Guardian Cryptic #29149

2023-08-15

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Across

1a

By-product of the greatest possible tofu spread to consume (7)

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

*(tofu) [anag: spread ] to consume ALL ("the greatest possible")

5a
23d

Extremely full glasses with wine being knocked down (7)

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

[ extremely ] F (ul) L + OO (looks like a pair of "glasses") with RED ("wine")

9a

Triumph Engineering's first car (5)

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10a

Iconic American occasionally sailed on board Darwin's ship (4,5)

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

[ occasionally ] (s) A (i) L (e) D on board BEAGLE ("Darwin's ship")

11a

It ought to stop someone getting into a bad habit (5,5)

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12a

It's needed to make tofu fritters go crispyby all conclusions, ace (4)

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

(fritter) S (g) O (crisp) Y [ by all conclusions ] + A (ace)

14a

It's the windward side, if drilled verbally (12)

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18a

Remaining optimistic about parking in little retail precinct (8,4)

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

HOPING ("remaining optimistic") about P (parking) in SMALL ("little")

21a

Put out some books describing America (4)

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22a

End result of group of footballers drinking in my university's entertaining (5,5)

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

FA (Football Association, so "group of footballer") drinking IN + LSE (London School of Economics, so "university") entertaining COR ("my")

25a

Pamphlet with chart requiring timeshare arrangement to be easily managed (9)

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26a

Distressed by home-made bomb around edges of roadblock (5)

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

IED (improvised explosive device, so "home-made bomb") around [ edges of ] R (oadbloc) K

27a

Swallow anything doctor opens (7)

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28a

Police officer and soldier discuss amputating last of fingers (7)

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Down

1d

Opened a cafe in retirementit's in front (6)

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2d

50 blue films essentially casting unknown, getting award (6)

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

L (50 in Roman numerals) + A (z) URE ("blue", casting Z (unknown, in mathematics)) + (fi) L (ms) [ essentially ]

3d

Barking police service I see being cut twicesuperintendent initially ignores alarm bells? (10)

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4d
15d

You can play a game with this iPad, for exampleI bet nan's confused (5,6,3)

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5d

Female adult has worked with maximum effort (4,5,5)

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6d

Sign on without me (4)

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7d

I go and learn about local (8)

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8d

Zealots found blocking road, ie hard shoulder (8)

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13d

Ending part of News at Ten's introduction covers Sunak changing sides (10)

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

A BONG (a chime of a bell as is heard at the start of ITV's "News at Ten", so "News at Ten's introduction") covers (R> L ) ISHI (Sunak, changing sides (i.e. Right (R) becomes Left (L))

15d

See 4

16d

Major vessel dockedassuming ship regularly mends manifold (8)

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

AORT (a) ("major vessel", docked ) assuming SS (steam"ship") + [ regularly ] (m) E (n) D (s)

17d

Doctor Watson to visit Burma on vacationit's a hot country (8)

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

*(watson) [anag: doctor ] to visit B (urm) A [ on vacation ]

19d

Possibly leaves space vehicle (6)

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20d

It's like something from mediaeval times expected to turn up in a Cornish river (6)

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

<=DUE ("expected", to turn up ) in FAL ("a Cornish river")

23d

See 5

24d

Present not finished for party? (4)

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

STAG(e) ("present", not finished )