Across |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
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ANGUISH |
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An outburst admitting one’s suffering (7) |
(AN + GUSH) outside I |
5 |
TYPISTS |
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Psychiatrist, giving up chair, distracted key workers (7) |
Anagram of PSYCHIATRIST minus CHAIR |
9 |
EXACT |
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Court, going after hacker, sent back claim (5) |
CT after (AXE reversed) |
10 |
BRASS BAND |
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Musical group’s bass varied in quality (5,4) |
Anagram of BASS inside BRAND |
11 |
AMBERGRIS |
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A male oceanic traveller is after right whale’s discharge (9) |
A + M + BERG + (IS after R) |
12 |
DIVE |
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Joint distributed short version of video (4) |
Anagram of (VIDE)o |
14 |
DARWIN |
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Ward not treated properly in a tropical place (6) |
Anagram of WARD + IN |
15 |
PERTH |
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Lively hotel’s location in the west (5) |
PERT + H |
16 |
CUT |
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Cricket shot is attractive for the most part (3) |
(CUT)e |
18 |
SIENA |
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Displaced aliens overlooking large city in Tuscany (5) |
Anagram of ALIENS minus L |
19 |
LEAPER |
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Outcast providing shelter for a bounder (6) |
LEPER outside A |
23 |
AMEX |
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Plastic part of webcam exploded (4) |
webcAM EXploded |
24 |
BREATHERS |
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Swimmers, floating around, are lacking a number of snorkels, for example (9) |
BATHERS outside (ARE minus A) |
26 |
MELBOURNE |
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One rumble damaged GP’s Australian home (9) |
Anagram of ONE RUMBLE |
27 |
OPERA |
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Section in media report backed a musical performance (5) |
mediA REPOrt reversed |
28 |
NIRVANA |
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Transporter in Iran mismanaged a delightful place (7) |
VAN inside anagram of IRAN |
29 |
MODISTE |
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Fashionable dressmaker and poet housed by the writer (7) |
ODIST inside ME |
Down |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
1 |
ADELAIDE |
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City of churches guided a returning embassy worker (8) |
(LED + A) reversed + AIDE |
2 |
GRABBER |
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Avaricious person is right into gossip (7) |
R inside GABBER |
3 |
INTERMIXED |
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Changed index containing expression, one jumbled up (10) |
Anagram of INDEX outside (TERM + I) |
4 |
HOBART |
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Watering hole located in sultry southern city (6) |
BAR inside HOT |
5 |
TRANSEPT |
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Ten parts formed wing of a cruciform church (8) |
Anagram of TEN PARTS |
6 |
PAST |
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Associates of Trump, as tweeted, should be finished? (4) |
trumP AS Tweeted |
7 |
SLAVISH |
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Servile person from eastern Europe is hard (7) |
SLAV + IS + H |
8 |
SYDNEY |
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Australian capital, say, losing a third ultimately against rise of Japanese currency (6) |
SAY minus A + thir(D) + (YEN reversed) |
13 |
PRIESTHOOD |
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Is inquisitive gangster after time in religious order? (10) |
PRIES + (HOOD after T) |
16 |
CANBERRA |
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Head to Callion, a barren, unsettled part of Australia (8) |
(C)allion + A + anagram of BARREN |
17 |
BRISBANE |
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Animated Barbie’s screening close to garden city in Queensland (8) |
Anagram of BARBIES outside garde(N) |
18 |
STEALER |
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One who takes a left during drive (7) |
(A + L) inside STEER |
20 |
PEERESS |
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Noble never evenly treated in crowd (7) |
n(E)v(E)r inside PRESS |
21 |
SALMON |
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Fish shop extended by metres (6) |
M inside SALON |
22 |
REDEEM |
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Buy back diamonds owned by emeer abroad (6) |
D inside anagram of EMEER |
25 |
CODA |
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Company recalled commercial’s last piece of music (4) |
CO + (AD reversed) |