Guardian Cryptic #29322

2024-03-05

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Across

1a

Gets sex in centre wearing pair of smalls (6)

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CORE (centre) in S + S

5a

Look around the empty place (6)

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8a
6d

Director from Italy collapsed first (7)

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FELL IN + I[taly]

9a

Tramp working to fill-in for top person (7)

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11a

Growing business? Goodget firm, initially lost, to enter promotion (6,9)

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12a

Woman did lie about duke (4)

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D in LAY

13a

Firm with smoking gun? Fit with a silencer? (10)

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17a

Better talk after email is hacked (10)

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18a

Bowl over with star catching last from mid-wicket (4)

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[mid-wicke]T in SUN

20a

Unknown state of steel that’s wearing at front (15)

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23a

Pulling through idle chat in middle of night, grabbing number (7)

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N[umber] in YAK IN [ni]G[ht]

24a

Docking fee from price in the end after beer turns in barrel (7)

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Reverse of ALE in KEG + [pric]E

25a

See 8 Down

26a

Arm-twisting? Getting robe over uniform (6)

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2d

Romantic couple not excited: back to being boring through trip (9)

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COUPLE less UP (excited) + [bein]G in RIDE; the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement

3d

One sacks Republican adviser on right (6)

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R[epublican] + AIDE + R[ight]

4d

Wife-swap and make love with Romeoone goes both ways (5,4)

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SWING (to wife-swap) + DO (make) + O (love) + R[omeo]

5d

Tree-hugger from left to disagree having ignored leader (5)

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6d

See 8

7d

One husband not in short swimming trunks (5)

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Anagram of I+ SHORT less H

8d
25a

Mad at flat décor ultimately concealed by Prime Minister: reason close allies lost respect? (11,6,8)

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10d

Drunk intended to grab woman’s bottom: big deal? (4,7)

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HIGH (drunk) + [woma]N in FIANCÉ (intended)

14d

Found holes in up-ended can: opened with sharp tool (9)

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15d

Beats virus: a lot suffering (9)

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16d

One might be scrambling with bride getting kit off (4,4)

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19d

Race and Archie’s skin linked with King Charles and Queen (6)

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A[rchi]E intermixed with CR + ER – the surface is a reference to alleged remarks made by an unknown member of the Royal Family about the skin colour of the son of the Duke & Duchess of Sussex

21d

Supporter to wear yellow (5)

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22d

Blows a fuse as resistance fades (5)

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