Guardian Cryptic #28958

2023-01-04

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Across

1a

Commercial lines are damaging(7)

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5a

determined to provide late fix (4,3)

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9a

Reservation about navy being toasted (5)

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10a

Complain about health group creating a drug production facility (4,5)

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11a

College let head show some inexperience (10)

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12a

It reveals excitement as we pick up ambassador (4)

Generating...

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

WE round His/Her Excellency (ambassador)

14a

Junior executive position often advertised in the back window (4,2,5)

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18a

Goethe's gift wasted? You really don't know, not having it (3,8)

Generating...

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

An anagram (wasted) of GOETHE’S GIFT

21a

Techie type emerging when the power died finally (4)

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22a

US gunman is surprisingly modest (10)

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25a

Head onto secondary routeit's showing green (5,4)

Generating...

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

B ROAD (secondary route) + BEAN (slang for head)

26a

Local loses name when backing musical (5)

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27a

Book is on what make us who we are (7)

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28a

Move DIY into section that shows profit (3,4)

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Down

1d

Group vacated Coventry to establish religious office (6)

Generating...

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

ABBA (group) + C[oventr]Y

2d

Stout caring heart needed in unpleasant surroundings (6)

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3d

Helping reserve to create means for allocating scarce resources (6,4)

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4d

Nigel gets beaten uphe nicked someone's marbles (5)

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5d

Let's shape go if you eat too many like this (4,5)

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6d

Long to be a revolutionary (4)

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7d

Left leader in a fight (5,3)

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8d

Half of find submerged in ancient city gives diver problem (3,5)

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13d

It's peculiar, butler says, in a complicated sort of way (10)

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15d

Distribute green binsthey're very green (9)

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16d

Links up over wire to capture unpleasant insect (5,3)

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17d

It starts breaking up communication in the US (4,4)

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19d

Coastal resort that has some edge in India (6)

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20d

Shocked as top lawyer suffers with tension (6)

Generating...

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

I’m not entirely sure of this: AG (Attorney General – top lawyer) + HAS (suffers with) T (an abbreviation for surface tension)

23d

Put nuts back, having no time when night's over (3,2)

Generating...

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

A reversal (back) of PU[t] NU[t]S minus t t (having no time)

24d

Supplements found in coating of acid drops (4)

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