Times Cryptic #29437

2026-01-12

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Across

1a

Hit performance by current politician (6)

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I MP ACT

4a

Periodically, news reporters love coffee (8)

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n E w S PRESS O

10a

Bureaucrat training new parking attendant (9)

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PE N P USHER

11a

Penniless guy changes side (5)

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B l OKE > B R OKE

12a

Present royal fellow less well, faced with absurd cost (8,6)

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anagram* of COST KING F (fellow) ILLER

14a

Problem children (5)

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16a

Charts do not reveal cases blown apart (3,6)

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18a

Proprietor's path runs around rolling hill (9)

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DOWN in LANE R

20a

Trainee section of designated activity is over (5)

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21a

Mysterious event left drilling company with spotted work surface (5,9)

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L in CO SEEN (spotted) COUNTER (work surface)

25a

Lots of people went by car, perhaps (5)

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26a

Page with space for truism (9)

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P LATITUDE

27a

Request agreement, in French first (8)

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28a

Where ownership details can be checked, to be sure (6)

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in a deed (unless you live where I do, on an outlying island in Hong Kong, where construction and occupation were harum-scarum – not a place to buy…)

Down

1d

Mobilises poorly, accepting pawn is hopeless (10)

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P in MOBILISES*

2d

Show underwear with nothing covering bottom (5)

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PANT s > PANT O

3d

Shy and hollow little laugh (7)

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CHUCK (as in throw a ball) L ittl E

5d

Dismisses retracted line at end of letter (5)

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6d

Are bull flies cause of mild rash? (7)

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7d

Record of performance scratched on outside of motor (9)

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8d

Unlock old enclosure (4)

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9d

Two mates finally dropping down the hatch (4-4)

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13d

Company information is possibly dealt with there (10)

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15d

Carol free, wanting some time, to choose (6,3)

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17d

Rotate bed to accommodate a renegade (8)

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TURN A in COT

19d

Inappropriate milieu for after-school networking? (7)

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20d

Prudence raising hundred in sale (7)

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AU c TION > C AUTION

22d

Social media platform stops recording about foreign resident (5)

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X in TAPE reversed

23d

Start to cheat, breaking honest agreement (5)

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C heat in TRUE

24d

Creep uncovered financial records (4)

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l EDGE r