Across |
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Bank charge discount partially returned (4) |
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SIDE - bank = side e.g. of a river. Reversed hidden in CHARG(E DIS)COUNT. |
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American embraces endlessly resilient old scientist (10) |
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ASTRONOMER - There was discussion recently when we had AMER for American, and here it is again. Into AMER you insert STRON(G) (endlessly resilient) and O for old. |
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Describing open-air activities that could be yours to do (9) |
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OUTDOORSY - (YOURS TO DO)*. |
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Tycoon is second victim of hoax, though losing just one pound (5) |
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MOGUL - MO (second) GUL(L) victim of hoax loses an L. |
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Make fun of a politician in guise of a fool? (7) |
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LAMPOON - A MP inside LOON = fool. |
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Guy at St Andrews? Liberal guy at St Andrews, not Conservative (6) |
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LADDIE - A Scottish chap. The guy at St Andrews (R & A Golf Club of) is a CADDIE, carrying my bag, not C, add L. |
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Preparation the public can’t see for exclusion of NHS work? (7,8) |
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PRIVATE PRACTICE - Cryptic double definition, where 'practice in private' wouldn't be seen in public. I went wrong for a while with PRIVATE MEDICINE, thinking the 'preparation' was a drug not an activity, but 6d ending in I woudln't work. |
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Landlord blocking theatre presented by cultivated political group (10,5) |
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REPUBLICAN PARTY - PUBLICAN is our landlord, he goes into REP our theatre, then ARTY = cultivated. |
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Necklace queen’s wearing removed by force (6) |
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TORQUE - I put in the correct answer to this quite a while before seeing how it worked; was the definition force or necklace? I think it is necklace, as TORE = removed by force, leaving you with QU for queen to insert. A torque (or torc) is a rigid metal necklace, as well as a force causing rotation. |
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Rewarding golf? Agonising missing first of putts (7) |
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GAINFUL - G for golf, PAINFUL = agonising, loses its P. |
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Supple, seeing reduction of ailment in time (5) |
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AGILE - AGE (time) has IL(L) inserted. |
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Area a lot choppy? Channel swimmer weak (2,1,3,3) |
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AT A LOW EBB - (A A LOT)* then WEBB = Captain Matthew Webb, first to swim the channel in 1875. What a nice, topical surface, given the recent amazing feat by Sarah Thomas. A pity she didn't get sponsored to raise money for breast cancer research. |
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Lack of skill recording songbird? One gets exposed about that (10) |
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INEPTITUDE - I NUDE = one gets exposed; into that insert EP (recording) TIT (songbird). |
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Times item in centre: several bits (4) |
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BYTE - BY = times, multiplied by, TE = central letters of iTEm, a byte has 8 bits in it. |