Guardian Cryptic #29702

2025-05-23

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Across

9a

Beautiful tree: feel bad with any being cut down in such a manner (9)

flowerflowerflower
10a

Wide gap, though with nothing removed (5)

flowerflowerflower
11a

Trendy to inject heroin after a litre drink (7)

Generating...

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

A L[itre] + H[eroin] in COOL (trendy)

12a

The American author eliminating last hero from Greece (7)

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13a
22a

I’m a Bishop, tucking into meagre vegetarian food (4,4)

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14a

Uncooked meat? Experts brutally cut it open at first (10)

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

PROS (experts) + (CUT IT)* + O[pen]

15a

Is ‘zero’ accepted by English logician? Meaty stuff (7)

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

IS O in VENN (John Venn, famous for his Diagram)

17a

Publication I term running short regarding glamour (7)

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MAG[azine] I CAL[L]

19a

Offering easy growth in computing? Clear hype’s misplaced (10)

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

(CLEAR HYPE’S)* – hyperscale (not in Chambers) is “the ability of an architecture to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system”

22a

See 13

23a

Something described as metallic burning smell surrounding one(7)

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

LIT (burning) + I in HUM (smell)

24a

largely swamping one with some water? (7)

flowerflowerflower
26a

Keen to abandon Right, adopting Left as standard (5)

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L in EAGER less R

27a

Roux perhaps about to backtrack after redesign of kitchen (9)

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Down

1d

Artefact of old battle? Bet Valhalla came alive (9,6)

flowerflowerflower
2d

Government official, large, appearing in bowler? (8)

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

L in PACEMAN (fast bowler, in cricket)

3d

Easy thing to miss top edge (4)

flowerflowerflower
4d

Drive through South American country with Northern seed (8)

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

DR[ive] in CHILE + N

5d

Position occupying excellent section in the current circumstances (2,2,2)

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

SIT (to position) in A1 S[ection]

6d

Top of sluice losing liquid on a big scale (8)

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S[luicing] + WEEPING

7d

Convincing information secured in crib (6)

flowerflowerflower
8d

Police operationdastardly con, apparently (3,8,4)

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16d

Showed precipitation without precipitation? That’s twisted (8)

flowerflowerflower
17d

Exploit making no sense, kidnapping one farmworker (8)

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

MILK (to exploit) + I (one – again!) in MAD (making no sense)

18d

Beguiling warmth after cold (8)

flowerflowerflower
20d

Servant carrying some Londoner’s scalding soup (6)

flowerflowerflower
21d

Refined behaviour inclined to take a back seat around Cambridge University (6)

flowerflowerflower
25d

Dark and perverted, though not at first (4)

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