The usual friendly Monday crossword from Quixote.
Not much to add really except for a comment by Quixote himself.
| Across | ||
| 1 | SENTENCE | Part of a message maybe despatched from ‘ere (8) |
| SENT & (h)ENCE | ||
| 5 | ECLAIR | City den offering something at teatime? (6) |
| EC & LAIR | ||
| 9 | METRICAL | As some lines related to measurement (8) |
| Double definition | ||
| 10 | ALFRED | King starts to look frightened when captured by a revolutionary (6) |
| L(ook) F(rightened) in A RED | ||
| 12 | SCRUB | Clean up something in the garden? (5) |
| Double definition | ||
| 13 | SURPRISES | We hear teacher treasures the unexpected things of life (9) |
| Sounds like “SIR” & “PRIZES” | ||
| 14 | RUBY WEDDING | Doubling of score in match gives reason for celebration (4,7) |
| 2 Score = 40 hence 40th Anniversary | ||
| 18 | HEADHUNTERS | People employed by recruitment agencies? They’re after the tops (11) |
| HUNTERS of HEADs | ||
| 21 | MADE A PASS | Very foolish ape, silly nincompoop, tried to be flirtatious (4,1,4) |
| MAD & APE* & ASS | ||
| 23 | RIDER | Additional bit for one making journey (5) |
| Double definition | ||
| 24 | LEGATE | Emissary set to return having had meal (6) |
| GEL (set) reversed & ATE | ||
| 25 | REMNANTS | Stern man recycled the bits left over (8) |
| [STERN MAN]* | ||
| 26 | SESTET | Six together established in group (6) |
| EST(ablished) in SET | ||
| 27 | PERSISTS | After quiet start, one beset by terrible stress keeps going (8) |
| P & 1 in STRESS* | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | SAMOSA | Urgent message goes round in the morning to get a bit of food (6) |
| AM in SOS & A | ||
| 2 | NATURE | Ruminate freely having abandoned motorway — what’s seen in the country? (6) |
| No M1 in RU(mi)NATE* | ||
| 3 | EDINBURGH CASTLE | He’s bad lecturing — words dissolving in big old building (9,6) |
| [HE’S BAD LECTURING]* | ||
| 4 | CHAOS | After tea there’s huge confusion (5) |
| CHA & O/S | ||
| 6 | COLORADO SPRINGS | US city of gold and scrap iron, so bizarre (8,7) |
| [GOLD SCRAP IRON SO]* | ||
| 7 | ACROSTIC | Puzzle posed by leading characters (8) |
| Actually it’s a not very cryptic definition | ||
| 8 | REDESIGN | Make new plans for journalist — give notice about that (8) |
| ED(itor) in RESIGN | ||
| 11 | BROWSE | Look through lines in English book that’s turned up (6) |
| ROWS in E(nglish) B(ook) reversed | ||
| 15 | BANJAX | Report of unwelcome message for sailors spells ruin (6) |
| My last one in, sounds line BAN JACKS | ||
| 16 | SHAMBLES | Quiet walks in York street (8) |
| SH & AMBLES probably not so easy for our overseas solvers | ||
| 17 | BANDAGES | Group taking a long time to provide forms of protection after accident (8) |
| BAND & AGES | ||
| 19 | ADONIS | Lad on isle — just some handsome youth (6) |
| Hidden in (l)AD ON IS(le) | ||
| 20 | CRISES | Panic ultimately increases in desperate situations (6) |
| (pani)C & RISES | ||
| 22 | SUEDE | Material couldn’t be kept upright, we hear? (5) |
| Sounds like SWAYED | ||
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