Times Cryptic #29211

2025-04-23

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1a

Great admirer I finish with in due course (8)

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if I DO, LATER, I finish, in due course.

6a

Spy conceals missile in oil-producing plant (6)

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9a

What father is to son stumbling into a bordello? (5,8)

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(INTO A BORDELLO).

10a

Job to follow this husband entering compound (6)

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11a

Particular paranormal power periodically perceivable (8)

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ESP (paranormal power), pErCeIvAbLe.

13a

Oppressed girl lives in city near Sidon with duke (10)

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TYRE being a city near Sidon, insert ANN an girl, IS = lives, add D for duke.

15a

Poet dispensing with uniform in Arabian port (4)

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W H Auden loses his U.

16a

Small disagreementis it over a shoe? (4)

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a cover worn over a shoe as in the spats which the likes of Hercule Poirot wore, and US gangsters in the 1920s.

18a

Below zero inside so like stormy weather (10)

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UNDER 0 inside THUS = so.

21a

Imagination detective attached to objects (5,3)

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22a

Divine being in formdemand regularly to be recalled (6)

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reversed alternate letters as above. A minor deity of some kind.

23a

Star system's unstable nuclear path captured by artificial intelligence (5,8)

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(NUCLEAR PATH)* inside A I. As you may know, or not wish to know, Alpha Centauri is called a “star system” because it consists of three stars- two in a binary orbiting each other and a third, a red dwarf closer to Earth but appearing to be part of the same system as it’s in line of sight.

25a

Plant all borders in magically radiant landscape (6)

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outer letters as above.

26a

NCO awfully strange when ingesting Ecstasy (8)

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(STRANGE)* with E inserted.

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2d

Musician to alight, safely evacuated (7)

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3d

Man dancing in leotard encapsulates daring (4-7)

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4d

Thrash grasping daughter raised in royal house (5)

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ROUT (thrash) reversed with D inside.

5d

Hemp needed to make these jackets (7)

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6d

Authorised edition dashed off in panic (9)

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7d

Long blade this killer hides (3)

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8d

Romeo possibly rejecting United's image (7)

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Romeo belonged to the Montague family, so drop the U.

12d

2's work, used originally in adaptation of Cinderella (5,2,4)

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U inside (CINDERELLA)*.

14d

Church wine consumed by wild Scots? (5,4)

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RED = wine, inside NO TAME. As a Scot may say, if ye’re wild, ye’re NO TAME. Or so I imagine.

17d

Quick securing border for dominance (7)

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19d

Really poor mandate for saving the planet? (7)

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save the planet by using less. Too late, methinks.

20d

With ego Trump nearly upset an idealist (7)

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22d

Dorothy Parker leaving land for admirer (5)

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24d

Set down, winning over time (3)

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