Guardian Cryptic #29073

2023-05-18

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1a

Fancy hot bedrooms are not groovy (6-5)

flowerflowerflower
9a

Flower sends submariner into an ecstasy (7)

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ANEMONE (flower)

10a

One shied, caught out concealing scam (7)

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COCONUT (object that is used in a COCONUT shy [fairground throwing game with COCONUT s as targets or as prizes])

11a

Cosmetics salesperson from America comes back to make a big bang (9)

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SUPERNOVA (a very brilliant NOVA [star that suddenly increases in brightness for a matter of days or years] resulting from an explosion which blows the star’s material into space, leaving an expanding cloud of gas; big bang)

12a

Tree's total area collecting carbon (5)

flowerflowerflower
13a

Accent presumably from the south-west (4)

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TONE (accent or intonation)

14a

Armada, circling a minute lifeboat, stalls (4,6)

flowerflowerflower
16a

One takes people through specialist trial (10)

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EXPERIMENT (something done to test a theory or to discover something unknown; trial)

19a

Writing about sporting blunder in bad visibility (4)

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SMOG (thick smoky fog; bad visibility)

20a

Fat boy meets another finally across river (5)

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LARDY (fat)

21a

Pole is three times woundedhe takes high risks (4,5)

flowerflowerflower
23a

We hear Oscar's agent did lose all control (3,4)

flowerflowerflower
24a

One who's withdrawn from class in recycling (7)

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RECLUSE (one who lives retired from the world)

25a

End striker's loan period for second leg (6,5)

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Down

1d

Wife not interested tonight? I can't manage (8,7)

flowerflowerflower
2d

Stench of Iberian river, bubble rising to the surface (5)

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ODOUR (stench)

3d

Ornamental tracery work probed by judge (7)

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TREFOIL (three-lobed form, ornament or aperture, as in tracery or heraldry)

4d

Out of helmet take a large pastry (7)

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BACLAVA (Middle-Eastern dessert made of layers of filo pastry, honey, nuts, etc – more often spelled BAKLAVA but the version with C is in most dictionaries)

5d

A man draws this stack of hay and wood (8)

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RICKSHAW (small two-wheeled, hooded carriage drawn by a man or men)

6d

Teacher preparing me a talkme! Yuk, it's unbelievable (4,4,2,5)

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7d

There's malaria spreading: call for help (5,3,5)

flowerflowerflower
8d

Support each other to win hearts, blocking pig killer (5,8)

flowerflowerflower
15d

All the officers here succeeded in moving my trial (4,4)

flowerflowerflower
17d

Ring performer has millions on top of a little gold (7)

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18d

Favoured remedy in no way peculiar (7)

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NOSTRUM (any favourite remedy or scheme)

22d

Lacy border seemingly good on bed (5)

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PICOT (loop in an ornamental edging; lacy border)