Independent Cryptic #11755

2024-06-13

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Across

9a

Tom Daley inverts jumping without restraint (15)

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10a

Celebrated crosses Switzerland scored (7)

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12a

According to Spooner Starmer put a stop to vessel (7)

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

A Spoonerism of KEIR (Starmer) BAN (put a stop to)

13a

Arrangement at 6:30 with facility (9)

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14a

Wife drawn in by computer games gets immersed (5)

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15a

Nerds perhaps giving evening courses (7)

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

You can read DINNERS as D (daughter) IN NERS (nerds)

18a

Sullen doggers regularly scrubbed vehicles (7)

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

Alternate letters (‘regularly scrubbed’) in SuLlEn DoGgErS

21a

Sign of summer beginning in Santorini (5)

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23a

When exposed Stormy Daniels makes these? (9)

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25a

Always the same outfit (7)

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26a

Setter retracted error one's there to catch (7)

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29a

Letters delivered in the wrong place (15)

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

One of our last ones in – a not very cryptic definition in our opinion

Down

1d

Prime Minister lost plot (4)

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2d

Good person overcomes hesitation about making porn (4)

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

ST (saint – good person) around or ‘overcoming’ a reversal (‘about’) of UM (hesitation)

3d

Speaker's lacking followers familiar with Congress (8)

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4d

Hard-working when our team falls kind of flat (6)

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

STUDIO us (hard-working) without ‘us’ (our team)

5d

Vaccine nurses finally review my body parts (8)

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

JAB (vaccine) around or ‘nursing’ W (last or ‘final’ letter of review) and ONES (my)

6d

President almost evacuated troops behind jets (6)

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

BIDE n (President missing last letter or ‘almost’) and T roop S (first and last letters only or ‘evacuated’). We were a bit puzzled by the definition at first because we were linking ‘behind’ to the wordplay.

7d

Pretty as a dog may be (8)

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8d

Deployed spy on his suggestion (8)

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11d

A Love Island r (5)

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

I (the i newspaper) after O (love) MAN (island)

15d

Slight men caught in front (8)

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16d

Underwear supply Nigel Farage finally packs for one (8)

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

An anagram (‘supply’) of NIGEL and E (last or ‘final’ letter of Farage) around or ‘packing’ EG (for one)

17d

Spill the beans about Tory fringe up to no good (8)

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

SING (spill the beans) around or ‘about’ C (Conservative – ‘Tory’) and HEM (fringe)

19d

Celebrate latelyBrussels account is beginning to expand (8)

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

EU (Brussels) LOG (account) IS E (first letter or ‘beginning’ in expand).

20d

Filipino native has some time left over (5)

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22d

Key groups like circumventing tax (6)

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24d

A female and male prepared to get aroused (6)

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27d

Make-up artist impressed by Julia Roberts (4)

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28d

Quince takes job turning up for stressful work? (4)

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

ME (Quince) OP (job) reversed or ‘turning up’. The ‘stressful’ relates to the fact that the arrangement of stresses or emphasis on certain syllables is the foundation of the rhythm in poetry