Guardian Cryptic #29391

2024-05-24

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Across

1a

I say, why me, being sent back to a rogue school? (7)

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

A CAD (a rogue) + a reversal (sent back) of Y ME (sounds like – I say – ‘why me’)

5a

How old clothes are rubbish! (7)

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10a

No member of an ethnic minority in America is a stinger (4)

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11a

Mrs Sprat does talk (4,3,3)

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12a
13a

She sang of a broken heart, with straight love rejected (6,8)

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13a

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14a

Unreliable obsessive hiding cryptic code finally left (9)

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

ANAL (obsessive) round an anagram (cryptic) of CODE + [lef]T

16a

Dealt with coffee from the East (5)

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17a

Analyse pretty top and bottom (5)

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

P[retty] + ARSE (bottom)

19a

It’s rot! Solve the problem! (4,2,3)

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

SORT IT is an anagram (out) of IT’S ROT

23a
24a

Intricate work or boys going berserk with spray can? (8,6)

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24a

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26a

One US city hospital with a misguided notion(3,7)

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27a

to return gold in another’s RMB (4)

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

A reversal (to return) of AU (gold) in NY (another US city) – Collins: ‘the standard monetary unit of China, also called renminbi, renminbi yuan’ (RMB)

28a

Revered creature that surprises me (4,3)

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

A double definition

29a

Taken up in total, pot mixed with ecstasy (7)

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

An anagram ( mixed) of POT and E (ecstasy) in ADD (total)

Down

2d

Tea and a smile in distress (7)

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3d

Spearhead stolen from tyrant’s warehouse (5)

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4d

Holy place thumbs-down for old toys (7)

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6d

Shaped primarily like a star (6)

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

An anagram (shaped) of L[ike] A STAR – dare I say &lit?

7d

Pause quickly for something to eat (9)

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8d

Rock managed in-house (7)

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9d

No need to make fun of such desperate pleas for demise (4-9)

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15d

Bag up very cautious bird (9)

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18d

Save peeled grocer’s fruit (7)

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20d

The Sun, for one, may be a bit loud and non-U (7)

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

An anagram (may be) of A BIT LO[u]D – another allusive surface

21d

Steal the show from further back (7)

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22d

Decoration for military march is cheap stuff as well (6)

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25d

Settle clue for bark (3,2)

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

A reversal (up, in a down clue) of YAP (bark)