Times Cryptic #29402

2025-12-02

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1a

Everyone in house married and blessed (8)

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ALL (Everyone) inserted into H~O (house) then WED (married)

6a

What petrified Eugénie finally in Dumas novel (6)

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Last letter [finally] of {Eugéni}E in anagram [novel] of DUMAS

9a

Verb in detailed line rewritten for film (4,3,3,3)

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10a

Mystic character in Palladium trimmed plants (6)

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RUNE (Mystic character) in P~D (Palladium – chemical symbol)

11a

Fancy smithing? It's hard labour (8)

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13a

Virgin first to seduce dignitary: interesting (10)

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15a

Might this be the right attitude? (4)

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I wasn’t really comfortable with attitude and SIDE being synonymous, though the following sentence might work if I squint a bit: “When times are tough, I appreciate your supportive SIDE/attitude.” . The mildly cryptic first part of the clue indicates where the answer appears in the grid. . Feel free to pipe up if you can parse this any more satisfactorily…

16a

Revolutionary soldiers love fanatical submariner (4)

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MEN (soldiers) reversed [Revolutionary] then O (love) . Why fanatical? I’ve not read either of the two books in which NEMO appears, but a quick Wiki check reveals that “Jules Verne portrays Nemo as a man consumed by grief, vengeance, and hatred of oppression, which drives him to extremes.”

18a

Small stations reduced in crazy plan (10)

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S (Small) TERMIN{i} (stations) reduced by removing the last letter, stuffed into MA~D (crazy) . ‘MASTERMIND’ and ‘plan’ as verbs here

21a

With a short, short, short sleep, travel overseas? (5-3)

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22a

Wild god beginning to abandon priest in country (6)

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23a

Crowd by church in troubled US state: this one? (13)

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25a

Audibly exhale in reliefvital for spirit (6)

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26a

Article backed sightseer shunning old stripper (8)

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AN (Article) reversed [backed], then T{o}URIST (sightseer) without [shunning] the O (old)

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2d

On the loose, smilodon, say, not caught by mammoth? (2,5)

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3d

Missionary's surviving pit (11)

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4d

Join together fencing area in open country (5)

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WE~LD (Join together) containing [fencing] A (area)

5d

Father in Berlin is entertaining American artist (7)

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DAD (Father) A (American) IST (German for ‘is’ i.e. in Berlin) . Heavily influenced by WWI, DADAISTs rejected violence, war, nationalism and modern capitalist society, using nonsense and protest in their works. The whole point behind Dadaism was to prove that anything could be art if the artist declared it to be, which in turn proved that if everything could be art, then nothing could be art. This outraged many artists as Dadaism deemed their labour-intensive artworks meaningless.

6d

Raised some progeny, so men might divine woman (9)

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7d

Senior cleric devouring Mitford-approved turkey? (3)

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8d

Drove point home: moved fast to capture attention (7)

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12d

Witness term disrupted in Dryden's alma mater (11)

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14d

Following approved line one's wise to keep minutes (2-7)

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17d

Dutch scholar's problems are mounting (7)

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SUMS (problems) ARE all reversed [mounting] . Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (c. 1466–1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply ERASMUS, was a Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and philosopher.

19d

Satan initially possessing popular saint (7)

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20d

Undoing nurse's jacket this writer covered in pickle (7)

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Outside letters [jacket] of N{urs}E, then I (this writer) covered in MES~S (pickle)

22d

Penny and Oscar are candidates put forward (5)

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24d

Like certain wines found in these cellars? (3)

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