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Guardian Cryptic Crossword

#29997 by Dice | 2026-05-04
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Across

1. Wife desires charming women … (7) (7) Hints

5. … valour is boring her – ordinary and primarily ‘macho’ (7) (7) Hints

10. E-copy (4) (4) Hints

11. Tale of servitude recalled in reels (10) (10) Hints

12. One in five heading to Open are seeds (6) (6) Hints

13. Remain on the right side of suspicious cook – porky but harmless? (5,3) (5, 3) Hints

14. Way to find a giant, live, and chat about man’s missing head? (9) (9) Hints

16. Censors essentially blue tale (5) (5) Hints

17. Barnaby ousts Romeo and takes Juliet – he’s a trier! (5) (5) Hints

19. INXS provided Yates’s first shoot up (9) (9) Hints

23. Barbarian, turning good guy, with trimmed locks – he’s chasing foxy type? (8) (8) Hints

24. Move to try and cover King’s naked glee after fling (6) (6) Hints

26. Ventures boundless flair inspired by coaches (10) (10) Hints

27. Once partner is following, beginning to introduce glimpse of billy goat (4) (4) Hints

28. One holding up the line returning skins again? (7) (7) Hints

29. Trailers way back, after about 5½ days travelling west (7) (7) Hints

Down

2. Add in what I did here, as stated (7) (7) Hints

3. Summit’s within Worcester, centrally, elevated (5) (5) Hints

4. Use charm to control tendency to avoid pressure (7) (7) Hints

6. Barrier dropped to protect pupil (6) (6) Hints

7. Toast peer performing in musical dramas (9) (9) Hints

8. Rise up, capturing aged warrior (7) (7) Hints

9. White dominance troubling viewers (4,9) (4, 9) Hints

15. Dark approaching, tenses, one male, alone at the end (5-4) (5-4) Hints

18. Odd you twice caught group of students drawn in by unframed Dali (7) (7) Hints

20. Overlooked, start off angry, swear endlessly inside (7) (7) Hints

21. Most rewarding transposing soprano flute line (7) (7) Hints

22. This setter’s regularly upset with contrary editor’s delay (6) (6) Hints

25. Catch spots orally (5) (5) Hints