Guardian Cryptic #29152

2023-08-18

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Across

1a

Raft with hole initially lost at seanot one of these then? (7)

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5a

Body in garage, head of hair covered in drink (7)

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

H[air] in CASSIS (drink)

9a

Eleven in a room evens out, one's assumed (5)

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

XI (eleven) in odd letters (evens out) of A rOoM

10a

Recalled by wife, occasional bear hugs ending in nookieit's exciting! (5-2-2)

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

W (wife) + a reversal (recalled) of ODD (occasional) POOH (bear) round [nooki]E I’ve never heard (of) this expression: it isn’t in my Collins or Chambers – online dictionaries give it as ‘US informal’

11a
12a

Abyss, constant by inference? (10,3)

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12a

See 11

14a

Dubious pal, one happening to admit copying in the enddoing this? (12)

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

An anagram (dubious) of PAL + I (one) ARISING (happening) round [copyin]G – great surface!

18a

Agricultural system in formation of TUC, say? (4,8)

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

CUT (crop) is a reversal (rotation) of TUC

21a
26a

Limb on nameless animal for security device (3,5)

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22a

On bed, so set for whipping, bend over backwards (2,4,4)

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25a

Indication of risk to bank direct, possibly? (3,6)

Generating...

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

A reverse anagram (bad) of DIRECT

26a

See 21

27a

Taken to the airport, say, from Cardiff, one escaping to the West (4,3)

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28a

About food, Spielberg film booked for a later date? (7)

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Down

1d

Food around which fire skirtsserved so? (6)

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2d

Drug I took after work (6)

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3d

Lines at end of book about sweet capers (10)

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

RY (railway lines) at end of TOME (book) round FOOL (sweet)

4d

Lid off delving tool, device dug into horse's flank (5)

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5d

Waspish insect has eaten one for breakfast (9)

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

CROSS ANT (waspish insect) round I (one, again)

6d

Range and length problematic, say, for openers? (4)

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7d

Farm cleaner with novel disinfectants primarily introduced to tube from below (5,3)

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

SHE (novel by Rider Haggard – an old crossword staple) + D[isinfectants) primarily in a reversal (from below in a down clue) of PIPE (tube)

8d

Want marker secured by strand (8)

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13d

23 series on miracles, astonishing (5,5)

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15d

Grasp Bob the Rat, though caged (3,4,2)

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16d

Local requirement to decorate a thousand or a million, say (3,5)

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17d

Breakfast time? (8)

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19d

State of European geese, as seen in flight, when caught by duck (6)

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

E (European) + V (the formation in which geese fly) in NADA (nothing = duck)

20d

Squat where agent keeps spare tyre? (6)

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23d

Celebrated, like musical work? (5)

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

A musical work has notes

24d

Australian PM taking a percentage of popular vote (4)

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