Independent Cryptic #11692

2024-04-01

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1a

Star Wars movie fan cast Ewok here, somehow (3,5,7)

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9a

Everything with pickle (5)

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10a

No good to go for effort in English show (9)

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

English with n{o} g{ood} replaced by stab(=effort). The def is used in the sense of show/establish that something is true.

11a

Dish's undercooked part (7)

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Rare(=undercooked, as in steak) + bit

12a

Old lady suffered and didn't speak up (7)

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Mum(=old lady in the sense of mother) + bled(=suffer, as in the bleeding/suffering has stopped).

13a

Work restricted without concerning them? (8)

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(Op(=work) + pent(=restricted)) around on(=concerning). Them seems a bit loose as a definition but I suppose people often talk of the enemy as an unspecific "them".

15a

Siegfried finally entering Ring cycle (5)

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[Siegfrie]d in peal(=ring in the sense of bells)

17a

Scotsman's no company for returning Indian, say (5)

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(Nae + Co{mpany})<

19a

Broadcast TV OK with Eric Idle (4,4)

flowerflowerflower
22a

Type of card enclosing precious weapon (7)

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SIM(=type of card used in mobile phones) around dear.

24a

Boring spies with very standard way of talking back (7)

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(CIA(=spies) + so RP(=receieved pronunciation))<

25a

Millions hanging about to enjoy festival (5,4)

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M{illions} + (arras(=hanging, tapestry) around dig(=enjoy)

26a

Two legs, either side of one head (5)

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On(=leg or legside in cricket) twice around I.

27a

Extortion that might leave us in the dark? (8,7)

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CD

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1d

Loud cheers and mocking to welcome daughter (6)

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Ta(=cheers, as in thanks) + wry(=mocking) around d{aughter}. The def is used in the sense of loud clothing etc.

2d

It's self-indulgent to produce tears after each of the main awards (3,4)

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Rip(=to produce tears) after EGOT(=all awards, an acronym for anyone having an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award).

3d

Umpire's call sounded excessive (9)

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Over(=call made by a cricket umpire to indicate that an over is complete) + blown(=sounded, in the sense of blow/sound a trumpet)

4d

Two-time champion's beginning to warm up (5)

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5d

Caution mostly exercised, holding dull-looking gun (9)

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(Cautio[n])* around mat(=dull). Exercised is the anagram indicator.

6d

5 for the People, say, almost all worthless (5)

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Al[l] + bum(=worthless). Automatic for the People is an album by REM.

7d

Erected citadels in Europe, somewhat isolated (7)

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8d

Escape mounted under cover of school timetable (8)

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Elude<(=escape) under sch{ool}

14d

Thin person damaged chrome pot (9)

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15d

Enter picture books into soup packet (9)

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OT(=Old Testament) in pho(=a Vietnamese soup) + bomb(=packet in the sense of "it costs a packet/bomb")

16d

Exhausted student tackling new bit of maths (8)

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Co-ed(=student) around (n{ew} sum(=bit of maths))

18d

Old tree likely to get hollowed out (7)

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Elder + l[ikel]y

20d

Dictator engaged in river survey (7)

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Amin(=Idi Amin, dictator of Uganda) in Exe

21d

Meagre, filthy home's outside toilet (6)

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Sty(=filthy home) around can(=toilet)

23d

I bail out? (5)

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24d

Difficult question about bribe overturned (5)

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(Re sop)<