Times Cryptic #29050

2024-10-17

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1a

Perhaps watch video that may rain on your parade (6,4)

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6a

Tunisia's capital missing from book of maps, regrettably (4)

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

Remove the capital T of Tunisia from an A T LAS

10a

Regularly leave key equestrian competitor (7)

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The odd (even) letters of lEaVe plus your ENTER key.

11a

Break shoe, run and throw? (7)

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12a

Evaluates software associated with lifts (9)

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13a

Empire in complete mess at the outset (5)

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

My best try: he’s a REAL idiot might be rendered he’s a complete idiot. Add the first letter of Mess.

14a

Detest drab horticulture displays (5)

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15a

Games a police chief overheard in thick fog (3-6)

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Games in school are/is/were PE. A police Chief Superintendent can be abbreviated to A Super. Which sounds like a SOUPER. In the days when everyone had a coal fire, the resulting mix of fog and smoke led to particularly impenetrable miasmas, likened humorously to pea soup.

17a

Tell me, using your brain, best sock (3,4,2)

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20a

Be overwhelmed with new information from the east (5)

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N[ew] WORD as (on the streets) information read from the right/east.

21a

US college briefly thanks conference venue (5)

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23a

Champion rugby player playing in French team initially (9)

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An advocate version of champion. Your rugby player is a PROP (front row of the scrum supporting the hooker), playing renders ON, in (in) French gives EN, and complete with the first letter of T[eam]

25a

Doctor urged on to get experience (7)

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26a

Rely excessively on old and extremely vulnerable scheme (7)

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O[ld], the extremes of V[ulnerabl]E and RUSE for scheme.

27a

Level of drop in sound (4)

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28a

Persistent about fast time? Not so much (10)

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Down

1d

Articles about Bart's last letter to Homer (5)

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

This Homer’s Greek. Articles are THE and A and the enclose T comes from the end of BarT

2d

Personal insult loved by a miserly director? (5,4)

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A skinflint film director would prefer a SHOT that doesn’t cost very much.

3d

Spare gold coin one splits with European is remarkable (14)

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Spare is EXTRA, gold is OR, coin is DINAR. Insert I in the last and add E[uropean]. You’ll soon notice that extraordinary doesn’t reach the end.

4d

Arrives and spoils Pixar movie (5,2)

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5d

Old kingdom's power over large country (7)

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7d

Grub is something very hot, reportedly (5)

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Another sound like (reportedly). LARVA is indeed hot stuff.

8d

What "decreases" rationsme unfortunately (5,4)

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9d

Fresh food and shower before nap? Tuck in here! (8,6)

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14d

Columnist from Guyana not wrong (5,4)

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16d

Wage produced from plain writing? Sweet! (9)

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18d

Cool to live without working body part (7)

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Cool is HIP, and to live is BE. Working is ON, and BE goes without it in the old fashioned, outside, sense of the word.

19d

Couple raised farm animal during work (7)

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

I’ll admit that when solving I thought the raised (upside down) farm animal would be COW, but I see now it’s SOW which fortunately is what I entered. The work into which it’s placed is a TOME, usually a large book.

22d

Enter gate-keeper's residence (5)

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24d

Be anxious when losing opener for lock (5)

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

Lock of hair, of course. Be anxious is STRESS. Remove its opening letter.