Guardian Cryptic #29400

2024-06-04

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Across

9a

Don’t eat after this Tuesdaybe perverse! (3-2,4)

flowerflowerflower
10a

Unfashionable party cap (5)

flowerflowerflower
11a

Grizzly, being initially bankrupt? (5)

Generating...

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

B[eing] + RUIN (bankrupt)

12a

Rescue tank one installed in exhibition room (9)

Generating...

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

VAT (tank) + I (one) in SALON (exhibition room)

13a

Start getting ill after toxic element (4,3)

flowerflowerflower
14a

High road at last gets uneven (7)

Generating...

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

[roa]D + RUGGED (uneven)

17a

See 19

19a
17a

On director’s debut, Titanic offers possible star role (3,5)

Generating...
20a
6d

Great month to get a brilliant body transformation (9)

Generating...
21a

It’s wrong to bind hands, causing distress (7)

flowerflowerflower
22a
8d

Classic filmwhen Jack is dropped (1,4,2,4)

Generating...
24a

Shock absorber from wagon that is circling trail (9)

Generating...

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

CART (wagon) + I E (id est – that is) round LAG (trail)

26a

Latin ‘h’ (not ‘i’) equals ‘lock’ (5)

Generating...

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

L (Latin) + a[i]tch (h)

28a
27d

Book shortage predicament: there’s no escaping it (5,4)

Generating...
29a

Key European city: it’s about to get US city backing (9)

Generating...

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

ESSEN (European city) + a reversal (about) of IT + a reversal (backing) of LA (US CITY)

Down

1d

Check roadside’s sound (4)

flowerflowerflower
2d

Mounted a Grease production finally, in which, potentially, 22 ac./8 (6)

Generating...

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

A reversal (mounted) of A LUBE (grease) + [productio]N

3d
13d

‘Journey’s endnight of drifting into bliss’, a poetic death (5,2,3,5)

Generating...
4d

Mountain area service provided (6)

flowerflowerflower
5d

Private duel botched by duke after a brief time (8)

flowerflowerflower
6d

See 20 Across

7d

Way to call someone ‘Lynch’ (6,2)

flowerflowerflower
8d

See 22 Across

13d

See 3

15d

Tungsten’s unstable around lithiumtroublesome (10)

flowerflowerflower
16d

Flights requiring instrument’s rotation (5)

flowerflowerflower
18d

Subcontinental city before rain spread about the land (8)

flowerflowerflower
19d

Put off taking vehicle to north, went back the same way (8)

Generating...

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

A reversal (to the north, in a down clue) of DETER (put off) round CAR (vehicle)

22d

Discrimination shown by moving images (6)

flowerflowerflower
23d

Bar hosts film marketing activity (6)

flowerflowerflower
24d

One with little experience to lead a country (4)

flowerflowerflower
25d

Trendy state, 28 (4)

flowerflowerflower
27d

See 28 Across