Guardian Cryptic #29342

2024-03-28

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Across

1a

Plant’s core cultivated with soil to reproduce (5-9)

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

(PLANT’S CORE with SOIL)* (*cultivated)

8a

Bulb repeatedly lit with current suppressed (5)

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

ON + ON (lit, repeatedly) with I (current) suppressed ‘I’ is the scientific symbol for electric current

9a

Fighter turning up to register after soldier (8)

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

UP< (<turning) + LIST (register) after G.I. (soldier)

11a

Strange US dietbelly of fella gets thinner (7)

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

(US DIET + [fe]L[la] (belly of))* (*strange)

12a

Revealing outfit? Mini skirts a new look, ultimately (7)

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

MINI skirts A + N (new) + [loo]K (ultimately)

13a

Both ends of laces threaded by feeling holes (5)

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

L[ace]S (both ends of) threaded by AIR (feeling)

15a

In case of doubt, is your husband inside cheating? (9)

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

In D[oub]T (case of): IS + ONES (your); H (husband) inside

17a

Wake wanting bit of medicine at hospital (9)

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

AFTER (wanting) + M[edicine] (bit of) + AT + H (hospital)

20a

Boxer knocking the stuffing out of Teddy boy (5)

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

T[edd]Y (knocking the stuffing out of) + SON (boy)

21a

Luger pistol at the front modified with a silencer (7)

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

(LUGER + P[istol] (at the front) + A)* (*modified)

23a

Son getting punched, not hard, is floored (7)

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

S (son) + T[h]UMPED (punched, not H (hard))

25a

Naked old woman in apartment (8)

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26a

Underwear, without padding, so plain (5)

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

B[r]A (underwear, without padding) + SIC (so, Latin )

27a

Notice member bending rules (8,6)

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Down

1d

What might make a full house from pack? Run following suit (5-7)

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2d

Boris saving skin? He finally left Oxford college (5)

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

[b]ORI[s] (saving skin) + [h]E (finally) + L (left) 🙂

3d

It rains, empty sewage at sea, this might get dirt on surface (9)

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

(IT RAINS + S[ewag]E (empty))* (*at sea)

4d

Did face set day after surgical procedure? (7)

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5d

Deal close to drug mule taking tablets in grams? (7)

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

([dru]G (close to) + MULE)* (*deal) taking E’S (tablets) A gram is one kind of legume, hence the use of ‘?’

6d

New Year bill at the end paid for by plastic (5)

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

NY (New Year) + [bil]L (at the end) + ON (paid for) For ON: In the sense of ‘this round’s ON me’

7d

Shortness of balls: second over at the crease (9)

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

TESTES (balls) + S (second) over IN (at the crease) ‘The crease’ is a cricketing term meaning the line marking the end of the field; ‘at the crease’ meaning not out of play, so IN

10d

Meeting sweetheartsthey’re easy to take out (7,5)

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14d

I learn it off by heart, essentially with other things (5,4)

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

(I LEARN IT + [he]A[rt] (essentially))* (*off)

16d

Have more than admired dress? Exposed on top (9)

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18d

A sequence of four letters about one native (7)

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

A + FGHI (sequence of four letters, alphabetically ) about AN (one)

19d

Online reference needing number and name (7)

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22d

Reason I pass; lecturer reflecting on college (5)

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

( I + GO (pass) + L (lecturer))< (<reflecting) on C (college

24d

Old-fashioned piano, on property, missing foot (5)

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