Guardian Cryptic #29067

2023-05-11

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1a

Rule I'm breaking in antisocial partying, getting banned (15)

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R[ule] I’M in (IN ANTISOCIAL)*

9a

Right bores lived temporarily with little space (7)

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R in CAMPED (lived temporarily)

10a

Fought, gently scratched and grazed (7)

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SCRAPPED (fought) less (one) P (piano, gently)

11a

Seedy Dickens character? (3)

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Definition + hint. Pip (full name Philip Pirrip) is the narrator of Great Expectations

12a

Good straightforward puzzle, which is entry level (6,5)

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13a

Playing techno, that man has a piano for a song (2,3,5)

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TECHNO* + HE + A P

15a

Dope or whizz getting poor grade (4)

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18a

Frenchman is the second person on the radio (4)

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20a

American welcomes banking employees providing bonds (10)

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23a

Solve the first clueabout time!and explain the idea properly (3,2,6)

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T in GET 1 ACROSS

25a

What setter says, not loudly, in court (3)

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WOOF (what a dog, e.g. a setter, “says”) less F (forte, loudly)

26a

African vegetarian has toast and a bagel gets eaten (7)

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O (round shape, like a bagel) in GRILL + A

27a

Toiletry of, say, Louis XIV in freezing shower (4,3)

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28a

Dubious Scotsmen's lore about thing periodically seen? (4,4,7)

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Alternate letters of tHiNg in (SCOTSMEN’S LORE)*, and it’s an &lit, meaning the whole clue is both definition and wordplay

Down

1d

Business concealed by accountantfraudulent racket (9)

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2d

Struggling son tucks into yoghurt found here? (2,1,4)

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S in IN A POT

3d

Questioned introduction from Homer's neighbour, clutching dog (8)

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PUG (dog) in I’M NED {Flanders, Homer Simpson’s neighbour thanks to Gladys for pointing out my typo )

4d

Sound of car by roundabout? (5)

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5d

Foolish US politicians may be here, taking in society (9)

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S in IN SENATE

6d

Off course in Dalmatia's borders, around Split (6)

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Reverse of D[almati]A + RIFT (split)

7d

Puck and Trampperfect! (7)

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8d

Bottom pinched by flipping horrid antifeminist (5)

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14d

Drugged out students getting U (4-5)

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16d

Vandal, one revealing plot following detective's case (9)

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D[etectiv]E + SPOILER

17d

Dropping ball in front of goal (8)

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19d

Individual admitted to centre for treatment of the guts (7)

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I in CENTRE*

21d

Left behind old overcrowded city, northerly Welsh city (7)

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22d

Hot sweet bread left out (6)

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STOLLEN less L – as in 10a, only one L is removed

23d

Repeatedly try Latin or Russian writer (5)

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GO (try) twice + L[atin]

24d

Ancient characters blunder when defending luvvie (5)

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