Times Cryptic #29029

2024-09-23

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1a

Beg mischief-maker to take on new role (7)

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5a

Attend police station, not having caught one-time dropout (7)

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BE AT (attend) NIcK (a nick is a commonly used slang term in Britain for a police station or a prison)

9a

State of hair in dogs outside bars? (9)

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10a

Month the Spanish produce literary work (5)

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11a

Chap inside stole tea (5)

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12a

Irish island where drinks are on the house? (9)

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13a

Control plant's rebirth (13)

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17a

C-in-C's orders one's studied at first in car (13)

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GENERA (orders) + IS (one’s) Studied in LIMO (car)

21a

King Edward, possibly, digesting poem about a crawler (9)

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TATER (potato, of which the King Edward is a variety) containing A in ODE; a TOADEATER (originally a mountebank’s assistant who would pretend to eat toads [believed to be poisonous]) meant a crawler or servile flatterer; the more familiar ‘toady’ is believed to be derived fron this

24a

Enemy captures leaders of soldiers storming ditch (5)

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Soldiers Storming in FOE; old word for a ditch or a moat

25a

For all players, express disapproval with note (5)

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26a

Young farm animal initially swimming lake during trial (9)

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Swimming + L (lake) in HEARING (trial); a SHEARLING is a young sheep after its first shearing

27a

US landowner managed revolutionary rabble to begin with (7)

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28a

Foot of gigantic bird that's legendary in the East (7)

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ROC (gigantic bird that’s legendary) in THE E

Down

1d

Popular youngster primarily interpreting nightmares (6)

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2d

Maybe one astride a heavy carthorse? (9)

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if someone was perching on a horse, s/he might be said to be astride it; a Percheron is a compact heavy breed of carthorse; Le Perche (after which it is named) is a former province of France approximately occupying a place in modern-day south-east Normandy

3d

Old friend in Paris collecting gear for pastime in Japan (7)

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RIG (gear) in O (old) AMI (French for friend); as far as solvers are concerned, the only Japanese pastimes are origami, bonsai, noh and haiku

4d

Mournful English supporter going over Iowa and California (9)

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E LEG IA CAL

5d

Member of cattle tribe thus invading waste container perhaps (5)

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6d

Memory defect mother raised upset first-class nurse once (7)

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reversal (raised) of MA followed by reversal (upset) of AI (first-class) SEN (state enrolled nurse)

7d

New girl meets head of Roedean? I don't believe it! (5)

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8d

Scene of cat fights? Type disturbing a fellow (8)

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14d

Bring back army corps court covering most of county (9)

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15d

Artisan travelling north is crossing motorway (9)

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M in NORTH IS*

16d

A contemptible person on a hill, one causing trouble (8)

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18d

New shrine ultimately south of a European river (7)

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SHRINE* soutH

19d

Big fire? Deduce otherwise (7)

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20d

Alliance placing silver urn originally in shelter (6)

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AG (silver) Urn in LEE (shelter)

22d

Continue to perform in part of West London (5)

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23d

Stunner posed again, given rise (5)

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