Guardian Cryptic #29385

2024-05-17

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Across

9a

It loves most precipitous hill starts (5)

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10a

Pacific islands object about having to accept English ways (9)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘having to accept’) of E (‘English’) plus LANES (‘ways’) in MIA, a reversal (‘about’) of AIM (‘object’).

11a

Revolutionary phasearticle gets time wrong (3,6)

Generating...

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

A charade of THE (definite ‘article’) plus T (‘time’) plus ERROR (‘wrong’), for the most extreme period of the French Revolution, in full the Reign of Terror, but in French la Terreur .

12a

Unlikely Oscar for ‘Killers Working Together’ (5)

Generating...

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

An anagram (‘unlikely’) of ‘Oscar’.

13a

Attackers of Republican supporters (7)

flowerflowerflower
15a

Nothing gets over pass ahead of northern city (7)

Generating...

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

A charade of LIN, a reversal (‘gets over’) of NIL (‘nothing’) plus COL (‘pass’) plus (‘ahead of’) N (‘northern’).

17a

Secret clubs don’t prevail (5)

Generating...

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

A charade of C (‘clubs’ e.g. in bridge game summaries) plus LOSE (‘don’t prevail’).

18a

Statecraft (3)

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20a

Queen’s favourite element: congress (5)

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22a

Moon-like ring associated with tribal revelry (7)

Generating...

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

A charade of O (‘ring’) plus RBITAL, an anagram (‘revelry’) of ‘tribal’.

25a

Thumb prodded into awkward person in government department (7)

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26a

Republic locks king out‘It’s over!’ (5)

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27a

Bigwig hides underwear (surprise!) right in instrument (9)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘hides … in’) of BRA (‘underwear’) plus HA! (‘surprise!’) plus R (‘right’) in VIP (‘bigwig’), for an alternative name for the vibraphone..

30a

Debauched feature of corgi a sticking-point (9)

flowerflowerflower
31a

Southern food plants (5)

Generating...

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

A charade of S (‘southern’) plus PIES (‘food’)

Down

1d

Military officer guarding extra-large stray (4)

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2d

One’s favourite island has vitality that’s contagious (8)

Generating...

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

A charade of I’M (‘one’s) plus PET (‘favourite’) plus I (‘island’) plus GO (‘vitality’), for a bacterial skin infection.

3d

Old-style, you extracted teeth (not top) (4)

Generating...

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

An anagram (‘extracted’) of ‘[t]eeth’ minus its first letter (‘not top’).

4d

Continent holding back world moneydelightful stuff! (8)

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5d

A pull-out includes recipe, more than one in fact (6)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘includes’) of R (‘recipe’) in PLUAL, an anagram (-‘out’) of ‘a pull’-.

6d

Meetings to resist cutting measures (10)

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7d

Foreign spy ring confiscates church film (6)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘confiscates’) of CH (‘church’) in PSY, an anagram (‘foreign’) of ‘spy’ plus O (‘ring’).

8d

‘Aspects of vice’ lectures (4)

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13d

Toulouse-Lautrec took content that’s oddly-numbered (5)

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14d

Airline holds suitable IC cert. for a type of energy (10)

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16d

Informal footwear on one backward holiday island (5)

Generating...

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

A reversal (‘backward’) of SOX (socks, ‘informal footwear’) plus AN (‘one’).

19d

Give up rugby player as a sweetener (8)

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21d

Irregular Roman senate and people with nothing for queen on aciddeplorable (8)

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23d

Watershed follows start of broadcast link (6)

Generating...

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

A charade of B (‘start of B roadcast’) plus RIDGE (‘watershed’).

24d

Live broadcast attempt is heartless frivolity (6)

Generating...

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

A charade of LEVI, an anagram (‘broadcast’) of ‘live’, plus T[r]Y (‘attempt’) minus its middle letter (‘is heartless’).

26d

Peg trembled without a top (4)

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28d

Special lifts to be installed in hospital recess (4)

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29d

Society cuts bank job (4)

Generating...

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

An envelope (‘cuts’) of S (‘society’) in POT (a word with many meanings, the nearest to ‘bank’ being the money in a poker game)