Guardian Cryptic #29657

2025-04-01

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7a

Tatty cardi’s discarded, Morris dancing anyhow in kind of dress (8)

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

If you remove the letters of *(cardis) [anag: tatty ] from MOR (ris) (da) N (c) ING , you are left with MORNING.

9a

Paper calls for bible study to be dropped (6)

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

(re) QUIRES (“calls for” with RE (religious education, so “bible study” dropped )

10a

Large individual’s unmatched (4)

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

L (large) + ONE (“individual”)

11a

One in railway station flipping going nowhere (10)

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

STATION + A (one) in Ry. (railway)

12a

Puts a stop to cakes perhaps containing drop of rum (6)

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

BAKES (“cakes, perhaps”) containing [ drop of ] R (um)

14a

Operatic location lacking character in the endmaking amends (8)

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

PEN (z) ANCE (“operatic location (The Pirates of Penzance)”) lacking Z (“character in the end” of the alphabet)

15a

Run into the wife in shed (7)

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

R (run) into THE + W (wife)

17a

Rocker Ozzy rattled our bones (7)

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

*(our bones) [anag: rattle ]

20a

Cutting shortat the outsettrial (8)

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22a

Favourite kind of sandwich mostly what fuels you (6)

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

PET (“favourite”) + ROL (l) (“kind of sandwich”, mostly )

23a

Priority being dodgy creed coming into money (10)

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

*(creed) [anag: dodgy ] coming into PENCE (“money”)

24a

Farewell depression (4)

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25a

House style announced (6)

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26a

Number-cruncher: obsessive, quintessentiallyretypes second time (8)

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

ANAL (“obsessive”) + [ quintessentially ] (ret) Y (pes) + S (second) + T (time)

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1d

Dead see place with ancient school, tailless cat climbing (8)

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

(Sea, not see) – <=(HARRO (w) (“ancient school”, tailless) + MOG (“cat”). climbing )

2d

Head of Beeb managed serial (4)

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

(Cereal, not serial) – [ head of] B (eeb) + RAN (“managed”)

3d

‘What goes with booze?’ That man’s hiding issues? Not half (6)

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

(Boos, not booze) – HE’S (“that man’s”) hiding ISS (ues) [ not half ]

4d

Aussie natives dine with cache: bananas (8)

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5d

Tortuous part of the fare (10)

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6d

Pair of artists drawn in at arc’s endpoint (6)

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

(ark, not arc) – RA RA ( pair of RAs (members of the Royal Academy, so “artists”) in AT

8d

German hiphopper heard boos (6)

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

(booze, not boos) – G (German) + homophone/pun/aural wordplay [ heard ] of RAPPER (“hiphopper”)

13d

Young and olden cast off (10)

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

(caste, not cast) – * (olden caste ) [anag: off ]

16d

Drug I’ll fake for Dutch old money (8)

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18d

Tricky scene: diet’s most demanding (8)

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19d

Litterbug and/or bottles: a state! (6)

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

I can see UGANDO in “litterbUG AND Or” indicated by bottles, but A and OR are not homophones, so not sure how this works.

21d

For starters: our extremely ripe brie’s almost lethal. Like some tea? (6)

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

(hour, not our) [ for starters ] H (our) E (xtremely) R (ipe) B (rie’s) A (lmost) L (ethal)

22d

Doing model’s work, apropos in nice clothes (6)

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

(gneiss, not nice) – Hidden in [ clothes ] “apro POS IN G neiss”

24d

Disgusting sick’s all gone at last (4)

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

(six, not sick’s) – VI (six) + (al) L (gon) E [ at last ]