Guardian Cryptic #28969

2023-01-17

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Across

7a

Hundreds of runs etcstrangely, that's admitted (9)

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

*(runs etc) [anag: strangely ] with i.e. ("that is") admitted

8a

Amusing setter's latest splits party fifty-fifty (5)

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

(sette) R [ 's latest ] splits DO ("party") + L (fifty, in Roman numerals) + L (fifty)

9a

A hundred to clue 4 (4,5)

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

F(IV)E'S CORE is IV (4, in Roman numerals)

10a

A hundred pence to embrace that fellow ape (5)

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12a

Cartoons from Japan are funny; matinees not showing ET (6)

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13a

Support for sources of fresh water? Hear, hear! (4,4)

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14a

Resented being drugged inappropriately (7)

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17a

See 23

20a

Retires with everyone's favourite vessels after every other raid (8)

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

JO ("everyone's favourite") + URNS ("vessels") after [ every other ] (r) A (i) D I can't fully parse this as I can't see why JO is "everybody's favourite". It may refer to Jo March in "Little Women", or, less likely, an old Scots word for beloved.

22a

Boatman told to go for being inattentive (6)

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24a

Lows include the core of a hundred states of mind (5)

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

MOOS ("lows") include [ the core of ] (hun) D (red)

25a

Notes heartless move by way of working with African country, deporting the weak (9)

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

[ heartless ] M (ov) E by MO (modus operandi, so "way of working") + R (w) ANDA ("African country", deporting W (weak, in physics))

26a

Work on reported poverty (5)

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27a

Gave wrong name and governed after false claims (9)

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Down

1d

More than a hundred corrections to ignore (6)

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2d

A way to understand about Boatman, broadcast digitally (8)

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

St. (street, "a way") + READ ("to understand") about ME ("Boatman")

3d

Perhaps Vincent de Paul, a priest in Gascony, brought up burps (6)

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

<=(St. ("perhaps Vincent de Paul, a saint) + CURÉ (French for "priest", so "priest in Gascony", brought up )

4d

Creates fresh draft from a hundred raw soldiers (7)

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5d

Born romantic: a hundred music scores all begun by one composer (6)

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6d

Perhaps ConservativeHome seized by slow type, heading for recession (8)

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

MP (Member of Parliament, so "perhaps Conservative") + IN ("home") seized by SLUG ("slow type")

11d

Put briefly into boiling water, cutting out new cold tripe (4)

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

BLA (nC) H ("put briefly into boiling water") cutting out N (new) + C (cold)

15d

Trade uncovered over a hundred finalists in European space station (5,3)

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

(t) RAD (e) [ uncovered ] over IOO ("a hundred") +[ finalists in ] (europea) N (spac) E

16d

It's worth a hundred cents to escape from Monsieur Obrecht (4)

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18d

Perhaps glass ceiling: no opening for job with old head of company at its core (8)

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

[ no opening for ] (j) OB with STALE ("old") with [ head of ] C (ompany) at its core

19d

Fan of austerity called out as an inflexible parasite (7)

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21d

Showing pity for nothing: an empty hundred years, with no beginning and no end (2,4)

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

O (nothing) + [ an empty ] H (undre) D + (y) EAR (s) [ with no beginning and no end ]

22d

One hundred taken on by champion simultaneously (2,4)

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23d
17a

Good hundredth puzzle, accepted without debate? (6,7)

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