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Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
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SELLS SHORT |
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Underestimates value of new shells placed in order (5,5) |
Anagram of SHELLS inside SORT |
6 |
LOSS |
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Cost expensively-produced magazine with reduced margins (4) |
g)LOSS(y |
9 |
ACTOR |
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Animated cartoon missing out on person with role-playing experience (5) |
Anagram of CARTOON minus ON |
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PATRONAGE |
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Support is perfectly right regarding time in history (9) |
PAT + R + ON+ AGE |
12 |
TRIFECTA |
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Betting system’s current act amended after time (8) |
(RIFE + anagram of ACT) after T |
13 |
STRIKE |
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Hit small kid’s treadly (6) |
S + TRIKE |
15 |
FLEET |
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Quick escape by convict ultimately (5) |
FLEE + convic(T) |
16 |
EMIGRATE |
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A leader from Turkiye in regime arranged move abroad (8) |
[A + (T)urkiye] inside anagram of REGIME |
18 |
THIEVING |
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Act involving evil to a great extent? (8) |
THING outside (EVI)l |
20 |
OFTEN |
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Foot is put in one in error regularly (5) |
FT inside anagram of ONE |
23 |
AERATE |
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Inflate end of tube in a class (6) |
tub(E) inside (A + RATE) |
24 |
FRAGRANT |
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Sweet old lady accepted by small fraternity (8) |
GRAN inside FRAT |
26 |
STONE-COLD |
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Character in lecture is severely lacking in warmth (5-4) |
TONE inside SCOLD |
27 |
LANCE |
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Clean infected open wound to allow drainage (5) |
Anagram of CLEAN |
28 |
SANG |
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A number of girls, angels, put on a show (4) |
girlS ANGels |
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MEMORANDUM |
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Family member receiving broadcast of a modern form of communication (10) |
MUM outside anagram of A MODERN |
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Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
1 |
START OFF |
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Employees checking right to go ahead (5,3) |
STAFF outside (R + TO) |
2 |
LATTICE |
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Trellis at back of unit covered in insects (7) |
[AT + uni(T)] inside LICE |
3 |
STREET THEATRE |
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Play outside and test earth scattered around tree (6,7) |
Anagram of TEST EARTH outside TREE |
4 |
HYPOTHESIS |
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Needle family member about the proposition (10) |
(HYPO + SIS) outside THE |
5 |
ROTS |
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Animal lair, free of rodents, falls apart (4) |
RODENTS minus DEN |
7 |
ON A DIET |
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Do eat in irregularly, eating particular foods (2,1,4) |
Anagram of DO EAT IN |
8 |
SPEWED |
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Woman at the front in expedition was sick (6) |
(W)oman inside SPEED |
11 |
OUTER MONGOLIA |
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University term planned inside igloo transformed a really remote location (5,8) |
(U + TERM + ON) inside anagram of IGLOO + A |
14 |
DIDGERIDOO |
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Instrument finished German identification with nothing duplicated (10) |
DID + GER + ID + OO |
17 |
ON-STREAM |
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Shifted tons, a large quantity of paper, in production (2-6) |
Anagram of TONS + REAM |
19 |
HARPOON |
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US talk-show host turned on whale killer (7) |
OPRAH reversed + ON |
21 |
TRAINED |
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Conditioned cadet finally fell down (7) |
cade(T) + RAINED |
22 |
RAMSES |
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Egyptian king hits hard emperors on both sides (6) |
RAMS + (E)mperor(S) |
25 |
HOLE |
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Digger used on the perimeter of large excavation (4) |
HOE outside L |