Guardian Cryptic #29318

2024-02-29

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7a

Pastry base for Spooner's tinned meat (4,5)

Generating...

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

A Spoonerism of STEAK, CANNED (‘tinned meat’).

8a

Type of cake that's a hit (5)

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9a

Showed cop's note in pastry case by journalist (9)

Generating...

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

A charade of DI’S (‘cop’s’) plus PLAYED, an envelope (‘in’) of LA (‘note’ of the solfa) in PY (‘ P astr Y case’) plus (‘by’) ED (‘journalist’)..

10a

Pastry for tea, you say made with cunning, missing topping (5)

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

A charade of T (‘tea, youe say’) plus [g]UILE (‘cunning’) minus its first letter (missing top’).

12a

Pastry made from shortcrust mix: seconds wasted forgetting time and temperature (6)

Generating...

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

An anagram (‘mix’) of ‘[s]hor[t]cru[s][t]’, minus SS (‘seconds wasted’) and T T (‘forgetting time and temperature’). The pastry is Spanish, and fried.

13a

Flaky pastry is displaying lack of density (8)

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14a

Boatman returns with kilo of rock cake (7)

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

A charade of BA, a reversal (‘returns’) of AB (able-bodied ‘boatman’) plus K (‘kilo’) plus LAVA (‘rock’).

17a

Second rock cake is liable to produce vomit (7)

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20a

Popular small porker with head removed close say to wings? (8)

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

A charade of IN (‘popular’) plus S (‘small’) plis [p]IG (‘porker’) minus its first letter (‘with head removed’) plus NIA, sounding like (‘say’) NEAR (‘close’).

22a

Messages ending bygone custom via papyri: small progress? (6)

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24a

Steal quietly forward to get cake (5)

Generating...

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

CREEP (‘steal’) with the P moved up one (‘quietly forward’).

25a

Track and field where his cattle wander (9)

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26a

Boatman taken in by very much unknown type of cake (5)

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

An envelope (‘taken in by’) of I (‘Boatman’) in FAR (‘very much’) plus Y (mathematical ‘unknown’).

27a

Six against one, humbled ultimately by head's clarity (9)

Generating...

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

A charade of VI (‘Roman numeral, ‘six’) plus V ( versus , ‘against’) plus I (‘one’) plus D (‘humble D ultimately’) plus NESS (‘head’).

Down

1d

Somewhat like Judo master's pastry? (6)

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2d

Unboxed itemimport sale material (8)

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3d

He mapped the source of the Orinoco after raising one of London's hospitals (6)

Generating...

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

A charade of STRAB, a reversal (‘raising’ in a down light) of BARTS (St Bartholemew’s, ‘one of London’s hospitals’) plus O (‘the source of the O rinoco’). Strabo was an ancient Greek geographer who travelled widely, but not to the Orinoco.

4d

Under canvas, reportedly getting saturated? (7)

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

WIth a little latitude, sounding like (‘reportedly’) IN TENTS (‘under canvas’).

5d

They're forbidden to eat bun's filling in American cakes (6)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘to eat’) of U (‘b U n’s filling’) in DONTS (‘they’re forbidden’).

6d

Questioning limits of action: awful, yet ironic (8)

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

Outer letters (‘limits’) of ‘ A ctio N A wfu L Y e T I roni C ‘.

11d

Chai free to be served regularly here (4)

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

Alternate letters (‘regularly’) of ‘ C h A i F r E e’, with an extended definition.

15d

The ends of a journey and not getting sickness: that's unusual (8)

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16d

Let off steam, in consequence rejecting leader (4)

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18d

Beginning to confess eating pastry (8)

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19d

Good pastry (shortcrust) leads to intense cramps of the stomach (7)

Generating...

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

A charade of G (‘good’) plus ‘[p]astr[y]’ minus (‘short’-) its outer letters (‘-‘crusi’) (-‘crust’) plus IC (‘leads to I ntense C ramps’).

21d

Blended mince pie with rum (6)

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22d

Pastry with problematic calories? Not so! (6)

Generating...

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

An anagram (‘problematic’) of ‘cal[o]rie[s]’ minus s and o (‘not so’).

23d

Voracious eater of filo custard slice (6)

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