Times Cryptic #28671

2023-08-02

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Across

1a

Some dry goods, guarded by three Pharisees (4)

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4a

Officer to sit with upper-class resident (10)

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9a

Where eg utensils may be purchased, get her this for mashing (4,6)

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10a

Game up in Italian river, endlessly deep (4)

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11a

Bard's work shown in text here and there (6)

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alternate letters of S h O w N i N t E x T.

12a

Hurt in match, leaves boxing (3,5)

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14a

Party member to avoid leader of Greens? There's benefit (4)

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15a

Guinness maybe brought round, second one and last? (5,2,3)

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STOUT goes around TICK (second) I (one).

17a

Sheepish expert taken in by counterfeit notes (10)

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SHAM (counterfeit) E F D (some musical notes) insert ACE for expert.

20a

Italian author incorporating Homer's principal nymph (4)

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Umberto ECO has H[OMER] inserted.

21a

Impresario after concert books Queen (8)

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23a

Award's military one churchyard elegist accepts (6)

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24a

Luxurious establishment on Piccadillyit's a cracker (4)

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25a

Choosing body, mischievous spirit with reader on ecstasy (10)

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26a

Art deco's altered with a line of priests (10)

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(ART DECOS)*, A, L[ine].

27a

Second goal brings delight (4)

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Down

2d

Bacon, perhaps poor, prepared with his help (11)

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3d

Greek character back with a woman in the temple (9)

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when I had A*******M I wrote in the answer, and had to decipher why later. I think it’s A,  ENA (woman) inside THE, then MU reversed.

4d

Understatement no mature person prevaricates about (7)

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5d

I choose one to stop Roman Catholic prevailing (8,7)

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took me ages to stop looking for ‘prevailing’ as the definition, when C*R*E*T suggested current meaning just that; the definition is I being the symbol for current in electrical notation. ELECT = choose, RC has I (one) inside, and CURRENT = prevailing.

6d

Bird heading briefly over rescue vessel (7)

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7d

Isolated as Man United? (5)

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8d

Fish starters in the restaurant ready (5)

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T R (first letters of the restaurant) OUT = ready, as in a flower perhaps.

13d

Port sacked in Ottoman push (11)

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16d

House man's inside to find reference work (9)

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TAURUS the house of the zodiac, with HE’S inserted.

18d

Articles presented in trifling taste for numskull (7)

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A, THE (articles) inside FAD a trifling taste. I don’t think I’ve seen this word in print before, but I’d have expected it to be spelt numbskull, which I see is an option.

19d

Understand everythingmostly electronic? (7)

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21d

Lives continuing as normal where cathedral burned (5)

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22d

Looker's twitching after surgical procedure (5)

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