A familiar friend this Friday. Thanks to Bradman for this pleasant jaunt of a solve. Fairly steady progress through out the grid. A couple of clues seemed like they could have been more precise but nothing material enough to take away from some smooth cluing.
FF: 8 DD: 6
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| 1 | HARD UP |
Hurt when losing millions, political party is financially embarrassed (4,2)
HARm (hurt, losing millions = m) DUP (Democratic Unionist Party, NI)
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| 5 | SHALLOWS |
Saint consecrates water inadequate for total immersion? (8)
Charade of S (Saint) HALLOWS (consecrates). Am generally used to ‘St’ as the Saint reference.
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| 9 | DONATIVE |
Gift, nothing new, put in case (8)
[ O (nothing) N (new)] in DATIVE (case)
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| 10 | INVERT |
Lazy, very stuck in? Reverse (6)
INERT (lazy) with V (Very) stuck in.
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| 11 | PAELLA |
When there’s a setback, see everyone ’oard food (6)
ALL (everyone) hEAP (‘oard) – all reversed. I felt the clue was a bit wordy to indicate the reversing.
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| 12 | CHLORIDE |
See journey taken by children in compound (8)
[ LO (see) RIDE (journey) ] by CH (children)
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| 14 | SIDEREAL YEAR |
New release – diary that covers a bit more than the 365 days (8,4)
Anagram of RELEASE DIARY; the time that the earth takes to orbit the sun measured against a fixed frame of reference.
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| 18 | PIANO RECITAL |
A clarinet op. – unusual to have one in it? (5,7)
Anagram of A CLARINET OP with I (one); &lit.
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| 22 | SLOVENIA |
Country person looking untidy, the reverse of tip-top (8)
SLOVEN (person looking untidy) IA (reverse of A1 – tip top)
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| 25 | PLOVER |
Bird quietly sitting by mate? (6)
P (quietly) LOVER (mate)
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| 26 | WIGGED |
Scolded in the manner of a judge (6)
Cryptic clue, referring to the old practice of white wigs for Judges.
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| 27 | LATHERED |
Machine very hot and covered with foam (8)
LATHE (machine) RED (very hot)
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| 28 | REALISTS |
Not for them the fantasies liars set out (8)
Anagram of LIARS SET
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| 29 | YATTER |
Tiresome talk to get treaty fixed (6)
Anagram of TREATY
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| 2 | ANORAK |
Artist wears an acceptable jacket (6)
RA (Artist) in (wears) AN OK (acceptable)
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| 3 | DEADLY SIN |
Naughty lady is in place of vice – one of seven baddies (6,3)
Anagram of LADY IS in DEN (place of vice)
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| 4 | PHILANDER |
Flirt quietly greeting one arriving at airport? (9)
Charade of P (quietly) HI (greeting)
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| 5 | SPENCER |
Society needs money – first of rules from sociologist (7)
S (society) PENCE (money) R (first of Rules) – Herbert Spencer.
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| 6 | ARIEL |
Angel or archangel avoiding Great Britain (5)
gAbRIEL (archangel, without GB)
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| 7 | LOVER |
Amorous type wanting maiden under fifty? (5)
OVER (maiden, from the game of cricket) under L (fifty)
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| 8 | WORLD WAR |
Crude, dull, heartless quarrel set up conflict far and wide (5,3)
[RAW (crude) DL (DulL, heartless) ROW (quarrel)] all reversed (set up)
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| 13 | OWL |
Bird not high up first to reach ground (3)
LOW (not high up) with first letter moving to last.
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| 15 | ANTIPATHY |
Hostility of worker having pay hit badly (9)
ANT (worker) with anagram of PAY HIT
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| 16 | YELLOWEST |
Cry out over nothing – Nato countries becoming most fearful? (9)
Charade of YELL (cry) O (nothing) WEST (Nato countries)
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| 17 | HILLSIDE |
Troubles in obscure land rising (8)
ILLS (Troubles) in HIDE (obscure)
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| 19 | ORE |
Valuable stuff making money for Scandinavians (3)
DD, Ore is the currency in Denmark.
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| 20 | CHARLES |
Prince is cleaner little boy (7)
CHAR (cleaner) LES (little boy, Leslie)
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| 21 | RECEDE |
Go back to compensate for dead grass, we hear? (6)
Sounds like RE-SEED (compensate for dead grass)
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| 23 | VIGIL |
6.50 – soldier enters for watch (5)
VI (6) L(50) around GI (soldiers). Didnt fancy this clue much.
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| 24 | NUDES |
When turning up they may get some embarrassed, unsurprisingly! (5)
@lit, hidden in ’embarasSED UNsuprisingly’, reversed (turning up)
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*anagram
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
Found this to be very gentle by the normal Don standard, but very pleasant notwithstanding !
ORE was my first one in … and is in fact a unit of currency not only of Denmark, but Norway (with which I associated it with) and Sweden as well.
Only two new words for me today – YATTER and Herbert SPENCER.
Thought that DEADLY SIN was very good !
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
4dn: There seems to be an extra I in the parsing. I think “one arriving at airport?” is the indication for LANDER.
bruce@1: I went to a conference in Oslo in 2012 and have no memory of seeing any prices that were not in whole kroner. I have checked a few websites, and found one which tells me that 1 krone divides into 100 øre, but also says that the 1 krone coin is the smallest in circulation, which accords with my memory.
Thanks Bruce@1 and Pelham@2.
Pelham – Edited as necessary. Thanks for the input.
Cheers
TL