Times Cryptic #28901

2024-04-26

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1a

Author in online catalogue after end of autumn (8)

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E-LIST (online catalogue) after NOV (end of autumn [= November])

5a

Go quickly out of control, indication of indecision after caution (6)

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9a

Saintly female in charge in place of a couple of gentlemen (8)

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10a

Predator that apparently prays in mass with enemies (6)

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12a

One of seven letters from country admitting old novelist and, separately, me (5,7)

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RURAL (country) around (admitting) O (old) MANN (novelist) and, separately, ME I, V, X, L, C, D, and M — which of course were invented to keep track of the number of Superb Owls.

15a

About half of score in many cases (5)

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16a

Far from lively prisoner sheltering a new one (9)

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INMATE (prisoner) around A N (new) I (one)

18a

Naturally nobody speaks this strangely neat prose (9)

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19a

At home wearing headgear, having turned back flap (5)

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IN (at home) in CAP (headgear) reversed (having turned back)

20a

Illustration in book is central to revised perfection (12)

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24a

Hot ingredient for sauce, despite what you hear (6)

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25a

Small missile making shrill noise (8)

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26a

Having a meal, sound as a bell, content to be doubled up? (6)

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DING (sound as a bell?) with the middle letters (content) repeated (to be doubled up)

27a

Kind of bottle sailors found in end (5-3)

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1d

Stated opposition about very small service (4)

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NAY (stated opposition) around (about) abbreviation of (small) V (very)

2d

As such, there's no difference between best and worst (4)

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as verbs, ‘best’ and ‘worst’ both mean “to get the better of”

3d

Learner with an unhappy experience, one who's invested in his fields (9)

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4d

What causes communal tension? It's Americans out of order (12)

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6d

Alternative to reveille in Territorial Army (5)

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7d

Plays some music, sayrecord isn't a remix (10)

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ENTER (record) + ISN’T A anagrammed (remix)

8d

Toughness on island in sound? Just the opposite (10)

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RE (on) + I (island) in SILENCE (sound? just the opposite)

11d

Hostile frenzied action gains time (12)

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13d

Impassive fire controller, female, provided great service (5-5)

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14d

Block proposal for cinematographic technique (4-6)

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17d

One Parliamentarian with kind of voice that's influential (9)

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21d

Gripping part of hobby (5)

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22d

Parts of body more than twice as long as hands (4)

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half way between a cryptic and double definition, a foot being 12 inches and a hand being 4 inches (horses are traditionally measured in hands)

23d

Parrots, for example, sent up for bit of flight (4)

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