No 14837, Saturday 04 July 2026, Arden

 ACROSS
1 Cheer about Oscar, it reverberates twice (6) REECHO {CHEER}*{O}
4 Stays silent on how dad stays married (5,3) KEEPS MUM [DD]
10 Concluding comments covering lots of pages on a soft drink (5,4) CREAM SODA {CODA} around {REAMS}

11 Repetition reviewed during tenure regularly (5) RERUN [T<]
12 Told you to use silent instrument (7) UTENSIL {U(~YOU}{SILENT*}
13 Dirty urinals cut off (7) INSULAR*
14 Bristles at rejected entry into Vatican (5) SETAE {AT<} inside {SEE}
15 Cassandra - a film about left and right, primarily (8) ALARMIST {A}{MIST} around {Left}{And}{Right}
18 Expressing contempt - back in Dubai, perhaps or its neighbour (3,5) ABU DHABI {BAH<} in {DUBAI*}
20 Duplicates of small cots (5) CRIBS [DD]
23 Classify a record on Asian language (7) TAGALOG {TAG}{A}{LOG}
25 Top few, in other words, are unpleasant (7) NOISOME {NO 1}{SOME}
26 Old get promoted, mostly (5) PASSE {PASSEd}
27 Club provides hemp in a party (9) BASTINADO {BAST}{IN}{A}{DO}
28 Stator winding concealed - he changes the resistance (8) RHEOSTAT {STATOR}* around {HE}

29 Be there at ten daily (6) ATTEND {AT}{TEN}{D}

DOWN
1 Race ends - Aintree, perhaps, is an option (8) RECOURSE {RacE}{COURSE}
2 Top of the world, always is in Paris...(7) EVEREST {EVER}{EST}
3 ...instead bifurcated a hacienda, perhaps (9) HOMESTEAD {HOME=IN}{STEAD}

5 Material gain is unexpected considering everyone's equal (14) EGALITARIANISM*
6 Hilton, perhaps, is capital (5) PARIS [DD]
7 Losing them makes one go insane (7) MARBLES [CD] 
8 Spaceman tracking to include the tag-line (6) MANTRA [T]
9 Short book list - find book in a large fancy cover on this subject (7,7) BOOLEAN ALGEBRA {BOOk}{LEAN}+{B} in {A LARGE}*
16 "Red China is covered in smog", says Turner (9) MACHINIST {CHINA}* in {MIST}
17 Space traveller finds a chemical substance (8) ASTEROID {A}{STEROID}
19 Mean to collect for example, NO bio-fuel (7) BAGASSE {BASE} around {GAS}
21 I criticize accepting order to quarantine (7) ISOLATE {I}{S{O}LATE}
22 Puts up with an alternative to lethargy (6) STUPOR {PUTS<}{OR}
24 Among strangers, no adult gets legal rights over property (5) LIENS {aLIENS}

REFERENCE LIST

Oscar=O, Is in Paris=EST {Is in French}, Book=B, Order=O, Adult=A.

No 14836, Friday 03 Jul 2026, Crossant

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ACROSS

1   Weak Queen refused to fast after start of summer (6) SICKLY {quICKLY}<=>{Su...r}

4   Warning boy to leave nasty, immoral habit (6) ADVICE {bAD}{VICE}

8   Mounting covert police operation to nab foreigner (7) SETTING {S{ET}TING}

9   Delighted when entering sanctuary in outskirts of Palakkad (7) PLEASED {LE{AS}E} in {Pa...aD}

11 Nicely go around flashing a new Tesla (10) PLEASANTLY {PL{A+N+TESLA}*Y}

12 Bird starting late gets worm? (4) INCH fINCH

13 Further education lags in that respect (5) THERE [T]

14 U.S. never bothered about India and the world (8) UNIVERSE {US+NEVER}* over {I}

16 Maybe Vasco da Gama from Portugal learning routes in the beginning (8) EXPLORER {EX}{P}{LORE}{Ro...s}

18 Military vehicles and tense, faceless rows of soldiers (5) TANKS {T}{rANKS}

20 Follow hooligan cycling around entrance of estate (4) OBEY {(-y)OB(+y)Y} over {Es...e}

21 In fact, session at home is fixed (10) DETERMINED {DE{TERM}{IN}ED}

23 Boy working hard without accomplishment ultimately gets extremely angry (7) BOILING {B}{tOILING}

24 What bowlers do when de Villiers bats - won't have slip mostly (7) DELIVER {DE+VillLIERs}*

25 Makes pens out of unhealthy styrene primarily (6) STYLES STYLusES

26 About to exit central building, understood? (6) LEARNT cENTRAL*

DOWN

1   Is finally all right? Great. (5) SWELL {iS}{WELL}

2   Bit of cream soup (no piece of potato) and cheese maybe (7) COTTAGE {Cr..m}{pOTTAGE}

3   Listen, leaders of national eminence lost and are angry (4,2,3) LEND AN EAR {Na...l+Em...e+Lost+AND+ARE}*

5   Lloyd botched an easy catch (5) DOLLY*

6   Judge one with a drink in Middle East (7) IMAGINE {1}{M{A}{GIN}E}

7   Implements tariffs restricting export revenues in the beginning (9) EXERCISES {EX{Ex...t}{Re...s}CISES}

10 Say most regressive, senseless last words perhaps (2,2,5) ET TU BRUTE {UTTEr<=}{BRUTE}

13 Revolutionary took best, essentially Marxist reading material (9) TEXTBOOKS* {TOOK+BEST+marXist}*

15 Check and re-enter if wrong (9) INTERFERE*

17 King and Queen maybe switching sides and allegiance (7) LOYALTY (-r+l)LOYALTY

19 More curious about India becoming rowdier (7) NOISIER {NO{I}SIER}

21 Slow person needs backing from time to time (5) DENSE {pErSoN+nEeDs}<=

22 Equalise at the end of tight game (5) EVENT {EVEN}{t..hT}

Reference List

Queen = QU, Boy = B, Foreigner = ET, New = N, India = I, Portugal = P, Tense = T, About = C, Sides = R,L