Times Cryptic #29472

2026-02-21

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Across

1a

The noise of a school used to be unending (5)

4a

Digital extremist upset by lunatic fringe (9)

9a

Vile word, spewed with attitude (5,4)

10a

Prepare two or three? (5)

11a

Heading for No 1: “Alien in New York”? No, but it’s in top 100! (6)

12a

Crosswords etc in dad’s paper (8)

14a

Comeback for pasta sauces, price about right for slimmers? (5-4)

16a

Boorish person from tech firm (5)

17a

Is shirker paid less as retainer? (5)

19a

Discover singer Bob’s left out, replaced by double (3,4,2)

21a

Con ward? (8)

22a

Dullness of Proust novel (6)

25a

Hit single? Not Careless Whisper (5)

26a

Fruit of millions held by Zuckerberg, Mark’s fellow billionaire? (9)

27a

Display glass? (9)

28a

Part of play witnessed by audience (5)

Down

1d

Dissolute, was not so old and wise to do this? (3,4,4,4)

2d

Piscivore caught by another one (5)

3d

I’ll verify accounts of car stuck on hill (7)

4d

Play heads or tails and lose it (4)

5d

Novel put up as toilet paper source (10)

6d

Key power one has to comprehend source of motivation of second person? (7)

7d

Sore loser in 2020? He had to maintain “I won” (9)

8d

Perhaps start to make Perry’s media presentation (5,10)

13d

Old magic trick failing in the end, dodgily using blue humour? (10)

15d

Provoke girl to disappear, leaving hospital on ecstasy (9)

18d

Edit message’s underlying implication (7)

20d

Is America divided by the endless mass, Panama? (7)

23d

Move to the rhythm in Lima? (5)

24d

What Harris and Lewis combine to make (4)