Guardian Cryptic #29102

2023-06-21

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Across

1a

Italian heiress left to confront heartless idea (6)

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5a

'Isms' tend somehow to determine outlooks (8)

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9a

Demanded to be at home with little girl and boy (8)

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10a

Sick-looking friend needing cover (6)

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11a

Notice French art showing Hell to Milton (4)

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12a

Lack of vitality very little to the fore in worship (10)

Generating...

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

ENERVATION (‘lack of vitality’) with the V (‘very little’) moved to the front (‘to the fore’).

13a

City raised endless soldiers (6)

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15a

The fellow dressed in fancy state, ultimate in elegance? (8)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘dressed in’) of HE (‘the fellow’) in AESTT, an anagram (fancy’) of ‘state’ plus E (ultimate in eleganc E ‘), with an &lit definition.

17a

Instruments in a car so complicated (8)

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19a

Male snake gets angrier (6)

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20a

Sees what's wrongnothing right in illustrations (10)

Generating...

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

A charade of BISH (antique slang, a mistake, ‘what’s wrong’) plus O (‘nothing’) plus PRICS, an envelope (‘in’) or R (‘right’) in PICS (‘illustrations’).

22a

Frothy stuff provided by helpless pub server (4)

Generating...

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

A subtraction: BARM(‘aid’) (‘pub server’) minus AID (‘helpless’), for a word, meaning yeast, not as well known as its derivative ‘barmy”.

23a

Not just a Parisian trade event (6)

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24a

Rejected everywhere, we hear (5,3)

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25a

Slippery types falling over support, being less alert (8)

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26a

Look to imprison a revolutionary in Texas city (6)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘to imprison’) of A RED (‘a revolutionary’) in LO (‘look’).

Down

2d

What's done to criminal, I fancy, not following a particular line (15)

Generating...

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

An anagram (‘fancy’) of ‘done to criminal I’

3d

Follows one side turning up on cricket field before match? (5)

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4d

I invent an unusual solution to a snake bite? (9)

Generating...

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

An anagram (‘unusual’) of ‘I invent an’.

5d

Fellow holding party has upset an iconic female (7)

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6d

Measurement in a communic­ations circuit one person has installed (5)

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7d

Spotted copper nabbing group in outdoor building (9)

Generating...

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

A double envelope (‘nabbing’ and ‘in’) of LOT (‘group’) in PC (police constable, ‘copper’) in SHED (‘outdoor building’).

8d

Ninth drought and one will be sufferingcrops being this? (4,2,3,6)

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14d

Party member in demonstration having to make haste (5,4)

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16d

Active males rest twice a year? (9)

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18d

The firs chopped? One may get a dramatic change of scenery (7)

Generating...

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

An anagram (‘chopped’) of ‘the firs’.

21d

Religious type is hit on the rebound (5)

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22d

Hat left out in alcove (5)

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