Times Cryptic #29000

2024-08-20

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1a

Picked up flight goggles (6)

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Aural wordplay [picked up]: “stairs” (flight)

4a

Cloaked in secrecy, cleptomaniacs avoid waste (7)

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9a

Doddering in top position (5)

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10a

Nasty moment, turning up topless (4,5)

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{u}NEARTHING (turning up) [topless]

11a

Very old retired sailors embraced by rowers instantly (9)

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V (very) + O (old) reversed [retired], then RN (sailors – Royal Navy) contained [embraced] by EIGHT (rowers)

12a

Layer cake unfilled for this reason (5)

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13a

Scrap part of audiotape (4)

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14a

Problem with immorality in China (3,7)

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18a

DNA allotted to one and all of similar age (10)

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20a

Kid around with international artist (4)

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23a

Thick-skinned creature uttered sardonic refusal (5)

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24a

Well-bred sanctimonious boy's surrounded by sin (9)

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PI (sanctimonious) has ED (boy) enclosed [surrounded] , GREED (deadly sin)

25a

Make unholy din, mostly meaningless (9)

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26a

Judge on island is up in arms (5)

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27a

Destroyed ten rats and rabbits (7)

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28a

Beat anxiety (6)

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Down

1d

What if Oscar and son stop drinking? (9)

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2d

Nourishment in fruit eaten by insect (7)

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3d

Put out content of texts sent over day (6)

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4d

Bunk covering a small carpet (5)

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5d

Spooner's closed tribunal perhaps suspended (3,5)

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6d

Companion is initially opposed to wine (7)

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7d

Score each golfer regularly wants (5)

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8d

Cosy as can be, propose to drink half case of Chambertin (8)

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15d

Start to smoke dope and relax (4,4)

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16d

Sinners actively serve idol (9)

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17d

Claim Yorkshire town lacks aspiration (8)

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19d

Punch criminal in Tesla (4,3)

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21d

Film outstanding gallery (7)

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22d

Discriminating introduction to alcoholic spirit (6)

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23d

Liquid and/or gas (5)

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24d

Last to leave Slavonic city state (5)

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