Times Cryptic #29407

2025-12-08

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1a

More than one flower is found among rocky cairns (8)

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5a

Surprise journey at an end (4,2)

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10a

Politician excited by trite manifestos (8,2,5)

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11a

Marine movement bound to change when ebbing (6,4)

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13a

Hide offended feeling, welcoming learner (4)

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PE(L)T.

15a

Kept calm on bench, perhaps, following duke's interruption (7)

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SE(D)ATED.

17a

Reveal love captured by song writer (3,4)

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LAY (O) PEN.

18a

Notes enthusiastic comment when tucking into wines (7)

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19a

Cat in bag: hard to tolerate (7)

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S(TOM)AC + H.

21a

Poll closing early, restricting Liberal in potential measure (4)

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VO(L)T[e].

22a

Left back hardly gutted to secure rotating space for awards (6,4)

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PORT backwards + H[ardl]Y + MOOR backwards.

25a

Harry Potter and the Banshee? It's basically wrong (9,6)

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27a

American city cheers The Big Sleep? (6)

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28a

Whingers upset American composer (8)

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Down

1d

Note European confusion about one source of retribution from Greece (7)

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N + E + MES(I)S.

2d

I will avoid disaster in series of performances (3)

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3d

Irrational behaviour keeping a river polluted? (10)

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INSANIT(A,R)Y.

4d

Newspaper arranged to entertain ambassador (5)

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S(H.E.)ET.

6d

Water damagecare to drop initial temperature? (4)

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7d

I only appear to move, though I may be given a roll (6,5)

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Anagram of I ONLY APPEAR.

8d

Quietly stay asleep, say, in northern city (7)

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9d

Leave daughter in reception, up where air passengers sit? (8)

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GO + SALON upside-down containing D.

12d

A cut in childcare disturbed those leading Irish children's movement in the 1970s (7,4)

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Anagram of A + CHILDCAR[e] + I[rish] C[hildren].   I would say the cryptic is excessively busy for a daily puzzle.

14d

Limits to steady movement of sun and moon around year amounting to the same thing? (10)

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S[tead]Y + anagram of SUN and MOON around Y.

16d

Detail of the French copy superior to English (8)

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DES + CRIB + E.   Detail as a verb, superior as a placement indicator.   Copy and crib as verbs.

18d

Volume is evident in rising row? Consider again (7)

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V + IS in TIER upside-down.

20d

Complete circuit in operation (4,3)

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23d

Receiver always under pressure before end of game (5)

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P + AYE + [gam]E.

24d

Source of mildew following in place of mould (4)

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FOR + M[ildew].

26d

Down, barely moving, with second kept away (3)

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