Times Cryptic #29263

2025-06-23

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1a

Disreputable, rather like some service personnel? (7)

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RAF-ish (like some armed services personnel); add the other F to satisfy the morphology

5a

Like certain lodges with two close relatives in charge (7)

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9a

Bound to serve tea in East End houses (9)

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CHA IN E in END; geddit? ‘Houses’ is a containment indicator

10a

Old way one originally accessed historical Italian town (5)

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11a

African native's covert attempt to carry king across a railway (9,4)

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13a

Open car a duke entered in register (8)

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A D in ROSTER; a car with no roof and typically two seats

15a

Some dwell in Ealing, being of direct descent (6)

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17a

Blood for transfusion: litres carried by paternal granny? (6)

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L in PA’S MA

19a

Drink primarily brewed by Dame Edna? (8)

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B~ EVERAGE; Dame Edna Everage was Barry Humphries’s best known character

22a

Tense yet optimistic prognostication? (6,7)

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if you think the future is going to be perfect, you are either insane or a little over-optimistic. Some of you will have waited for this clue for a long time

25a

Warship outlined at first in university club (1-4)

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26a

Chattered endlessly about northern area's Jewish scholars (9)

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N A in RABBITEd

27a

Thanks college for income (7)

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28a

German prince abandons love, a complex woman (7)

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ELECToR A; the complex (a joint-production by Freud and Jung, I believe) refers to the putative attraction of a kindergarten-age girl to her father and a corresponding sense of competition with her mother. It may be traced back to a play by Sophocles

Down

1d

Flightless bird is back, by the sound of it (4)

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2d

Flowering shrub sadly beginning to ageif such (7)

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anagram* of A~ IF SUCH

3d

Fellow from South Africa dividing current account (5)

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SA in I (current) AC (account)

4d

Two deer, one running, formed an obstacle (8)

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5d

Impulsive commander's assistant taken in by chart (6)

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6d

Ultimately serious row about politician's plot (9)

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TORY in ~S LINE

7d

Rise of gunge in eastern compound (7)

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DIRT IN reversed followed by E; cunning

8d

Light fitting key composer installed extremely rarely to begin with (10)

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12d

Rapt figure cooked bitter comestible (10)

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14d

Ancient Palestinian artisan running around before noon (9)

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16d

Live on farming land? That's possible to endure (8)

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18d

Couple originally reproduced in boat illustrations (7)

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TWO R~ in ARK

20d

Pull cover off adolescent pamphlet (7)

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A~T TRACT

21d

Electrician leaves vehicle under end of overpass (6)

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~S PARKS (leaves vehicle); an electrician is often called sparks, as a miller is often called dusty. Not quite commensurate, but it will serve

23d

Outcast from former French island (5)

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24d

Hard time for Olympian goddess (4)

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