Guardian Cryptic #29293

2024-01-31

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Across

1a

'Shock and awe' upset rogue dissenting group (12)

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

anagram/"rogue" of (upset)* + FACTION="dissenting group"

9a

Lightning power in Blitz (5)

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10a

Viewed without subscription, just banking on film needing nothing (4-2-3)

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

FAIR="just", around/"banking" RE=about="on" + ET=Spielberg "film" + O="nothing"

11a

19 literature is both this and that, would you say? A shade (4,3)

flowerflowerflower
12a

Devoted king stamps a deed (7)

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

R (Rex, "king") inside A DOING="a deed"

13a

Beginning of rumblings in Mexico, the ground giving off heat (10)

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

beginning of R-[umblings], in anagram/"ground" of (Mexico the)*

15a

Old outlaw in Scottish town (4)

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18a

Immaculate as Swiss cheese, we hear? (4)

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19a

As in Nordic novel? (6,4)

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

anagram/"novel" of (As in Nordic)*

22a

Acceptable to rip off book by Welshman, 19 writer (2,5)

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24a
7d

Line in red and white stripes originally without success (7)

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

L (Line), in WINES="red and white" + S-[tripes]

25a

One has to fight criminal writing (9)

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26a

Tale ultimately penned by Nordic boy just starting primary school? (5)

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

definition refers to the age a child might be starting primary school [perhaps specifically in Nordic countries?] ultimate letter of [Tal]-E, inside SVEN="Nordic boy"

27a

Instil say suspicion at the outset in crime, as 19 writer (5,7)

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

a Swedish writer of SCANDI NOIR [wiki] "Instil" becomes 'in STIL' EG=e.g.="say", put in STIL; plus S-[uspicion] in ARSON="crime"

Down

1d

Exeter evacuated, around which wind blows upAmerican streets emptier? (5,4)

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

definition: an event that might empty the streets of America if everyone goes inside to watch it on TV E-[xete]-R evacuated of its inside letters; with anagram/"wind" of (blows up)* going "around"

2d

See 24

3d

Certainly endless energy directed upward turned the air blue (5)

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

definition: swore, used the F-word DEFF-[o]="Certainly" without the end letter, plus E (energy); all reversed/"directed upward"

4d

From two continents, as Armenia possibly? (9)

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

anagram/"possibly" of (as Armenia)*

5d

8 of 19? Something not worth having, I should add (6)

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6d

Borders closed off in country of sultanate (5)

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

[R]-OMANI-[a]="country" with the outer letters ("Borders") taken off

7d

See 24

8d

Keep puffing, Puff? (6)

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14d

Reported broken window of a clergyman (9)

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16d

Girl hugged by boy after relative recovered expenses (5,4)

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

KEN="boy" around EVE="Girl"; after BRO=brother="relative"

17d

Olympian gold finally given to noisy crude American (8)

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

definition: a god in Greek myth – Olympian as in having a place on Mount Olympus [gol]-D, plus anagram/"crude" of (noisy)*, plus US="American"

18d

'Hello sailor' appropriate? (6)

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20d

Insurrection is curbed by cartel (6)

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21d

Lover's wife, Greek character important, by the sound of it? (6)

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

reference to the story of Psyche as the wife of Cupid ("Lover") [wiki] sounds like 'psi + key'="Greek [alphabet] character + important"

23d

Group: into eighteen one twice goes! (5)

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24d

Now forgotten, true maverick comes into range with 19 (5,5,3,6)

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