| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | (SINFUL EFFECTS I)* – SELF-SUFFCIENT. SELF was obvious but the rest took a little time to make itself apparent. |
| 9 | RUSE,D,SKI |
| 10 | YUP,PIE – if I had to pick a word to sum up the 1980s it would probably be this. |
| 11 | DE CAMP – I liked this: “Go and butch up”. |
| 12 | NEG OR TIN< – quite a difficult one to parse. |
| 16 | C in (BRAVE ONES)* – OBSERVANCE. Not a tough word by any means and a fairly easy anagram to spot but this still took me a while to get. At any rate, it felt like it should have been obvious, but wasn’t. |
| 18 | C in PEER<, C in TALE – cleverly constructed clue which takes one abbreviation – C – and gets us to use it twice. |
| 20 | [-qu]EASY – one of the last couple I filled in and only because I could see what else could fit. Have just seen that “green” = queasy. |
| 27 | IPM in CHUNK – “thirteen hundred” really held me up here and even when I filled the answer in I still couldn’t explain it. Finally, the penny dropped: 1300 = 1PM = IPM. |
| 28 | PE,LET<,HONE,BOOT,H |
| Down | |
| 2 | UM in [-g]ENERATE – the fact that UM and ER both appear made think that these were both indicated by “I’m hesitant” but that meant the rest of the clue didn’t work. |
| 3 | hidden reversed in “prAYERFul” – FREYA is the Norse goddess of love and beauty. |
| 5 | FRI[-day],ENDS |
| 7 | ESP,ION,AGE – “special intuition” for E[xtra] S[ensory] P[erception] and the definition was enough to get this. |
| 8 | T,WINE – “tent” is a deep red wine. |
| 13 | TURNER PRIZE – filled this in without understanding the clue but looking at it now, “lather” looks to be doing the deception work here as it means “some who operates a lathe”, which could also be a TURNER. |
| 17 | AS,HEWN in CUT – at first I couldn’t understand the wordplay here as I thought that “when chopped” was (WHEN)*, which left AS unaccounted for. Later spotted that “when chopped” is AS HEWN. |
| 22 | A,DEPT[-h] |