Guardian Cryptic #29495

2024-09-23

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1a

A sexually fluid work I see announced? Not necessarily (6)

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BI (sexually fluid) + OP (work) + I C; not really an &lit, I would say, but the definition is certainly tangled up with the wordplay

5a

Nearby, very angry with oneself (6)

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To be “beside oneself” is to be very angry

8a

A consequence of bad hearing? (7)

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9a

Information on boy getting cheaper drug (7)

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11a

One’s success is in the balance (9,6)

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12a

Idle head (4)

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13a

Start one’s piece, but not wait for the signal (4,3,3)

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17a

Old-fashioned medium broadcast modest aria (5,5)

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18a

Clean up US state briefly (4)

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Abbreviated WASHington

20a

In novel, a short section an idiot misread (1,7,2,5)

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A PASSAGE (short section of a book etc) + (AN IDIOT)* – novel by E M Forster, first published in 1924

23a

Test: cut back the one for me (7)

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24a

Bewildered by how badly business is going (2,1,4)

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25a

After exercise bring back fish and a sort of butter (6)

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26a

Idlers said to go for the bright lights (6)

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Down

2d

Assimilate where fire may be lit, if not hot (9)

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IN THE GRATE less H

3d

Solid support for Rhodes’s statue? (6)

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More or less a straight definition, with a reference to the controversy over the status of Cecil Rhodes in Oriel College, Oxford

4d

Seminars using slang endlessly (9)

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5d

One calls for the Army (5)

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6d

Ashen, but work thus to get some colour (8)

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7d

Mike redubbed, turning up bearing another name (5)

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8d

Dangerous creature, a kestrelant is pulverised (11)

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10d

One or two of these appear in the New Testament (11)

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Reference to the two epistles to the Corinthians in the NT

14d

Mock battle in which the losers are the more decorated? (9)

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15d

Educational journey to old city, under £1K (5,4)

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16d

Discharge online assignment? (8)

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An online assignment could be an E-MISSION

19d

Exams that French speakers often miss out (6)

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The final letters of French words are often silent, e.g. in français , or indeed silent Thanks to Criceto and other commenters: a better parsing is that a FINAL S is often not pronounced in French words

21d

A barrier of stone (5)

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22d

Hotel patron gets out uniform packed away (5)

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U in GETS*