Once again the Indy’s web site isn’t showing today’s puzzle, the puzzle wasn’t as hard as eXternal sometimes produces fortunately.
Apologies for the rather sparse blog, but this is a somewhat experimental post today and I’d rather not type it all up again.
Across
1 Flaw, one of many found in computer (4)
CHIP
Double definition
4 This compiler’s about to open item of luggage to get tunic (6)
CAMISE
I’M reversed inside CASE
9 To get old property presents repercussions (5-2,7)
KNOCK-ON EFFECTS
KNOCK-ON (get old) & EFFECTS (one’s porperty)
11 Renovating manor, smart of queen, perhaps (9)
MONARCHIC
MANOR* renovated & CHIC (smart)
12 Asian food starts to seem highly important around America (5)
SUSHI
U.S. inside starting letters of Seem Highly Important
13 The old line fixed in a railway at regular intervals (6)
YEARLY
YE (the old) & L(ine) in A RY(railway)
15 Upright family rejected covering up difficult situation (8)
DOORJAMB
Not an obvious definition, JAM in BROOD reversed
17 Awkwardly strains to comprehend king’s ancient language (8)
SANSKRIT
K(ing) in STRAINS* awkwardly
18 Blue, extremely shabby clothing for dog (6)
SMUTTY
MUTT in S(habb)Y
21 After time, that man thanks foreign character (5)
THETA
T(ime) & HE & TA
22 Plied with gin, coerce warden (9)
CONCIERGE
[GIN COERCE]* plied
24 Pinch hip struggling with girdle made of fine fibre (4-10)
HIGH PRINCIPLED
[PINCH HIP GIRDLE]* struggling
25 Recalled heroic tale about alien stones (6)
AGATES
E.T. (well known crossword alien) in SAGA all reversed
26 Bustle in need of arrangement (2-2)
TO-DO
Double def
Down
2 One who puts up traveller (5)
HIKER
Double def
3 Carrying some weight, heaving adult’s powerful (6)
PUNCHY
A(dult) removed from P(a)UNCHY
4 Card’s lead from player expressed as mathematical term (8)
COFACTOR
C(ard) & OF (from) & ACTOR
5 Left to feed crazed marmoset, producing chaos (9)
MAELSTROM
L(eft) in a crazy MARMOSET*
6 Costly safari – it is arranged in a competent way (14)
SATISFACTORILY
[COSTLY SAFARI IT]* arranged
7 Rascal screened by broadcaster is not hiding much (6)
SKIMPY
IMP in SKY
8 One training emu to fly is involved in an uphill struggle (14)
MOUNTAINEERING
[ONE TRAINING EMU]* flying
10 Mostly lacking in strength, second-rate branch (4)
LIMB
Most of LIM(p) & B rate
14 Unhesitatingly partial to alcohol (4,1,4)
LIKE A SHOT
Double def cum Def & CD
16 Detectives comb southern ditches (8)
DISCARDS
D.I. S & CARD (to comb) & S(outhern)
17 English couple leaving somewhere to sit for animal’s home (4)
SETT
Two E(nglish) removed from SETT(ee)
19 Deli’s in trouble after variable returns (6)
YIELDS
Y (a variable) * DELIS* troubled
20 Some drunk, noticeably free from restraint (6)
UNKNOT
Hidden answer
23 One competed, being overtaken by climber (5)
IVIED
1 & VIED, covered in IVY
Does nobody else read the dtv?
Not too hard, more like the Monday puzzles of old (well a few weeks back), so 25 minutes on the train well spent.
I liked the long anagrams
Thanks to S & B
Thanks flashling – as you and Paul A say, not a difficult one, but enjoyable nevertheless.
The online version is there now: I see (after the “short message from our sponsor”) that they still haven’t fixed the bug whereby the date is out by 100 years, and so shows the wrong day of the week, as well as being given in the American mm/dd/yy format. And the title reads “9076 by eXternal – by”. Quality control, anyone?
It’s very quiet on this side of the fence today. Got the Indie today because I’d already polished off the Rufus before getting a paper – this was a bit more of a challenge – last two in were MONARCHIC and SKIMPY. The spelling of CAMISE was new to me. All quite enjoyable. Liked MAELSTROM.
Thanks to eXternal and flashling
Needed the blog to explain some of the parsing. LOI was TO-DO, which I thought of early on but didn’t think of it being a DD. I think 15ac is a definition by example.
I think you have to wait a bit for the current puzzle to appear on the website; not sure if there’s a specific time, it may be just when they get round to it. You can avoid the sponsor’s message with an ad blocker, but it doesn’t save any time.
Thanks, eXternal and flashling.