Independent 7814 by Bannsider redux
Posted by flashling on November 1st, 2011
For those that are suffering a loss of Indy goodness…. Taken a little work but here is the missing crossword for you to do. Think of it as a birthday present from 15 squared.
1 Dance with a bottle of rum, making sport in bar (5,8)
9 Retreating, shielded from blows to make elusive catch (3)
10 Policeman wheels sailor home: that is touching! (11)
11 Bar of Silver and Gold at first concealed by Mata Hari? (3-5)
12 Computerised guide’s advantages over say, lawyer no longer evident (6)
14 Bull comes after this barge (3)
16 Leading rogue footballers home after bender (4-7)
19 Coxswain in serial dispersed crew (6,5)
20 Cross line to make this (3)
21 Boat said in Bristol to be on stand-by? (6)
23 Instruction to Shaw to leave US city (3,5)
27 Require Labour to bring in councillor with a talent for embroidery (11)
28 New Zealand winger back in university team’s firsts (3)
29 Pieces of eight son sent with romantic words (5,8)
Down
1 Overseas destination when surfing location – area around Spain – is in fashion (8,6)
2 Bones can – sort of (5)
3 Clear latex moulded with E-cup (9)
4 Mistake defending resolution intimidating people (5)
5 Producer of note giving neighbour a lift (4)
6 Soap neatly concealing US writer’s lack of inspiration (5)
7 Postponement of rising precedes delay to ambush (3,2,4)
8 Doctor Livesey had one with black stars (8,6)
13 Prime cuts small and so smooth (4)
15 Posh car in Paris inches south, a long, long way from Nice (9)
17 Salmon, cold, something had with a bottle of rum, not half! (4)
18 Desperate to survive axe (4-5)
22 Girl taking clothing from Boots (5)
24 No end in sight for mafia-style mission (5)
25 John Trelawney’s first to stop body of criminals (5)
26 Stevenson was one son raised in Beds (4)

November 1st, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Thanks flashling, great stuff! May catch up with you on the main blog later.
November 1st, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Thank you so much for taking the trouble to post this, flashling. Greatly appreciated.
November 1st, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Thank you flashling!
November 1st, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Well done. Thank you.
November 1st, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Thanks flashling. I’ve actually managed to get a copy of the paper itself, so I’ll have a crack at it after tea and tell you what I think later (if I can solve it, of course).
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:13 pm
16a Leading rogue footballers home after bender (4-7)
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Ah – sorry, I see you did have 16a, just called it 14! [Edit by flashling: good spot Thomas99 numbering snafu corrected]