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Four more crossword style cryptics

Four more crossword style cryptics

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If car ices tear up offer (9)
Measure test for the allotted period (4,7)
Old salt brings deadlock (9)
Sounds like a European on the attack (5)

and I'll add a fifth for luck:

Sir waives right for unknown and verve for this dramatic push (7,6)

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Originally posted by Ragwort
1. If car ices tear up offer (9)
2. Measure test for the allotted period (4,7)
3. Old salt brings deadlock (9)
4. Sounds like a European on the attack (5)
5. Sir waives right for unknown and verve for this dramatic push (7,6)
1.
sacrifice


2.
time control


3.
stalemate


4.
check

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Originally posted by wolfgang59

1-4 SOLV'D
First four correct - perhaps too easy?

One to go which maybe a little tougher

Notes for any reader unfamiliar with UK style cryptic crossword conventions:

1.
If car ices (letters contained in answer) tear up (anagram signifier) offer (synonym for solution) SACRIFICE


2.
Measure test (direct synonyms for each word of solution) for (=) the allotted period (synonym for complete solution) TIME CONTROL


3.
Old Salt (direct synonym for each word in solution where two words put together make one) brings (=) deadlock (synonym for solution) this is quite a common crossword clue/solution with many similar variants STALEMATE


4.
Sounds like European (homophone suggesting a member of a european state) on the attack (hinting at solution with a slightly cryptic definition) I think now a better version of this clue would be "European reported on the attack" CHECK

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Originally posted by Ragwort

Sir waives right for unknown and verve for this dramatic push (7,6)
Just to finish off this unsolved clue

The sir is baronet

Replace r (right) with unknown (y - from algebra) gives bayonet attack (verve)
a dramatic push.