Times Cryptic #28214

2022-02-15

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Across

1a

Uproar about cryptics being cut back (6)

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4a

Apropos hoax, laugh, oddly reflecting "we'd give it a whirl!" (4,4)

10a

Chance you usually won't have material (7)

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11a

I say ring for the blessed commander! (7)

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12a

Extended call for peace involving a foreign ruler (4)

13a

Athlete, exhausted and quiet, having not qualified (4-6)

15a

Winger having edge on kid (9)

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16a

Thus having easily passed acid test, getting buzz (5)

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18a

Bill after turning from gas is steep (5)

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19a

Dicky this time is buttonholed by club bore (9)

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21a

Put back in control, thanks primarily to our boss? (10)

23a

Shark fighters in Jaws: film replacing a western (4)

26a

Plant that's excessively puffed up, but not round (7)

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27a

So the swine's going back to work, protecting home and family (7)

28a

Romantic poet translated stories about the heart in Latin (8)

29a

Swimmer, one you catch sleeping with leading lady (6)

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Down

1d

Launches into reason for 27? (5)

2d

Scold, in time, one for cooking the books (9)

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3d

Game personnel in industrial heartland (4)

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5d

Group of countries meeting slight problem separate (7)

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6d

Pops out with Laurel for numerous functions (3-7)

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7d

Demanding to have top lowered, is obliged (5)

8d

Correspondent's twenty-four hours in federal jail to finish (3,6)

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9d

Short promotion by female that features in build-up (6)

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14d

Violent confrontation to experience: I'm slapped on the face (10)

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15d

One often hailed as the new Verdi in CaliforniaBritish! (9)

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17d

In agreement lasting sixty seconds, dissent's beginning (2,3,4)

19d

Furniture item that now needs repair (7)

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20d

What's for watching you might think outside (3,3)

22d

N African king's daughter embraced by goddess (5)

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24d

Ducks out of mounting charity events around university (5)

25d

Maybe miss a year's events, all but the last (4)