Almost an unaided finish this week, albeit with a couple of slips, and I wasn’t quite brave enough to guess 24dn without a bit of research.
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | CZECHIC – C[o]ZE + CHIC. |
| 6 | COSTA – COST + A. |
| 10 | ON THE PROWL – (POLE THROWN)*. |
| 11 | ABHORS – AB + HORS[e]. |
| 13 | FOAL – A in FOL. |
| 15 | AT HOME – H in A TOME. |
| 16 | HORS DE SAISON – (RADISHES SOON)*. |
| 17 | MAKE A BOMB – MAKE + A BOMB. |
| 19 | INUTILITY – I + NUT + (LIT in I + Y). |
| 21 | AGENT GENERAL – GENERA in A GENTL[e]. |
| 23 | ZAFTIG – AFT in ZIG. |
| 25 | EUAN – E[xeter] U[niversity] A[dmit] N[ew]. |
| 26 | STREEK – STR + EEK. |
| 27 | CHARGEABLE – CHAR + (E in GABLE). |
| 28 | SEEDS – D[ay] in SEES. |
| 29 | SUDSERS – DS in SUERS. |
| Down | |
| 1 | COACH – C + [r]OACH. |
| 2 | ETHE – ETHE[r]. |
| 3 | CHOUSE – C + HOUSE. |
| 4 | HEROD ANTIPAS – (THE PARANOID)* + S[ort]. |
| 5 | CREASOTED – DECORATES*. I made life difficult here by instinctively writing in the more familiar CREOSOTED without checking the anagram. |
| 6 | CONTAMINATED – CON + TAMIN + ATE + D. |
| 7 | SLOOSH – SLOO[p] + SH. |
| 8 | TRAMONTANE – TRAM + ON + T + ANE. |
| 9 | ALLENBY – (N + B) in ALLEY. Edmund Allenby. |
| 12 | BROADGAUGE – (GO + A GUARD)* in BE. |
| 14 | DEBUGGERS – DEBU[t] + [a]GGERS. |
| 17 | MEAZELS – hom. of “measles”. |
| 18 | DEFACE – DEF + ACE. |
| 20 | LEPRAS – PR in LEAS. |
| 22 | LAKES – from SLAKE. |
| 24 | HEBE – HEBE[tate]. |