Guardian Cryptic #29055

2023-04-27

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Across

1a

Monarch, politician and British parliament in sport (5,5,5)

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9a

Intense feeling I don't know in suppressing love (7)

Generating...

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

PASS (I don’t know) + IN round O (love)

10a

See 28

11a

Last of all, Ivan the Terrible born (3)

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12a

Brilliant (as a scandalous headline?) (11)

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13a

Something sugary on dish, honey (7,3)

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15a

Band blew their own trumpets? (4)

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18a

Sensible characters, we hear? (4)

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20a

Crack, where stuff in fluid bleeds (10)

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23a

Tools locked in alongside spring, stopping mechanism (5,6)

Generating...

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

RAKES (tools) in BY (alongside) + STEM (spring)

25a

Chicken dripping (3)

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26a

Sexual practice with an after-dark visitor (7)

Generating...

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

S AND M (sexual practice) + AN ‘A magical person supposed to put children to sleep by sprinkling sand in their eyes’

27a

Board showing pasty as lacking in taste (7)

Generating...

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

PALE (pasty) + T[as]TE

28a
10a

Opera something painful and irritating, amateur collection for the average Joe? (3,2,3,7,7)

Generating...

Down

1d

Tool grasped under peg in wheel (6,3)

Generating...

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

SAW (grasped) under PIN (peg) in COG (wheel)

2d

Person bagging degree, Cambridge's ultimate blue (7)

Generating...

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

ONE (person) round BSC (degree) + [cambridg]E

3d

Punches ain't less brutal (4,4)

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4d

Approach argument (3-2)

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5d

Braggart again has come dancing (9)

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6d

Criminal within touch? (6)

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7d

Basket in sport for discussion online (7)

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8d

Piece of floss is a long fibre (5)

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14d

Quite so in a German church (5,4)

Generating...

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

VERY (so) in EIN (German for a) + CH (Church)

16d

Elastic we gather, medium floury foodstuff (9)

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17d

Mother throttles fighter in our class (8)

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19d

River shut up in year before opening of Nile (7)

Generating...

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

SH (shut up) + ANNO (in {the} year, as in anno Domini, in the year of our Lord) + N[ile]

21d

Date encapsulating cold charm (7)

Generating...

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

BE WITH (date) round C (cold)

22d

15, ultimate of those names at sea (6)

Generating...

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

An anagram (at sea) of [thos]E NAMES: a pity about ‘sea’ in both clue and answer – and that CREW is the answer at 15ac

23d

Literary heart beats finally in resonating sound (5)

Generating...

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

[beat[S in BOOM (resonating sound)

24d

Area of interest to film (5)

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