Times Cryptic #29027

2024-09-20

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Across

1a

Temporary stable lad unseated here (8,4)

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8a

Rugby player from Falmouth carelessly knocking out male (3-4)

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9a

Scope of brief article on money (7)

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11a

Coach regularly coming from Torbay isn't about to return (7)

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

regular letters from ToRbAy IsNt + RE (about) reversed.

12a

Carry cans home for preserving food (7)

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13a

Public penury, essentially (5)

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

central letters from (essentially) pOVERTy (penury).

14a

Flee Milan, running with loved ones (2,7)

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16a

Deal for one accepted by great advocate (9)

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19a

Very oddly observed, loves motorway and noise of cars (5)

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

VeRy (odd letters from) + OO (loves) + M (motorway).

21a

Child with poor seat for As You Like It (2,5)

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23a

Go to bed with gigolos, initially in rotation (7)

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

TURN IN (go to bed) + the first of Gigolos.

24a

Topless worker occasionally cuddling former partner without desire (7)

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25a

Idiotic Head of Accounts is retiring before watershed? (7)

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

first of Accounts + reversal of IS + NINE (o’clock, watershed).

26a

Lacking purpose, once missing church for example (6,6)

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Down

1d

In conversation claim female consumed surfeit (7)

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2d

Touching answer wins time (7)

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3d

Stay extremely desperate and become alcoholic (9)

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

first and last of DesperatE + FERMENT (become alcoholic).

4d

VIP lifted prohibition of humming (5)

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

B.O. BAN (prohibition of humming, i.e. smelling of body odour) all reversed (lifted).

5d

Broken humeri punctured by new metal (7)

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

anagram of HUMERI containing N (new).

6d

Daring to cycle in front of bad cops (3,4)

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

B-OLD (daring) with the first coming last (to cycle) + ILL (bad).

7d

Roaming US states Ohio and Georgia in part (5,7)

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10d

One embracing criminal secretly (6-6)

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15d

Perhaps William Spooner's cultivated reputation (5,4)

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

spoonerism of “nursed fame” (cultivated reputation).

17d

Basil perhaps is blind at first after choking smoke (7)

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

first of Blind after POTHER (choking smoke).

18d

Little-known surgeon supporting oxygen therapy (7)

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

B.S. (surgeon) under O (oxygen) + CURE (therapy).

19d

Harridans with spirit ousting earlier maidens (7)

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

VIRagoS (harridans, bossy women, both unknown to me), with GIN (spirit) replacing (ousting) ‘ago’ (earlier).

20d

View tear-jerker about end of Philip I (7)

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

ONION (tear-jerker), containing the last of philiP with I (one).

22d

Acclaim some rising digital celebrities (5)

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