Times Cryptic #28555

2023-03-20

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Across

1a

Tearful wife, worried by half-cut Tory (6)

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4a

Exceptionally sweet pa, full of energy! (4-4)

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10a

Reactionaries behind a drug bust (9)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

REAR + anagram of A DRUG.

11a

Penniless old folk reaching island refuge (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

OA[p]S + IS.

12a

Absent-minded head of BBC came down after broadcast (14)

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14a

Cinema in the red a long time (5)

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16a

Attacks wasted on criminal one's arrested (5,4)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

Anagram of WASTED ON enclosing I.

18a

Woman taken aback, coming across Tory leader's four-letter word (9)

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20a

British vessels in Scottish waters (5)

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21a

Visiting loo, daughter is upset (14)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

IN CONVENIENCE, D.

25a

This PM no longer has to accommodate English (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

H(E)ATH.

26a

Plotting together? Old American laughs (2,7)

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27a

Timid troops began to rally? (8)

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28a

Protest about the president? My goodness! (6)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

CR(IKE)Y, a good one.

Down

1d

Argument having value for the poet (10)

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2d

I'm going to secure newspaper crown (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

T(I)ARA, the Independent, now the I.

3d

Trendy bishop booted out of seaside town (5,2)

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5d

Attacker losing a knight perhaps (5)

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6d

Way of teaching an arrangement of Chopin's (7)

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7d

Sneer at corrupt monarch who might hail from Java? (9)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

Anagram of SNEER AT + E.R.

8d

Female receiving second shot? (4)

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9d

Increasingly intolerant, hurried back to confront bowman perhaps (8)

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13d

Pretty good cleaner will leave things thus (3,2,5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

Cryptic hint for a UK-centric phrase, ignotus mihi.

15d

People of south-eastern nations in conflict (9)

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17d

Learn about protecting small volcanic island (8)

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19d

Anonymous person having one for the road? (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

A.N. OTHER, as wags used to sign themselves in visitor books.

20d

Chat sociable Theresa is in need of (7)

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22d

Failing to grab old Express (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

V(O)ICE.

23d

Hit record (5)

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24d

She does burn fish (4)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

Triple definition.