Independent 9,731 by Hoskins

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I was under the impression that Hoskins always gets me as the blogger, but a Search on fifteensquared shows that this is not the case at all: he is a remarkably prolific setter and seems to have been blogged by an assortment of people. In any case, it is always a pleasure to be faced with one of his, because all the clues are sound, some are very good, and one is never left with a feeling that something is missing. My only criticism is of the slight overuse of exclams (as in 28ac and 2dn) but this is really just a matter of taste; however, I would suggest that he looks at what Ximenes had to say on the subject in his book, although no doubt he already knows and I’m missing something.

Definitions underlined, in maroon.  I’ve introduced something someone now does in blogging The Times: putting anagram indicators in bold italic.  Actually I haven’t, because the font is such that it appears rather large, so I’ve omitted the bold bit.

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