Times Cryptic #28889

2024-04-12

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Across

1a

Got up to make deliveries, which may be under arrangement? (8)

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5a

Boot's fit needing nine regularly (6)

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WELL (fit) + (needing) every other letter of (regularly) NINE

9a

Disagreement heretic enters into versus church (8)

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ARIAN (heretic) in (enters into) V (versus) + CE (church)

10a

Tenant without cover for expense (6)

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12a

Feature of jacket has lines cut by someone clumsy (5)

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L L (lines) around (cut by) APE (someone clumsy)

13a

Able to live in many places using EU railway to choose mostly (9)

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EU + RY (railway) + TO + PICK (choose) without the last letter (mostly)

14a

Crates preparing to take off with other holidaymakers? (7,5)

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one definition, one description

18a

Is bass cornet playing in this? (5,7)

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21a

After noise of display very loudly regret backing driver (9)

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23a

Girl's wrath and anger oddly vanishing (5)

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IRE (wrath) + (and) ANGER with odd-numbered letters removed (oddly vanishing)

24a

Medicine man using fake article (6)

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25a

Lock by only pier (8)

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26a

Higher following small meal (6)

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UPPER (higher) after (following) S (small)

27a

During interval half of cast, note, needed a drink (8)

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half of CAST + E (note) in (during) THIRD (interval) Here THIRD is a musical interval.

Down

1d

Does twist? Bolero often follows this (6)

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A reference to “Ravel’s Bolero“.

2d

One who's drafted isn't taking against longhand (6)

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CONSCRIPT (one who’s drafted) – (isn’t taking) CON (against)

3d

Listen carefully to sounds of brooks around middle of glen (2,3,4)

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BEARS (brooks) around VALLEY (glen) without the first and last letters (middle of) This one might have taken me ten minutes to parse! The ‘middle of glen’ = LE red herring is truly devious. But if we’re being fair, ‘Listen carefully to sounds’ is not exactly a Ximenean definition.

4d

One staying behind in person? (12)

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6d

Perhaps meet five out of seventeen (5)

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five consecutive letters out of SEVENTEEN

7d

Call which people hope to make with letters? (4,4)

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8d

Worry king's trapped by duty (8)

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11d

Magnetic problem with recording north upright up the pole (5-7)

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15d

Church musician upset his rector (9)

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16d

Counters scuba failing amid rising waters (8)

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17d

Pumice, perhaps light, which forms moving blobs (4,4)

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19d

Took food back to consume best (6)

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20d

Recycled rubbish female has left daughter (6)

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REFUSE (rubbish) – (has left) F (female) + D (daughter)

22d

Peel off fine red pigment (5)

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