A bit of a hurried post from me this week, squeezed into a brief break from a mind-numbing overdue calculus assignment.
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | UNPRINCIPLED – (IN NUDE IN CLIP)*. |
| 9 | SOUTERRAIN – OUT “within” (SERRA + IN). |
| 11 | TOUN – TO + UN. |
| 12 | TURMOIL – hom. of “term” + OIL. |
| 13 | IONONE – IE “with admission of NO-NO<. |
| 17 | PLANTA – PLAN + TA . |
| 18 | AESIR – A + RISE<. |
| 19 | ELASTIC – E + LAST + IC. |
| 20 | GO SPARE – SPA “in middle of” GORE. |
| 22 | MASER – AS in MER[e]. |
| 24 | INDITE – INDIE “including” T. |
| 27 | GLIRES – (G + LIES) “about” R. |
| 28 | OSMOSIS – [c]OSMOS + IS. |
| 29 | TORC – TORC[h]. |
| 30 | MILE-CASTLE – (METAL LIES)* around C . |
| 31 | STREPTOSOLEN – (NOT ROSE SPELT)*. |
| Down | |
| 1 | USTILAGINOUS – (GUILT IS A)* + NOUS. |
| 2 | POUNDS – dd. |
| 3 | RUN ON – R + UN[i]ON. |
| 4 | ITINERATE – TINE “to stop” IRATE. |
| 5 | CRUMPLED – MP in RULE in CD. |
| 6 | PAMPAS – (SAP + MAP)<. |
| 7 | LION – 0 in LIN. |
| 8 | DELLA-CRUSCAN – (UR + CALLED)< + SCAN. |
| 10 | NIFTIER – N + IF + TIER. |
| 14 | BLAMELESS – BLESS “keeping” ?. Wordplay is “Be thankful for keeping game…”. |
| 15 | PEONISM – (MOPES IN)*. |
| 16 | DERELICT – D + ERECT “to protect” (L + 1). |
| 21 | PINOLE – NO “cutting” PILE. |
| 23 | SCROLL – ORCS< + LL. |
| 25 | DITTO – [fin]D IT TO[ugh]. |
| 26 | SMIR – S + MIR. |