Across |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
1 |
LOG CABIN |
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Register when taxi returns home (3,5) |
LOG CAB IN |
5 |
UTTERS |
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Speaks total sense at the start (6) |
UTTER + (S)ense |
10 |
TRAPEZE |
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Swing part pulled back with ease by the sound of it (7) |
PART reversed + sounds like EASE |
11 |
PENSION |
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Writer’s working after one government handout (7) |
PENS + (ON after I) |
12 |
LOLLY |
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Sweet drop, whisky with no mixer (5) |
LOLL + (WHISKY minus WHISK) |
13 |
RECEIVERS |
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Some tennis players, on service, moved around (9) |
RE + anagram of SERVICE |
14 |
BETA PARTICLE |
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Be linked to report about bung nuclear emission (4,8) |
(BE + ARTICLE) outside TAP |
18 |
PROFESSIONAL |
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Expert, according to Spooner, fails miserably (12) |
Anagram of SPOONER FAILS |
21 |
NURSLINGS |
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Small children run around baby carriers (9) |
RUN reverse + SLINGS |
23 |
MANGE |
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Fellow gets 50% off problem with hair-loss (5) |
MAN + GE(ts) |
24 |
ROTUNDA |
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Large cask consumed by staff in front of a building like The Pantheon (7) |
(TUN inside ROD) + A |
25 |
OUTFACE |
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Brave one in a suit started with cooked tofu (7) |
Anagram of TOFU after ACE |
26 |
LARDER |
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Fat user giving up American food store (6) |
LARD + (USER minus US) |
27 |
STACKERS |
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Small sailing boats, say – they make heaps (8) |
S + TACKERS |
Down |
Answers and Clues |
Explanations |
1 |
LITTLE |
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Small pieces of broken satellite not contaminated by sea (6) |
Anagram of SATELLITE minus SEA |
2 |
GLADLY |
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Learner taken in by grand lady with good grace (6) |
L inside (G + LADY) |
3 |
ACETYLENE |
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Welding gas is clean, yet terribly volatile in the end (9) |
Anagram of CLEAN YET + volatil(E) |
4 |
ICE-CREAM SUNDAE |
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A cinema secured whisked type of frozen dessert (3-5,6) |
Anagram of A CINEMA SECURED |
6 |
TANGI |
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Taste shown by one Maori funeral ceremony (5) |
TANG + I |
7 |
EVIDENCE |
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Study, in English, failing witness (8) |
DEN inside (E + VICE) |
8 |
SONGSTER |
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Family member gets upset with original piece from rock vocalist (8) |
SON + anagram of GETS + (R)ock |
9 |
SPECTATOR SPORT |
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Top actress drunkenly left much-watched activity (9,5) |
Anagram of TOP ACTRESS + PORT |
15 |
TRAUMATIC |
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Atrium at damaged entrance to church is shocking (9) |
Anagram of ATRIUM AT + (C)hurch |
16 |
SPANDREL |
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Arch across drive should be joined to the Spanish architectural feature (8) |
SPAN + DR + EL |
17 |
FOUR-STAR |
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High-class rating of ours, tarnished to some degree (4-4) |
oF OURS TARnished |
19 |
ENCASE |
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Wrap up a scene with characters taking on new roles (6) |
Anagram of A SCENE |
20 |
REBELS |
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Leader of band, taking part in lively dances, defies tradition (6) |
(B)and inside REELS |
22 |
LANCE |
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Spear fabulous knight giving up fortune (5) |
LANCELOT minus LOT |