Times Cryptic #28679

2023-08-11

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1a

Curlers having clothing with name written inside (5)

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TOGS (clothing) containing N (name).

4a

System of rules suppressing rebellious nonsense leads to uprising (4,5)

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CODE (system of rules) containing UP (rebellious), then TAT (nonsense).

9a

Card game dropping one of its players in quality Home Counties town (9)

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10a

Cathedral dignitary, head of chapter, not giving name? (5)

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11a

Turn into fossil? Most of fossil badly done, ending in ignominy (6)

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all-but-the-last of (mostly) FOSSIL anagrammed, then the last of ignomonY. Petrify, more like.

12a

Little from Escoffier to fill primate's hunger (8)

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14a

Unsympathetic emperor's replacing one with offspring (10)

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16a

Remote distance recalled after leaving end of line (4)

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MILeS (distance) reversed, excluding the ‘e’ (last letter of line).

19a

Upset about river excursion (4)

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TIP (upset) containing R (river).

20a

Small particular changes ignoring an area of Biblical studies (10)

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S (small), then an anagram of PARTICULAR excluding one ‘a’ (area).

22a

Lake expert spinning in Black Sea, unable to progress? (8)

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L (lake) + ACE (expert) all reversed, contained by B (black) + MED (sea).

23a

Drunkard throttling glutton delivering tap (6)

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26a

Teacher rejected backing key component of education? About time (5)

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OUT (rejected) reversed, then R (one of the three, key component of education), containing T (time).

27a

Part of LondonI pass to North (9)

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I + SLING (pass) + N (north).

28a

One new bird observed in US city is a thing of no importance (9)

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ONE + N (new) + TIT (bird), contained by NY (US city).

29a

Very keen about hard working, engaging leaders of our teams (3,2)

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H (hard) + ON (working), containing the first letters of Our and Teams.

Down

1d

Drumming is beginning to threatenyou'll see me turning to hide (9)

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TATTOO (drumming) + IS + first letter of Threatening.

2d

Number getting endless home service (5)

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3d

Father will collar United over match official for certain (8)

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SIRE (father), containing U (united) + REF (match official).

4d

Mock opera's ultimate conclusion (4)

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5d

Machine put to work without much impact (10)

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6d

Appropriate seeing change to older coinage in receipt (6)

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*shrug*. Can someone help? Vinyl to the rescue – pOCKET (appropriate) with ‘p’ (new penny) for D (old Penny, older coinage).

7d

Describing glands, look, inside damaged nostril (9)

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8d

Weight and volume after inclusion of additional unspecified number (5)

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TONE (volume) containing N (unspecified number). Does ‘tone’ = ‘volume’?

13d

Italian composer in book: iconic in translation that woman penned (10)

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15d

Continue to publish about church in US university city (9)

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17d

Hormone turning in zucchini, not a lemon (9)

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18d

A simple golf-shot starts to cause hesitation in a crisis (2,1,5)

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A + TAP IN (simple golf shot) + first letters of Cause and Hesitation.

21d

French person's conclusion is to accept my old coin (6)

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22d

Upset no key office staff? (5)

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24d

Mean opening of gallery to have famous gallery upset (3,2)

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first letter of Gallery + reversal of TATE (famous gallery).

25d

Degree of freedom in Shakespeare's work? (4)

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