Times Cryptic #28303

2022-05-30

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1a

Flash Republican eating bit of beef? On the contrary (6)

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4a

How sheep can enter seaside town? (8)

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10a

Ignoring advice on a reorganisation (9)

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11a

Expert in image-making maybe who walks nervously up and down? (5)

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12a

Accountant queuing here for coffee? (4,7)

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Another facetious double definition.

14a

The Spanish king, a horny individual (3)

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15a

Way in which unfinished story makes one scoff (7)

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17a

Pandemic? It surely holds country back (6)

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19a

Old woman has grabbed one's abnormally large shrub (6)

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M(I’M, O.S.)A.

21a

Composer runs inside, attacked by dog maybe (7)

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B(R)ITTEN.

23a

Promising words in this language? (3)

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24a

Give the go ahead to a mug (11)

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26a

Clergyman that might deliver broadside, did you say? (5)

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27a

Repetition of poetic device everyone rejected (9)

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29a

Might it be breakfast time in prison? (8)

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30a

Beastly female going to Balmoral? I couldn't care less! (2,4)

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1d

Babyish learner treated thus? (8)

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2d

Revolutionary song about old judge, a Red (5)

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RI(O,J)A, with air upside-down.

3d

Cockney workman, a joiner (3)

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‘AND, of course.

5d

A more suitable partner in crime (7)

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A BETTER, where the cryptic precludes ABETTOR.

6d

Muzzling of Pope in USSR's mistaken (11)

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7d

The claims potentially made by this seeker of life-prolonging remedy (9)

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8d

Triumphant cry emanating from Bath? (6)

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9d

Suffer knock on the head by river (6)

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13d

Experts caught in dreadful congestion (11)

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16d

Prisoner sporting black eye, a wealthy Greek perhaps (9)

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SHI(P.O.W)NER.

18d

Overseas team make communications infrastructure (8)

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20d

Knocking about with sailor on drugs (7)

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21d

Colleague abandoning resistance? Damn! (6)

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22d

In Cicero's time this drink becoming a problem? (6)

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25d

Stated refusal, as Arab for one may do (5)

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28d

Top-class cook making trouble (3)

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