Times Cryptic #29104

2024-12-19

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1a

Club offering card on initiation of members (4)

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ACE(card) after the first letter of Members

3a

A card game that's driven by force? (5,5)

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9a

Old man's bandaged up in a series of grunts (7)

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11a

Greatest area around funny bone (7)

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MAX(greatest), A(area) surrounding ILL(funny, as in “My tummy feels a little funny”)

12a

Feeding time, Thursday Eve so dissimilar? (6,7)

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14a

Gas lit behind unit for a physicist (5)

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15a

Rearrange final seed drills from end to end (9)

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17a

Country always extremely desperate, put a lid on that! (4,5)

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EVER(always) and the external letters of DesperatE, coming after CAP(put a lid on)

19a

Journey beyond southern river (5)

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TOUR(journey) after S(southern)

21a

Bound to get scared, youth (6,7)

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24a

Table bearing a fowl (7)

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25a

English are besieging capital in Dakardefend yourself! (2,5)

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ENG(English), ARE containing the first letter in Dakar

26a

Dope cheers for ordinary folk (5,5)

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27a

Discarded Franglais newspaper? (4)

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1d

Deranged, idles on wagon (10)

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2d

Bolshevik after money, focused (7)

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4d

Good hearts in reality broken a good, good way (5-4)

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5d

Reach to grab last of Roquefort, French cheese (5)

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COME(reach) containing the last letter of RoqueforT

6d

Double-edged sword evidently sparkling, sabre originally encased in assortment of flashy jewels? (5,8)

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first letters of Evidently Sparkling Sabre inside MIXED BLING(assortment of flashy jewels)

7d

Place in orchestral part for broadcast (7)

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8d

In Malay, a housemaid (4)

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10d

White lies? Seemingly not! (2,4,7)

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13d

Biting insect circling chain on bike, finally (10)

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ANT(insect) surrounding STRING(chain) and the last letter of bikE

16d

Number of vessels filled with melted ices, most soft (9)

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18d

Noodle in quantity of butter with a sauce (7)

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ASS(noodle) inside a PAT of butter, then A

20d

Source of oval fruit, case of timber in that? (3,4)

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first letter of Ovale, then AKEE(fruit) containing the external letters in TimbeR

22d

Firstly, North ably redistributes cards, our dealer (5)

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23d

Jumper, possibly, back on top of girl (4)

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