Guardian Cryptic #29019

2023-03-16

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Across

1a

Scientific study of scalp thus prodding nit (12)

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

An envelope (‘prodding’) of TROPHY (‘scalp’) plus SIC (indicating an error copied from a source, not an error in the copying, ‘so’) in ASS (‘nit’).

9a

Item of furniture, very Indian? (5)

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

An implied envelope: V (‘very’) ‘in’- -‘dian’.

10a

Indian dish greater in US city (9)

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11a

Dry tree made for squirrel (7)

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12a

Soother, eg Assam? (4,3)

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13a

Unsatisfying resolution where claimant I gathered has got cross (10)

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

A charade of ANTICLIMA, an anagram (‘gathered’) of ‘claimant I’; plus (‘has got’) X (‘cross’).

15a

Mean for name, say, to have an M removed in Indian city (4)

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18a

Wheeze while visiting doctor (4)

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19a

New Delhi bad, or unsentimental (4-6)

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22a

Recollection of passage from intermezzo, so romantically, tenderly played (7)

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24a

Connoisseur engaging US vice-president and British PM in conversation? (7)

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

Sounding like (‘in conversation’) GORE (‘US vice-president’) plus MAY (‘British PM’).

25a

Hot drink, case of cocoa fed to a sheep (9)

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

An envelope (‘fed to’) of CA (‘case of C oco A ‘) in ‘a’ plus MERINO (‘sheep’).

26a

Dig ground initially bare? (5)

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

An implied envelope of G (‘ G round initially’) in NUDE (including the in, ‘bare’).

27a

Twice make for poser (7,5)

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Down

1d

Supporters voted, as a Liberal stuffed by Conservative (9)

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2d

Course: figure office has cancelled it in city (8)

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

A charade of TEN (‘figure’) plus DEN (‘office’) plus ‘c[it]y’ minus IT (‘has cancelled it’).

3d

Ring doctor about card game (5)

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4d

Wobbly flab in store where one's fed breakfast and evening meal (4,5)

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5d

Darn pain! (6)

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6d

Voices heard in paper, reportedly? (5)

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7d

Cricketing format has trans­formed Indian state (6)

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8d

Country in India surrounded by wild bears (6)

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

An envelope (‘surrounded by’) of I (NATO alphabet, ‘India’) in SERBA, an anagram (‘wild’) of ‘bears’.

14d

Lover tickling Maria, not Oscar (9)

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

An anagram (‘tickling’) of ‘Maria not’ plus O (NATO alphabet, ‘Oscar’).

16d

Honour girl crossing over the hill and sea (4,5)

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

An envelope (‘crossing’) of OLD (‘over the hill’) plus MED (Mediterranean, ‘sea’) in GAL (‘girl’).

17d

Inhospitable housing union men built with pillars (8)

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

An envelope (‘housing’) of U (‘union’) plus MNE, an anagram (‘built’) of ‘men’ in COLD (‘inhospitable’).

18d

Custom of south-west India beat it! (2,4)

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20d

Finish off muck guzzling the stew (6)

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

An envelope (‘guzzling’) of ‘the’ in DIR[t] (‘muck’) minus its last letter (‘finish off’).

21d

Popular Indian leader, shut your face! (6)

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23d

The end of my eight gates ajar, all opening (5)

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24d

Good capacity for curry (5)

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