Independent Cryptic #11821

2024-08-29

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1a

Relative partly installs fruit machine that talks? (9)

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6a

Heroic tale of half perhaps fleeing outbreak (4)

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

Heroic tale of half fleeing perhaps outbreak EPI <demi> C (=outbreak; “ demi – (=half) fleeing” means letters “demi” are dropped)

10a

Jack turned on one supporter at top of column (5)

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

Jack turned on one supporter at top of column A (=one) + TLAS (SALT=jack, sailor; “turned” indicates reversal); an Atlas is a figure of a man serving as a column in a building

11a

Rock destroyed remote locations lacking cover (9)

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12a

Come across smallest pig eating in ring (7)

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Come across smallest pig eating in ring [IN in RUNT (=smallest pig, of litter)] + O (=ring, i.e. pictorially)

13a

Person handling notes more like a country singer? (7)

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14a

Adage Rod composed in book fit for composting (13)

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17a

P Lingerie o (13)

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Poet Stephen welcoming American hit Lingerie [US (=American) in SPENDER (=(English) poet Stephen)] + BELT (=hit, clout, strike)

21a

Equine character of Aesop flies around (7)

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22a

Ambushed far west of city with papers (7)

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24a

Wickedness of six stopping in lodge naughtily (9)

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25a

You're texted by Nick about living in town? (5)

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26a

Quickly downed five in Le Café we hear (4)

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27a

Severity of exploit overwhelming first couple of sherpas (9)

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Down

1d

Section of mounted slide bore a nasty bug? (8)

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

Section of mounted slide bore a nasty bug? Vertically reversed (“mounted”) and hidden (“section of”) in “slid E BORE A NA sty”; an anaerobe is a micro-organism that grows in an oxygen-free environment

2d

Claw oddly scratched floor coated with bronze (5)

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Claw oddly scratched floor coated with bronze <f> L <o> O <r> (“oddly scratched” means odd letters are dropped) in TAN (=bronze, as verb)

3d

Female crosses further down: bear doesn't follow (14)

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Female crosses further down: bear doesn’t follow [UNDER (=further down, below) + STAND (=bear, endure)] in MISS (=female)

4d

Drum in time with game old doctors travelling north (7)

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Drum in time with game old doctors travelling north T (=time) + AMBOUR (RU=game, i.e. rugby union + O (=old, as in OT) + BMA (=doctors, i.e. British Medical Association); “travelling north” indicates vertical reversal)

5d

Saw clumsily into 50% of trees (7)

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7d

Horrid wearing stuffed shirt close to fire right? (9)

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Horrid wearing stuffed shirt close to fire, right ? [VILE (=horrid) in PRIG (=stuffed shirt, prude)] + <fir> E (“close to” means last letter only)

8d

Fruit drink primarily avoided after cold (6)

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Fruit drink primarily avoided after cold C (=cold, on tap) + <s> HERRY (=drink; “primarily avoided” means first letter is dropped)

9d

Shrub Mary and George maybe covered with layer? (14)

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15d

Toby unwrapped hearing thing (9)

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16d

Learners cycling naked in streets facing each another (8)

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Learners cycling naked in streets facing each another UDE-N (NUDE=naked; “cycling” means first letter moves to the end) in [ST (=street) + TS (ST=street; “facing each other” involves the second “st” being reversed)]

18d

People sort of supporting Glen actively (7)

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19d

Widow bet on event? On the contrary (7)

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20d

Mischief-makers infiltrated by the Spanish forces (6)

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23d

One replaced by bishop in a 1760-yard walk (5)

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

One replaced by bishop in a 1760-yard walk A + M I LE (=1760-yard); “ one (=I) replaced by bishop (=B, in chess)” means letter “i” becomes “b”