Across |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
1 |
REASSIGN |
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Give a new job to fool in command (8) |
ASS inside REIGN |
5 |
CURSOR |
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Dog kind – tailless pointer? (6) |
CUR + SOR(t) |
10 |
COCHLEAR IMPLANT |
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One representative in a concert hall arranged help with audition (8,7) |
(I + MP) inside anagram of A CONCERT HALL |
11 |
RESURGENT |
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Reserve, pressing, is coming back strongly (9) |
RES + URGENT |
12 |
PACER |
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Racehorse review in need of backing (5) |
RECAP reversed |
13 |
FEED |
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Charge old copper for a plentiful meal (4) |
FEE + D |
18 |
PRANCED |
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Image department organised dance and showed off (7) |
PR + anagram of DANCE |
20 |
FIRE |
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Get rid of tree close to fence (4) |
FIR + fenc(E) |
23 |
RACER |
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Car changing gear regularly? (5) |
Anagram of CAR + g(E)a(R) |
24 |
SHIPSHAPE |
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Orderly has pipes repaired outside hospital (9) |
Anagram of HAS PIPES outside H |
26 |
DISILLUSIONMENT |
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Unionists milled around showing extreme disappointment (15) |
Anagram of UNIONISTS MILLED |
27 |
DO-SI-DO |
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Dance move is played back in party twice (2-2-2) |
IS reversed inside (DO + DO) |
28 |
SHEPHERD |
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Pastor quietly sat with her in storage unit (8) |
(P + HER) inside SHED |
Down |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
1 |
RECORD |
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Write down customer’s starter in wrong order (6) |
(C)ustomer inside anagram of ORDER |
2 |
ACCUSE |
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Blame copper admitted in unusual case (6) |
CU inside anagram of CASE |
3 & 15-across |
SOLAR ECLIPSE |
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Special roles developed for heavenly event (5,7) |
Anagram of SPECIAL ROLES |
4 |
GO-AHEAD |
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Drive around a male with green light (2-5) |
GOAD outside (A + HE) |
6 |
UNPOPULAR |
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Plutonium, crucial to the internal workings of our plan, is out of favour (9) |
PU inside anagram of OUR PLAN |
7 |
SEASCAPE |
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Like eclipse painted in divine artwork (8) |
(AS + CAP) inside SEE |
8 |
RETIREES |
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Wise man upset about weary people who no longer work (8) |
SEER reversed outside TIRE |
9 |
VIRTUE |
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One in five disguised true sexual purity (6) |
I inside (V + anagram of TRUE) |
14 |
ENCIRCLED |
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Cleric, involved in death, is surrounded (9) |
Anagram of CLERIC inside END |
16 |
UPGRADED |
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Promoted guard tossed around paper’s first edition (8) |
Anagram of GUARD outside (P)aper + ED |
17 |
FASCISTS |
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Councillor primarily is involved in quick end of callous right-wingers (8) |
[(C)ouncillor + IS] inside FAST + callou(S) |
19 |
DISCUS |
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Talk about not completing an Olympic event (6) |
DISCUS(s) |
20 |
FAIRISH |
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Quite light mixture of gases inhaled by swimmer (7) |
AIR inside FISH |
21 |
RACEME |
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Group of people, men, pruned a flower arrangement (6) |
RACE + ME(n) |
22 |
PENTAD |
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Group of five and ten mucked around inside hippie’s hangout (6) |
Anagram of TEN inside PAD |
25 |
SUN-UP |
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Joke with American rising early in the morning (3-2) |
(PUN + US) reversed |