Times Cryptic #28517

2023-02-03

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1a

Alternative locks king removed from hot dwelling (6)

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WIG (alternative locks) + WA{r}M

5a

Abundant crop, if spreading, smothers large island (8)

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anagram of CROP IF around L + I

9a

Left route before wrong turning in Welsh town (8)

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10a

Pickled eggs from the east a big hit (6)

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NITS reversed + K.O. I wanted this to be LIT + OVA reversed for a long time.

11a

Abandons currently popular ball at court (4,4)

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12a

Traitor briefly in charge of religion (6)

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JUDA{s} + I.C.

13a

Advertise target when putting in plumbing feature (8)

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15a

What's added to the pot, brewing tea around noon (4)

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anagram of TEA around N

17a

Last bit of craft in work, going back and forth (4)

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19a

Excess from Oscar on daily bar tours (8)

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F.T. (daily) + O in LEVER (bar)

20a

Petrify East German finally at the borders (6)

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OSSI (East German) + F{inall}Y

21a

Sort of lining used to be covering in bed (8)

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WAS around IN + COT

22a

Stand experience of drug overdose (6)

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23a

Dieter ultimately has trouble with eccentric means to reduce fare? (8)

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{diete}R + AIL + CARD (eccentric)

24a

Numerous staff getting on with uncertainty first (8)

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25a

Official old men backing one out on the tiles? (6)

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REF + O + O.R. (men) reversed

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2d

Flipping insubstantial parts I'm going to name Olivia or Orsino? (8)

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AIRY (insubstantial) reversed in I’LL (I’m going to) + N I parsed this correctly, but couldn’t think of AIRY, which is a wonderful synonym of ‘insubstantial’.

3d

Air carrier's current, seemingly good plane's outside (8)

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4d

Tom, say, fencing off grand and small grain store (9)

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MALE (Tom, say) around THOU (grand) + S Kicked myself on THOU for ‘grand’ after missing it for ages. Wanted MILLHOUSE here.

5d

Have to block that inept reformed Communist Party (5,3,4,3)

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6d

Leaves uniform during service etc at sea (7)

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U in LET (service) + anagram of ETC A let is a serve (service) in tennis where the ball hits the net and goes over.

7d

Spanish Steps also taken in by lover on journey (8)

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8d

What meat cleaver might do quickly? (4,4)

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14d

Chemist has nothing in cracked vials? That is right (9)

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O in anagram of VIALS + I.E. (that is) + R

15d

A slogan about limiting consumption, basically (2,6)

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A + MOTTO reversed around TB (tuberculosis = consumption) I saw immediately that ‘slogan’ = MOTTO, but discounted it immediately because I thought I couldn’t make words out of it!

16d

Player succeeded in that specific instrument, mostly (8)

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S in THE PIAN{o}

17d

One wine or another drunk by computer company (8)

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ROSÉ in P.C. + CO.

18d

After one female goes astray, it's as expected (2,6)

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OFF COURSE, after one F is removed

19d

Cliff externally eroded with swell rising (4-3)

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