Guardian Cryptic #29104

2023-06-23

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Across

1a

Cascara part-exchanged in South American city (7)

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5a

Is able to divide into sections as French or Italian ballad (7)

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9a

Phoney source of fuel in Ireland, you said, is imported (5)

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10a

People badly affected by anxiety changed 5 down (9)

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11a

Old record is included in contracts for rock cognoscenti? (10)

Generating...

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

O LOG IS in GETS (contracts, e.g. a disease)

12a

Country finally rejecting any possible reason for complaint (4)

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14a

Plot Haiti conman concocted (11)

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18a

Reversed so poorly, then drove initially in wrong gear (11)

Generating...

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

(REVERSED SO)* + D[rove]

21a

Some land in Israeli city (4)

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22a

Author from Sicily and I fled valley, falling into Italian river (10)

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

I RAN (fled) + DELL (valley) in PO (river)

25a

Edible seaweed from best part of shore I miss in confusion (5,4)

Generating...

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

Anagram of SHOR[e] I MISS

26a

Relatively older Russian in play against a New York ace (5)

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

V (versus) A NY A – title character of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya

27a

Poles embracing orphan, those who look after kids (7)

Generating...

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

ANNIE (as in Little Orphan Annie) in N[orth] S[outh]

28a

Rugs from western part of Persia and instruments from Hawaii (7)

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Down

1d

Capacity of youngster to mature (6)

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2d

Country upset about nothing in this part of the world (6)

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

O in reverse of NIGER

3d

Muscat dome rebuilt to required specifications (6-4)

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4d

Positive reaction from Spain that's binding in a part of Egypt (5)

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

IN A in (bound by) SI (Spanish “yes”)

5d

States theme, as seen in 14, 20, 22 and elsewhere (9)

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

See preamble

6d

France's negative statement about European gas (4)

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

E in NON

7d

Something used by cook, as it happens, in modified olio (5,3)

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8d

Eastern workers in their part of the world right to use what is not theirs (8)

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

E MEN in EAST

13d

North of Kent port, letters he has passed across (6,4)

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

H AND E (the letters that “he” has) + DOVER

15d

Really stupid 5 down in disarray (9)

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16d

One kind of African thus followed by another (8)

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17d

Architectural style from state on Atlantic (8)

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19d

German physicist more intelligent than he sounds? (6)

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

Max Planck , famous for his constant, was presumably not “as thick as a plank”

20d

Book some Italians taking horses across motorway (6)

Generating...

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

M[otorway] in ROANS, and two definitions (the book from the New Testament)

23d

Greek storyteller making front of audience sit up (5)

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

A[udience] + reverse of POSE

24d

Someone from an Asian country that is dismissing conclusions (4)

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