Independent Cryptic #11705

2024-04-16

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Across

1a

Salmon perhaps that's potted for six (4)

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3a

Welsh male leaving pit for a drink (4)

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6a

Hack covering for editor is a bounder (5)

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9a

Hugh Laurie character Stuart? (5)

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11a

People in line overheard signal for action (3)

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12a

Cheever and Lessing like subtle openings; does Bellow? (5)

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13a

I must infiltrate merchants heading off marauders (7)

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14a

Charlie's Angels f (3)

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17a

Leopard without spots one breathing heavily biting hard (7)

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18a

Italian manager in India getting behind his former team (7)

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21a

Barrier in dim mall that's abandoned (7)

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23a

I climb mountain close to Tibet with a lot of expertise provided (7)

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24a

K Summer Love e (3)

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25a

Cardinal's cape left by primate in Rome (7)

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28a

Planetary orbiter one that flies by central belt of Uranus (5)

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29a

Perfect score for some sport with no error recalled (3)

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30a

Imaginative genre featured occasionally in Psychic Fair (5)

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31a

Beano s (5)

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32a

For more than 48 hours stagger broadcast (4)

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33a

Cry of delight from Clouseau's certainly on the soundtrack (4)

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Down

1d

Shapps ignoring last two flipping expressions of contempt (4)

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

(expressions of contempt)

2d

Common sense in Pointless seen only briefly (4)

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

(common sense)

4d

More irritated by technology singer cans electric current (7)

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

(more irritated)

5d

The old smile after joke's conclusion look (7)

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

(glance of the eye; look)

6d

Best bit of sax in jazz musician's phrases? (5)

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7d

Humourless cynic ill snarling in medical centre (10)

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

(medical centre)

8d

Kentish society's yellow climbing flowers (5)

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

(flowers) ( SE [South East, descriptive of Kent which is located in the SE of England] + S [society) + OR [yellow tincture used in heraldry]) all reversed (climbing)

10d

Like fox driven underground extremely exhausted heart fluttering (7)

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

(a fox’s den is known as an EARTH , so if driven underground to its den, it will be EARTHED )

15d

Son in the morning quietly opens junk mail (4)

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

(junk mail)

16d

Sacked Brent-alike infantile crawler (10)

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

(Australian slang for a child, presumably very young if he/she is an infantile crawler)

19d

Superb poster plugging new French art portraying river nymphs (7)

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

(alternative spelling of NAIADS [river nymphs])

20d

Keen on mackintosh coats (4)

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

(enthusiastic about; keen on)

22d

Made note of Lilliputian island's far side (7)

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23d

Straggling orchestra section second soprano replaced by 25D at last (7)

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

(with lots of untidy threads; straggling)

24d

Puts up with 25D in bed (5)

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

(to have sexual intercourse with; to bed)

25d

G Moon River u (5)

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

(male [guy] name)

26d

Old politician dumps wife by hotel on a trip (4)

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(on a drugs trip)

27d

Setter supports appeal over jail sentence (4)

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

(another word for a sentence, as in the prisoner is serving TIME )