Across |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
1 |
BUSINESS |
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Trade vehicles transporting in scaffolding primarily (8) |
BUSES outside [IN + (S)caffolding] |
5 |
SPUR |
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Impulse items included in cosmetics purchases (4) |
cosmeticS PURchases |
10 |
TRAIT |
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Narrow channel with no original feature (5) |
(s)TRAIT |
11 |
FLAVOURED |
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Seasoned side of lamb consumed by pet (9) |
(L)amb inside FAVOURED |
12 |
ANCHORING |
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Fixing one seal broken by chain (9) |
(AN + ORING) outside CH |
13 |
LOADS |
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Youths sucking in oxygen a great deal (5) |
LADS outside O |
14 |
FINALE |
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Members of staff in a legal conclusion (6) |
stafF IN A LEgal |
15 |
DOCKING |
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Medical man, a leader, is fixing a painter (7) |
DOC + KING |
18 |
CONTACT |
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Approach court about concerning law (7) |
CT outside ON + ACT |
20 |
SMOOTH |
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Hypothetical case held in silence is uneventful (6) |
MOOT inside SH |
22 |
TEMPT |
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Entice irregular worker back to employment (5) |
TEMP + employmen(T) |
24 |
ROAD-SENSE |
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Driving skill increased in control of new sedan (4-5) |
ROSE outside anagram of SEDAN |
25 |
LASHED OUT |
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Yobbo hanging outside a storage unit attacked strongly (6,3) |
LOUT outside (A SHED) |
26 |
TWILL |
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Material that’s finishing a legal document (5) |
tha(T) + WILL |
27 |
DINE |
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Eat serving of food in eatery (4) |
fooD IN Eatery |
28 |
DRUMBEAT |
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Characters from Bermuda experimented with time and rhythmic sound (8) |
Anagram of BERMUDA + T |
Down |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
1 |
BAT-PAD |
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Bowled at Pakistan’s opener and cleared out close-in fielder? (3-3) |
B + AT + (P)akistan + A(n)D |
2 |
STANCHION |
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Support a snitch involved in operation (9) |
Anagram of A SNITCH + ON |
3 |
NATIONAL ANTHEM |
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An animal not worried about the country song (8,6) |
Anagram of AN ANIMAL NOT outside THE |
4 |
SUFFICE |
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Do stuff, ignoring time on ice (7) |
STUFF minus T + ICE |
6 |
PARKA |
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Leave a car with a weatherproof cover (5) |
PARK + A |
7 |
REDESIGN |
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Green is upset about record’s final update (8) |
Anagram of GREEN IS outside recor(D) |
8 |
SAGGED |
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Scrambled eggs with a starter of duck went down slowly (6) |
Anagram of EGGS A + (D)uck |
9 |
COLLECTORS ITEM |
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Electric tools fashioned minute piece worth keeping (10,4) |
Anagram of ELECTRIC TOOLS + M |
16 |
INTENSIVE |
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Popular event is not usually demanding (9) |
IN + anagram of EVENT IS |
17 |
SCUTTLED |
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Snow vehicle loaded with hewn tonnes travelled quickly (8) |
SLED outside (CUT + T) |
19 |
TARBOY |
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Plaything, carrying underwear, picked up hired hand in the shearing shed (6) |
TOY outside (BRA reversed) |
20 |
SHATTER |
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Panama producer, say, after small break (7) |
HATTER after S |
21 |
MERLOT |
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Wine retailer’s back inside shady motel (6) |
retaile(R) inside anagram of MOTEL |
23 |
MASON |
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Uncle from America turned on builder (5) |
SAM reversed + ON |