Guardian Cryptic #29952

2026-03-12

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1a

That’s all on Feds busting politician (3,2,5)

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6a

Swinging both ways in the guise of intolerance (4)

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9a

Seriously funny minute where head blown off in which Groucho’s prop backfires? (10)

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10a

Equerry’s rump plastered in red sauce (4)

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12a

Fly, say, in starter of soup etc, dining we found funny? (6,6)

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15a

Pompous, more than is usual at an airport, did you say? (9)

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17a

Hitch where consumption disturbed by whiff (5)

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18a

III wrong? Alternatively, I or II divided by the number (5)

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19a

Colour in image on rock for sign (9)

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20a

Some Sandinista, get role in a dictatorship after revolutionwould I? (6,6)

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24a

Member of the orchestra I understand, violin player picked up? (4)

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25a

Queasy one, relative gulping oxygen is in a state (10)

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26a

Spot channel on the radio? (4)

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27a

Victorian author set to field question left after fumbles overheard? (3,7)

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Down

1d

Food waste at several stores (4)

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2d

Flat flatfish: that’s about right (4)

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3d

Delicate creatures tomorrow and for another week, according to one’s horoscope? (12)

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4d

17 21 brief, 17 21 to 21? (5)

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5d

People staying at home, and stumbling, hopeful steps taken before a fall? (4,5)

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7d

Short, and a quite misshapen nose, ultimately (10)

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8d

Unctuous windbag, potential killer? (6-4)

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11d

Show agony and sign the forms (8,4)

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13d

Heart palpitating over wife in bedroom, tickler of infant’s bottom? (10)

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14d

Back stabbed by company in African countrywarmer in Asia? (6,4)

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16d

A packet with something sticky, work on sweetie that’s wrapped up (3,6)

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21d

Aversion to heights is never good where always at the summit? (5)

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22d

Sky, might you have said? Oddly it’s blue! (4)

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23d

Particular Turner turned up? (4)

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