Half expected Crosophile as I’ve got him a few months running on Wednesdays, but always a pleasure to get a Dac as ever little contentious with a couple of &lits.
Few anagrams and some DDs being served up today but I think most regular Indy solvers won’t have been too troubled.
Across:
| 1 | ON TICK | Hidden in (seas)ON TICK(ets) |
| 4 | ROADSIDE | No leader in (b)ROADSIDE |
| 10 | TRAGEDIAN | (ac)T + AGED 1 in RAN |
| 11 | CLEGG | L(ib) + EGG after C(on) &lit |
| 12 | INDEPENDENT | (PEN in ED) all in INDENT |
| 14 | LUG | LUG(e) |
| 15 | JEREMIAH | Hom JERRY + hom MAYA |
| 17 | LAY ON | Y(ear) in LOAN* |
| 19 | AMAZE | A.M. + (h)AZE |
| 21 | HERITAGE | No miles in HER(m)ITAGE |
| 24 | SIM | Double definition |
| 25 | FINGALS CAVE | (GALS + VAC rev) in FINE |
| 27 | CARGO | CAR + GO |
| 28 | WRINKLIES | I in WRINKLES (hints) |
| 30 | STRIKING | DD |
| 31 | PATRON | (A PORT)* + (luncheo)N |
| Down: | ||
| 1 | OUTFIT | DD |
| 2 | TWADDLE | T(ime) + WADDLE |
| 3 | COE | C(ordinating) O(lympic) E(vent) &lit |
| 5 | OUNCE | (p)OUNCE |
| 6 | DECATHLETES | DEC(ember) + HEATS* in LET |
| 7 | IDEALLY | kIdDiEs + ALLY |
| 8 | ENGAGING | (GAG + IN) in ENG |
| 9 | FIENDISH | E in FIN(ancial) + DISH (the dirt) |
| 13 | PIECE OF WORK | DD |
| 16 | HERBARIA | HER + BARI + A(rea) |
| 18 | RANSACKS | RAN + SACKS |
| 20 | ADMIRER | (I DREAM)* + R(omeo) |
| 22 | GLAZIER | (evenin)G + LAZIER |
| 23 | PERSON | Hidden in (newspa)PERS ON(ce) |
| 26 | NO WIN | Or NOW IN |
| 29 | KOA | K.O. + A – a Hawaiian tree |
Couldn’t parse 9d properly. Thanks – also dead tree version has 25ac as 6,5 which threw me a bit.
Still can’t parse 9d. Why is dish “ruin”?
Ian W @2
Chambers has ‘to ruin (colloq.)’ among the meanings of ‘dish’ as a verb. Not an expression I use myself but it was used frequently in our household when I was young.
Thanks, flashling.
I struggled with a few here. Dish for ‘ruin’ was new to me too, and wrinkles for hints? Can’t find that one. So for me a little harder than usual for a Wednesday, but with some clever Dac clueing as always. Liked CLEGG in particular.
Dish was familiar to me, although I wouldn’t use it myself or even know how to, exactly. But wrinkle for hint was baffling and I hesitated to put it in. But here it is, in the Free Online Dictionary:
wrinkle (2)
n
Informal a clever or useful trick, hint, or dodge
So now we know. I’m pretty sure I’ve never come across it though.
Good as always, a little harder than usual for Dac. That’s a meaning of ‘wrinkle’ all right, K’s D, and I guess it would have to have, as it does, a different root to the better-known wrinkle as that’s relevant to the definition itself. Thanks, flashling (BTW, I think regular Indy solvers are quite happy to be ‘troubled’ as I was with a few clues here), and Dac.
4 across gave me the most trouble here, largely because I was half-convinced it must have an anagram of wiped in it. I’d just about heard of wrinkles, although I can’t say it was the first word that jumped to mind. I liked the Clegg &lit.
Both dish meaning ruin and wrinkles hints, are in my Chambers – admittedly hardly the first entries though but since I knew both I assumed others did too, sorry about that. At Paul A#1 I’ve got the filled in dead tree next to me and I didn’t notice the incorrect enumeration – oops.