Genius
Past Genius annotated solutions can be found here.
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8 Short man in a dress, 50, upset Jew once (8)
9 Grant takes drug four times, reeling out of town (5)
10 Quarter stored about a thousand and over (4)
11 Once ice is dispersed, there's a secondary flight (10)
12 Bounce haphazardly in shaky fashion, say (6)
14 Emir came past, every extremity appearing clerical (8)
15 A hole through which food passes (7)
17 Horse not entirely needing grooming (7)
20 Vegetable to eat topped (8)
22 New indication union leader to be ousted, bringing recovery (6)
23 Again produce about relief (10)
24 From bushes, usually attack (4)
25 Relative put off by service (5)
26 Device for increasing sound in echo (8)
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8 One lacking experience to play around with tenure in India (8)
9 Foreign ruler taking notice of gear-shifter (6)
10 Every single "long" gets cut short (4)
11 Have right to be high - too high to score? (4,3,3)
12 Desserts prove there's honour among cartographers (6)
14 Manners shown on threefold landing place (8)
15 Iris embedded in tuber by sorcery (7)
17 Annie, perhaps, or Grace, with fibre coating (7)
20 Shed's in condition for prospective damage (8)
22 Murphy, an Irishman in the Scriptures? On the contrary (6)
23 Shown to be justified (10)
24 Objectionable infant's undergarment (4)
25 Posh bird adopting feminine garb (6)
26 Type of dunce once getting back into Asian...
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7 Sea eagle taking a bearing from the Hydra's swamp (7)
8 How long was it before South Africa turned to Shaka's weapon? (7)
10 Molten lead's metal pans (6)
11 East-north-north, dubious way to elevate (8)
12 Eskimo now losing it to the Japanese (4)
13 Saying "No!" to a Spanish uncle touring Black Mountains (10)
14 Sonic empathy doesn't end with one for a sad sound expert (11)
19 Card player's accomplishments with one point in good shape initially (10)
22 Bleak terrorists overthrown (4)
23 Plaza de Toro the arena to contain her? (8)
24 Charged state ready to answer (2,4)
25 Maundy ceremonies, wild rites involving pence (7)
26 Dissection of the Whipsnade cat? (7)
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7 Stuff duck before putting into container (7)
8 Back North, one runs out of housing licence (7)
10 Detailed soldier mentioned in incomplete record book's becomes lost (9)
11 There's no travelling to London in sauce boat! (5)
12 See 20 down
14 See 16
15 Drug #1: not a word! (7)
16,14 Allowing plot to come to grief on dangerous surface (7,6)
18 More than enough beer to shut up Parliamentarian (5)
20 Changing ends in factory, horse produces more metallic alloy (4,5)
22 It is taken on departure for a holiday (5)
23 New frocks worn by judge attending rather cold individual (4,5)
25 Cube spotted breaking in, never poorer (7)
26 Hot-headed footballer nearly shears...
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9 Born to bat (7;5)
10 Style of drama commandeered by revolutionary - one leaves (6;9)
11 Perhaps Chekhov story goes to waste, rejected, abandoned (6;9)
12 With noses blown (6;5)
13 When in London Borough urban regeneration starts (6;7)
15 Season's over, short of a month (5;7)
17 Lifelong criminal inside (5)
18 More than one instance of you in the old days forming a rock group (3)
20 Backing for bridge circle constrained by "Old Style" sort of rubber (5)
22 Perhaps Cheddar cheese's last to be consumed (6;7)
25 Extensive, your poetic, trailing wild glen (7)
26 Containing resistance and self-motivated (8;5)
27 Lulu rises with a dish (5,4)
30 Three in a play...
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9 Capital office atmosphere? (5)
10 Elect to leave post, having lost head in time (9)
11 Present claimed by eccentric in retirement, being with it (7)
12 Howard's first "I'm in charge of the party" (7)
13 Force bar to supply cup (5)
15 Talks about rubber wishing to erase home before mortgage a worry? (5,4)
18 Bring to light Lewis almost in decline (3,2)
20 Endless nonsense (3)
21 Bad clue that's wrong (5)
22 Tottering, Miss World's heading round clubs, perhaps, in which contestants parade? (9)
24 Record nothing special, no alternative, no point (5)
26 A restriction all reversed (7)
28 Oddly, views on Paul irregular (7)
31 Having lost all capital, about to burn English one...
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1,13 A Fonteyn ruined by Alan, a US ballet impresario? Not 'e! (5,9,8)
9 Once and future king, banning university work, starts on doodle bug (9)
10 Cubist canonised at Doncaster? (5)
11 Holliday corralling smallest state order (5)
12 A chip off the defunct block? (9)
13 See 1
14 Yank gently affected nameless form of Buddhism (6)
17 Inspired after scratching the match? (2,4)
19 League's successors investing a chip off the old block's capital (8)
22 Daughter, after training, eager to hear teacher (9)
24 Permission to travel with old fare (5)
25 City nearly dead from success (5)
26 Festival site burgled. Ah, calamity! (9)
27 Congress house worthy? Far from it! (4,4,6)
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7 (8)
9 (6)
10 (4)
11 (10)
12 (6)
14 (8)
15 (6)
17 (6)
20 (8)
22 (6)
23 (10)
24 (4)
25 (6)
26 (8)
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1 Rock star in movies (5;6)
4 Novelist's quarter (4;7)
9 Linesman in no time at all collars fool (7;9)
10 Honey: the British life-saver (7;5)
11 Comic Brummie with comic sleep indicator and a flipping doctor (6;5)
12 The real Doctor Who player? (5;9)
13 Funny writer's "Winter Jacket" on the radio (6;7)
15 Nietzschean eye-opening poet in hiding (6;6)
17 Bunter is in business as a cosmetician (10;6)
19 Cleaner who became a US president (6;7)
22 "Popular writer", I say, and point to King (5;9)
24 Model playing the queen at "Telephone Company" (8;5)
26 Piece to market racing driver (7;5)
27 Singer's place most likely to see public debut of gospel singer (6;9)
28...
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7 Man of letters that is after support (6)
8 Stuff widely accepted in collecting box, note (7)
10 On which baby caught in beehive? (4,5)
11,18 Inexperienced surfer finds basic Turkish problematical (5,7)
12 Paul's mum, by order in force, given deodorant to replace ablutions (5,6)
14 Comedian with something tedious runs off (3)
16 Anonymous god almost holds essayist back (7)
18 See 11
19 Toff wants grass sent over (3)
20 New shares fiddle - this poor sod's first to prosecute (6,5)
23 Very pious Jew can confirm who he is? (5)
24 Theory to stop binge drinking? (9)
26 Leaves dried up US state, turning tail round capital of Arizona (7)
27 Girl cut head from monster girl (6)
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1 * exercises with a short adventure novel writer (6)
4 * order drunkard's not quite finished (6)
9 Take in a gentleman? No graces may be examined here! (4)
10 With Henry out of the Cup, I drop by instead with a distinctive heart (10)
11 Humane representation of timeless law (6)
12 Walpole's constituents repairing in social gathering left * (3,5)
13 Crewe 16 across is thrown off with scent (9)
15 "Exclusive" sent through about old, old penny (4)
16 Miles behind distant crows etc here? (4)
17 Pope's verse includes line number one (9)
21 These avid gardeners left old Greek art in Paris (8)
22 What Persians took, perchance, after sacking (*,6)
24 Pub punch coming in is omen, wanting love (10) -
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9 See 21
10 16 to make cake after stuffing my one (5)
11 Month with 16's story (7)
12 Loathing is good in tiny bits (7)
13 16 needing name and weight to start as language expert (5)
14 Raise odds in unusual ways (9)
16 Maigret's advice for 21 9 in Paris? (8,2,5)
19 Material with estimated rent (9)
21,9 Dishing the dirt -- Cracker's game (5-4,5)
22 Not crazy about way I fish (7)
23 Pass over mineral that might cause fits (7)
24 16 to be healthy when covered with small lines (5)
25 Er ... coming back? (9)
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8 Like the hair of the Star of the County Down, but worn out (3-5)
9 Flying first class, after opening of "Taming of the Shrew" (6)
10 Radio serial signature tune "Archers" heads backed (4)
11 Dry leek rotting outside, daughter on the game, one gets beaten in the kitchen (10)
12 Constitutional river (6)
14 Side arms dumps (8)
15 Vast corporation adopting European habit (7)
17 Moravians here turn against art like this (7)
20 Picks up in Tyneside to make the last delivery? (8)
22 Callow type flogging the living? (6)
23 Let lesser characters produce a JK Rowling? (10)
24 Pass the cabbage (4)
25 Too much fluid in the sea? Put it back in the water (6)
26 Loud support accepted...
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1 Having deal, maybe, that's awkward (6)
4 See 20
9 Son of Abraham lacking a new sort of coat? (4)
10 That is newspaper with restrictions about leaders (10)
11 Look into defeat in race (6)
12 English town, second to the city of Rome when leading the fashion (8)
13 Those who could work for the devil sin had led astray (4,5)
15,16 HQ supports invader (4,4)
16 See 15
17 One can make things hot for someone who is lying (9)
21 Singers and actors given allowance - not performing (8)
22 Pundit no longer cocky (6)
24 Shocked maiden burst out when hugged by Donald? (10)
25 Sheep goes to river as possible source of water (4)
26 Small island getting sun...
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1 Fellow fire raisers (first three) and fellows in 'all must now be gone less than 70 years (13)
9 Finger put in book (5)
10 Short series on pet kept by small boy (9)
11 The ancient woodland of Paris in a crystal ball? (8)
12 8's wife mentioned in his play and by Tawney? (6)
14 Entry for the Booker brought by road (4)
15 You sound like (first to last) a tea girl (5,5)
18 Is it a police job to clean round most of the dining room? (10)
19 Bargepole touches beast (4)
22 20's wife mentioned in 8's Italianate play (6)
24 Skip hire circulating -- have you lost your heads? (5,3)
26 Fellows on Silver Lake are animals (9)
27 Fellow is given time for crime (5)
28 Paper found by...
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1 There's no getting out of it -- Shed is not the flavour of the month (7)
5 Affection-booster for "Not I" playwright getting excellent coverage (7)
10 Charity in which weapons exchange hands (4)
11 Making revisions to Zechariah, missed English breakfast (5,5)
12 Prevent from seeing about South Island plant (6)
13 Nymph pinches compiler's paper (3,5)
14 Strict timekeeper supplies memento mori I'm lacking (9)
16 Slow or fast, love? (5)
17 Behind showbiz ceremony in which the last shall come first (5)
19 Reduced by thousands after inverted hooter stops working (6,3)
23 Keep raging against Thailand's erstwhile seat of government (8)
24 Area under control of one in the Dail? (6)
26 Osmond brother...
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8 M1 crew (3); (8)
9 One who is a secreter of bile (5); (6)
10 Works with a good many catastrophes (5); (4)
11 Starts in the style of marines on square (6); (10)
12 Stung -- agreed? (4); (6)
14 Possessors of semis left out (5); (4-4)
15 Superlative local (7); (7)
17 Hoover agent's three consecutive letters returned (3); (7)
20 Succumbing to the rack of hot-wrapped raw egg tops? (8); (8)
22 Possibly where to seek a mythical maiden by name (8); (6)
23 The focus of detective Frost (5); (10)
24 Try to sell film script to Chuck? (5); (4)
25 Leave a bit (4); (6)
26 Some continentals seeing father with girl (not wife) (6); (8)
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8 Flier suffers arrest, fitting first (8)
9 Bikini models with topless supports (solution to puzzle) (5)
10 Ruler, he's unlikely to rule (4)
11 One not wetting the baby's head with drink, on the contrary getting round in (10)
12 Ate no tripe, about to stuff into trousers (6)
14 Present not wrapped up, dammit! (8)
15 Devil finds no wizards (7)
17 Set out near to studious introverts (7)
20 Is short of capital (8)
22 Cowardly failure (6)
23 Ducks make their home in California (10)
24 Answer: they provide milk -- they might later (4)
25 Tank for those in charge of it dispensing with my love (5)
26 Illicitly conveys work of Thoreau, securing fine that's lifted (8)
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1 (7)
5 (7)
10 (4)
11 (10)
12 (6)
13 (8)
14 (9)
16 (5)
17 (5)
19 (9)
23 (8)
24 (6)
26 (10)
27 (4)
28 (7)
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1 Hard to have pained expression, as Eliza might have been heard to say to 23? (3,3)
4 Women being pulled in outskirts of Turin (Urbs gemina) (4,4)
9 Current intelligence not in bed with T (6)
10 What's laid on large scale road south, say, as a core (5,3)
11 T with a long T wasting nothing in 12's T: the key to running a busy life (4,10)
13 T going west in form of lottery (7,3)
14 What's on hand for ladies, or a king's admitted (4)
16 T's partner at the Guardian put right back (4)
18 In T make uniform (back of arm) and get up (10)
21 He's suave (Sade?), open to debate in store and an extended T on hill (6,8)
23 Feature of Channel 5 withdrawn from every land broadcast (8)
24 Silverback T (6)
25,1down...
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1 See special instructions (6)
4 Wend like Little John through such Scottish surroundings (6)
9 Martin Guerre heads off with zero tolerance, drunk from the grape (15)
10 Continue to bat? No! (4,2)
11 Lad expelled from Royal Garden after smashing the glasshouse (8)
12 Avert trouble in Holland's space (8)
14 Overflow from a spring (6)
15 Unaltered temperature. Help! (6)
18 Who else but him should solve this crossword? (8)
21 Name a traveller with nothing off and nothing on! (8)
22 Unequal party left going in to bat against Romeo, was he? (6)
24 Trouble vent on Rochdale masterpiece by Lowry (5,3,7)
25 Motley society yielded to King Peter! (3,3)
26 Esterhazy got egg from this...
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1 King ran into revolutionary convert (7)
5 Where to leave boat when low presages storm (7)
9 Not so much to drink, poor thing (9)
10 Not a woman to smoke? (5)
11 Invalid, not unsurprisingly, likes lettuce for starters (4)
12 French articles about live horse (10)
14 Animal member in the ministry (6)
15 It makes rusty worker steer onto drive first (7)
16 Shrew carrying carrier to terminal (7)
18 Perverse pleasure in seeing boy in Hell? On the contrary (6)
20 "Keeping it in the family" means incest - I opt out (10)
21 Outfit to boast about (4)
24 At the end of time, half a score shall be consumed (5)
25 Uncurl in a tangle of buttercups (9)
26 Bald...
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9 Flipping Virginia's to get sick benefit! (5)
10 Black man not spaced out by song gets voluntary payments (9)
11 Object of tributary work: drowning headless Star Wars knight, Ginger, in river (9)
12 One old g-governor's place for those in order (5)
13 Source of cover for the modest new gift almost costing nothing (3,4)
15 Pap-fed but not fed pap (7)
17 Approached and hastily assembled (3,2)
18 Top of old letter's given new heading (5;3)
20 After hike, group given a tip (5)
22 A course getting stuffed when top removed (7)
25 Swanky type was bloody got at (7)
26 Joy, supreme composer (5)
27 One's inept, dropping round and fiddling with radio, being a solicitor (11;9)
30 Get...
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8 Horse - Picasso almost on one backwards (8)
9 Ares' terrifying companion asks for me, and I sod off (6)
10 Father of the palindrome (4)
11,16 Stitch inside about to become lifesaver (3,4)
12 Reportedly eights and ones non-scoring shots (6)
13 All notes provided showing rotten, sulphurous character (3,3)
15 Beastly sound of 9 curtailed (3)
16 See 11
17 Walking for people with a dog but no tail (11)
20 Indo-European dance's stunted comeback (4)
21 See yellow, not blue bananas (3)
22 Those "liberated" by brightness in traditional dress on reflection (6)
23 What's little cultivated by the Japanese ... (6)
24 ... artist not expecting the asking price? (3)
25...
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1 See 10
4 Group of seals across river having black look for no mongrel (4-5)
10,7,22,1,14 down,11,23,15,20 Crazy American fliers at war cannot plead fear of enemy fire or madness. It won't wash. There's a no-good catch to define sane. (1,7,3,4,3,6,2,3,4,2,7,4,4,4,3,9,3,3,7,2,1,8,4)
11 See 10
12 10 doesn't start off keen to have small part put in code (7)
14 Double Dutch is part of one's small eccentricity (7)
15 See 10
17 Rotten in the '70s, roughly speaking (7)
20 See 10
23 See 10
24 Mayday, including previous month, getting too unsettled for gypsophila and its ilk (9)
25 14 is not part of the answer (4) -
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8 Parasites in the red meat stew placed before one (8)
9 Demand a rand for black copper (6)
10 Busy bird (2,2)
11 Ocean cup tie? That is not possible! Like the idea? (10)
12 Slavic chap with a prosthetic grip? (6)
14 Here surfing makes one wet -- and hot! (2,3,3)
15 Buckmaster's French team head splitting the atom (7)
17 Gin sling left out for priest (7)
20 English for all translation a blight on King Edward, say (4-4)
22 Chinese attachment holds good with gentleman of Verona (6)
23 Celebrity seeker kidnaps king from iron horse (4,6)
24 Balt's demise (4)
25 Setter's division of neat spirit with water! (6)
26 Emanations of love commonly among fife players (8)appl