Times Cryptic #28868

2024-03-19

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1a

Angle this writer primarily adopted, lacking animal feed (8)

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6a

Composer briefly associated with a Hindu god (6)

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BRAHM{s} (composer), [briefly], A

9a

Rascal nearly closed paper, swallowing hallucinatory drug (6)

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TO (nearly closed – door) + RAG (paper) containing [swallowing] E (hallucinatory drug)

10a

Exchanging small place in East London (8)

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11a

Young hawk in European state making a comeback (4)

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E (European), SAY (state) reversed [making a comeback]. NHO this and apart from a couple of Mephistos this is its first appearance in the TfTT era since 2006 and before I started contributing as a commenter. On that occasion it was defined as a nestling. SOED defines it as: A young hawk in the nest, or taken from it for training; a hawk whose training is incomplete.

12a

Lacking justification, as dispossessed cricket club may be? (10)

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A straight definition with a cryptic in support

14a

Girl embracing soldier, perhaps, in Mediterranean port (8)

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16a

Opening of oyster bar in Scottish resort (4)

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18a

Hairstyle brought back in superior fashion (4)

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19a

Bully pinching hair confinerhers, maybe? (8)

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21a

Uncultivated grammarian, one pursuing game (10)

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22a

Change course, finding equestrian gear (4)

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24a

Chap needing hot water in W African state (8)

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26a

Riddle in French initially intriguing key family member (6)

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EN (in, French), I{ntriguing} [initially], G (key), MA (family member)

27a

Female victim of murder on island (6)

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28a

Cold wind enveloping plant in cathedral city (8)

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Down

2d

Mild sarcasm from fellow in City regularly (5)

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RON (fellow) contained by [in] {c}I{t}Y [regularly]

3d

Instrument mixed choirs finally confused with another (11)

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HARP (another instrument), anagram [mixed] of CHOIRS, then {confuse}D [finally]. I can see an alternative parsing that works just as well but this is the one I’ve gone with.

4d

Attractive, getting involved (8)

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5d

Suffer financial depletion, just before the fall? (4,4,7)

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6d

Alcoholic drink, something the setter would appreciate, it's said (6)

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7d

Current measure a national leader set up (3)

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A, PM (national leader) reversed [set up]

8d

His fate disheartened men working in part of pit (9)

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Anagram [working] of HIS FATE M{e}N [disheartened]

13d

Flowering plant, most unconfined, widely encountered (11)

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15d

Sublimity of some poetry son's absorbing frequently (9)

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LINES (some poetry) + S (son) containing absorbing OFT (frequently). SOED: sublimity – the state of being dignified or lofty in bearing.

17d

Accommodates at least four pints without hesitation (8)

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20d

Strait-laced class, at Lancing originally (6)

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FORM (class), A{t} + L{ancing} [originally]. Lancing College is a public school near Worthing.

23d

Eccentric English lord's first form of desert transport? (5)

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CAM (eccentric), E (English), L{ord} [’s first]. Collins: cam – a moving piece of machinery, as a wheel or projection on a wheel, that gives an eccentric rotation or a reciprocating motion to another wheel, a roller, a shaft, etc., or that receives such motion from it

25d

Patient man's line of business (3)

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