Across |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
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FORMAT |
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Arrangement beneficial to friend isn’t quite complete (6) |
FOR + (MAT)e |
5 |
PICK |
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Player of strings is a ground-breaker (4) |
Double Definition |
9 |
OUTED |
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Versatile vehicle used in middle of flooding may be exposed (5) |
UTE inside flo(OD)ing |
10 |
CATARACTS |
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Vehicle turns around at waterfalls (9) |
(CAR + ACTS) outside AT |
13 |
TREATED |
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Extremes of temperature in walk must be managed (7) |
(T)emperatur(E) inside TREAD |
14 |
SYRINGA |
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Mock orange, say, replanted around enclosure (7) |
Anagram of SAY outside RING |
15 |
MITE |
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A very small person in power given voice (4) |
Sounds like MIGHT |
16 |
IMMOBILISE |
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Freeze one ruptured embolism injected with iodine (10) |
I + anagram of EMBOLISM outside I |
19 |
HEAVY-LADEN |
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Burdened lady transformed in heaven (5-5) |
Anagram of LADY inside HEAVEN |
20 |
PEAT |
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Vegetable matter is soft to chew (4) |
P + EAT |
23 |
AMASSED |
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Racked up 500 following a difficult billiards shot (7) |
D after (A + MASSE) |
25 |
SAUSAGE |
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Practice required after saw reduced butcher’s output (7) |
USAGE after SA(w) |
26 |
DETERMINE |
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Discover explosive at end of check (9) |
MINE after DETER |
28 |
MOLAR |
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Damage on outside of old, decayed tooth? (5) |
MAR outside OL(d) |
29 |
EARS |
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Auditors are replaced by computers finally (4) |
Anagram of ARE + computer(S) |
30 |
LOSING |
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Shutting down clubs not making money (6) |
CLOSING minus C |
Down |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
2 |
ODDITY |
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They’d do it all wrong without input from the misfit (6) |
Anagram of THEYD DO IT minus THE |
3 |
MACADAMIA |
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Nut married the first man imprisoned by a US spy network (9) |
M + [ADAM inside (A + CIA)] |
4 |
TITUS |
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Religious book titles – used – both 50% off (5) |
TIT(les) + US(ed) |
5 |
PORTRAIT |
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Photograph train nearly inside transit terminal (8) |
TRAI(n) inside PORT |
6 |
KIT |
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Common types of skirt and kilt in outfit (3) |
The letters shared by SKIRT and KILT |
7 |
BOTTOM |
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Foundation is time and time again featured in expansion (6) |
(T + T) inside BOOM |
8 |
STREETS APART |
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Repeats broadcast in institute may be very different (7,5) |
Anagram of REPEATS inside START |
11 |
CONSIDERABLE |
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Large line drawn around area where batters may score runs (12) |
CABLE outside (ONSIDE + R) |
12 |
STALE |
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Ending of this story is lacking originality (5) |
thi(S) + TALE |
17 |
OVERSEERS |
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Supervisors love writing about clerks at the centre (9) |
O + [VERSES outside cl(ER)ks] |
18 |
EYESORES |
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Climbing types of Japanese rose, yellowing, may be ugly looking things (8) |
japanesE ROSE YEllowing reversed |
19 |
HEARD |
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Picked up drug inside complex (5) |
E inside HARD |
21 |
THEORY |
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Speculation male outlined initially in essay (6) |
[HE + (O)utlined] inside TRY |
22 |
SUMMON |
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Call child occupied by distracted mum (6) |
SON outside anagram of MUM |
24 |
DRILL |
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Instruction tool that gets a bit used (5) |
Double Definition |
27 |
EWE |
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Sheep and stock farmed in New England (3) |
nEW England |