Guardian Cryptic #29026

2023-03-24

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1a

Singer is withdrawn from this race (6)

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4a

Queen punches British bully, 19 (6)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘punches’) of ER (‘Queen’) in B (‘British’) plus COW (‘bully’), for John Bercow, a past speaker (’19’) of the House of Commons.

9a

March Ides essentially, short time (4)

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10a

Conditions bad for 19 (10)

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11a

Artist's high clouds (6)

Generating...

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

An anagram (‘high’) of ‘artist’.

12a

Bomb soaring over entrance to Russian fortress (8)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘over’) of R (‘entrance to R ussian’) in GARISON, an anagram (‘bomb’, as an imperative) of ‘soaring’.

13a

Two permits for jewellery (9)

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15a

Might that be Arctic roll, did you say? (4)

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16a

1 down's communication (4)

Generating...

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

‘1 down’ TWEETER as a user of Twitter.

17a

'Coochy-coo' etc: additional vacuous expressions embraced by yours truly (9)

Generating...

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

An envelope (’embraced by’) of OTHER (‘additional’) plus ES (‘vacuous E xpression S ‘) in ME (‘yours truly’). I could not find MOTHERESE in my Chambers, but is is in Collins online, and in Wikipedia, under baby talk.

21a

Train during parade transports leader of carnival (8)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘transports’) of C (‘leader of C arnival’) in IN (‘during’) STRUT (‘parade’).

22a

19 — 27, for example (6)

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24a

Application by the way collected by 19 for publishing conventions (5,5)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘collected by’) of USE (‘application’) plus (‘by’) ST (street, ‘the way’) in HOYLE (Sir Lindsay, current speaker (’19’) of the House of Commons).

25a

Book in accident, cover ripped off (4)

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26a

1 down's 19 (6)

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27a

Volleyball player races into spectator (6)

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Down

1d

19 — 15, for example (7)

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2d

Wine: port certainly in Hamburg (5)

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3d

Understood philosopher cutting works? (7)

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5d

Urge in old flame burning: that's about right (6)

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6d

Soldier in ditch, last of five saved by nurse (9)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘saved by’) of BIN (‘ditch’, verb, discard) plus E (‘last of fiv E ‘) in CARER (‘nurse’).

7d

Third in milk can collected by white tongue (7)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘collected by’) of L (‘third in mi L k’) plus LOO (‘can’) in WAN (‘white’), for Belgian French.

8d

Move forgotten, lady finally caught by male dancer (6,7)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘caught by’) of RGOTFONTE, an anagram (‘move’) of ‘forgotten’ plus Y (‘lad Y finally’) in MAN (‘male”).

14d

Pose kept up by horse flogger (9)

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16d

Do document, toe the line (7)

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18d

Aggressor and detective court witness? (4-3)

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19d

Into empty shower 22 carries a chair (7)

Generating...

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

A double envelope (‘into’ and ‘carries’) of ‘a’ in PEKE (’22’ WOOFER as a dog) in SR (’empty S howe R ‘), with ‘chair’ as a meeting leader.

20d

It's for breakfast: material detailed, including first of eggs (6)

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

An envelope (‘including’) of E (‘first of E ggs’) in MUSLI[n] (‘material’) minus its last letter (‘de-tailed’).

23d

Monkey doesn't have wings, time for little 1 down! (5)

Generating...

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

A charade of [h]OWLE[r] (‘monkey’) minus its outer letters (‘doesn’t have wings’) plus T (‘time’).