Times Cryptic #29359

2025-10-13

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1a

"Crazy Peter" returned back to Parkhurst secured (4,4)

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MAD + SAFE backwards + [Parkhurs}T.

5a

Answer complex maths problem (6)

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9a

Stairs fitted with a new window (8)

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F(A,N)LIGHT.   With a tip of the hat to last Friday’s puzzle.

10a

Conflict with rowing has papa hiding away in shed (4-2)

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12a

Popular enthusiast, he leaves electronic band Wunderkind (6,7)

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IN + FAN + T[he] PRODIGY, presumably an electronic band.

15a

"Porky George" vacated the city (5)

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LIE + G[eorg]E.

16a

Instrument essential to diagnose flu tested (4,5)

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17a

Daughter baking rich cake which collapses entirely? (9)

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19a

Nameless financier, one making lots of dough (5)

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20a

Where the riders could be Doris, Robin and Jason? (5-3,5)

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22a

Fumes from hansom cab regularly parked behind motorway (6)

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M1 + [h]A[n]S[O]M[c]A[b].

23a

Support structure bolstered by final column (8)

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25a

Bug in weed (6)

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26a

Sole paper in France sacking European area head of business (5,3)

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LE MOND[e] + A +  B[usiness].

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1d

Family day out taking in Lerner's latest musical (2,4,4)

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Anagram of FAMILY DAY + [Lerne]R.

2d

Dingy, endless Herbert novel (3)

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3d

Dodgy dealer importing wraps of Afghani type of pot (7)

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F(A[fghan]I)ENCE.

4d

Miserable German school, free hospital and adult university drained exchequer (12)

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SCH + OPEN + H + A + U + E[xcheque]R.   The literal hardly does justice to an important philosopher who expanded on Kant’s ideas.

6d

Officer and that woman play the same thing over and over again (7)

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7d

Plant lychees on UK ground (11)

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8d

Lay out old lady upset and in a frenzy (4)

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K.O. MA upside-down.

11d

Nice voters turned out to embrace very advanced politician (12)

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Anagram of NICE VOTERS around V,A.

13d

Eggy bread that precedes a digestif? (6,5)

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Cryptic hint, I believe; do the French propose a toast before drinking their postprandial Armagnac?

14d

Matinee idol Nick oppressed by hot temperature in our home (5-5)

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18d

Dark brown animal with Arab on board (7)

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19d

Complaint leads to argument leaving one cross (7)

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BEEF + A[rgument] L[eaving] O[ne].

21d

Portend compiler breaking leg (4)

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O(ME)N.

24d

A little Tango commercial (3)

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