Guardian Cryptic #29216

2023-11-01

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1a

Crush baggage (7)

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CLOBBER (defeat utterly; crush)

5a

Vehicular problem presented by bonk in truck (7)

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FLATBED (lorry; truck)

9a

Falsify documents, making no allowances (5)

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RIGID (strict; making no allowances)

10a

Hints at coming in early enough, before start of session (9)

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INTIMATES (hints)

11a

You might ask for a hand using this? (10)

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SYNECDOCHE ( A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole or a whole for a part , as in 50 head of cattle for 50 cows , or the army for a soldier)

12a

Speaking about planetary motion no little amount (4)

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ORAL (verbal, spoken; speaking)

14a

The writer’s advisor accepting second idea, initially as a reminder of impermanence (7,4)

flowerflowerflower
18a

Popular study probing pink shade of body? Definitely not (11)

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INCORPOREAL (having no material form or body; of body; definitely not)

21a

Sets up orchestra partly for backing musical work (4)

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22a

Fielders run amongst players to take advantage of other movement (10)

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SLIPSTREAM (follow (another car, bicycle, etc) closely and thus benefit from the decreased wind resistance created by its slipstream)

25a

Goolie due for treatment? One’s fixed (9)

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IDEOLOGUE (doctrinaire adherent of a body of ideas; a person with fixed views)

26a

Old Judge in broadcast knocked back wine (5)

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RIOJA (red or white Spanish table wine)

27a

I will avoid literary theft, being most flexible (7)

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LITHEST (most flexible)

28a

Significant article about fiction is set in stone (7)

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SALIENT (prominent; striking; significant)

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1d

Tenor, beloved Italian, touring America (6)

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CARUSO (reference Enrico CARUSO [1873 – 1921], Italian operatic tenor) – the definition could be extended to ‘tenor, beloved Italian’ if you want ‘beloved Italian’ to do double duty

2d

Heads of operations regularly talk vacantly about new media? (6)

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ORGANS (agencies of communication; media)

3d

Son cuddling daughter appeared before artist: pictures come from this (4,6)

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4d

One’s known for charging in, interrupting character from Greece (5)

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RHINO (animal known for charging at others as a means of attack / defence)

5d

Confront keeping church in whack? Not a hope (3,6)

flowerflowerflower
6d

Welsh parliamentarian has way of working material for attack (4)

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AMMO (ammunition; material for attack)

7d

Tie up Bill, uplifted about bit of hanky-panky in loo (8)

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BATHROOM (toilet; loo)

8d

Deny record target involving head of livestock (8)

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DISCLAIM (deny)

13d

Subsidiary line subsequently brought in fuel (10)

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COLLATERAL (additional; subsidiary)

15d

Low source of luminance in darkness? Yes and no (9)

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MOONLIGHT (source of luminance in darkness [yes] and daylight [no, because it is overwhelmed by light from the sun?])

16d

School’s latest intention: old writer to turn up, covering two terms (8)

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BINOMIAL (consisting of two terms)

17d

Soprano - safe bet to retain focus for composer (8)

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SCHUBERT (reference Franz SCHUBERT [1797 – 1828], Austrian composer)

19d

Not nearby? About to keep volume raised (6)

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REMOTE (far away; not nearby)

20d

I don’t know: large car missing latest couple of points (6)

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UMLAUT (diacritical sign of two dots placed over a vowel, indicating a modification to its quality)

23d

I want you to cut petitions (5)

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PLEAS (petitions)

24d

Fruit alone displays different core (4)

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SLOE (blackthorn fruit)