Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3096
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This puzzle was published on 21st February 2021
BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ***
One of those crosswords that took a while to get started and then flowed nicely
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Across
1a Plan for site (11)
PROPOSITION – PRO (for) POSITION (site)
10a Stone, a hinged barrier (5)
AGATE – A (from the clue) GATE (hinged barrier)
11a Cried — like whales? (9)
BLUBBERED – Double definition
12a Group in nightgear messed around (9)
GATHERING – An anagram (messed around) of NIGHTGEAR
13a Something added to drink, note (5)
TONIC – Double definition
14a Where clothes may be packed if required (2,4)
IN CASE – Where you’d pack your clothes, if required for a holiday
16a Exercise component, boring thing (5,3)
DRILL BIT – DRILL (exercise) BIT (component)
18a Make-up collection in powder room writer, say, recalled (4,4)
GENE POOL – A reversal (recalled) of LOO (powder room) PEN (writer) EG (say)
20a Show runs into new scene (6)
SCREEN – R (runs) into an anagram (new) of SCENE
23a Something for breakfast, a dead duck! (5)
TOAST – Double definition
24a Pain contained by nurse, person at the back (4-5)
TAIL-ENDER – AIL (pain) ‘contained’ by TENDER (nurse)
26a Language modulations adopted by staff (9)
CANTONESE – TONES (modulations) ‘adopted’ by CANE (staff)
27a Jerk found (5)
START – Double definition
28a Awful, as words of those silenced? (11)
UNSPEAKABLE – The clue describing the words of those silenced and unable to speak
Down
2d Slam chicken or turkey in oven? (5)
ROAST – Double definition
3d Writer, author and Hardy character (7)
POETESS – POE (author) and TESS (Hardy character)
4d Having broken hearts perhaps, leaders in board meeting capitulate (6)
SUBMIT – The leaders in Board and Meeting having ‘broken’ SUIT (hearts perhaps)
5d Violence in outskirts of Turkey, within which one getting a grip? (8)
THUGGERY – HUGGER (one getting a grip) inserted within the outskirts of TurkeY
6d Round button originally secured by tailor that’s loose (7)
ORBITAL – B (button ‘originally’) secured in an anagram (that’s loose) of TAILOR
7d Howling animals, target of derision (8,5)
LAUGHING STOCK – LAUGHING (howling) STOCK (animals)
8d Odd bits of garden decent in French city (8)
GRENOBLE – The odd letters of GaRdEn and NOBLE (decent)
9d Film review intact, I argued (9,4)
EDUCATING RITA – an anagram (review) of INTACT I ARGUED
15d Dancing, one kidnapped by band of criminals? (8)
CONGAING – I (one) ‘kidnapped’ by CON GANG (band of criminals)
17d Don’t release Spirit in the Sky? (6,2)
BOTTLE UP – BOTTLE (spirit) UP (in the sky)
19d Belittle record (3,4)
PUT DOWN – Double definition
21d Eleven laces he knotted (7)
CHELSEA – An anagram (knotted) of LACES HE
22d Pictures a little basic in emails (6)
CINEMA – Hidden in basiC IN EMAils
25d Attractive thing, Latino’s principal accent (5)
DRAWL – DRAW (attractive thing) L (Latino’s principal letter)