Guardian Cryptic #29743

2025-07-10

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Across

1a
4a

Meeting record takes order for food (6,6)

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4a

See 1

9a

Prime minister’s garden (4)

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10a

Suggestion of heartless bullying (10)

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11a

Travelling Brits love a French eatery (6)

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

An anagram (travelling) of BRITS O (love) – a lovely surface

12a

One each afterwards held as unskilled (8)

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13a
15a

Perhaps I’m grabbed, grabbed by hint of colour (9,4)

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15a

See 13

16a

Armenians oddly out of control (4)

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

Even letters of aRmEnIaNs

17a

How to remove plaster and succeed (4,2,3)

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21a
22a

Ballot of sporting venue? (8,6)

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22a

See 21

24a

Revered like this clue, promoting the end can’t change (10)

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

ACROSS (like this clue) with the last letter moved to the beginning + an anagram (change) of CAN’T

25a

Backing of shops for public transport (4)

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26a

Gallery has welcomed reactionary party till now (2,4)

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

A reversal (reactionary) of DO (party) in TATE (gallery)

27a

Having lost weight, student lost heart (6)

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Down

1d

Wine and cheese served up by republicans (7)

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2d

Group problem playing tennis? (5)

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3d

Port, originally in Libya, is needing renovation (7)

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

An anagram (needing renovation) of PORT + initial letters of In Libya Is;  Tripoli is the capital of Libya – very neat (but please see comments 4 and 6 – even better!)

5d

A term composition to include piano and fiddle (6)

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

An anagram (composition) of A TERM round P (piano)

6d

George’s dysfunctional utopia followed by many (9)

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7d

Rush to contain firm’s misfortune (7)

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8d

Paint technique can feature in fraud (6,7)

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14d

Celebrity starts to eat dinner, with bubbles (9)

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

B-LISTER (celebrity) + initial letters of Eat Dinner

16d

City needs diplomacy to make an undiplomatic declaration (4,3)

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18d

One benefits from entry in shelter (7)

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19d

Florida’s capital not just an amusement park (7)

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20d

Dog breeder’s primary advantage (6)

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23d

Decimal, many times (5)

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