Times Cryptic #28966

2024-07-11

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1a

Is sign of hesitation about position leading to confrontation? (10)

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IS plus ER as sign of hesitation reversed (about) plus STANCE for position

6a

A page gone over for homework (4)

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Roughly 50% of the time these days A cryptically leads to PER, as here. Add P[age] and reverse (gone over) for the stuff you prepare at home for the dog to eat before not presenting it at school.

9a

Flair shown by the old man capturing an iconic fighter (7)

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Old man is PA, insert AN and add CHE, more elegantly than usual presented as an iconic fighter.

10a

Insignificant number getting married in a cathedral ultimately? (7)

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NO for number plus M[arried] IN A {cathedra]L last letter.

12a

Most formal mega-performer, I boxed (10)

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A mega-performer is a STAR. I boxed produces I in a CHEST.

13a

First person said to be tiny (3)

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First person plural or royal is WE, which sounds like our answer when said. We are for once spared micturition.

15a

Get fine and quarrel, say, for creating litter? (6)

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16a

Something big in the drinka drink swallowed by idiot (8)

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18a

Perhaps sinner and saint going outthey often meet in the dark (8)

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20a

One small female in here represented? (6)

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I have this down as an &lit: a heifer is a young cow, and I (one) F[emale] in an anagram (represented) of HERE provides the construction.

23a

Head dismissing learner as fool (3)

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A LOAF is slang for a head, from which your remove the L[earner]

24a

Being unrealistic about claims made by trader and performer? (10)

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So a trader says I DEAL and a performer says I SING.

26a

Name in past given to soldiers, eg, The Great (7)

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The additional name given to certain people to indicate their character or excellence: here, for example, Alfred, Peter or Catherine. N[ame] in AGO from past plus MEN for soldiers.

27a

Like some leaveslast bits of the autumn put in box (7)

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Such leaves have more or less scalloped edges. Last letters of [th]E [autum]N placed inside another box, this time a CRATE

28a

Flower carried by glamorous entertainer (4)

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29a

Crane has wing half visible, one in French river (10)

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Is it a bird? Is it a fish? Is it an insect? it’s…a bird. I assume wing is SIDE, half gone, then it’s I (one) in MOSELLE, the French river.

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1d

It's reportedly packaged and sent (4)

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2d

Politician beginning to speak with queen about international organisation (7)

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Topically the international organisation is NATO, within S[peak] and ER for our late Queen.

3d

Sad moralist upset about church putting priests on a pedestal? (13)

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4d

Supply help as leading characters (6)

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5d

Start of Christmas with trading opportunity on the up for light units (8)

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Start of C[hristmas] and AND (with) and SALE for trading opportunity reversed (on the up).

7d

What's authentic about modern library facility? (7)

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8d

Bill's solution penetrates synthetic materials (10)

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11d

Unquestioned supremacy not a condition to set the world alight? (13)

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So if you’re matchless you can’t set the world, or anything else, alight.

14d

Follower's ace lietime to go before fuss (10)

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Which I had last time I blogged. This time it’s A[ce] plus FICTION for lie, without its T[ime] plus a ADO for fuss.

17d

Prisoner terribly inert, with deprivation no end (8)

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An anagram (terribly) of INERT plus NEED for deprivation with its D deleted.

19d

Makes good winesmerriment in store (7)

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21d

Bird enthusiast wanting story heard (7)

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22d

Fury a reader fails to finish (6)

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The classic Furies are Tisiphone, Alecto and Megaera. Ours is created when a reader, A LECTOR fails to finish.

25d

One of the old people, this writer, requiring editor's intervention (4)

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