Guardian Cryptic #29224

2023-11-10

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Across

1a

Hitched a ride with Mr. Clumsy (7)

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5a

Parties holding back numerous energetic folk (7)

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Reverse of MANY in DOS (parties)

10a

Backing screw for round handle (4)

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Reverse of BONK (slang for “have sex with”, as is “screw”)

11a

Positive new sign found in cureremarkable (10)

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P[ositive] + N OMEN in HEAL

12a

As stated, releases stoppage (6)

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Homophone of “frees”

13a

Cash-crop estate needs to separate discarded fruit (8)

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PLANTATION (a cash-crop estate) less T and O “separately”

14a

Prepare for business session about returning deposit before operation (3,2,4)

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Reverse of PUT (deposit) in SESH (slangy version of session) + OP

16a

Scrap outside trendy nightclub (5)

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IN (trendy) in JOT (a scrap)

17a

Wife cuts bay tree (5)

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W in ROAN

19a

A transgression, initially shunning one and all, shows stupidity (9)

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A SIN + INITIALLY less I and ALL

23a

Poison pirate on waves (8)

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24a

Ruin sailors picked up behind bar (6)

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BAN (to bar) + JAX (homophone of “jacks”)

26a

Zest displayed by running along clutching sword, having earlier crushed resistance (6,4)

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R and EPEE in ALONG*

27a

Complaint as green card partly withdrawn (4)

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28a

As has been noted, I don't like these 5 sports (7)

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Anagram of DYNAMOS (answer at 5ac), and “I don’t like Mondays” is a song by the Boomtown Rats, so the fact has been “noted”, i.e. made into music

29a

Gallant American doctor contains problematic situation (7)

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MIRE in A DR

Down

2d

Cockney is not on English course (7)

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AIN’T (is not, in cockney and other dialects) + RE (on) + E[nglish]. Aintree is a racecourse in Liverpool, famous for being the venue for the Grand National

3d

Government accepting British currency abroad (5)

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B in RULE

4d

Former media state (7)

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6d

Long-lost article on country farmer? (6)

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YE (old-style “the”) + OMAN

7d

Perhaps setter's gonna tune out (5,4)

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(GONNA TUNE)* – an agent noun is one that describes a person performing an action, often using the suffix ‑er on a verb, as in setter

8d

Stellar group welcomes Alternative Technology lecture (7)

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AT in ORION

9d

Again, covered heel protrudes improperly (13)

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(HEEL PROTRUDES)*

15d

Plain girl one boy stood upand another (9)

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Three names: UNA + reverse of ROD + NED

18d

Mostly head around salt lake (7)

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TAR (sailor, salt) in ONIO[n] (head)

20d

Stole book in middle of excellent day (7)

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B in NOBLE + D – nobble can mean “to get hold of, esp. dishonestly”

21d

Apprentice, one on the railways? (7)

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A train-ee might be someone who has been put on a train, so on the railways

22d

Drunk, heartless, is internally suffering (6)

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IS in ME[r]RY

25d

Name abstainersfollowing one, a particular mess (5)

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N + AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) + F 1 – the Naafi is (or was) a military canteen or mess