Crosswords Set by: Sphinx Wed 12 Jun 2024 00.00 BST Cryptic crossword No 29,407 Print | PDF version | Accessible version Set by: Sphinx Wed 12 Jun 2024 00.00 BST Download the Guardian app for a better puzzles experience Download the Guardian app for a better puzzles experience Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Across 1 Players count bung in shed (4) 3 Tell star playing in clubs about refreshing keys (4-3-3) 10 Arranged to spring a trap (3) 11 Feel up when nothing goes wrong (5) 12 Politician takes a beat, cutting out dead wood (5) 13 Primate holding bird in both hands (5) 14 Feel sick about one child’s secret love affairs (8) 16 Big setback being a hundred and one before your first club! (7) 18 Revolutionary had a slip taking out power plants (7) 20 Roast is missing hot stuff (7) 22 Soldiers and last bit of egg sent back on tea tray (7) 23 Bake Off presenter has posh trainee replacing a line. Shade! (8) 25 Cobbled together a house in Washington (2,3) 28 Bad luck dogs the finale (5) 29 Partial fraction (in theory)? (5) 30 Sit back, it is a contraction! (3) 31 Power wielded by king amidst reshuffle? That hurts (5,5) 32 Tramp’s fuzz (4) Down 1 Doctor Livingstone’s first cousin taking on Conservative for the final time (10) 2 Dumb way to take heroin … bare dumb (5) 4 Already coming back to take list (it’s useful for shopping) (7) 5 Sir Christopher’s part of the hospital is on the quiet side (7) 6 Kids’ hits on the radio (5) 7 Getting rid of former Russian president’s no good for Middle Eastern Gulf (9) 8 Suggests lines to the audience (4) 9 Upset, the first lady is on a horse ride half-cut (8) 15 Nasty racist does solitary (10) 17 Up and down, like second column? (9) 19 Ambassador on a date? What about back problem? (8) 21 Books mid-October to chase bull in Spanish city (7) 22 Reading unknown, almost one Celsius above and one Celsius below frozen (7) 24 Calling for bill in this manner suggests one’s unwell – aww! (5) 26 Fellow has to back Student Raffles, for instance (5) 27 Film about boring mathematical equation (4)
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