Times Cryptic #29125

2025-01-13

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Across

1a

English doctor arranged doses with superior effect? (8)

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E MB OSSED (anagram* of DOSES)

5a

Argument about Arabic customs duty (6)

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9a

Cold morning: difficult job hosting Government's first initiative (8)

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C AM G in PAIN

10a

Shoe sale's opening with everything reduced (6)

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S AND ALl

12a

Discover that man wants minute dish from Japan (5)

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13a

Backfire managed to be suppressed by thunder for example (9)

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RAN in BOOM EG

14a

Man worked with don, I bet? Definitely (3,2,7)

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MAN DON I* STAKE (bet)

18a

Writer's trip by wagon taking in grand prison like Alcatraz? (9,3)

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CART (wagon) G (grand) in RIDE (trip) PEN (penitentiary – US term for prison)

21a

Trunk for captain going round Channel Islands (9)

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23a

Press locating Republican in sleazy bar (5)

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R in DIVE

24a

Story presented by the German songs in recitals (6)

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25a

Fail to return a lot of anger, lacking courage (8)

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26a

Disruption to El Nino connected to Internet (6)

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27a

Line adopted in instinctive, fashionable sin (8)

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L in GUT (instinctive, as in gut reaction) TONY (fashionable, in North America, allegedly); interestingly, while TON meaning fashion pops up in crosswords regularly, TONY is a much rarer visitor. A lot to do with morphology and a little to do with tradition, I would imagine.

Down

1d

Duty shown by former monarch disembarking from train (6)

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ER removed from EXERCISE

2d

Puzzle busy person about rising total (6)

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SUM reversed in BEE

3d

New toaster in shop (9)

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4d

Urges monk to avoid popular English breakfast dish? (4,8)

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EGGS (urges) BENEDICTINE lacking its IN (popular) and its E (English)

6d

A good mimic offering astonished expression (5)

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7d

Ship Inn has a girl turning up inside (8)

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A MAID reversed in INN; this is the clue that bamboozled me. I couldn’t get past ‘Indianan’, where the girl occurs (‘turns up’) in the INN. I actually know that an Indiaman is a ship, which makes it all the more galling.

8d

Endless membrane, I concur, is lacking a lacy structure (8)

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FILm I aGREE (concur is lacking a)

11d

Be involved with grisly tome of a romantic nature (3-5-4)

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15d

Best pedalo's left out at sea for something better? (9)

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BEST PEDAlO* (‘at sea’ is the anagram indicator); a nice all-in-one

16d

University student taken on by a hat company in Mexican city (8)

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U L (L for learner, as in L plates for a learner driver) in A CAP CO

17d

Tidal flood in sea that's shrinking due to trees? (8)

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19d

I'm ready to wear knockout Oriental gear (6)

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I’M ON (I’m up for it, I’m ready) in KO

20d

Gutsy fellow that is upset over messy situation (6)

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F EI (i.e. reversed) STY  (messy situation, where situation represents location)

22d

Old article about church is deep (5)

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CE in O AN