Guardian Cryptic #29592

2025-01-15

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1a
16d

Naked legendary healer? (8,6)

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5a

See 1

9a

Associations in genealogies including king but not first of emperors (8)

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

LIN-[ e ]-AGES=”genealogies”, with K (king) in place of ‘ e ‘=”first of e mperors”

10a

Boxed and now run vigorously (6)

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

for definition, “Boxed” describing an item [of clothing] still in its original packaging and therefore unused anagram/”vigorously” of (now run)*

12a

Personal assistant’s retiring, husband is Celtic (5)

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

SIRI=Apple’s digital personal assistant [wiki] reversed/”retiring”; plus H (husband)

13a

Mother briefly has ex-PM as teacher (9)

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14a

Send for 8 players found here (7-5)

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18a

Selfishly pollute Galileo’s city (12)

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

anagram/”pollute” of (Galileo’s city)*

21a

The French abandoned uncle, sent to the gallows in uniform (9)

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23a

Fit of pique unseemly (5)

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24a

Where to store fat and King Edward (6)

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25a

New German number 3 intercepting a tiny bit (8)

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26a
27a

Mini horseshoes for mules? (6,8)

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27a

See 26

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1d

European country inn remains mostly welcoming after Asian food cancelled originally (6,8)

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2d

What chief detective did is bad (6)

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3d

They show up fancy muscles (9)

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4d

Free union (4,8)

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6d

Master’s depression, missing daughter (5)

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

[d]-OWNER=”depression”, without ‘d’ for “daughter”

7d

Old solver meets saint with cardinal (8)

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

definition: a “cardinal” number (not an ordinal number) THOU=”Old” word for ‘you’, the “solver”; plus S (saint) + AND=”with”

8d
20d

One prison club’s changed peculiar cutlery (8,6)

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11d

Expression of delight to get trade bargain (5,3,4)

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15d

F for fag (6,3)

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16d

See 1

17d

Ford, for the third time, nearly upset witch (8)

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

“nearly” all letters of RE RE CROS-[s], all reversed/”upset” “Ford” can mean to ‘cross’ a river, so ‘re-cross’ would be to ‘ford for the second time’, with ‘re-re-cross’ for the third time

19d

Anger after Greek character shown to be sexy (6)

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20d

See 8

22d

Ridge found in 26 erasable when turned over (5)

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

definition: a narrow ridge between two mountain valleys hidden reversed in (“found in… when turned over”): [CARP]-ET ERA-[sable] CARPET is the solution to 26ac