Guardian Cryptic #29210

2023-10-25

Solve on Guardian →

Across

8a

Plunders shelves where solution half-hidden (8)

flowerflowerflower
9a

Sponges cloakroom quickly, without finishing (6)

flowerflowerflower
10a

Shanty town in best-loved American city (6)

Generating...

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

FAVE (favourite, best loved) + L[os] A[ngeles]

11a

Not hard for the cartel to organise cheese dish (8)

Generating...

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

(THE CARTEL)* less H[ard]

12a

Tense to the end, large amounts missing (4)

Generating...

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

LOTS with T moved to the end

13a

Tiny explosive device? One delivered after the war (4,6)

Generating...
15a

Seem likely to make a reasonable offer (3,4)

flowerflowerflower
16a

I feel cold, not half shivering on this? (3,4)

Generating...

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

Anagram of I FEEL CO[ld], with an &littish definition

18a

Chap finding voyaging at sea hard work (5,5)

flowerflowerflower
19a

Vegetable is largeit's frightening (4)

flowerflowerflower
20a

After endless hassle the night before, one enters in distress (8)

Generating...

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

I in AGGR[o] + EVE

22a

Being forced out of shell contributes to boy's terror (6)

flowerflowerflower
23a

See Persian queen reportedly getting a number of winks (6)

flowerflowerflower
24a

Fellow handin' out something for plucking (8)

flowerflowerflower

Down

1d

Union campaigner messing up gets the bird (8,7)

flowerflowerflower
2d

A woman's perfume, 'Repose', that dates from 1953 (6,2,7)

Generating...

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

A SCENT OF EVE + REST

3d

Mixing up fruit refuse to pick up barrel held by strap (10)

Generating...

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

Reverse of MARC (grape refuse in wine-making) + B (barrel, as in the measure of crude oil) in SLING

4d

A small part of Christmas scene last to receive credit (7)

Generating...

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

A + S + CRIB + [receiv]E

5d

The Warsaw Pact, for example, left with nothing in years gone by (4)

Generating...

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

L 0 in B.C.

6d

Finish one's sentence, but be unable to move on (4,2,1,4,4)

flowerflowerflower
7d

Unusual reproduction of Stonehenge reassembled in European capital (15)

flowerflowerflower
14d

Support earth and environment (10)

flowerflowerflower
17d

Spot girl in the afternoon, signalling (3,4)

flowerflowerflower
21d

Some say a beating? Up here for a flogging (4)

flowerflowerflower