Times Cryptic #28963

2024-07-08

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1a

Seducer reluctant to have a port (8)

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5a

A bishop caught with horse outside church office (6)

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10a

Cameroon is in her travels, whatever the circumstances (4,4,2,5)

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11a

Stop supporting a group with no backing (7)

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12a

Name a French poet's sister's calling (7)

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13a

Where a flyer may go for a walk in London (8)

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15a

American industrial leader, old and pale of face (5)

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18a

Additional passage from book court rejected (5)

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20a

A right pain around Ealing at first, like the bloody Tube! (8)

Generating...

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

A + R + T(E[aling])RIAL.   Another one I biffed.

23a

Trailblazer on expedition initially requiring external support? (7)

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

PI(ON E[xpedition])ER.

25a

Famous actor originally involved in musical (7)

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OLIV(I[nvolved]ER, a bit of a chestnut.

26a

Most of rite mother used to somehow endure to the end (4,3,3,5)

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27a

Tin containing damsons primarily in very small country (6)

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

S(WE(D[amsons]E)N, where SN is the chemical symbol for tin.

28a

Tear about always, being vicar, perhaps (8)

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Down

1d

Small expanse of water Belloc handled, partly (6)

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2d

Male keyboard player releasing current for one in kitchen (9)

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

TIM + P[i]ANIST.

3d

A brother helped, we're told (scraped away!) (7)

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4d

Rise of number one team, one bound to be permanently revolutionary (5)

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

NO I + XI, all upside-down.

6d

Graduate nurse once, one keeping judge's dog (7)

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BA + SEN  + J + I.

7d

Friend has a turn crossing major road (5)

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A (M1) GO.

8d

Surrendering crop in conclusion of farming (8)

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YIELD + IN + [farmin]G.

9d

Gloomy signal from one who knows the score? (8)

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14d

Fervour of Republican entering in civic style? (8)

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

A LA C(R)ITY.   This clue probably would have been better with something like urban style.

16d

Females endlessly grabbing attention is fatiguing (9)

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17d

This chap is a Pacific country's star (8)

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

HE’S + PER + U.S.   HE’S PERU’S.   This shows the hazard of being a Mephisto solver, and automatically substituting PER for A.

19d

A sign erected over Tyneside plant (7)

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21d

Put out again about subject under discussion (7)

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22d

Hospital preparation military engineers paid to go without (6)

Generating...

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

P(R.E.M.E)D, a word that has a different meaning in the US.   Come to think of it, we don’t have the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers either.

24d

Senior citizen flaying member of fighting force (5)

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25d

Pigment made from mineral aggregate surrounding church (5)

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