Guardian Cryptic #29634

2025-03-05

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Across

1a

Cursed setter has been sacked? (7)

flowerflowerflower
5a

See 2 Down

9a

Line of text, one penned by hand (5)

flowerflowerflower
10a

Orange etc, coloured ornament (5,4)

flowerflowerflower
11a

Love with sentimental parts melts away in amorous glance (3-3,4)

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

O (love, in tennis) + GOOEY (“sentimental”) parts GOES (“melts away”)

12a

Developing bug, a youngster recovered (4)

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

<=(A PUP) (“a youngster”, recovered )

14a

Awful noise, rear of car in bump, say? (11)

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

[ rear of ] (ca) R in DISCO DANCE (“bump, say”)

18a

Workers choose time to stick on wings of honey bees, say (11)

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

MEN (“workers”) + OPT (“choose”) + ERA (“time”) to stick on [ wings of ] H (one) Y

21a

Old European capital’s forgotten in Russian city (4)

flowerflowerflower
22a
16d

Trumped-up ideas he fed to right-wingers behind the very same crime (10,8)

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25a

Therein I associate first (9)

flowerflowerflower
26a

I stand on capital in Rome, passing Tuscany originally? (5)

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

I + BE (“stand” as in “let it be”, maybe) on [ capital in ] R (ome), passing T (uscany) [ originally ] and &lit. The Tiber does indeed pass through Tuscany on its way to Rome.

27a

Clues where vernacular is reversed (7)

flowerflowerflower
28a

Field where ring found by English king having lost one (7)

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

O (ring) found by R (i) CHARD (“English king”, having lost I (one)

Down

1d

Fix something herbalhow much of that? (6)

flowerflowerflower
2d
5a

Cambridge institution let girl go, once trained (6,7)

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3d

Removing cargo, and I stumbled in where it’s easy to fall? (10)

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

*(and i) [anag: stumbled ] in OFF LOG (“where it’s easy to fall”)

4d

Odds slashed in bet as golfer, result of chipping in, perhaps? (5)

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

[ odds slashed in ] (b) E (t) A (s) G (o) L (f) E (r)

5d

Someone offering accompanimentwith soloist’s ‘Tea for Two’? (9)

flowerflowerflower
6d

Vegetable shiny, top rubbed off (4)

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

[ top rubbed off ] (s) LEEK (“shiny”)

7d

Articulate what requires translation in note left out (8)

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

QUE (“what” requires translation (to Spanish, eg) in *(note l) [anag: out ] where L is left.

8d

High up, European victory secured (8)

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

ELATED (“up”) with E (European) + V (victory) secured

13d

Panglossian contract is sealed by it, I see (10)

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

DEAL (“contract”) + IS sealed by IT + I + C (see)

15d

Tragedian chooses half of play for adaptation (9)

flowerflowerflower
16d

See 22 Across

17d

Make notes about crush, divine (8)

flowerflowerflower
19d

Foreign character, meat certainly for Putin (6)

flowerflowerflower
20d

Cross near top of hill erected, clear below (6)

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

<=(BY (“near”) + [ top of ] H (ill), erected ) + RID (“clear”)

23d

For instance, very green light (3-2)

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24d

Princess, vain, in storming off? (4)

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