Lorraine: Another nice Everyman – unusual as RETSINA appeared two weeks ago.
Nick: Sorry for late publication – I was to put this up after yesterday’s FA Cup final, but got drunk and forgot! Still, at least Pompey has one winner today – ME, as I won AZED 1978 😀
Legend to solution comments:
* = anagram.
< = word reversed.
| Across | |||
| 1. |
One leaving order for artillery (8) | ||
| ORDNANCE | ORD(i)NANCE | ||
| 5. |
A female in posh car getting more reckless (6) | ||
| RASHER | RR (Rolls Royce) around A SHE | ||
| 10. |
Japanese dog biting contralto in opera (5) | ||
| TOSCA | TOSA around C | ||
| 11. |
Nickname for resolute men in club teams (9) | ||
| IRONSIDES | IRON+SIDES | ||
| 12. |
Use to perform surgery (7) | ||
| OPERATE | dd | ||
| 13. |
A President Ford car (7) | ||
| LINCOLN | dd | ||
| 14. |
Deceptively prim, I ran centre with accomplice (7,2,5) | ||
| PARTNER IN CRIME | (PRIM I RAN CENTRE)* | ||
| 17. |
So craftier plot hatched in jungle (8,6) | ||
| TROPICAL FOREST | (SO CRAFTIER PLOT)* | ||
| 21. |
Two lines of verse produced by associate, last in sonnet (7) | ||
| COUPLET | COUPLE+T | ||
| 23. |
Snake, excellent specimen (7) | ||
| RATTLER | dd | ||
| 24. |
Sailing boat can crossing a West Country river (9) | ||
| CATAMARAN | CAN around A TAMAR | ||
| 25. |
Incompetent writer rejected in it (5) | ||
| INEPT | (PEN<) in IT | ||
| 26. |
Cause of timeless crime? (6) | ||
| REASON | (t)REASON | ||
| 27. |
Put off drinking tin, for bottle (8) | ||
| DECANTER | DETER around CAN | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. |
Work? Not I, spoilt for choice! (6) | ||
| OPTION | OP+(NOT I*) | ||
| 2. |
Outlaw peer, odd as can be (9) | ||
| DESPERADO | (PEER ODD AS)* | ||
| 3. |
A very angry upset worker in firm (7) | ||
| ADAMANT | A+(MAD<)+ANT | ||
| 4. |
One may cast a shadow in Beijing plant (7,7) | ||
| CHINESE LANTERN | dd | ||
| 6. |
As found in vaccines radiographer brought over (7) | ||
| ARSENIC | hidden reversed: vacCINES RAdiographer Clever stuff |
||
| 7. |
Doctor in Hoy rebuilt a health spa (5) | ||
| HYDRO | DR in (HOY*) | ||
| 8. |
Took exception to being put on after opener’s taken off (8) | ||
| RESENTED | (p)RESENTED | ||
| 9. |
End argument for as opposed to against? (4,10) | ||
| GOAL DIFFERENCE | GOAL+DIFFERENCE | ||
| 15. |
Rude when drinking drop of vodka on the rocks (9) | ||
| INSOLVENT | V in INSOLENT | ||
| 16. |
One of the crocks at races? (5,3) | ||
| STOCK CAR | (CROCKS AT)* &lit Nice anagram |
||
| 18. |
At home, dance up in the air (2,5) | ||
| IN LIMBO | IN+LIMBO | ||
| 19. |
In tears having spilt wine (7) | ||
| RETSINA | (IN TEARS)* | ||
| 20. |
Large hole in old car beginning to rust (6) | ||
| CRATER | CRATE+R | ||
| 22. |
Very vital to resourceful tramps (5) | ||
| ULTRA | hidden: resourcefUL TRAmps | ||
Thanks Lorraine,
6d is even cleverer than you may think. ‘As’ is also the abbreviation for the element arsenic. It took me ages to figure out why the answer was arsenic.
Correction, ‘As’ is the symbol for the element arsenic.
Thanks for explaining ARSENIC, Davy – I put it in but couldn’t work out the definition.