Many thanks Turbolegs for stepping into the breach – Gaufrid
| Across | ||
| 1 | OVERSPENT |
Wasted deliveries get impounded (9)
OVERS (deliveries) PENT (impounded) |
| 6 | LEWES |
Many sheep in East Sussex town (5)
L (many, roman numeral for 50) EWES (sheep) |
| 9 | TIBER |
Italian banker and bishop in row (5)
B (bishop) in TIER (row) – banker referring to river. |
| 10 | IN ADVANCE |
Notice leaders in popular church beforehand (2,7)
[AD (notice) VAN (leaders)] in IN (popular) CE (church) |
| 11 | STORM SURGE |
Rogers must design for adverse tidal conditions (5,5)
Anagram of ROGERS MUST |
| 12 | CHAD |
Political party deceived the country (4)
C (political party, conservatives) HAD (deceived) |
| 14 | INDULGE |
To satisfy doctor I’d lunge (7)
Anagram of ID LUNGE |
| 15 | SEATTLE |
Make one’s home outside a US city (7)
SETTLE (make one’s home) outside A |
| 17 | CHRONIC |
Inveterate Romeo working in elegant environment (7)
[R (romeo) ON (working)] in CHIC (elegant) |
| 19 | NATURAL |
Accidental standard (7)
Double def – the first a musical note |
| 20 | BOWL |
Dismiss blackbird? (4)
B (black) OWL (bird) – in cricket |
| 22 | RACECOURSE |
Track blood flow (10)
RACE (blood) COURSE (flow) |
| 25 | TRIUMPHAL |
Jubilant pal? I’m hurt dreadfully! (9)
Anagram of PAL IM HURT |
| 26 | LOUSE |
See function for parasite (5)
LO (see) USE (function) |
| 27 | RADON |
Scampered around discharge of gas (5)
RAN (scampered) around DO (discharge) |
| 28 | DISCREDIT |
Cast aspersions on circle embarrassed by sex appeal (9)
DISC (circle) RED (embarassed) IT (sex appeal) |
| Down | ||
| 1 | OATHS |
Promises husband to tuck into cereal (5)
H (husband) in OATS (cereal) |
| 2 | EMBROIDER |
Bride more prepared to dress up (9)
Anagram of BRIDE MORE |
| 3 | SCRAMBLING |
Scottish leaders going on and on – or going up and up? (10)
SC (SCottish leaders) RAMBLING (going on and on) |
| 4 | EPICURE |
English beauty losing heart to person of taste (7)
E (english) PICtURE (beauty, losing heart) |
| 5 | TEAR GAS |
Disarming agent hurries to embrace Georgia (4,3)
TEARS (hurries) embracing GA (georgia) |
| 6 | LIVE |
Charged to have fun (4)
Double def |
| 7 | WINCH |
Tackle leads to success over Switzerland (5)
WIN (success) over CH (switzerland) |
| 8 | SPEEDWELL |
Veronica creates career skillfully (9)
Charade of SPEED WELL (to mean , speed as career and well as skillfully) – referring to the plant genus of this name |
| 13 | FAST BOWLER |
Lent hat to cricketer (4,6)
FAST (lent) BOWLER (hat) |
| 14 | INCUBATOR |
Popular young reporter in Oregon gets medical equipment (9)
IN (popular) CUB (young reporter) AT (in) OR (oregon) |
| 16 | TURN ROUND |
Go off with Chubby? That’s a volte-face! (4,5)
TURN (go off) ROUND (chubby) |
| 18 | CLASHED |
Charlie’s beaten and rattled (7)
C (charlie) LASHED (beaten) |
| 19 | NEEDLES |
The French to support requirement for sewers (7)
LES (the, in french) supporting NEED (requirement) |
| 21 | WEIRD |
Strange dam on the Dee (5)
WEIR (dam) on D (dee) |
| 23 | EVENT |
Something occurring in the 70s (5)
Hidden in sEVENTies |
| 24 | AMEN |
A group of people wanting the last word (4)
A MEN (group of people) |
Many thanks for stepping in today, Turbolegs.
Really much appreciated.
The crossword was over very quickly but pleasant enough.
I needed the blog for a couple of definitions (19ac and 20ac), being too lazy to have a look in a dictionary.
Surprised to see ‘in’ = ‘popular’ twice.
Armonie should have avoided the use of it in 10ac anyway as the word ‘in’ was already in the clue.
Well, that’s just my opinion.
Thanks Armonie and Turbolegs
Nice and gentle one early on in the week. Was a puzzle in which the less common definitions in the clues provided the most challenge – 19a (accidental), 22a (blood / course), 27a (discharge) and 4d (picture).
Enjoyable as normal from this setter.
Thanks Armonie and Turbolegs.
Another gentle stroll through crossword land at bed-time with nothing held over till morning.
A mixed bag with some iffy and some excellent clues.
In In In In and in again including 10 twice (which I too thought was poor), and also 14dn.
On the plus side, I enjoyed both 3dn and 8dn – both well-constructed and I enjoyed ‘discharge’ for ‘do’ at 27 rather than the hackneyed ‘party’.