Times Cryptic #28987

2024-08-05

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1a

Quiet game ultimately inviting dismissive gesture (5)

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SH + R.U. + [invitin]G.

4a

Woman finally delighting in breakfast food, like the governor (9)

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VI + CERE([delightin]G)AL.

9a

Draws principally involving a plant in Asia (9)

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10a

Guru took to the water alongside island (5)

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SWAM + I.

11a

Fellow originally residing in Donne's island? (6)

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NO (R[esiding] MAN, presumably a man named Norman and not a fellow from Normandy.   No man is a an island!

12a

Scottish city's currency recognised by auditors (8)

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14a

Lively new routes to east of French wood (10)

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16a

Set about a Highland Scot (4)

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19a

English landscape gardener known north of the border (4)

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20a

Heavenly phenomenon recognised at first in celebrity's squad (4,6)

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STAR’S T(R[ecognized])EAM.

22a

Sport the French must carry over (8)

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L(ACROSS)E, another starter clue.

23a

Deadly human being! (6)

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26a

Painter working in US opera house? (5)

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27a

Seaman doing what seamen do, we hearmaking a sharp descent? (9)

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28a

Old archdeacon given money prepared in advance (4-5)

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29a

Leave former partner to take courses (5)

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1d

Season very good for trapping black antelope (9)

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SPRING  (B) OK.   Once I had the B, I knew it had to a bok of some sort.

2d

Advert displayed in Hampshire ferries (5)

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3d

Dashing young men annoy workers (8)

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4d

Huge area included in visits regularly (4)

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V[i](A)S[i]T[s].

5d

Maritime force's phantom provider of credit, might Spooner have said? (10)

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Spoonerism of GHOST CARD.

6d

Refuge in holiday location, perhaps (6)

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7d

Be drawn to fireplace, embracing Sackville-West (9)

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8d

Relaxing, retailing pork pies (5)

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A very simple double definition.

13d

Capital initially invested in urchin's discharge (10)

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BRAT(I[nvested])’S LAVA.

15d

Guilelessness of civil engineer in pub in past times (9)

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INN O(C.E.)NCE.

17d

Dawn entertaining male priest in glare of publicity (9)

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18d

Poisonous substance manufactured in a European port (8)

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Anagram of IN A E PORT.

21d

Hospital worker, possibly, left with little sign of hesitation (6)

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22d

Neglected state of bachelor in big car (5)

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LIM(B)O.

24d

Work hard on back of durable fabric (5)

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TOIL + [durabl]E.

25d

A coconut stall, pale greyish in colour (4)

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A SHY, i.e. a coconut shy at a fair.