Guardian Cryptic #29056

2023-04-28

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Across

1a

Forget it is either Edward or Kelly being a rat-catcher? (5,4)

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6a

Sad Parisian you dressed in bit of lady's underwear (3,2)

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9a

Tense nurse speaks about damn silly instructions for man taking tablets (3,12)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘about’) of ANDM, an anagram (‘silly’) of ‘damn’ in T (‘tense’) plus EN (enrolled ‘nurse’) plus COMMENTS (‘speaks’), with a cryptic definition.

10a

Is in possession of one drug or another (4)

Generating...

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

A charade of HAS (‘is in possession of’) plus H (heroin, ‘one drug’), the definition being ‘another’ drug, hashish, a marijuana product.

11a

Running a web browser, search­ing for wild animals (2,6)

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14a

Drink some beer, eating egg hard-boiled, perhaps (5,4)

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15a

African animal almost weed on Imogen's jacket (5)

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16a

Didn't stand by younger man who's a bit of an animal (5)

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18a

Fit female wearing a wonderful flip-flop in America (5-4)

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20a

First-class pilot receiving officer promotion and praise (8)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘receiving’) of CO (commanding ‘officer’) in ‘a’ plus CLADE ( Emil , WW11 Luftwaffe ‘pilot’). … but see russtoo @2 for a parsing which avoids the name unfamiliar to many (at the expense of using ACE in two adjacent answers).

21a

I try welcoming bishop in a West African language (4)

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25a

Fancying that man wearing felt hose out dogging (3,2,3,5,2)

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26a

Manufacturer of pop, like one Jack drinks (5)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘drinks’) of AS (‘like’) plus I (‘one’, Roman numeral or personal pronoun) in OS (Ordinary Seaman, ‘Jack’), for one of the pop music bands so named (but not the soft drink – it is a brand name of the drink, not its manufacturer, and ‘pop’ generally refers to something carbonated; thus the definition is cryptic).

27a

One bringing up issue that's arisen with mud wrestling (9)

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Down

1d

Hard time accepted by criminal up in nick (5)

Generating...

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

A reversal (‘up’ in a down light) of H (‘hard’) plus CTOH, an envelope (‘accepted by’) of T (‘time’) in CON (‘criminal’).

2d

Word spoken by Caesar before child's game (7)

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3d

Cross thoroughfare with nothing covering area inside it (4)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘inside it’) of O (‘nothing’) plus (‘covering’) A (‘area’) in RD (road, ‘thoroughfare’).

4d

Something penned by William Blake? (4)

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5d

500 homes tidy up mess, say (6,4)

Generating...

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

A charade of D (‘Roman numeral, ‘500’) plus In (home) plus IN (home, hence ‘homes’) plus GROOM (‘tidy up’).

6d

Poets, we hear, making clangers? (10)

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7d

Fail removing odd bits of sacred drinking vessel (7)

Generating...

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

A charade of TANK (‘fail’) plus ‘s A c R e D ‘ ‘removing odd bits’.

8d

Sports team with jerk in a danger to cricket? (9)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘with … in’) of TIC (‘jerk’) in PE (‘sports’) plus SIDE (‘team’).

12d

Special note probing govern­ment's dishonesty and plots (10)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘probing’) of N (‘note’) in S (‘special’) plus TORY LIES (‘government’s dishonesty’).

13d

Problem for wizard, this being the case at times (3,3,4)

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14d

Crazy chap, is it? Character resembling a football nut (9)

Generating...

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

A charade of PISTACHI, an anagram (‘crazy’) of ‘chap is it’; plus O (‘character resembling a football’).

17d

Ancient writer understood Guardian readers (7)

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19d

You heard blow is consumed by teetotallers in American capital (7)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘is consumed’) of U (‘you heard’) plus GUST (‘blow’) in AA (Alcoholics Anonymous, ‘teetotallers’), for the capital city of Maine.

22d

Old G-man with a stutter is taken out (5)

Generating...

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

A charade of O (‘old’) plus F-FED (‘G-man with a stutter’). The definition is colloquial for killed.

23d

Make black tea (4)

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24d

Amused expression inspired by 25 (2-2)

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