Independent Cryptic #1668

2022-02-13

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Across

1a

Put an end to child holding on to rubbish elephant's head (8)

5a

Marginal damage to this girl's clothes (6)

10a

Obsessive staff in charge (5)

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11a

200 accepting European was sick (9)

12a

Catalogues keeping subset back for radicals (9)

13a

Give finale that's painful (5)

14a

Flight One in Constellation? (6)

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15a

Journey from home to get stoned (4,3)

18a
27a

(and 27 Across) Bill Bailey show possibly calms mice you'd stimulated (7,6)

20a

Monkey's bad mistake (6)

22a

Signal in the style of the Marines (5)

24a

Food chain deal founders (9)

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25a

Punches key, ashram disintegrates (9)

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26a

Here in Chamonix, the air finishes much colder (5)

27a

See 18 Across

28a

Snacks we should understand first (8)

Down

1d
21d

(and 21 Down) Shark malaria affecting 3 in America (6,6)

2d

Money which is tied up in poisons (9)

3d

Deputy back in order (6-2-7)

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4d

Wraps as scene changes (7)

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6d

Makeshift Italian side win against grand royal entourage (6-2-7)

7d

Stuck? Sometimes 22 will (5)

8d

Concerning fuss alongside (2,2,4)

9d

A smaller group of alien vessels overhead (6)

16d

Valid snooper at ivermectin stores (9)

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17d

Executive committee receives note about way of feeling as others do (8)

19d

Songs, 3's boss said (6)

20d

Tool used to be written up by journalist (7)

21d

See 1 Down

23d

Gorge baby's meal 4 (5)

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