Guardian Cryptic #29493

2024-09-20

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Across

1a

Quiet power across border seen in diminutive figure (6)

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

RIM (border) in SH + P[ower]

4a

Surreptitious deliveries in stretch of road (7)

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9a

Soldiers make organised moves to suppress one new regulation (9)

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

OR (soldiers – other ranks) + I N in DANCE (make organised moves)

10a

Copper and different element brought back for court (5)

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11a

Entrances a court case short of conclusion (5)

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

A TRIA[L]

12a

Variation of stigma seen in Dominican belief (9)

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13a

Crazy way to go wrong in employment (7)

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15a

Article is about singular position (6)

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17a

Large vehicle storageexpression of annoyance with area reduced by 50% (6)

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

HANG (expression of annoyance, as in “hang it all”) + half of Area

19a

Intense rage about spillage of oil (7)

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22a

Style of Indian cooking increasingly seen in US city (9)

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24a

Be keen on Sally after forgetting Thursday (2,3)

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

GO FORTH (to sally) less TH

26a

Nolan film, complex mesh reversing at midpoint? (5)

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

I think this is two NETs back to back, with the Ns overlapping, but I’m not sure exactly how the wordplay works; it gives this film , which I had not heard of

27a

A rule at sea about swimming tuna not covered in Marseilles? (2,7)

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

TUNA* in (A RULE)* – Au naturel is a French expression for being naked

28a

Pass round and round after I’d returned (4,3)

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

Reverse of I’D + SHOUT (a round in a pub, as in “it’s my shout”)

29a

Key harbour rejecting first convoy (6)

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Down

1d

Bear source of sound to specialist in sound? (7)

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

S[ound] + TO + MACH (Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist who gave his name to the Mach Number for measuring supersonic speeds)

2d

Indication to stop taxmen overturning amendment to contract (5)

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

Reverse of RED (signal to stop) + IR (Inland Revenue, former name of the UK’s tax collectors)

3d

Ferocious Scotsman’s one engaged in copulation (3-6)

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4d

Odd-looking person carrying drug goods on board (7)

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5d

Why you texted about sequestering carbon in exotic plant (5)

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

C[arbon] in Y U (“why you”) + CA (about)

6d

Animal poison, absolutely not unknown, Medici misused (9)

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7d

Monarchs’ responsibilities regarding charity (6)

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8d

Apprehensive magistrate overlooking nothing after lunchtime? (2,4)

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

ONE (lunchtime) + DOGE less O

14d

What may be used to race grey snail possibly (9)

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16d

Makes more extensive alternative to Bill Musk? (9)

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

A mash-up of billionaires Bill Gates and Elon Musk

18d

Measure for crowd controldelicate approach in Brazilian city (4,3)

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19d

European city: Volume One’s encouragement to go initially ignored (6)

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

V I + [s]ENNA (laxative, “encouragement to go”)

20d

Item served in café? Sharp service to be repeated (7)

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21d

Reduced rate accepted by a newspaperman (6)

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

Presumably this is BAT in A ED[itor]. “Rate” can mean scold, reprove: can BAT also mean this?

23d

I note apprentice dismissing second basic guide? (5)

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

I + N + T[y]RO

25d

Passable attempt to exclude independent Coen brothers’ film (5)

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

FAIR GO (a passable attempt) less I, giving a film that I have heard of, though not seen