Independent Cryptic #11878

2024-11-04

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1a

Not alarmed by deranged nut tossing boulder (10)

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6a

Flower display (4)

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9a

One putting up English clergyman (7)

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10a

Undertaker perhaps though probably not driving a hearse? (7)

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12a

Audiovisual connector problem causing lasting sign of damage (10)

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13a

Enclosed area needing parking space (3)

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15a

Keep hidden blue story with position-swapping (6)

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16a

Harm ultimately avoided by France in Calais their historic Channel port (8)

Generating...

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

HAR(m) – finally avoided & F(rance) & LEUR – their in French

18a

Billing daily departure (zero deduction applied) (8)

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

CHAR – cleaner, daily & O – zero – removed from G(o)ING

20a

Binge having endless pie - illness follows (6)

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23a

Show computer technology will encounter resistance? (3)

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

AI – artificial intelligence & R(esistance)

24a

Charly's upset Maureen's audibly tearful (10)

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26a

Perhaps Nos. of consecutive notes dispatched in reverse order (7)

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

D&E – consecutive notes & SLAIN – despatched – reversed

27a

Maybe 25 vehicle's cabin wrecked on motorway (7)

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28a

Herbivore returns to plant (4)

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29a

Ones playing the game believe in games kit (10)

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Down

1d

Sovereign narrowed Zulu region only recently expanded and that's controversial (4)

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

A narrowed (r)ULE(r) – sovereign & Z(ulu). Took me a little while to realise it was only the Z from zulu that was required

2d

Sweet sticky liquid from maple possibly about a centilitre (7)

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

A & CL – centilitre all in TREE – maple say

3d

Expose former head of state with looming disaster overhanging a one-time country (13)

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

OUT – expose & ER – the late queen &a disastrous LOOMING* & A

4d

Not only straight; into unclothed doll (6)

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5d

Train user to reset a computer finally (8)

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

Train service between the UK and Europe, reset [USER TO]* & A & end of (compute)R

7d

Buoyed by drug man's record-breaking leap (7)

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

A ballet step, CHAP breaking into EP – record & E – drug, new to me but I was never going to be a ballet dancer

8d

A green tree blighted to grow again (10)

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

A blighted [A GREEN TREE]*

11d

Pack member's naked face-off on ice (13)

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14d

Run fails to open after boycott of comic role (10)

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17d

Rouses and impregnates (8)

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19d

Order a luxury car and stripped-down banger (7)

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

A & RR – Rolls Royce & a stripped (b)ANGE(r)

21d

Tool reportedly used to underpin ginormous bone (7)

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22d

Textbook example is 23 right? (6)

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

PRIME of which 23 is an example & R(ight)

25d

More buses brought back restricting taxi operator (4)

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