d

Musical symbol lent force in new arrangement (9)

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15d

Old head of Orica is brilliant Australian (3)

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18d

I used to think of God and naked beaux (7)

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19d

Gangster flash northern detective nuts (7)

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20d

Sick European brought up boy for novelist (7)

Generating...

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

( ILL [sick] + E [European]) reversed (brought up; down entry) + SON (boy)

21d

Icy city spies will infiltrate close to Poyang Lake (7)

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

( LA [Los Angeles; American city] + CIA [Central Intelligence Agency; spies]) contained in (will infiltrate) G ( final letter of [close to] POYAN G) + L (LAKE). Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China)

23d

Rhodes and other parasites Catholic rejected (5)

Generating...

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

( LICE [wingless parasitic insects] + C [Catholic]) all reversed (rejected)

24d

'Small' Conservative old females mock (5)

Generating...

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

S (small) + C (Conservatives) + O (old) + ( F [female] + F [female] giving females)