Guardian Cryptic #28964

2023-01-11

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9a

Bingo! Ring for professional visit (5,4)

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10a

Jolly male's fine disembarking from transport (5)

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11a

Extremely full? Offer third piece of toast and margarine (5)

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

definition: Flora is a brand of margarine extreme letters from F-ul-L and O-ffe-R, plus third letter from to-A-st

12a

Suggestions of how to clue 'notes' (9)

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

‘over tones’ in a crossword clue might indicate an anagram of (tones)*, giving ‘notes’

13a

Don penning article on elements (7)

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14a

Convicts in China heading to Shanghai (7)

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17a

Real trouble checking temp­erature in the future (5)

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

anagram/”trouble” of (Real)*, around/”checking” T (temperature)

19a

Babe in film, one in Portuguese (3)

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

definition referring to the film Babe [wiki] about a pig I=”one” in PG (Pg is an abbreviation for “Portuguese”)

20a

Favoured king saved by Lewis heroine (5)

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21a

Rod led astray chasing bowling technique (7)

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

anagram/”astray” of (led)*, following/”chasing” SPIN=”bowling technique” (spin bowling in cricket)

22a

Large animal in New York city (7)

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24a

DIY product recommended to stuff parrot? (9)

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

definition: a brand of filler material used e.g. to fill cracks or holes in a wall sounds like ‘Polly filler’, something used to stuff a parrot

26a

Swear as 100p missing from wallet? (5)

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

wordplay uses ‘100’ and ‘p’ separately C=”100″ in Roman numerals, plus p-URSE=”wallet” with the “p missing”

28a

Sport welcomes leading African-American goddess (5)

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

definition: Fauna is the name of a Roman goddess [wiki] FUN=”Sport”, around the leading letter of A-frican, and then add A (American)

29a

Touring Spain first, one travelling light (3,2,4)

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1d

Cook, one seen in bars, left out and drinking hard (4)

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

a CLEF is seen in “bars” of musical notation, with L (left) taken out and around/”drinking” H (hard) instead

2d

Dawn's quality captures gold (6)

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3d

Bit of gardening: raking earth, cutting grass to be collected again (10)

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

a bit / a letter from G-ardening, plus anagram/”raking” of (earth)*, all inside REED=”grass”

4d

Relish hero without ego (6)

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5d

Taking rest of Flake back in envy, perhaps the origin of gluttony (8)

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

PEEL=”Flake” reversed/”back” and inside SIN=”envy, perhaps”, then plus the origin/first letter of G-luttony

6d

Must shift spot of dirt (4)

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

definition: ‘smut’ can mean ‘a flake or spot of dirt, soot, etc’ anagram/”shift” of (Must)*

7d

Available to cover finale of Pac-man on Twitchit's wild! (8)

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

FREE=”Available” around the end of [Pac-ma]- N , plus TIC=”Twitch” in the surface, Twitch is the name of a online streaming platform often used to show video gaming content

8d

Look back over end of story with these (4)

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13d

County loses energy (5)

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15d

Evil criminal left cinema (10)

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16d

In essays, Oscar discovered authority (3-2)

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18d

Test about old city den in books (5,3)

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

reversal/”about” of all of: UR=”old city” plus LAIR=”den” both inside NT (New Testament, “books”)

19d

Unique, like an empty House of Lords? (8)

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

the House of Lords is made up of Peers, and would be empty if it was Peer-less

22d

Knockout with strength (6)

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23d

Clever grown-up skipping third of Ulster, taking in Ireland (6)

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

AD- UL -T=”grown-up”, minus a third of the letters of UL -ster, and instead taking in ROI (Republic of Ireland)

24d

Blow smoke (4)

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25d

Even flipping 50%, initially switching heads and tails (4)

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

reversal/”flipping” of H-ALF=”50%”, switching the initial H (heads) for a T (tails)

27d

PM once was disheartened and upset leaving country (4)

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

definition: Anthony Eden was UK Prime Minister “was”=W- a -S, disheartened by removing the central a , then reversed/”upset” to give sw which removed/”leaving” from sw -EDEN=”country”