Guardian Cryptic #29479

2024-09-04

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Across

1a

A cat knocking over nice grey power source (6,6)

Generating...

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

A TOM (cat) + (NICE GREY)*

9a

Food group is regularly wrapped in paper (5)

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Alternate letters of gRoUp Is in FT (newspaper)

10a

In America, it makes Joe eat fierce curry (9)

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11a

24 down bored by current Republican actor (7)

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

I (electric current) in OLIVE + R[epublican]

12a

Yellow bird (7)

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13a

Heard spiel about car showroom (10)

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15a

Spot of blue material (4)

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18a

One dismissed by head cook (4)

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

CHIEF less I

19a

Note wonderful fashion, I see (10)

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22a

A world-beating fine hotel (7)

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

(A WORLD)* + F[ine]

24a

Touring end of pier eating assorted rock (7)

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

[pie]R in EATING*

25a

It’s a crime to break truce (9)

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26a

Old man sat cooking dish (5)

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27a

Rickety garden shed stores North American weapons (4,8)

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Down

1d

A lecturer to ponderstarter’s missing salt (9)

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

A + L[ecturer] + [r]UMINATE

2d

Sketches exposed columns (8)

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3d

Over race, I pick up bit of cramp and suffer (5)

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

C[ramp] in reverse of RUN (race) + I

4d

Powerful drug, strong etc working in 5 (9)

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5d

Involve roughly 10 + 1 + 49? (6)

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6d

European consents to remove coat before king (5)

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7d

Give fines during road trip (6)

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

F F in Road*

8d

Over £10 for an apple? (6)

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14d

Small tuft of hair? That’s right, more than tiddly (9)

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

S[mall] + QUIFF + IE, (that is) + R

16d

Soldier meets elite soldiers to gather tops of trees, including small parts of logs (9)

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

The “tops” of “of Trees Tncluding Small in MAN (soldier) +SAS (elite military unit). Ijn Ye Olden Days when we did calculatuins with logarithms, they were divided into the characteristic and mantissa, before and after the decimal point

17d

Bound to be caught after initially slogging (8)

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18d

Wife quietly wearing fur, treading carefully around this? (6)

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

W[ife] + P (piano, quyietly) in COAT (fur)

20d

Monarch raising some plesiosaur (a sea creature) (6)

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

Hiddden in reverse of plesiosauR A SEA Creature

21d

Drunk upset by heads of shandy, each drink chucked (6)

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

Reverse of SOT + first letters of Shandy Each Drink

23d

Lover not finished with woman’s proposition (5)

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24d

New information surrounding 19 (5)

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