Guardian Cryptic #29307

2024-02-16

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1a

Waves card around at sport (6-7)

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

ROLLERS=sea “Waves”, plus KING=playing “card” around AT (from surface)

10a

Aware of article following working party (2,3,4)

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11a

Thrust using energy after breather (5)

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12a

Humorous style of club comedy at last (5)

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13a

Record of employment from phone company on network in Bristol (4,5)

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

EE (Everything Everywhere, “phone company”) after MESH=”network”, both inside TIT=”Bristol” “Bristol” is rhyming slang: ‘Bristol city’=’titty’

14a

Competition missing TangoStrictly's biggest character quits (5)

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

definition as in ‘call it quits’ / ‘call it evens’ EVEN-[ T ]=”Competition” minus T (Tango, NATO alphabet); plus S-[trictly’s] “biggest character” i.e. capital letter

16a

However, large book covering business is expected? (3,2,4)

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

YET=”However”, plus TOME=”large book” around CO (company, “business”)

17a

Press regularly film one in Provence drinking wine (9)

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

definition: to pester, to make repeated requests regular letters from [f]-I-[L]-M, and UNE=”one” in French (in the Provence region of France); both around PORT=”wine”

19a

Give up in year contestants' foxtrot's censored (5)

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21a

Get bruise opening shop (9)

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23a

Breaks statues (5)

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24a

Teacher's tips for our orchestra before musical King and I (5)

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

end letters (“tips”) of [ou]-R [orchestr]-A, plus BB (B.B. King, the musician) + I (directly from surface)

25a

Elaborate move abroad right away (9)

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26a

Somehow gentrifying centre of Balham in an alarming way (13)

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

anagram/”Somehow” of (gentrifying lh )*, with the lh taken from the centre of Ba- lh -am

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2d

Published five books on European defeat at the polls (7)

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3d

Keep out of the way 6 times (3,2)

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4d

Schedules with time diminishing for cook (5)

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

ROTAS=”Schedules” with the T (time) moving down in the word (“diminishing”)

5d

Distance remote controlled oven nearly starts (9)

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

anagram/”controlled” of (remote)*, with KIL-[n]=”oven nearly” placed at the start “controlled” as anagram indicator, somewhat similar to ‘manipulated’

6d

Every way to penetrate politician's falsehood (4,5)

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

ALL=”Every” + ST (street, “way”); all inside TORY=”politician”

7d

Positive or negative news about old love (3-4)

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

two ‘news’: N (new) + N (new), around O (old); plus ZERO=”love” [tennis scoring]

8d

Romances by Shakespeare, originally including moving period piece mostly involving Romeo (6-7)

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

first letters (originally) of B-[y] S-[hakespeare]; around anagram/”moving” of (period piec )* and around R (Romeo, NATO alphabet) piec in the anagram fodder is piec-[e], mostly

9d

Abandoned feudarrest the cleaner (7,6)

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15d

Destroying protection from the sunAmerican becomes red (9)

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16d

I may tune out boxing ringwhatever! (3,4,2)

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

anagram/”out” of (I may tune)*, around (“boxing”) O=”ring”

18d

Perhaps Mario Balotelli's header, excellent at first, goes over the bar ultimately (7)

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

definition: Mario the Nintendo video game character is a plumber (and for the surface reading, Mario Balotelli is a footballer) first letter (header) of B-[alotelli]; with PLUM=”excellent” going first”; all going over last letters (ultimately) of [th]-E [ba]-R

20d

Tangle as some girl ran sneakily uphill (7)

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22d

Detectives number sample (3,2)

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23d

Staff stay in? (5)

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