Guardian Cryptic #28217

2020-08-20

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Across

9a

Peacemaking position cut by a reactionary (9)

Generating...

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

PLAC[e] (position, cut) + A TORY (a reactionary)

10a

King takes courses, becoming great in English verse (5)

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11a

American's vote for Eliot, initi­ally, as literary prizewinner (5)

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

YEA (American’s vote – US senators vote yea or nay) + T S (Eliot initially) – William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923

12a

Namely repaid for collected food (9)

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13a

Novel was read as boat goes out of port (7)

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14a

Fascinated by unfinished story all told (2,5)

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17a

Person who paints diameter and two lines in circle (5)

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19a

Being regularly culled is important (3)

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20a

Clear parking in front of drive (5)

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21a

Blocked piano moved with effort (7)

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22a

Part of educational foundation improperly agreed to alter mark (7)

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

R [one of the three Rs – part of educational foundation) + an anagram (improperly) of AGREED – a tragically topical clue here in the UK: as I’m writing this, I’m listening to news of yet more appalling exam results chaos

24a

Use for microwave that woman put back before having meal (9)

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26a

Guardian's singular responsibility for grant (5)

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28a

Blockade, for instance, European is backing (5)

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29a

They may be used by poets — 10 and 11, for example, or 1 and 6? (3,6)

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

KEATS (10) and YEATS (11) are examples of eye rhymes – and they’re both poets! –  and SPRY (1) and SKYE (6) both rhyme with ‘eye’ (but they’re not ‘eye rhymes’) – brilliant clue!

Down

1d

Run into agent that's able to move supply (4)

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2d

Every year a chap turned up in country (6)

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

PA (per annum – every year) + a reversal (turned up) of A MAN (a chap)

3d

A university put in new chairs, causing ill-feeling? (10)

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

A U (a university) in N (new) + SEATING (chairs)

4d

Went hunting like queen, perhaps, and thought about nothing (6)

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

MUSED (thought) round O (nothing) – a queen is a female cat

5d

In revolutionary movement, discordant about Trotsky's end (8)

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

GRATING (discordant) round [trotsk]Y

6d

Place for flight, followed by English (4)

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7d

What's fatal for manynot opening best medicine? (8)

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8d

Exercised, being intermittently unsteady (4)

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

Alternate letters of U[n[S[[t]E[a]D[y]

13d

Band in performance that's barely finished (5)

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15d

Happy Tory excited about good layout of text (10)

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16d

European city and province, say, in fiction (5)

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18d

Part of issue the guard sorted (8)

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19d

Journalist's showing in British daily when people retire (8)

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

ED (journalist) in B (Britsh) TIMES (daily newspaper)

22d

Rough diamonds supporting hooligans' game, mostly (6)

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23d

Fears nearly all weapons (6)

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24d

Flower got out of bed (4)

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25d

A part of dress that's said to require attention (4)

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

A HEM (a part of a dress)

27d

Some medicine making us drowsier, oddly (4)

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