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Times Cryptic Crossword #28223

Times Cryptic · 32 clues with answers and explanations · 2022-02-25

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1 Piece of music has magnificent opening (5)

Def

opening

Type

Hidden word

Expl

Hidden in "piece of musiC HAS Magnificent opening"

Answer

CHASM
4 Vitamin primarily alleviating discomfort if colic's bad (5,4)

Answer

FOLIC ACID
9 Diligent help almost keeping couple united (9)

Def

Diligent

Answer

ASSIDUOUS
10 One on flight to watch carefully, we're told (5)

Def

One

Answer

STAIR
11 No Yankee reactionary has Socialist backing over there (6)

Def

there

Answer

YONDER
12 Enriched fruit drink, sophisticated sort (8)

Answer

SMOOTHIE
14 Frantic partners put on odd bits of dress (10)

Answer

DESPAIRING
16 Retro science facility, source of medicinal lotion (4)

Answer

BALM
19 Marketeer's minimal stock purchased in Vienna (4)

Answer

SPIV
20 Changed side for Lord's is fully updated (8,2)

Answer

SWITCHED ON
22 Dispatch book left behind by somebody (8)

Def

Dispatch

Answer

CELERITY
23 Bear to the left, reaching city's stall at fair (6)

Def

Bear

Answer

HOOPLA
26 Defective weight or, conversely, any number of grams (5)

Answer

WRONG
27 Mum forming part of twosome getting spliced at sea? (4,5)

Answer

MAIN BRACE
28 Freshly brewed tea missed cup (9)

Def

cup

Type

Anagram

Expl

anagram of TEAMISSED ("tea missed") [anagram: "Freshly"] = DEMITASSE; definition: "cup"

Answer

DEMITASSE
29 Theologist invested in home improvements very little (5)

Answer

DIDDY

Down

1 Big Eddy's circumspect bids scuppered (9)

Answer

CHARYBDIS
2 Child follows retreating gunners, firing irregularly (5)

Answer

ARSON
3 Gothic gong I've improperly seized (8)

Answer

MEDIEVAL
4 Small section of verse also fine on reflection (4)

Answer

FOOT
5 Take time to record final? (4-6)

Answer

LAST-MINUTE
6 Court order restricting American patronage (6)

Def

patronage

Answer

CUSTOM
7 Runs into region where there's money maybe for pancake? (5-4)

Answer

CRASH-LAND
8 Woeful setting for grand part of requiem (5)

Def

requiem

Answer

DIRGE
13 Conclude activity on field to lure foxes (4,6)

Answer

DRAW STUMPS
15 Large pantry not yet full? (9)

Answer

STILLROOM
17 Unnamed lady cleared out ground in routine manner (9)

Answer

MUNDANELY
18 Beaten cricket coach ultimately cheated (8)

Answer

THROBBED
21 Promising biographer's first title (6)

Def

Promising

Type

Acrostic, Charade

Expl

B (first letter of "biographer's") + RIGHT (synonym of "title") [first letter: "first"]; definition: "Promising"

Answer

BRIGHT
22 Cried like a corvid deprived of heart, so we hear (5)

Answer

CAWED
24 Material lodged underneath piano (5)

Def

piano

Answer

PLAID
25 Increase in price for walking tour (4)

Def

Increase

Answer

HIKE