AFR Cryptic (Oz Day 2024) Solution

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

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