Times Cryptic #29165

2025-02-28

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1a

Heard private detective cry out for Magnum? (3,5)

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5a

Caught tenor playing musical instrument (6)

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9a

Crafts turning north, back around port (9)

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11a

Pupil that displeases me with low grades (5)

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TUT + E + E

12a

Crush Charlie and speed inside school (7)

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C + RUN in SCH

13a

Parts of service briefly show successful periods (7)

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14a

One facilitating temporary connections in current affairs? (9,4)

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16a

Following pressure, virile boy hit out in a forbidding way? (13)

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20a

Press dismissed resolve (4,3)

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21a

Dog wearing smile, not inclined toward being recalled (7)

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OFF (not inclined toward) reversed, in GRIN

23a

Heads off idle remarks about quotes in Arabic dialect (5)

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24a

Din, daily one, semi-uncertain (9)

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25a

Attempt to keep close in (6)

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26a

British, with the exception of Times readers, comment on expulsion? (5,3)

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Down

1d

Forcefully demand where publicity should go to expose sadist (6)

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AD goes “in SIST” to make SADIST

2d

Dropping cover, tearaways blunder (5)

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{t}ERROR{s} (tearaways)

3d

Meet in Turin on base (3,4)

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4d

Article Cambridge's lead historian possibly carbon dated wrongly (13)

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AN + anagram of C{ambridge} HISTORIAN + C

6d

Indignation of Republican consumed by loss of power? (7)

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7d

Innocent outing ruinedthis'll upset everybody, ultimately (3,6)

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anagram of OUTING + last letters of THIS’LL UPSET EVERYBODY

8d

Believer in divine wisdom hopes to fake death at the end (8)

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anagram of HOPES TO + {deat}H

10d

Means to hold up a bank? (9,4)

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14d

Brown bird eating nuts thrown over fence at the back (9)

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CHAT around LOCO reversed + {fenc}E

15d

One's positive Tim's wearing cycling top (8)

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TIM IS in TOP, with letters cycled

17d

Setter strove to get hold of gold supplied with teeth (7)

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I VIED around OR

18d

Draws forth a lot of criticism about supporting priest (7)

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STIC{k} reversed under ELI

19d

Fashionable model joins university, occupying appropriate position (2,4)

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22d

Stupid criticismend of story (5)

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