Guardian Cryptic #29409

2024-06-14

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1a

Make known Imogen is to leave (6)

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

I’M (Imogen is) + PART (leave)

4a

Force moving mass to part of gut (8)

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9a

A depression around 5 December, mostly (6)

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A DENT (a depression) round V (5)

10a

Prepare me a blunt sedative (8)

flowerflowerflower
11a

Little pests come silently: by end of day, crop is flattened (6-8)

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CREEP (come silently) + [da]Y + CRAW (crop) + LIES (is flattened)

13a

My view is available on request (2,3,3,2)

flowerflowerflower
14a

Love what fallen hero becomes, they say (4)

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Reference to the expression ‘from hero to zero’, for a fall from grace

16a

Gently persuade to announce drinks (4)

flowerflowerflower
18a

Green annual meeting not disrupted? (10)

flowerflowerflower
21a

Dad’s right, each year’s a very long timeafter the first, go (9,5)

flowerflowerflower
23a

Left impression, puncturing smart politician (8)

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L (left) + AIR (impression) in BITE (smart, as a verb)

24a

Book Suzi? Time to move on (6)

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( Suzi) QUATRO with the T (time) moving on one space

25a

They pick the last of the readers (8)

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[th]E + LECTORS (readers)

26a

Second sight of the French uniform on volcanic island a bit off (4,2)

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Down

1d

One is a Muslim leader (4)

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

I’M (one is) A M[uslim] – I omitted to add ‘&lit’

2d

Feebleness of verse amid superior work, rhymes initially out of place (7)

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V (verse) in POETRY (superior work) with R[hymes] out of place

3d

One making hasty repair, taking only a second (6-2)

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5d

Dreamy prediction of creamy onion soup (11)

flowerflowerflower
6d

Bent pipes fitted in fuel bowser (6)

flowerflowerflower
7d

Songsters no end shy, internally tense on edges of copse (7)

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TIMI[d] (shy) round T (tense) + C[ops]E

8d

Distance indicator in case somebody takes motorway first (9)

flowerflowerflower
12d

Strange mysteries in TV series (3,8)

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13d

Old American, light skinned, holding British to be useless (9)

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INCA (old American) + PALE (light skinned) round B (British)

15d

Non-tenured job that’s a cushy one, getting in at the top (8)

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SINECURE (job that’s a cushy one) with the IN moved to the top – a brilliant surface!

17d

Champion, uptight inside, has to get going (7)

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A reversal (up, in a down clue) of TAUT (tight) in ACE (champion) – neat ‘lift-and-separate’ of ‘uptight’)

19d

Article on tax turning up in restaurant (7)

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20d

A rook and a rodent revealed when flood receded (6)

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A R (rook – chess notation) + A RAT – Mount Ararat is where Noah’s ark came to rest after the flood

22d

Naff way Americans treat colour (3-1)

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

Americans omit the ‘u’ in ‘colour’