Times Cryptic #28955

2024-06-28

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Across

1a

Such behaviour could be start of serious issue? (8)

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5a

Regretfully admitting leader of British airstrike is missing (6)

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10a

Instruction that reminds new student to enter help option (9,6)

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11a

Institution claims after losing case against company (7)

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12a

Refined male character that's hard to grasp (7)

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13a

It's cheap to develop something based on existing material (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

anagram of IT’S CHEAP.

15a

Stop working with backside visible? (3,2)

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18a

Articulate English Liberal backed moderate (3,2)

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20a

Star's part in disaster is key (8)

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23a

Botched menial task ignoring request could result in complaint (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

anagram of MENIAL + Task (after deleting ‘ask’ (request)).

25a

Ladies perhaps passed round drink endlessly (7)

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26a

Metre introduced by Napoleon's possiblyequal to a yard? (8,7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

cryptic hint: a measure (such as the metre) if devised by an emperor (such as Napoleon was) might be described thus.

27a

Got lost going around the wrong part of town (6)

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28a

Vulgar society rejected by fashionable family in the past? (8)

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Down

1d

Caught in street fight (6)

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2d

Sort of deflation that has a detrimental effect on growth? (9)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

anagram of DEFLATION.

3d

About to get promoted within institution hosting company on that account (7)

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4d

Yellowish mass extracted from molten chrome (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

‘m’ (mass) deleted from an anagram of CHROmE.

6d

26 gathered piece of material (7)

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7d

Area mainly covered with grass for match (5)

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8d

Daughter favourably placed with good place to live (8)

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9d

Piece from tabloid staff in broadsheet (8)

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14d

Rubbish place to catch sexually transmitted disease? (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

cryptic hint, where one might catch gonorrhoea (the clap).

16d

Do what Mars and Pluto are thinking (9)

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17d

Getting over process for getting into university (8)

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19d

What may ruin seaside attractions for pantomime performer? (7)

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21d

Gunmen manage to find scene of cut-throat activity (3,4)

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22d

Fraud bound to have accepted church backing (6)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

TIED (bound) containing CE (church), all reversed.

24d

Fall from grace in large section of church? (5)

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25d

Disappointment of French omitted from their paper (5)

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