Times Cryptic #28773

2023-11-29

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1a

Sauce and beans occasionally found in pancake (7)

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TACO = pancake, insert B A S alternate letters of beans. I put Tabasco on things, a lot.

5a

Measure Juliet put into pub's glass container (4,3)

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ELL (measure) J[uliet] all inside BAR.

9a

Sheep kills time in an easterly wind (9)

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REEL = wind as in reel in a fishing line perhaps; reversed = LEER, insert ICES T for kills time. Being in Rutland next to said county, we are surrounded by fields of Tom’s Leicester breed sheep. Very daft animals, they just stand in our road and look at the car waiting to pass. Tom’s Dad says “sheep are born to die “- but aren’t we all?

10a

Northern town taxi turned towards a centre (5)

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11a

Showing heart, cross about conflict, one trained to attack (6,7)

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CENTRE = heart; FORD (cross) around WAR.

13a

Patent protecting firmorigin of Apple Mac? (8)

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OVERT (patent) around CO, A[pple]. As in mackintosh.

15a

Duke ingesting MDMA joins a celebration (6)

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MDMA is 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, commonly called ecstasy or E; insert it into FIST (duke) and add A.

17a

Despair initially avoided may become hope (6)

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despair, lose the D, so (ESPAIR)*.

19a

Trap a kingwhat's stopping merry old one? (8)

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the merry old king being COLE, insert A K and EH? for a king, what?. As in “shut your trap / cakehole!”

22a

Take serious risks? Ditch the idea, bowling round wicket (4,4,5)

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insert W for wicket into (DITCH THE IDEA)*.

25a

United by wise tradition (5)

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26a

Daughters in coffee bar that's contemporary (6-3)

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27a

Family outside on marks close to royal citadel (7)

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KIN = family, insert RE (on) M (marks) L (close to royal).

28a

Second sin St Anthony embodies? (7)

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Down

1d

Count to play the informer (4)

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2d

Impatient exclamation from Scot splitting cheese roll (7)

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3d

Beatles manager once leaving record for writer (5)

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Brian EPstein loses his EP. Gertrude Stein was a rather unattractive lesbian novelist and poet and a Nazi sympathiser, I’ve never read her stuff.

4d

Spontaneous occurrence before the public holiday (8)

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5d

Whistler secured in bank that's robbed? (6)

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6d

Debauchee having left island, knight Edward VII embraces? (9)

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Edward VII was known as Bertie to his friends, family and mistresses, so L for left, I for island, BERTIE with N inserted.

7d

The Foolas shown in the cards? (7)

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8d

Disowned aide, put out, getting into the wine (10)

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12d

Character billed as old and decrepitnothing to it (6,4)

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14d

Short file, kept by alliance in Somerset, that goes sideways (9)

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16d

Outlaws part that's wrapped with note (8)

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18d

Select times for admission to A&E? That's ground-breaking! (7)

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PICK (select) A E, insert X = times.

20d

Old Greek character given support raised snakes (7)

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O (old) PHI (Greek letter), AID (support) reversed. I knew this word, saw it recently in a GK crossword (was it weekend before last?)

21d

Taken to beer without opening tin cans? (6)

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SN = Sn, symbol for tin; insert TO, [A]LE.

23d

Partners in crime? (5)

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24d

Crew said something at Chiswick in Boat Race (4)

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