Times Cryptic #28589

2023-04-28

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1a

Mobile yet static in Monaco for instance? (4-5)

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6a

Join together protecting area in forested country (5)

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WELD (join together) around A (area) Didn’t know the term, which is poetic.

9a

Miscreant dragging no-good prude into false religion? (7)

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10a

Directions given on stop as departing bus is seen? (7)

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11a

Element in legalese judge denied (5)

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{j}ARGON (legalese)

12a

Ample opportunity? Hardly (3,6)

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13a

Cat wants mouse's heart for stuffing as soon as (5)

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{mo}U{se} in ONCE (as soon as) I like Chambers’s definition: Sometimes vaguely any moderate-sized wild beast of the cat tribe

14a

Intimacy of miss chasing chapter head (9)

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LOSE (miss) after C (chapter) + NESS (head)

17a

Woman holds infant fed with a Mexican dish (9)

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ENA (woman) around CHILD (infant) around A

18a

Poet in monastery needing year off (5)

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PRIOR{y} (monastery) On A Fart — Let In The House of Commons Reader, I was born, and cried; I crack’d, I smelt, and so I died. Like Julius Caesar’s was my death, Who in the senate lost his breath. Much alike entomb’d does lie The noble Romulus and I: And when I died, like Flora fair, I left the commonwealth my heir. Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

19a

One having stiff test perhaps taking look round posh home (3,6)

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SEARCH (look) around U (posh) + IN (home) ‘Test’ is the hard shell of various sea creatures, notably sea urchins.

22a

Wanderer bathes old woman in green light (5)

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24a

Old clubs song involving new instrument (7)

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O (old) + C (clubs) + ARIA (song) around N (new)

25a

Man's between dry lake's shores to see plant (7)

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HIS (man’s) in TT (dry) + L{ak}E

26a

River claiming last of Olympian youth (5)

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TEES (river) around {olympia}N

27a

Catch with line at sea in accordance with strict rules (9)

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Down

1d

Two firms beginning to advertise drink (5)

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CO. CO. (two firms) + A{dvertise}

2d

Erected film set with alien looking good on screen (9)

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CINE (film) + GEL (set) + E.T. (alien) reversed (erected) CINE = ‘film’ as a prefix mainly.

3d

Plain ties and green buckle (9)

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4d

Beater's replacement misusing air rifle hit a cat (10,5)

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5d

Elite Catholic saving good quote about employing a certain force (15)

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ELECT (elite) + ROMAN (Catholic) around (saving) G (good) + CITE (quote) reversed (about) A lot of work for a clue I biffed off the first E.

6d

Diameter inside accompanying measurement across (5)

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7d

Stove lit for second time (5)

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8d

Chemist is pounds in red needing turnover (9)

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IS + PENS (pounds) in RED reversed

13d

In Open drive offhit too far? (9)

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15d

Lover no longer criticises one on increase in size (9)

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16d

Imagine this clue initially turning cryptic! (9)

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anagram of IMAGINE + T{his} + C{lue}

20d

Humble when welcomed to Lincoln? (5)

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21d

Washing cycle showing movable energy controls (5)

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RINSE (washing cycle) with E (energy) moved

23d

Live and prosper where nothing is sacrificed (5)

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D{o} WELL (prosper)