Times Cryptic #28537

2023-02-27

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1a

Badge from Britain GI sniper brought back (8)

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5a

Argument as result of being oddly selective in formal clause (6)

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alternate letters of formal clause

9a

Sex returns in erotic festival (8)

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reversal of VI (sex: Latin 6, AKA VI) in CARNAL (erotic via sensual)

10a

One's piano tune better? Just the opposite (6)

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IM (one’s unhappy = I’m unhappy) P (piano) AIR (tune)

12a

Times editor's leader subject to deletion (5)

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Silly person in rogue's embrace carried on amorously (9)

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Running in fear (12)

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18a

Level playing area for would-be kingmakers (12)

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the first of our plethora of CDs; the one that foxed me, largely because I had the final five letters as ‘court’

21a

Singer making mess of carol, not keeping time (9)

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23a

Panama, perhaps, annexing island with one Caribbean state (5)

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I (island) in HAT (Panama) I

24a

Article is about singular line of argument (6)

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25a

Cultivate area on right side of hill to provide food in Mexico (8)

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TOR (hill) TILL (cultivate) A (area)

26a

Restrict food from ten to nine, say, finishing at noon (6)

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10:9 is an example of a ratio, followed by [noo]N

27a

For example, that's what's seen in some poetry (3,5)

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‘that’ and ‘what’ look as if they should rhyme but don’t (perhaps they did once?): such are called eye rhymes in poetics. Is this a CD? Comment below.

Down

1d

What does foot have three times as many of as hand? (6)

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in equine terms, one hand is equal to four inches. Geddit now?

2d

Stamina required to cross river or brook (6)

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R in STEAM (I ran out of steam doing this thing)

3d

Where this isn't from and the kind of animal it isn't (6,3)

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another CD, and a bit contrived for my taste

4d

Popular work in art gallery in recycled clay? Not exactly (12)

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November is equally far away for him and his beloved (5)

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I like this – you’ve guessed it – CD; in the NATO alphabet, which all setters worth their salt communicate to each other in, N is three letters from R and three letters from J (for Juliett). A clever artifice, IMHO.

7d

Service provider for other service providers? (8)

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this…no, you know what it is…is not quite so good, as the setter plays on two of the different senses of service, church and military

8d

Piercing, small missile (8)

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Right work among collected writings for man's study? (12)

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R OP in ANTHOLOGY

15d

In short, disoriented sailor following new navigational aid (5,4)

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Oddly cued a Conservative cut, as one not liking to see class struggle? (8)

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CUED* A TOR[y]

17d

Minimal idea following article in examination (8)

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19d

Lose track of mass whisky producer (6)

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20d

Ending article uploaded into document (6)

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AN reversed (uploaded) in FILE

22d

You need to be careful when one charges you money (5)

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