Times Cryptic #29069

2024-11-08

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1a

My family home collects different food to barbecue here? (3,2,5)

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6a

Hot green dresses are imitations (4)

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ECO (green) around (dresses) H (hot)

9a

Promotional material mentioned genuine East End butcher's? (10)

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10a

A little bird doing no good (2,2)

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A TIT

12a

Love, difficult at a distance, gets in the way (12)

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O (love) ROUGH (difficult) FAR (at a distance) in THE

15a

Charlie's excitedly welcoming Penny round (9)

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anagram of CHARLIE’S around P

17a

Member of party departing the Tabard Inn, where everybody's drunk (5)

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18a

Noisily change focal point of service (5)

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19a

Metrically, one's very rigorous (9)

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IN TENS (metrically) I’VE (one’s)

20a

Buffet cars inter alia currently serving rich gravy (7,5)

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24a

Current stable employee covers bet (4)

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LAD (stable employee) around I (current)

25a

Queen Elizabeth Gates perhaps showing this sticker? (10)

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26a

Love interest of old city MD? (4)

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27a

Play I promise a short run in? (10)

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anagram (play) of I PROMISE around A + R (short run)

Down

1d

My bad theatre job, enormous curtains (4)

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2d

Worked beside well (4)

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3d

Silly exploit with plant that flavours water (7-5)

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4d

Broadcasting very happily? (2,3)

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5d

Fish a curious topping for ginger nut? (3,6)

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7d

Result of a little home cooking? (7,3)

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8d

Confining serpent's victim to pit below not awfully fair (2,3,5)

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11d

Station café's offering things to give ox (7,5)

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13d

Spring routine restricted by extremely elaborate footwear (10)

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SPA DRILL in E{laborat}E

14d

Children had remained with English housekeeper (10)

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CH (children) ATE (had) LAIN (remained) E (English) I look forward to watching Simon Anthony discuss the abbreviation CH for ‘children’ in his YouTube video tomorrow. I don’t dispute it (it’s in Chambers and Collins) but I have never once seen it in a cryptic crossword puzzle.

16d

Covering between 100 and 1000 substantial cycles (9)

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FILLING (substantial) with its letters rotated (cycles) between C (100) and M (1000)

21d

Chap out on roof newly illuminated from the ground? (5)

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reversal of RE-LIT (newly illuminated?)

22d

Step out of a prison (4)

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STAIR (step) – (out of) A

23d

Group One beginning to have change of heart (4)

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TIRO (one beginning) with its guts jumbled I believe I’ve only seen TYRO, but I could be wrong.