Guardian Cryptic #29752

2025-07-21

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Across

1a

Hoity-toity boy Indian ignored now and again (2-2-2)

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

LAD (boy) + InDiAn

4a

E.g. Gen Z or Millennials in Peru, agog when travelling (3,5)

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9a

Stylish girl wearing coat for ceremony (6)

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

LASS (girl) in C[eremon]Y

10a

Requirement to enter castle tower, submerged to a certain extent (4-4)

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11a

Hint Stewart Lee adapted Shakespeare play (3,7,4)

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13a

Voyager, say, to stride sporting special dress (5,5)

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

PACE (stride) in SP (special) ROBE (dress)

14a

American doctor’s rounds (4)

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16a

Caesar’s fateful day that is in Latin, mostly (4)

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18a

Perhaps Hazel in Watership Down has no time for religious Bigwig (5,5)

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21a

Crow casually drew in parrot after temperature drops (4-1-6-3)

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23a

Supposed Dynamo crazy, ingesting alcohol and drug (8)

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

I (Dynamo) MAD (crazy) round GIN (alcohol) and E (drug)

24a

A bit of a looker dressed in beret in Arles (6)

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25a

Ruby perhaps gets on with me badly (8)

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26a

Dark time, we hear, for man on board (6)

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Down

1d

Some public exposure for bloodsuckers (4)

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2d

Old Athenian’s money starts to cause havoc in play (7)

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

Initial letters of Cause Havoc in DRAMA (play)

3d

Rejected terrible downside (8)

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5d

Spice Girl given money and sweet food (11)

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6d

John Travolta was in this part of Europe, it’s said (6)

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7d

Way of bowling six balls, ready for combat (7)

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8d

After vegetable, I refuse to put up with starter of Italian sausage (9)

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

PEPPER (vegetable) + a reversal (put up, in a down clue) of NO (I refuse) + I[talian]

12d

Maybe Kim, Karen and Ron, hot when dancing (5,6)

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13d

English pop singer admits longing for some needlework (9)

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15d

Empty tin filled with cigarette containing cannabis plant from a wood (4,4)

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

REEFER (cigarette containing cannabis) in T[i]N My apologies for the earlier absence of this clue

17d

Cry out with energy before wild climax (7)

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19d

What anti-monarchist might do, making reservation (7)

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20d

Cruel person is miserable first (6)

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22d

Silly bit of publicity around newspaper (4)

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