Times Cryptic #29041

2024-10-07

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1a

A large study probing small fish and bird management (8)

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A L CON in FRY

6a

Innermost nature without love? Attempt to become passionate (6)

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SoUL TRY

9a

Decorative item beginning to sparkle for a horse, not tail (6)

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Sparkle EQUINe (for a horse, as in characteristic of a horse)

10a

Insolence and criticism for cosmetic (8)

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11a

Rewrite government order after Conservative withdraws (4)

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EDIcT

12a

Promote the redesigned camera accessory (10)

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14a

Without air at first, heating elements retaining temperaturethey don't provide much coverage (1-7)

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16a

Spot, head removeddelicate stuff (4)

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pLACE

18a

Rebuke R & A support for golf being curtailed (4)

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19a

Book idiot opened, but not finished —notes follow this (4,4)

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B ASS CLEFt (cleaved means split, and so by extension opened)

21a

Learn the moves in revolutionary soccer team? I might (6,4)

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22a

Doomed to receive reduced data (4)

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24a

Various papers distributed after union session (8)

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26a

Bar mostly wrong to offer this form of the grape? (6)

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27a

Source of colour against capturing quantity of light (6)

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28a

Guess there's one million in bequests? (8)

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I M in ESTATE

Down

2d

Leading article picked up, but ignoring editor's conclusion (5)

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A (article) HEArD (missing final letter of editor)

3d

Bar right to suppress last of booze of fake origin (11)

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COUNTER (bar) boozE in FIT (right)

4d

Point among squares in game (8)

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5d

Burly seamen, I fancy, may be seen around deep vessel of note (6,9)

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LOW (deep) in BURLY SEAMEN I*

6d

Function to bring in noodle soup in liquid transfer system (6)

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7d

Rental abandoned after female pulls out (3)

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LEfT

8d

Far-fetched European enthralled by Right and Left-wing figure repeatedly (9)

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E in R CHE (left wing figure) R CHE; far-fetched in the sense of pretentious refinement

13d

Borrowing many ideas, church backing the French reviews dismissing religious instruction (11)

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CE reversed LE (‘the’ in French) CriTICISM

15d

Family turning up outside old part of theatre (5,4)

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AGED (old) in ROOTS reversed (family, as in the Alex Haley book sense)

17d

A spoof about class mostly is to invite trouble (3,3,2)

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FORm in A SKIT (spoof)

20d

Racy phone message given to working church employee (6)

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23d

Deceptive move in ruling? (5)

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a FEINT is a deceptive move, such as sleight of hand; feint-ruled paper is writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals. I’m not mad about this clue either

25d

Surreptitious and quite lacking in attitude (3)

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FairLY