Times Cryptic #28879

2024-04-01

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1a

There's only so much a bowler can take? (6)

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5a

Nick a Kandinsky perhaps (8)

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9a

Yells about wound? Quite so (10)

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10a

Husband no longer wanting sex in retirement (4)

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11a

Forlorn, being without one's valet? (8)

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12a

Fit Soviet leader moving in (6)

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STALIN with IN moving.

13a

Captain given warning to turn back (4)

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15a

Manages to get a hearing in these distant parts (8)

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18a

Drink making you sanctimonious? (4,4)

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19a

Try to make Republican leader? That won't fly (4)

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HEAR with R moved to the front.

21a

Start to jeer, with pressure on workers (4,2)

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BOO + T.U + P.

23a

Model free to waste time meeting poet without family (8)

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25a

Worry European drivers will go wrong way (4)

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E R.A.C backwards – the Royal Automobile Club.

26a

Etonian pal mistaken for an Italian (10)

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27a

Calmly dishonest, taking in English court (8)

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S(E, DATE)LY.

28a

Wife ignoring important figure (6)

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Down

2d

Better to leave case behind and walk (5)

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3d

Nothing will stop sweet academic, that's certain (9)

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FOOL + PRO(O)F.

4d

Increasingly rowdy yob almost upset wine (6)

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LOU[t] + RED upside-down.

5d

Treatment of initially acute hysteria proven to work (8,7)

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Anagram of A[cute] HYSTERIA PROVEN.

6d

Acrobatic performer making kids very excited (8)

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7d

Grasses on European copper (5)

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RE + E + D.S, Detective Sergeant.

8d

Companion well informed about fashionable porcelain (9)

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14d

Speak after cover up or disappear? (9)

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PAVE upside-down + ORATE.

16d

Youngster knocking over girl's pint (9)

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17d

Stupid to restrict island's power supply (8)

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D(I’S P)ENSE.

20d

Repudiate participants in Greek overreaction after upheaval (6)

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22d

Letter governor sent in to Times needing answer (5)

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T(H.E)T + A.

24d

Accommodate expert after change of heart (5)

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AD(-e,+A)PT, a letter-substitution clue.