Guardian Cryptic #29489

2024-09-16

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4a

Copper right to enter spotit’s safe (6)

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

CU (chemical symbol for “Copper”) + R (right); both inside SEE=to notice=”spot”

6a

Violet ladies’ underwear? Theodore trembled (8)

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9a

Beef meat (6)

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10a

Spilling the beans about women engaging in group sex (8)

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

SINGING=confessing=”Spilling the beans”, around W (women)

11a

Guardian is not partisan, after editing (6,5)

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15a

Cleaner in Post Office wearing fake ring (7)

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17a

Little person from Warsaw one’s seen in a pond (7)

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18a

Deadly creaturehe’ll like war, possibly (6,5)

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

anagram/”possibly” of (he’ll like war)*

22a

Rumpus periodically follows media exercises (5-3)

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

regular/periodic letters taken from [R]-U-[m]-P-[u]-S; after PRESS=”media”

23a

A Republican forbidding passion (6)

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24a

Awful love rat entertaining one satirical Frenchman (8)

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

definition: French philosopher Voltaire [wiki] known for satire such as Candide anagram/”Awful” of (love rat)*, around I=”one”

25a

Maybe bitter about odd parts of rugby jersey’s pattern? (6)

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

ALE=”Maybe [a] bitter” + around odd letters from R-[u]-G-[b]-Y

Down

1d

Painting outer parts of foyer enhances casino (6)

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

outer letters from F-[oye]-R E-[nhance]-S C-[asin]-O

2d

Some achievement in whist, leading? You might blow it (3,7)

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3d

Weed in nature I’d cultivated (8)

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

definition: ‘weed’ as the past tense of to wee anagram/”cultivated” of (nature I’d)*

4d

E.g. envy about good job, one providing info for drivers (8)

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

SIN=”E.g. envy” around G (good); plus POST=”job”

5d

Split personality, perhaps, of actor in a shot (8)

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7d

Leader of Tories, crude for Labour (4)

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8d

Scoundrels perform leads in Gilbert and Sullivan (4)

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12d

Loot left aboard for killjoy (10)

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13d

Rubbish by a Conservative using spin (8)

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

ROT=”Rubbish” + A TORY=”a Conservative”

14d

Run through outskirts of Rochdale on black car (8)

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16d

Asian country’s king, in pain, sat awkwardly (8)

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

K (king, chess notation), in anagram/”awkwardly” of (pain sat)*

19d

Suspicious about the king’s call to arms (3,3)

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20d

Wide boy and dignitaries turning up (4)

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21d

Whiskery aquatic mammal in the deep lake (4)

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