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Easy Cryptic Crossword 2020-02-17

Easy Cryptic Crossword from Simple Daily Puzzles 2020-02-17 (24/24)

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1a – Bloomer makes card game proceed tediously (10)

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SNAPDRAGON

Bloomer (meaning flower) is the definition, with the rest as a charades clue: SNAP (card game) + DRAG ON

7a – Icy port ordered by an islander (7)

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CYPRIOT

Islander is the definition, with ordered by as an anagram indicator for icy port

8a – Vegetable found in dishes we detest (5)

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SWEDE

Vegetable is the definition (a swede is a word for a rutabaga), with found in as a hidden word indicator for dishe(s we de)test

10a – Not far from being tight-fisted? (4)

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NEAR

Double definition; near means not far, but is also an archaic word for stingy or tight-fisted

11a – Take legal action about Europeans or Africans (8)

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SUDANESE

Africans is the definition, with about as an indicator that DANES (a type of Europeans) goes into SUE (take legal action): SU(DANES)E

13a – Films some developed, about six (6)

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MOVIES

Films is the definition, with about as an indicator that VI (Roman numeral for six) goes into an MOES (developed is an anagram indicator for some)

15a – Island garment (6)

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JERSEY

Double definition; Jersey is an island, and a jersey is a garment

17a – The opposite of talk (8)

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CONVERSE

Double definition; with converse meaning talk (have conversation), and a converse being a kind of opposite in logic

18a – Former Iranian leader cooking hash (4)

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SHAH

Former Iranian leader is the definition, with cooking as an anagram indicator for hash

21a – Girl with nothing but a rope (5)

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LASSO

Rope is the definition, with the rest as a charades clue: LASS (girl) + O (bits and pieces clue for nothing)

22a – Roman emperor in a hard form (7)

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HADRIAN

Roman emperor is the definition, with form as an anagram indicator for in a hard

23a – A sort of tender name! (10)

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ENDEARMENT

Tender name is the definition, with sort as an anagram indicator for tender name

1d – Colour that is constant in salt water (5)

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SEPIA

Colour is the definition, with in as an indicator that PI (a constant) goes into SEA (salt water)

2d – Drug discovered by a police department (4)

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ACID

Drug is the definition, with the rest as a charades clue: A (a) + CID (short for “Criminal Investigation Department”, which is the police department)

3d – The result of getting routed differently (6)

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DETOUR

The whole clue is the definition, with differently as an anagram indicator for routed

4d – Satisfies silly sausages (8)

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ASSUAGES

Satisfies is the definition, with silly as an anagram indicator for sausages

5d – Unity might make no sense (7)

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ONENESS

Unity is the definition, with might make as an anagram indicator for no sense

6d – Thrifty way to make cinema cool (10)

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ECONOMICAL

Thrifty is the definition, with way to make as an anagram indicator for cinema cool

9d – One very thin garment reveals all (10)

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EVERYTHING

All is the definition, with reveals as a hidden word indicator for on(e very thin g)arment

12d – Writer has to run off with this girl (8)

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PENELOPE

Girl is the definition, with the rest as a charades clue: PEN (writer) + ELOPE (run away with)

14d – Meat cooked in ovens? (7)

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VENISON

Meat is the definition, with cooked as an anagram indicator for in ovens

16d – There’s a change in this girl (6)

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ESTHER

Girl is the definition, with change as an anagram indicator for there's (my first guess was HESTER)

19d – He is on time for a robbery (5)

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HEIST

Robbery is the definition, with the rest as a charades clue: HE (he) + IS (is) + T (bits and pieces clue for time)

20d – Advantage from the border (4)

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EDGE

Double definition, with edge meaning both advantage and border