Times Cryptic #29088

2024-11-30

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1a

Match day kit? (7,5)

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9a

Steel scratching face of John Hurt (5)

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10a

Penetrating entrance at the back of empty tower (9)

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11a

Is a tusk regularly filled with strange bulges at the front? (8)

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Wham! wholly absorbed by western piece of music (6)

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Chill current drink quickly (4,4)

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Event with medium coverage vacuously introduced by Mr Bean on TV (6)

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Logical businessman needing a break? (6)

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Irrational guards love standing in front of banks in French town (8)

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20a

Remark's caught you shouldn't have to write down (6)

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21a

Deeply unhappy with minute quantity of ashes? (8)

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24a

Taking up armsgun before it recoils in long shot (9)

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Report of East End gangsters in Vogue (5)

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26a

My fault about hotel with dirty room limiting yearly turnover (7,5)

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Down

1d

Happening to stop wife saying something cutting (7)

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2d

Spitting Image, say, boring local, possibly not unexpectedly (6,8)

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3d

One parched runner near Grenoble (5)

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4d

Dress-wearing friend of Dorothy is to behave extravagantly (2,2,4)

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5d

Drug swallowed by official in bar, in the main (4)

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6d

Confirmation perhaps dispatched, packaging ace stuff (9)

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7d

Concerns after dodgy lad and a felon get no hearing (4,2,4,4)

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8d

Basic, poorly spelt article intrudes (6)

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14d

Renaissance man's giftspinning toy, but not top (9)

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16d

Remark when leaving base with no cover provided (2,4,2)

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17d

In Washington, dismiss publicity about Republican's fake news item (6)

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19d

A lot of lustrous fabric, so shiny (7)

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22d

Poor grade omitted from MP's résumé (5)

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23d

Bearing north-east? This person's heading north (4)

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