Times Cryptic #28747

2023-10-30

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1a

Brightly-coloured bird with a flower from the east (5)

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W A CAM backwards, i.e. the river that flows through Cambridge.

4a

Formidable family keeping a large old female cat (9)

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GRIM (A,L) KIN.

9a

Inclination to study Italian at first with head (9)

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10a

Asian country's temperature, the writer hazards (5)

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T, I BET.

11a

Wally returning container with end broken off (6)

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12a

Soldiers (male) bitten by sort of bear's tooth (8)

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P(RE,M)OLAR.

14a

Clash involving Times grandee (12)

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17a

Speed regulator's joint position of authority in US state (12)

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GOVERNOR’S HIP.

20a

Ancient countryman praying desperately outside hospital (8)

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Anagram of PRAYING around H.   I was thinking that if this ended in -ian, there wouldn’t be enough vowels left, but there were.

21a

Follow-up drink for one making an impression (6)

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23a

Minor divinity reported near a pond at last (5)

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24a

Blamelessness of civil engineer visiting pub in the past (9)

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INN O(C.E)NCE.

25a

Tipsy English chap screwed up, perhaps? (9)

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TIGHT E NED.

26a

More recent part of school at Erith (5)

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Down

1d

Serviceman digesting puff and spiced liquid (8)

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MARIN(AD)E.

2d

Church painter, a nineteenth century reformer (8)

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3d

Working in cafe, failed to remember about party and play (7,3,5)

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WAITING + FORGO(DO)T.

4d

Eg Scottish Celt in strong wind, we hear (4)

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5d

On which to play casually, visiting home and part of hospital? (10)

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IN (STRUM) E.N.T, a semi-&lit.

6d

An Athenian man briefly heading state, holding republican views (15)

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7d

Pellets livestock ultimately pick at? Not the first (6)

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8d

Legal official's polite refusal on track (6)

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13d

Group of states in defeat or in disarray (10)

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15d

Revolutionary stunt ruined old joke (8)

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16d

Impulse to place in box part of transmission (4,4)

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18d

Peg installed in standard type of harpsichord (6)

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19d

Cower endlessly round back of bothy, showing distress (6)

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CR([both]Y)ING[e].   No need to know what a bothy is, although I do.

22d

Woman from north involved in Muslim festival (4)

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