The Guardian Cryptic Crossword 29497 Answers

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ACROSS

• The hours oddly spent churning over and over secret (4-4)
• Stokes derides shifts (6)
• Vertex of Summer Triangle – dependably evident nightly – essentially blue at the outset (5)
• Scintillating 7, in my flying visits, representative of the bigger picture (9)
• New lander first to penetrate alien world (3,6)
• Ara represents this single missing blue-green star (5)
• Evidence of fall, meteoric for one boxer (6)
• Returning carrier ship receiving earth pictures, not immediately decipherable? (7)
• Pounds, shillings and pence, steel warped (7)
• One helps out leading characters (6)
• Sample from traveller in G-suit, features of Saturn (5)
• Buzz’s first problem after shortage – result of huge collapse (5,4)
• One new member of quartet, Tim Peake, gutted Virgin (9)
• As an alternative, cut celestial path (5)
• Cherished by SpaceX – Eternal City (6)
• Linesman’s not one for stress plugging in Empire State (8)

DOWN

• What about launching a Soviet climber? (6)
• Standards slipping, we fly at night (4-5)
• See Phoebe, Bull and edges of 7 flying in astronomical equipment (6,9)
• Discussion group remains animated (7)
• People on radio to instruct landing outside Belgium are sadly cracking up (6,9)
• I circle the sun bed occupied by mining engineer (5)
• Most assuredly ground-to-air ceasefires will include confines of space (8)
• Having visited e.g. 10, astronaut’s back home at last, he says (6)
• It takes a lot to learn (6,3)
• Characteristic of fans not winning game (8)
• Group aboard last couple of rockets set up midnight rendezvous (6)
• University types created cycles in unit (7)
• Hardly the sphere of the old-fashioned scientist! (6)
• Stars suddenly brighter and twinkly on average, before storm (5)