Times Cryptic #28612

2023-05-25

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Across

1a

Further busy folk including James, for one (7)

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5a

That's disgusting about getting fingerprints on jimjams (7)

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9a

County town likens Lenin to rock (11)

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10a

Couple wanting anything from Yorkshire in retirement (3)

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11a

Boy with odd bits of ideas where girls may go (6)

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LAD(boy) and alternating letters in IdEaS

12a

Valve casing in Triumph dry in part (8)

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external letters in TriumpH, then TT(dry) inside ROLE(part)

14a

Job done en bloc by us and our shift (4,4,5)

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17a

Spread nap out in hide streaked with grey (6-3-4)

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21a

Slow Conservative hotline maybe deleting its first answer (8)

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the Conservative hotline would be DIAL-A-TORY, remove the first A(answer)

23a

Satellite towns regularly visited east of Gong River (6)

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alternating letters in tOwNs after OBE(gong), R(river). OBERON is a moon of Uranus

25a

Thick part of disc (3)

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this was my last in, and it looks like a double definition… could it be referring to an old computer term that FAT is a type of filesystem on a disc?

26a

Experts using second-rate checks tied up when caught? (6,5)

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27a

Tedious stretch before Fourth of July (7)

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LENGTH(stretch) and the fourth letter in julY

28a

One pressing to stop extremely smarmy MP's consultation (7)

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URGER(one pressing) inside the external letters of SmarmY. MP can mean Medical Provider in the USA, but I don’t see it as an abbreviation for such in Collins.

Down

1d

Insect, note, crossing line in pursuit of another (6)

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TE(musical note) surrounding L(line) after BEE(another insect)

2d

Polish expert finds fish (4,3)

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3d

Pretend I'm blessed in action (9)

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4d

Dispatch poverty? Not difficult (4)

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HARDHIP(poverty) minus HARD(difficult)

5d

Case, not the first to pursue small fiends (10)

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SHELL(case) minus the first letter, then HOUND(pursue), S(small)

6d

British language not appearing initially in House (5)

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B(British), then LINGO(language) minus the first letter

7d

When French director once, caught changing (7)

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8d

Arguably, one proving journalist is clean? (8)

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13d

Crikey: large commercial interrupting fine, heavenly musical (2,4,4)

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MY(crikey), then L(large), AD(commercial) inside F(fine) and AIRY(heavenly)

15d

Istanbul releasing first unusual list around capital (4,5)

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anagram of ISTANBUL minus IST(first), then ROTA(list) reversed. Capital of Mongolia

16d

Gym shoes picked up European variant of fluyou'd get this from spitting (8)

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DAPS(sym shoes) reversed, then E(European) and an anagram of FLU. Spitting can refer to digging

18d

Basque sport curtailed in contact with pack from another (7)

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PELOTA(Basque sport) minus the last letter, then ON(in contact with)

19d

University, primarily for effect, pursuing biting hypocrite (7)

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U(university) and the first letters in For Effect, after TART(biting). I have only seen this with a double F, but Collins has both versions

20d

Rowan eg may be so difficult (6)

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22d

New Year abroad, touring centre of prohibited region (5)

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24d

Burden at the expense of The Times? (4)

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