Times Cryptic #29337

2025-09-17

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1a

Unacceptable behaviour of naughty pupils (3,4)

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5a

Builder of bridges in hostel for dossers (7)

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9a

Crossing middle of hall, led by tango dancers (9)

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10a

Second pet clipped in repeated pattern (5)

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11a

Workers' movement wasted inordinate sum (5,8)

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13a

Regularly spurned fiancé's kiss, bold and clumsy (8)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

(f)I(a)N(c)E + X + PERT, bold

15a

Cases of urban resistance suggest trouble (6)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

U(rba)N + R(esistanc)E + S(ugges)T

17a

Former leading lady posed with unknown substitute (6)

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19a

Rabble crushing arthropod's shell and tail (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

A(rthropo)D in SHOWER, a rabble

22a

Chicanery in spades, with repeated string-pulling? (5,8)

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25a

Audibly slap Italian painter (5)

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26a

Doctor and a colleague checking one's ready for theatre (9)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

DR + I’S in MATE, a colleague

27a

Quiet because eating seconds of blancmange and jelly (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

(b)L(ancmange) + (j)E(lly), in SINCE, because

28a

Spy on me, travelling in Bolivia and Colombia? (7)

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Down

1d

Wound some quiet Iberians up (4)

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2d

One conscripted after cycling into Delaware (7)

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3d

Building work is on time (5)

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4d

Gathers wrong military intelligence on cutters (8)

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5d

Gift of story books (6)

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6d

Mocked and hit setter in school (9)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

LAM (hit) + ONE, our setter, in POD, school

7d

Not a member of away team (7)

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8d

Injurious to reputation of someone brilliant and loving (10)

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12d

Indigestion remedy averts ills abroad (5,5)

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14d

Quietly point out dodgy financial contract (3,6)

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16d

Hunting of cheetahs condemned (3,5)

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18d

Trophy wife fell at last for surgeon's knife (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

SCALP (trophy) + (wif)E (fel)L

20d

Climbing tree, foul inside and full of beetles (7)

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EVIL (foul) inside YEW rev. Hornblower used to tap his ship’s biscuits on the table before eating them, to dislodge the weevils…

21d

Show resentment while supporting brother (6)

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23d

Idealised representation of Shakespearean villain gripping millions (5)

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24d

Movie stars both turned out to be trouble (4)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:

M(ovi)E S(tar)S.