Guardian Cryptic #24564

2008-12-05

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Across

1a

Writer and US president enraged university here (4,5,4)

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10a

Swing band with a cellist, unusually (9)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

O [ ring, as in wedding band? ] + [A CELLIST]*

11a

Bones found in river two years after the Massacre of the Innocents? (5)

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12a

As seen in Kenya, large antelope (5)

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13a

Between New Year in one country and summer in another, have food and a private meeting (4-1-4)

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14a

Woman in 20s who's not staying cool? (7)

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16a

Each year I would take off and let go (4,3)

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P[er] A[nnum] I’D OFF: ‘let go’: the modern euphemism for ‘fire’.

20a

Abandoned respect for royal staff (7)

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21a

Completely mistaken, also exhausted (3,3,3)

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23a

Animal first over threshold of ark (5)

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BE[A]ST

24a

Among minor masterpieces, Bellini's work (5)

flowerflowerflower
25a

Hesitant expression about member playing one instrument (9)

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H’M around ARM [member] ON [playing] I

26a

Me and thee somehow composed old song (4,5,4)

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Down

2d

Not for the first time ocean damaged net (4,5)

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3d

Low mark for big mouth (5)

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4d

Advertisement more suitable for trans-formational device (7)

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5d

Dance performed by Armstrong? (3-4)

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cd: Neil Armstrong’s famous ‘one [small] step for mankind’

6d

Give legal status to supporting African country's energy (9)

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FOR [supporting] MALI’S E

7d

Part of mountain is cold place - zero Fahrenheit on top (5)

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[f] RIDGE: quite cool, I thought!

8d

Head in direction of compass reading? Exactly! (5,3,5)

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9d

What a recidivist does, repeatedly (4,5,4)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

and another

15d

Verlaine's rhymes for ugly woman (5,4)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

rhymes with Verlaine [1873-1939], French poet. [I’ve never thought of a Plain Jane as necessarily ugly.]

17d

Head off most prejudice and social exclusion (9)

flowerflowerflower
19d

King currently welcoming medical group showing expertise (4-3)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

WHO [World Health Organisation] inside K NOW

20d

Release group without charge (3,4)

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22d

Doctor's orders, having this part of the body covered (5)

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23d

Assassin of commander-in-chief and army general (5)

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