Guardian Cryptic #29650

2025-03-24

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Across

7a

School reunion you can’t get out of your mind? (9)

flowerflowerflower
8a

Being so captivated by Schumann (5)

flowerflowerflower
9a

They lend two overlapping signs (9)

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

LIBR A (one of the signs of the zodiac) + A RIES (another sign of the zodiac) – the two signs overlap to share the A

10a

Factor in a chap (5)

flowerflowerflower
12a

Park official who won’t give up? (6)

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

KEEPER (someone who retains items; someone who won’t give [things] up) double definition

13a

Half caught in large-scale outbreak (8)

flowerflowerflower
14a

Incidental benefit of bringing fast bowlers back? (4-3)

flowerflowerflower
17a

Run into wrong castle, looking embarrassed (7)

flowerflowerflower
20a

Accurate, which this isn’t for Marianne (8)

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

FAITHFUL (probably a reference to the singer Marianne FAITHFUL [1946-2025] who may not always have been [which this isn’t] FAITHFUL to her husbands.  Alternatively, a reference to the character MARIANNE Sheridan in the 2020 TV drama Normal People)

22a

Foreign letter from boy a doctor accepted (6)

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

( LAD [boy] + A ) containing (accepted) MB (Bachelor of Medicine; doctor)

24a

House is plain, article not seen in it (5)

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

V AN ILLA (plain) excluding (not seen) AN (indefinite article)

25a

Staff briefly enrage Norwegian city (9)

flowerflowerflower
26a

Have no money, displaying spite (5)

flowerflowerflower
27a

Showy flower in enclosure Monet’s reproduced (9)

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

PEN (enclosure) + an anagram of (reproduced) MONET’S

Down

1d

Compel to be helpful (6)

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

OBLIGE (do something as a favour; be helpful) double definition

2d

Partner and I ordered turtle (8)

flowerflowerflower
3d

A person of great interest (6)

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

This is simply a cryptic definition

4d

Was still off the ground? (7)

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

This too is simply a cryptic definition, although it could also describe the action of someone who loitered nearby in a fairly still manner

5d

Reluctantly move across island for pet (6)

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

BUDGE (move slightly; move with difficulty; move reluctantly) containing (across) I (island)

6d

Yellow fever? (8)

flowerflowerflower
11d

CID’s erroneous record (4)

flowerflowerflower
15d

For hypocrite, hard to get up to join in exercise (8)

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

( H [hard, descriptive of a pencil lead] + ARISE [get up]) contained in (to join in) PE ([physical] exercise)

16d

Unbelievably noisy about a fiddly task (4)

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18d

Catholic church’s love stories (8)

flowerflowerflower
19d

Conspirator’s device for making chart (7)

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

PLOTTER (devices for drawing graphs or charts) double definition

21d

Incredibleold wife is fat (6)

flowerflowerflower
22d

Like loos to be abundant? (6)

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

LAVISH (like LAV atorie S ; like loos)

23d

Approached in trembling wonder (4,2)

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

Anagram of (trembling) WONDER