Times Cryptic #29008

2024-08-29

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1a

Here's our phone numberis that corny? (6)

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5a

Venture by enchanting company in English city (8)

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9a

Help cheat in game (10)

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10a

Attack in African country briefly stopped by leader in uprising (4)

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MALI(African country) minus the last letter surrounding the first letter in Uprising

11a

Cuban for example who has been vilified by me (8)

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if I SLANDER, you have been vilified by me

12a

Small and delicateso? (6)

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13a

Touch zip (4)

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15a

Something frozen, cheese melting in it (3,5)

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18a

Capital adversary invested in cereal (8)

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19a

Flooring material in centre of oblong houses (4)

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21a

Lazy old walk into land of sleep (2-4)

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23a

Boater has taken more than one craft backwards, eh? (5,3)

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25a

Fin, say, scales stripped off (4)

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CLIMBS(scales) minus the exterior letters

26a

Launch one past it into country east of India (10)

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I(one) after IT inside NATION(country) after I(India)

27a

Show one off that's attached to heel in blizzards? (8)

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anagram of SHOW,ONE after the last letter in blizzardS

28a

Reversal of dreary practice critical for country (6)

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Down

2d

Hoover, say, has got stuck in like US president (5)

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3d

So fired without hesitation? (4,1,4)

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4d

Drink: Warhol should can it! (6)

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5d

Whatever racehorse I'm on in horsing around! (4,4,2,5)

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6d

Front I dispensed with, gone (8)

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7d

I say I don't want them near me, dark clouds (5)

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8d

Crude, when by inference? (5-4)

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14d

A military alliance secure when set up in part of 28 across, say? (9)

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16d

Stand up, as might pitcher? (4,5)

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17d

Introduce American hero? (8)

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20d

Drive away, passing through Faro in truck (6)

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22d

Two bovines, the second with head slightly back in lake (5)

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

the bovines are OX and COW, move the first letter of COW back from C to B. I thought this was hyphenated, and it is in Chambers, but Collins gives it as a single word.

24d

A nozzle evolved (5)

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