Times Cryptic #29338

2025-09-18

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1a

Business is secure in refuge (7,6)

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9a

Chuck book back in library corridor (5)

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LOB from chuck, plus B[ook], plus the back of [librar]Y.

10a

Flashy vehicle regularly involved in accidents (9)

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A just about cryptic definition, which fell out once I stopped trying to use alternate letters of vehicle. Reference the blue lights, of course.

11a

Diet of mother possibly bearing Irishman's son? (10)

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12a

Half of rabble repeated notes (4)

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A rabble is a RIFF-raff.

14a

Tricked, go back to capture pawn (7)

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Go is to DEPART, which is reversed (back) with P[awn] inserted.

16a

Destructive little creature: call it home at last (7)

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Call: TERM plus IT and the last of [hom]E

17a

Chants relax tension (7)

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An anagram (relax) of TENSION

19a

Honest about element of visual receptivity (7)

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20a

A band item (4)

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One hopes the London Symphony Orchestra doesn’t mind being called a band. A before the initials. Chambers says the also meaning is archaic, a direct translation of Latin.

21a

Russian city is, in different ways, working OK (10)

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PERM is on the banks of the Kama river near the Ural mountains. Add IS both forwards and backwards and ON for working

24a

One takes first bit of LSD at Burning Man we hear (9)

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The first of L[SD] plus a soundalike (we hear) of ARSONIST, a man who burns things.

25a

A bit kept to one side (5)

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26a

Appearance of male lice, possibly, not new (13)

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Male gives you MAN and lice are an example of an INFESTATION, from which you delete the N[ew]

Down

1d

Broadcast each little play on psychic channel (14)

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2d

Warning signal is a gong, right? (5)

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A plus the MBE medal, or gong plus R[ight]

3d

Race, leaning over and dropping in the wrong place (3-7)

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4d

Heart of sanctum violated given special protection (7)

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The middle letter of sanCtum plus HARMED for violated.

5d

Small section of cake executive eats (7)

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6d

Turner cut round back of panel (4)

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AXE from cut, and the back end of [pane]L inserted.

7d

Study Renaissance artist's sound teeth (9)

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Everything in me was screaming O not A at the end, but for some reason I thought the definition was sound teeth, still wrong. Study is DEN and the sound of the artist TITIAN give you the rest.

8d

Often, wellbeing results from cooking this rich food (4,10)

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13d

City urchin is hot stuff (10)

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15d

Lower oneself, rolling round in rotten manure: it conveys immunity (9)

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18d

Official in force shoots up, injecting heroin (7)

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F[orce] plus FIRES from shoots reversed (up), with H[eroin] inserted.

19d

Viewer about to hold annual test for wireless devices (7)

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Viewer is SEER, to be reversed (about). In the UK, the MOT (Ministry of Transport) test is mandatory for cars over 3 years old. Insert.

22d

I spoil one type of porcelain (5)

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23d

Humble, with endless resources (4)

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resources are MEANS from which the end disappears.