Independent Cryptic #11957

2025-02-04

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1a

Light heavy metal when amplifier's first unplugged (3)

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

LE a D (heavy metal) with the ‘a’ (first letter of amplifier) missing or ‘unplugged’

3a

Point of extraordinary gravity: remarkable computers and the end of humanity (11)

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SINGULAR (remarkable) IT (information technology – ‘computers’) Y (last letter or ‘end’ of humanity)

9a

First sign of armed force facing offence (7)

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10a

Wine knocked back in Aegean is terrible (7)

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11a

Caretaker understood accommodating a mother of kids perhaps (9)

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NANNY (‘caretaker’) GOT (understood) round or ‘accommodating’ A

12a

Exemplary pupil added to sequence of notes (5)

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13a

Poke holes in egg with a pointed implement (7)

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15a

Set of values a little bit regressive (4)

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A reversal (‘regressive’) of A TAD (a little bit)

18a

Decrepit odd couples going down a long way (4)

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20a

Lighting unit city placed behind walls of castle (7)

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LA (Los Angeles – ‘city’) ‘placed behind’ C AND E (first and last letters or ‘walls’ of castle)

22a

Mathematician's irrational measuring tool initially rejected (5)

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24a

Entering fashionable activity with club on green (9)

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26a

Unusual to have sunk teeth into cheese dish (7)

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27a

Fussily obsessive about flatulence sent back Italian food (7)

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A reversal (‘sent back’) of ANAL (fussily obsessive) round GAS (flatulence)

28a

Means to pick up pork pie and cook it with electrode (11)

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29a

Regret cavorting but disobedient at heart (3)

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Middle letters or ‘hearts’ of cavoRting bUt disobEdient

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1d

Inclination to suppress arithmetic? What's the point of going to school? (8)

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LEANING (inclination) round or ‘suppressing’ R (arithmetic – one of ‘the three Rs’)

2d

Without a doubt constrained after my boss returned (8)

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FINITE (constrained) after a reversal (‘returned’) of ED (editor – Atrica’s ‘boss’)

3d

Plot succeeded with right-wing following (5)

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4d

Socialise to gain employment (7)

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5d

Ill natured not placed in class (7)

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An anagram (‘ill’) of NATURED

6d

Aunt doesn't finish eating salad ingredient being motionless unless wound up? (9)

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7d

Upcoming artist torn apart by ego? It's an old story (5)

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

A reversal (‘upcoming’) of DALI (artist) round or ‘torn apart by’ I (ego)

8d

Regularly peer inside yesterday's envelope (6)

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EARL (peer) in Y Y (first and last letters or ‘envelope’ of yesterday)

14d

Blair never disheartened somehow incapable of making a mistake (9)

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16d

One who invests in beer is upset for example (8)

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

A reversal (‘upset’) of IS and EG (for example) in BEER – another one we had to check

17d

Italian perhaps blasting a leg with a gun (8)

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19d

Potion put through screen picked up (7)

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20d

Assistant aviator: nincompoop bored by work mid-air (7)

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

CLOT (nincompoop) round or ‘bored by’ OP (work) I (middle letter of air)

21d

Objective less tense dealing with nerves (6)

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23d

Hefty shove dispatching bishop below cathedral's east facade (5)

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

b ARGE (shove) with the ‘b’ (bishop) ‘dispatched’ and replaced by L (last letter or ‘east facade’ of cathedral)

25d

Shocker - educator covering every individual with arsenic (5)

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

T each ER (educator) with ‘each’ (every individual) replaced or ‘covered’ by AS (arsenic)