Across |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
1 |
NOTICEABLE |
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Obvious illicit drug taken by VIP (10) |
ICE inside NOTABLE |
6 |
SPEC |
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Small muscle’s detailed description (4) |
S + PEC |
10 |
UMBER |
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Deep brown wood, trimmed at one end (5) |
(l)UMBER |
11 |
PERCOLATE |
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Make coffee late after agent returned with company (9) |
LATE after (REP reversed + CO) |
12 |
ABSEILER |
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Able seaman with another heard one climbing down? (8) |
AB + sounds like SAILOR |
13 |
ACCOST |
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Act reduced expenditure to work as a solicitor (6) |
AC(t) + COST |
15 |
LOCATE |
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Track down members of bloc at embassy (6) |
bLOC AT Embassy |
16 |
ONE-STAR |
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Comfortable accommodation secured by rower is poorly rated (3-4) |
NEST inside OAR |
18 |
NAB |
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Get hold of bank (3) |
Double Definition |
19 |
STARVED |
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Extremely hungry principal opposing representative of education (7) |
STAR + V + ED |
21 |
UNEASE |
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Doubt members of commune – a sect (6) |
commUNE A SEct |
24 |
ACCORD |
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A conductor primarily joined up to lead concert (6) |
A + (C)onductor + CORD |
25 |
PINAFORE |
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Sort of apron if extended at the front? (8) |
Anagram of APRON IF + (E)xtended |
27 |
STIPULATE |
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Lay down fresh tulips at back of gravestone (9) |
Anagram of TULIPS + AT + graveston(E) |
28 |
COAST |
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Sail cover snagged on pole (5) |
COAT outside S |
29 |
NEED |
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Listened to work’s requirement (4) |
Sounds like KNEAD |
30 |
CENSORSHIP |
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Leading member of college distributed porn – is she withholding material? (10) |
(C)ollege + anagram of PORN IS SHE |
Down |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
1 |
NOUGAT |
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Sweet not containing large centre of sugar (6) |
NOT outside s(UGA)r |
2 |
TABASCO |
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Bill company stocking, for instance, hot stuff (7) |
(TAB + CO) outside AS |
3 |
CARDINAL VIRTUE |
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Lucid narrative loosely presented a chief moral quality (8,6) |
Anagram of LUCID NARRATIVE |
4 |
APPREHENDS |
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Picks up recycled paper with hard edges (10) |
Anagram of PAPER + H + ENDS |
5 |
LORD |
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Peer’s share pinched by earl or duke (4) |
earL OR Duke |
7 |
PLAY OUT |
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Continue to sulk about position (4,3) |
POUT outside LAY |
8 |
CREATORS |
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A rector’s converted innovative people (8) |
Anagram of A RECTORS |
9 |
CONCRETE CANCER |
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Head of construction reviewed a concern about Greek island’s structural problem? (8,6) |
(C)onstruction + (anagram of A CONCERN outside CRETE) |
14 |
DO BUSINESS |
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Deal with distribution of bond issues (2,8) |
Anagram of BOND ISSUES |
17 |
ASSASSIN |
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Fool twice elected – bravo! (8) |
ASS + ASS + IN |
20 |
ARCHIVE |
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A church, swamped by river, mostly saved historic documents (7) |
A + [CH inside (RIVE)r] |
22 |
STOMACH |
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School providing refuge for cat and a bear (7) |
SCH outside (TOM +A) |
23 |
BELT UP |
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Stop talking and get ready to drive (4,2) |
Double Definition |
26 |
FARE |
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Cost of transport is reasonable by the sound of it (4) |
Sounds like FAIR |