Times Cryptic #28473

2022-12-14

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1a

Search for oil curtailed with a second uproar (6)

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FRAC(K) = search for oil, curtailed; A, S.

4a

Country area, remote delta, invaded by the military (8)

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10a

Busy gathering of people requiring couple to swap places (7)

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MEETING has two letters swapping places.

11a

Wrong to snatch a jewellery item (7)

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ERRING (wrong), insert A.

12a

English bowler maybe embraces early contest (4)

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HAT (English bowler) has E (early part of embraces) inserted. EDIT I mis-parsed here, as pointed out below, it’s E for English inside the bowler HAT, not E from embraces.

13a

Home remains place of refuge after returning from manufacturing process (10)

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15a

Shift effort to include area of fiscal planning (9)

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16a

With failure of clubs, was boxing assessed? (5)

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CRATED loses C for clubs.

18a

Hefty? Pounds lighter, though not at first (5)

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19a

Cell: most of one transformed by author's works? (9)

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21a

Our violent riotsthreatening this? (10)

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23a

Soldiers without skill lacking in force (4)

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UNFIT loses its F.

26a

Company on board in struggle to make artificial fabric (7)

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CO inside SS (company on board) inside VIE = struggle.

27a

Very ornate pub, old, rather short of vermouth (7)

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BAR (pub) O (old) QUE = QUITE (rather) without the IT for Italian vermouth.

28a

Affirmed wrong date given about international match (8)

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29a

Fellow ignoring educational component in school lecture (6)

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PEER = fellow, lose the R (one of the three R’s = educational component) insert into SCH for school.

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1d

Get half-hearted supporters descending on church (5)

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FEET loses an E then CH.

2d

Hero of old seeing a doomed lover accepting kiss (9)

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A, LEANDER (doomed lover) with X inserted.

3d

Keen helper catching cold (4)

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5d

Ancient greeting set in the earth in Neolithic site (7)

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6d

Choral work not ending in silence is something suggesting later discussion (10)

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ORATORIO loses its final O and goes inside MUM = silence.

7d

Excuse deviation from script, but not second one (5)

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AD LIB loses the D (second letter) then I for one.

8d

Snow vehicle follows cliff path, perhaps (3,6)

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9d

Computer language includes information in list of items (6)

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14d

Spreading Euro-libels, against Government's wishes? (10)

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15d

Somehow able to grasp historical King by way of part of London (9)

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17d

College without equal ignoring a University procedure (9)

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19d

Source of beneficial reflectioncertainly cheers up in church (7)

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YES (certainly) TA (cheers) is all reversed and inserted into CE for church. Do non UK roads use these and call them the same?

20d

One Danish scientist upset about source of many diamonds (6)

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How many Danish scientists do we know? One; Niels BOHR. Reverse him, insert M (source of many) and add I for one. Of course, I had a careless S one the end instead of I, until I came to parse it for the blog.

22d

Call volume, do you say? (5)

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24d

Saw components tailoring had initially affixed to shirt (5)

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TEE (shirt) add T H (tailoring had, initially).

25d

Decline beginning to reappear in party power (4)

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DO (party) P (power) insert R (beginning to reappear).