AFR Cryptic (25/5/2024) Solution

Across Answers and Clues Explanations
1 FORMAT
Arrangement beneficial to friend isn’t quite complete (6) FOR + (MAT)e
5 PICK
Player of strings is a ground-breaker (4) Double Definition
9 OUTED
Versatile vehicle used in middle of flooding may be exposed (5) UTE inside flo(OD)ing
10 CATARACTS
Vehicle turns around at waterfalls (9) (CAR + ACTS) outside AT
13 TREATED
Extremes of temperature in walk must be managed (7) (T)emperatur(E) inside TREAD
14 SYRINGA
Mock orange, say, replanted around enclosure (7) Anagram of SAY outside RING
15 MITE
A very small person in power given voice (4) Sounds like MIGHT
16 IMMOBILISE
Freeze one ruptured embolism injected with iodine (10) I + anagram of EMBOLISM outside I
19 HEAVY-LADEN
Burdened lady transformed in heaven (5-5) Anagram of LADY inside HEAVEN
20 PEAT
Vegetable matter is soft to chew (4) P + EAT
23 AMASSED
Racked up 500 following a difficult billiards shot (7) D after (A + MASSE)
25 SAUSAGE
Practice required after saw reduced butcher’s output (7) USAGE after SA(w)
26 DETERMINE
Discover explosive at end of check (9) MINE after DETER
28 MOLAR
Damage on outside of old, decayed tooth? (5) MAR outside OL(d)
29 EARS
Auditors are replaced by computers finally (4) Anagram of ARE + computer(S)
30 LOSING
Shutting down clubs not making money (6) CLOSING minus C
 Down  Answers and Clues Explanations
2 ODDITY
They’d do it all wrong without input from the misfit (6) Anagram of THEYD DO IT minus THE
3 MACADAMIA
Nut married the first man imprisoned by a US spy network (9) M + [ADAM inside (A + CIA)]
4 TITUS
Religious book titles – used – both 50% off (5) TIT(les) + US(ed)
5 PORTRAIT
Photograph train nearly inside transit terminal (8) TRAI(n) inside PORT
6 KIT
Common types of skirt and kilt in outfit (3) The letters shared by SKIRT and KILT
7 BOTTOM
Foundation is time and time again featured in expansion (6) (T + T) inside BOOM
8 STREETS APART
Repeats broadcast in institute may be very different (7,5) Anagram of REPEATS inside START
11 CONSIDERABLE
Large line drawn around area where batters may score runs (12) CABLE outside (ONSIDE + R)
12 STALE
Ending of this story is lacking originality (5) thi(S) + TALE
17 OVERSEERS
Supervisors love writing about clerks at the centre (9) O + [VERSES outside cl(ER)ks]
18 EYESORES
Climbing types of Japanese rose, yellowing, may be ugly looking things (8) japanesE ROSE YEllowing reversed
19 HEARD
Picked up drug inside complex (5) E inside HARD
21 THEORY
Speculation male outlined initially in essay (6) [HE + (O)utlined] inside TRY
22 SUMMON
Call child occupied by distracted mum (6) SON outside anagram of MUM
24 DRILL
Instruction tool that gets a bit used (5) Double Definition
27 EWE
Sheep and stock farmed in New England (3) nEW England

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