Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30383
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This puzzle was published on 19th August 2023
BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
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Across
9a Name anything that is primarily randy and racier (9)
NAUGHTIER – N (name) AUGHT (anything) IE (that is) R (the primary letter of Randy)
10a Low sides of savage ungulate (5)
MOOSE – MOO (low) and the sides of SavagE
11a Former tinge is gone (7)
EXTINCT – EX (former) TINCT (tinge)
12a Desired goal: post office in funds (7)
PURPOSE – PO (Post Office) inserted in PURSE (funds)
13a Tolerate American ways and principles (9)
STANDARDS – STAND (tolerate) A (American) RDS (roads, ways)
15a Stitched up someone gutless getting married (5)
SEWED – The outside (gutless) letters of SomeonE and WED (married)
17a After test, donates — but not good causes (7)
MOTIVES – MOT (test) gIVES (donates without (not) Good)
19a Bored doctor, sick and regularly seedy (7)
DRILLED – DR (doctor) ILL (sick) and the regular letters of sEeDy
20a Going with the flow, admit I’d alarmed guards (5)
TIDAL – Hidden in (guarded by) admiT ID ALarmed
21a Left sentries confused, they hear (9)
LISTENERS – L (left) and an anagram (confused) of SENTRIES
24a Officer commanding highest US influential organisation (7)
OCTOPUS – OC (Officer Commanding) TOP (highest) US (from the clue)
26a Designer adopts new means of communication (7)
CHANNEL – CHANEL (designer) ‘adopts’ N (new)
28a A legal right to retain property from elsewhere (5)
ALIEN – A (from the clue) and LIEN (legal right to retain property
29a Worked out decree with six changes (9)
EXERCISED – An anagram (changes) of DECREE with SIX
Down
1d Comes in and records (6)
ENTERS – Double definition
2d Taken away and prosecuted over second-rate pamphlet (10)
SUBTRACTED – SUED (prosecuted) goes over B (second-rate) and TRACT (pamphlet)
3d Flimsy bit of clothing (4)
THIN – A bit of cloTHINg
4d Season with Italian football team (6)
WINTER – W (with) INTER (Italian football team)
5d Offered to stimulate into action about attitude (8)
PROPOSED – PROD (stimulate into action) goes ‘about’ POSE (attitude)
6d Fantastic Four seen in new premises (10)
IMPRESSIVE – IV (Roman numeral for four) ‘seen’ in an anagram (new) of PREMISES
7d Two calls for effort for indecisive person (2-2)
YO-YO – Two lots of YO (interjection calling for effort
8d Protected action involving ward (8)
DEFENDED – DEED (action) ‘involving’ FEND (ward off)
14d Abnormally deep loving evolving (10)
DEVELOPING – An anagram (abnormally) of DEEP LOVING
16d Fierce eagles seen initially in uncultivated region (10)
WILDERNESS – WILD (fierce) ERNES (eagles) and the initial letter of Seen
17d Related to movement, worked up but lacking energy (8)
MOTIONAL – eMOTIONAL (worked up) lacking the E for Energy
18d Spotted hut under mountains getting turned over (8)
SPLASHED – SHED (hut) goes under a reversal (getting turned over) of ALPS (mountains)
22d Clandestine group will admit soldiers (6)
SECRET – SECT (group) will ‘admit’ RE (Royal Engineers, soldiers)
23d Small boys eating adult’s dishes (6)
SALADS – S (small) LADS (boys) ‘eating’ A (adult)
25d Closely follow story we’re told (4)
TAIL – A homophone (we’re told) of TALE (story)
27d Cunning masonry construction (4)
ARCH – Cunning or a masonry construction