Guardian Cryptic #29861

2025-11-25

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Across

1a

Single fellow who’s qualified in Arts or Science? (8)

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5a

Gave instruction in rigid pronouncement (6)

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9a

Writings on specific subjects soldier demolishing exam exploits (8)

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

CORPORAL less ORAL (exam) + USES (exploits)

10a

Highly trained person, not necessarily in medicine (6)

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

Just an extended definition: a doctor could be highly trained in medicine, or in another subject for a PhD

12a

Level of tension that rises by degrees (11)

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15a

Not advanced degree, as recorded (5)

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17a

Type that’s rejected Trinity coming to university in a train, oddly (9)

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

U + (IN A TRAIN)*

18a

Its teams are a shade lighter than opponents (9)

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

Cambridge sports teams play in light blue, their Oxford opponents in dark

19a

Part of education that could be spent in the past (5)

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20a

Innocence as misrepresented in small-scale theory and research (11)

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24a

Immediately in agreement about first in Classics (2,4)

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

C[lassics] in AT ONE (in agreement)

25a

Graduate, note, below me in musical club performances (8)

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BA (that degree again) + RE (the note below me) in CATS (musical)

26a

Part of one’s old college, including second teacher (6)

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

S[econd] in MATER (part of Alma Mater, one’s old college)

27a

Learned university craft with editor after editor (8)

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Down

1d

Like term after term without vacation? Sponsor closed fund (4-2-4)

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2d

Rooms arranged in cold institution for term of biology (10)

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

ROOMS in C HOME

3d

Ignoring the odds, best buddies study abroad (5)

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

The even letters of bEsT bUdDiEs – “study abroad” because it’s the French word for “study”

4d

Excessively rich nut a brave don demolished (12)

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6d

As assistant, inserting warning on course already mentioned (9)

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FORE (warning on a golf course) in AS AID

7d

Announced step to punish student (4)

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8d

A quarter of Americans, say, stored in computer memory (4)

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11d

Stiff paper, the passing of which facilitates working relationship (8,4)

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13d

Recording what’s in syllabusoverlapping, hence irritation (10)

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

DISC (recording) + CONTENT (what’s in a syllabus), with the two Cs overlapping

14d

Not subject to pressure, like bridge in 18 (10)

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16d

History professor finally working in funny cliche (9)

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

[professo]R + ON (working) in CLICHE*

21d

Patriarch who, to his friends, explained the gravity of the situation? (5)

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22d

Polite form of address reflected academic achievement (4)

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23d

Assumes they should be experts in their fields (4)

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