| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | (MARIA FOLLOWING)*,E – WILLIAM OF ORANGE. “After the Reformation” is the anagram indicator so the capitalized R is more than a bit cheeky. |
| 9 | DUMB,FOUND – great definition (“stump”) but does “see” mean the same as “find”? |
| 11 | INGENUE – “genuine” with the IN moved. |
| 14 | CORPORATION – which is an informal or facetious word for “paunch”. |
| 17 | CONSUMPTION – great double definition clue: “Eating disorder…” |
| 18 | DIG – as is this: “…like mine” |
| 20 | TATA in RAT – RAT-A-TAT. |
| 23 | LAMINAR – the only way I can parse this is as R (last of “your”), ANIMAL (meat) reversed but that would make “reject” as the reversal indicator but “reject” doesn’t mean to reverse or turn something around so have I read this one wrongly? |
| 26 | REM (SINCE I)* – REMINISCE. |
| 27 | BED AND BREAKFAST – I guess that a “second” is a B here (second letter of the alphabet) |
| Down | |
| 2 | LIME GREEN – a reference to the novelist Graham Greene and Harry Lime, a character in “The Third Man“, a film with a screenplay by Greene (who also a wrote a novella of the same name). Lime was played – famously – by Orson Welles. A brilliant film and possibly my favourite ever. |
| 3 | I, F in NUN |
| 6 | AI,SEC in RAIN – RAISE CAIN. |
| 7 | G in NUDE – “exposed” = in [the] NUDE. |
| 8 | EVERT,ON |
| 15 | O,AMM in RIFLE – ORIFLAMME always seems to crop up in crosswords, so much so that it’s the first thing I think of when I see “standard” in a puzzle. |
| 17 | CO,RN,COB |
| 21 | TUM,I’D – I liked “food processor” for TUM. |
| 22 | T,HR,[-y]OB |
| 24 | S in MINK |
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Is ‘reject’ not meant to mean ‘send back’?