Guardian Cryptic #28915

2022-11-15

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Across

1a

Laureate's wiles manipulated with delicacy (5,3,5)

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10a

Suggest taking off front wagon that could be so split (2,5)

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11a

Help a councillor get returned by a rural area (7)

Generating...

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

A reversal (‘get returned’) of AID (‘help’) plus ‘a’ plus CR (‘councillor’) plus ‘a’.

12a

Organised data for board (5)

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13a

Fight some paper disposal scheme (9)

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14a

Squeezed wife and spoke (5)

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16a

Complains at length when volume's zero (6,3)

Generating...

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

Definition and literal interpretation (with an apostrophe).

18a

Popular English composer has died? I'm flabbergasted (1,5,3)

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19a

Mass behind small hill in bad weather (5)

Generating...

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

A charade of S (‘small’) plus TOR (‘hill’) plus M (‘mass’).

20a

Tricky in the extreme? Shorten it drastically (9)

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23a

Expand length and sound menacing (5)

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24a

Note pocketed by sweet little thing needing no deciphering (2,5)

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25a

Saint, tortured about a month, sustained energy (7)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘about’) of ‘a’ plus M (‘month’) in STINA, an anagram (‘tortured’) of ‘saint’.

26a

Getting rid of car in industrial park (7,6)

Generating...

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

Definition and literal interpretation.

Down

2d

Almost speak up, wretch: you a traitor too? (2,2,5)

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3d

Wild creature that is about (5)

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4d

Having drunk last of gin, passes on eats (5)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘having drunk’) of N (‘last of gi N ‘) in DIES (‘passes’).

5d

All the work of Dickens, never a week off (4-5)

Generating...

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

All the Year Round was a magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens.

6d

Daring moveskey, a spade finesse (9)

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7d

Country I may represent (5)

Generating...

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

Crypticish definition (but not even an IVR).

8d

With wrongly set kilts, I show organ (4,1,8)

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9d

Maybe granny often seen with foot above head among friends (13)

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15d

Could this identity document reverse a dismissal? (5,4)

Generating...

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

The ‘dismissal’ being a RED CARD, for the document which indeed allows me re-entry into the USA.

16d

Native American's needs grew after development (5,4)

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17d

Medical man I wish to report first (9)

Generating...

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

A charade of O (‘I wish’ – “O for a muse of fire” in the prologue to Henry V – but not the later “wooden O” ) plus ‘to’ plus LOG (‘report’) plus IST (‘first’).

21d

Unblemished award? (5)

Generating...

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

O SCAR (‘Unblemished’).

22d

Discrimination not as terrible, if limited (5)

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23d

Two soldiers are enormous (5)

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