ST 2944

Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2944

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This puzzle was published on 25^th March 2018

BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment *****

Another Sunday puzzle to make you really pleased you’re the one who is going to do the review.  As has become usual for a Sunday, there is quite a lot of inserting going on again this time

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Across

7a    Short of money, performed vocally on street (8)
STRAPPED – RAPPED (performed vocally) on (or after) ST (street)

9a    Covered by legal document, actually (6)
INDEED – IN DEED (covered by legal document)

10a    Hearing organ after a couple of pianos in show (6)
APPEAR – EAR (hearing organ) goes after A (from the clue) and P P (a couple of Pianos)

11a    Male friend grabbing you, as stated, by hand (8)
MANUALLY – MAN (male) ALLY (friend) grabbing U (a homophone of you ‘as stated’)

12a    Creating classes in summer term, initially, with formal consent (14)
STRATIFICATION – S T (summer and term initially) with RATIFICATION (formal consent)

15a    Desire exists between married couple (4)
WISH – IS (exists) between W (wife) and H (husband) – married couple

17a    Author, in awe of editor, held back (5)
DEFOE – Lurking in reverse (held back) in awE OF EDitor

19a    What queen might do to king or consort (4)
MATE – The first definition relates to a game of chess, the second is a verb meaning to consort.

20a    Record how old we are – intended, we hear, as deterrent (14)
DISCOURAGEMENT – DIS (record) OUR AGE (how old we are) and a homophone (we hear) of MEANT (intended)

23a    Sliced beef pie, say, cut by friend in Paris (8)
PASTRAMI – A homophone (say) of PASTY (pie) ‘cut’ by AMI (the French, as spoken in Paris, word for friend)

25a    A river contained by bank? Far from always (6)
RARELY – A (from the clue) R (river) ‘contained by’ RELY (bank)

27a    Make amends about first of crimes immediately (2,4)
AT ONCE – ATONE (make amends) ‘about’ C (the first letter of Crimes)

28a    Converted to ally, is steadfast supporter (8)
LOYALIST – An anagram (converted) of TO ALLY IS

Down

1d    For part of flight, loved animals going up (4)
STEP – Reverse PETS (loved animals) – going up in a Down clue

2a    Other producer of pictures arrived before artist (6)
CAMERA – CAME (arrived) goes before RA (artist)

3a    Introducer of the first palindrome? (4)
ADAM – the first palindrome may have been MADAM IM ADAM

4a    Princess and I very minimally raised capital (6)
VIENNA – A reversal (raised) of ANNE (Princess), I (from the clue) and V (very ‘minimally’)

5a    Longing for perfection, I’m embracing ladies haphazardly (8)
IDEALISM – IM (from the clue) ’embracing’ an anagram (haphazardly) of LADIES

6a    Historical military leader and PM in faraway capital (10)
WELLINGTON – The famous military leader and prime minister or a capital in faraway New Zealand named after him

8a    Fended off Duke after changing rapier (7)
PARRIED – D (duke) goes after an anagram (changing) of RAPIER

13a    Kind of policies for political group outside mainstream (5,5)
THIRD PARTY – Oh for the days when your old banger of a car could get by with a third party, fire and theft insurance policy.

14a    Make a deduction that’s popular — reduced payment, right? (5)
INFER – IN (popular) FEe (reduced payment) R (right)

16a    Dithering husband in state, confused (8)
HESITANT – An anagram (confused) of H (husband) IN STATE

18a    For example, rising embraced by primitive with enthusiasm (7)
EAGERLY – EG (for example) reversed (rising in a Down clue) and inserted into (embraced  by) EARLY (primitive)

21a    Harangued and scolded after worst possible score (6)
ORATED – RATED (scolded) goes after O (the worst possible score)

22a    Spirits, including last of rum — or beer (6)
MORALE – M (the last letter of rum) OR (from the clue) ALE (beer)

24a    Doing nothing and indulged, oddly (4)
IDLE – The odd letters of InDuLgEd

26a    Suffered beating — those expelled get it (4)
LOST – Suffered beating or, with get, an informal way of telling someone they’ve been expelled

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