Indy 9116

[creamegg]

14d westerners irrational to replace study thats opposed to 18 (frontal)
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17d writer's impulse to stop mounting release of emotions
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24a obsessive about City stud from unreliable stories?
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27a metric units are wrong? maybe pint unit serves country 6,5
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2d give an office to ruthless leader switching unequal parts
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23d no english in canal site hospital or in french place on grand canal
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[Neveracrossword]

24 Anecdotal

[Neveracrossword]

2 D. Instal, give an office to. 'Stalin' was the ruthless leader, you switch the beginning and end.

[Neveracrossword]

14 Occipital, opposite of frontal.

[Neveracrossword]

27 Sierra Leone (SI+err+ale+one/unit)

[Lie-in King]

27a Sierra Leone - 'SI' (metric units) + 'err' (wrong) + 'ale' (maybe pint) + 'one' (unit)
23d Suzhou - 'Su(E)z' (no English) + 'h(ospital)' + 'ou' (Fr. "or")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(China)

[Lie-in King]

17d (Ivan) Turgenev - 'urge' (to stop; inside) 'vent' (release of emotions, up)

[creamegg]

thanks x