Times Cryptic #28937

2024-06-07

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1a

Foxtrot with nimble steps (6)

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5a

Sacked Head of Personnel, sick and old (8)

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9a

Tom Paine accepts consequence of decay (8)

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10a

Bones in back and front of arm (6)

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11a

Brahms and Liszt are skint in former homeland (8)

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12a

Canny Katherina perhaps departs (6)

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13a

Try and sanction an Eastern martial art (8)

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15a

Picks pockets of two coppers (4)

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17a

Dismal and ultimately dejected state (4)

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{dejecte}D + ARK. Arkansas, I guess?

19a

Purchase scrap of cloth to plug dyke (8)

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20a

Realise English National Curriculum has changed (6)

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21a

Toxic element in half of this garlic? (8)

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22a

Green or red ancillary vehicle (6)

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triple definition (?) TENDER = ‘green’ as in inexperienced TENDER = ‘red’ as in sore and apparently TENDER is a small vehicle attached to a larger one; for instance in a train, an attached carriage that holds fuel and water

23a

Philosopher's follower removing carbon using hydrostatic pressure (8)

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{c}ARTESIAN I’m not sure I understand artesian wells even after looking up the definition. Here’s a reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artesian_well

24a

More sluggish, with yen for sugar (8)

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FLATTER (?) + Y Not sure I totally see flat = sluggish, but there you have it.

25a

Old magistrates from Home Counties turn back (6)

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SE (Home Counties) + VEER reversed

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2d

The scholarly elements of elite rationalism (8)

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3d

Girls of boyish charm and singular spirit (8)

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GAMINES (girls of boyish charm) + S Again, not a definition of GAMINESS I knew, but I suppose deer meat has spirit.

4d

Mischievous book, full of twists (9)

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5d

Appoint entirely unconventional diplomat (15)

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6d

Rebellious boy chopped notch in twig (5,2)

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7d

Place to grow lilac, oddly neglected shrub (8)

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GARDEN + {l}I{l}A{c}

8d

Absolutely avoid someone doomed to failure (4,4)

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14d

Gypsum plant behind an experimental facility (9)

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ASTER after A LAB (an experimental facility)

15d

Fidgets terribly, swallowing single brandy? (8)

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anagram of FIDGETS around I (single)

16d

Put books on top of ancient organ (8)

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17d

Demoted in caste, girl leaves India after a month (8)

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LASSIE without I (India, NATO again) after DEC (a month)

18d

Parties regularly supporting retrospective gun control (8)

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{p}A{r}T{i}E{s} under LUGER reversed

19d

Most gorgeous female consumed by desire (7)

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