Times Cryptic #28863

2024-03-13

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1a

Host welcoming English man with his peculiar device (9)

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MC (host), insert E (English), then (MAN HIS)*. I confess I put this in from the terminal M checker, then parsed it.

9a

Incident is occurring in recording poem (7)

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10a

Miser's personality recalled after vicious creatures returned (7)

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EGO reversed, after ORCS reversed.

11a

A small amount that's penned about part of tyre (5)

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12a

Delighted song No. 1 in Estonia, in conclusion (9)

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END = conclusion, insert CHANT and E[stonia].

13a

French are looking less well, slipping back in this? (7)

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ES (French second person singular for “are”), PALER (less well), all reversed.

15a

Worker missing high point in stage work (5)

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worker = OPERATOR, lose the TOR = high point.

17a

On leaving, marks time? (5)

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HONOURS (marks) loses its ON.

18a

Subsequently less sensible, losing head (5)

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DAFTER loses its D.

19a

Successful student receiving new piano (5)

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successful student being GRAD[uate], insert N.

20a

Nuts about Beethoven's Third, beginning to rave over conductor (7)

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MAST being (beech) nuts, insert the [Be]E[thoven], add R[ave], O[ver].

23a

What coiner producesgood simoleon in counterfeit form (9)

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25a

Partyour groupbeginning to resist payment for union (5)

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DO (party) WE (our group) R[esist]. I pencilled in DOWRY but had to re-think.

27a

Liquid carrier's first thing needed for big run (7)

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28a

Film director joined ranks, heading for immortality (7)

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joined ranks = FELL IN, I[mmortality].

29a

Opening in chess later had revised place for bishop (9)

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C[hess], (LATER HAD)*. I was at first trying to make an anagram with B in it and recalling names of chess openings I once knew.

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1d

Become expert in microwave device, having invested time (6)

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a MASER is a microwave amplification device, as a LASER is for light; insert T for time.

2d

Parody of East German leaving Central American country somehow true (10)

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3d

Fruit drink company's rise covered by a volume (8)

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all reversed, SODA (drink) CO (company) V, A.

4d

Still turn up, very lost (5)

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INVERT (turn upside down) loses V.

5d

Wicked made moral in this? (9)

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6d

Large number upset after US detective produces weapon (6)

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7d

Single line by individual (4)

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8d

Garden worker adopting couple of articles separately as protection from sun? (8)

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our gardener is a HEDGER, insert A twice in different spots.

14d

Gentle touch on posterior? Punched by female, a pioneering spirit (10)

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PAT on HINDER, insert F for female.

16d

Well-adapted, efficient, and thus pithy? Not initially (9)

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17d

Dampen sound of activity? I'd provided way, ultimately (8)

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HUM (sound f activity), I’D, IF (provided), [wa]Y.

18d

Suggest liqueur is lacking a bit of excitement (8)

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ADVOCAAT, the yucky eggy liqueur, has an A removed and E (bit of excitement) added.

21d

Unclear change that's reduced offer (6)

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22d

No afternoon exam could be unethical (6)

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an A.M. ORAL would be a morning exam so not afternoon.

24d

Soldiers had an impact in area of operations (5)

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26d

Greedy personupset of course (4)

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