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1ACCWC#561 - POLICE

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#	Clue	Voting
1	Clue: Tripoli certainly has law enforcers (6) Anno: Hidden in plain sight. Indicator: has. Definition: law enforcers	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
2	Clue: Control price right away, arresting extremes of oil (6) Anno: Def: Control (POLICE as verb). PICE [price without R (right away)] containing OL [extremes of OiL].	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
3	Clue: Monitor pandemic starting with spread of E.coli (6) Anno: Def: Monitor. P (pandemic starting) + anagram of E.coli*	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
4	Clue: Every now and then people inched towards the Boys in Blue (6) Anno: Boys in blue is the def/ Intermittent letter selection/ every now and then is the indicator to select every other word in the fodder	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
5	Clue: Cop lies mostly about the law (6) Anno: def: the law, lies mostly is LIE, about is anagram indicator, COP+LIE is anagram fodder	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
6	Clue: Guard, obliging, has caught thief initially running away (6) Anno: Guard: Definition. POLI(+C-T)E. Has: containment indicator	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
7	Clue: Force tasked to maintain law, peace per Spooner (6) Anno: def = Force; Spoonerism "law, peace"	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
8	Clue: E coli harassed by penicillin primarily to protect Anno: To protect (def.), harassed=anagrind, penicillin primarily (p), p(e coli)*	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
9	Clue: Watch corrupt cop lie (6) Anno: (COP LIE)*, corrupt= anag ind, def= watch	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
10	Clue: Law enforcement chief from SE Asia trades weed for meth (6) Anno: Law enforcement=def; chief from SE Asia=POL POT; “trade” his POT for ICE	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
11	Clue: Guard played pinochle apart from basically napping hourly (6) Anno: Def. : guard, pinochle*-N(apping)-H(ourly), anagram ind: played, deletion indicator:apart from, first letter selector: basically	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
12	Clue: Public organisation lacking in credible effective leaders Anno: Acrostic &lit	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
13	Clue: Check oil winch periodically in emptied pipeline Anno: Definition: “Check” (synonym of POLICE as a verb); “OiL+wInCh periodically" "in emptied P(ipelin)E”) = P[OLIC]E	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
14	Clue: Keep watch on topless Alice following red Teletubby (6) Anno: Def - Keep watch on; Red Teletubby - Po; topless Alice - lice; PO+LICE	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
15	Clue: They protect crude oil covered by Trump's last hollow compromise (6) Anno: Def: They protect; OLI (crude OIL*) inside P (trumP's last) + CE (hollow CompromisE)	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
16	Clue: Son rescued from ring, inspired to join law enforcement (6) Anno: S (son) deleted from (s)plice (to join), O (ring) added to def - law enforcement	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
17	Clue: Leaders of Persia and commanders on base choke oil flows to get control (6) Anno: Control (Defn as verb) - (Persia)(OIL)*(Commanders)(E), Leaders - Initial letters, Flow - Anagrind, Base - E, Persia - Iran	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
18	Clue: Protect Chief Pilot flying towards Europe after thief somehow escaped (6) Anno: Anno: (CHIEF+PILOT* - THIEF*)(E). Anagrind – Flying & Somehow. Deletion indicator – Escaped. Europe – E. Definition: Protect.	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
19	Clue: Cop lied about abandoning dead cop (6) Anno: COPLIED* ("about" is the anagrind) - D (dead); Def: cop	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
20	Clue: Get rid of twisted agents under Trump’s control (6) Anno: LOP< + ICE (agents under/working for Trump) = control. Lop = to cut out (Collins)	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
21	Clue: Those at Scotland Yard made cop lie Anno: Anagram (suggested by made) of 'cop lie', Definition - those at Scotland Yard	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
22	Clue: Law enforcement official extremely implicated in initial probes investigating Commissioner’s ethics (6) Anno: Def: law enforcement. First & last of ‘official’ inserted into firsts of ‘probes ...’ yielding P + OL + I + C + E	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
23	Clue: Copper rod inlaid with zinc evenly (6) Anno: -z(I)-n(C) inside POLE (rod). Def: Copper	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
24	Clue: Keep the peace? Trump’s latest hollow “ceasefire” is about oil, stupid! Anno: P (trumP’s latest) + CE (hollow CeasefirE) around (is about) OIL* (anag:stupid). To keep the peace = to police.	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
25	Clue: Prevent outlaws lurking in criminal environments originally Anno: Acrostic, semi-&lit	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
26	Clue: Retrospective clip: "Kill Bill" (6) Anno: Def = Bill (Chambers), LOP (clip) << + ICE (kill). Surface refers to a clip from the classic movie Kill Bill	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
27	Clue: European without sources of identity caught by cops (6) Anno: Definition = cops, European = Pole, I(dentity) c(aught) inside Pole	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
28	Clue: Protect innocent people from Post Office bugs Anno: Def = protect innocent people; post office = PO; bugs = LICE	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
29	Clue: Threesome known for walking on the moon prowl kitchen regularly (6) Anno: Odd-numbered letters in PrOwLkItChEn, indicated by “regularly”. “Walking on the Moon” is a hit song by The Police, a trio	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:
30	Clue: Force cutback of price without any publicity Anno: Cut=lop back is 'pol' ; price without 'pr'; def'n- force	4 3 2 1 0 (Your own clue - cannot vote) Comment:

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