A breezy challenge from Bradman this Friday morning. Thanks Don.
FF: 8 DD: 6
| Across | ||
| 1 | TIMESHARE | Rush to get paper first in holiday accommodation maybe (9) |
| HARE (rush) after TIMES (paper) | ||
| 6 | DISCS | Records debate in which US doesn’t participate (5) |
| DISCusS (debate, without US) | ||
| 9 | BAG LADY | Poor woman happy to be in seaside location? (3,4) |
| GLAD (happy) in BAY (seaside location) | ||
| 10 | MARCONI | Engineer to study electrical current after damage (7) |
| [CON (study) I (electrical current)] after MAR (damage) | ||
| 11 | THERM | The member abandoning a unit (5) |
| THE aRM (member, without A) | ||
| 12 | SACKCLOTH | Get rid of idiot, loth ultimately to show sign of penance (9) |
| SACK (get rid of) CLOT (idiot) H (lotH, ultimately) | ||
| 14 | ROO | Aussie animal to burrow in ground endlessly (3) |
| ROOt (burrow in ground, endless) | ||
| 15 | DANIEL DAFOE | Author providing ideal end destroyed enemy (6,5) |
| IDEAL END* FOE (enemy) | ||
| 17 | GATECRASHER | Great search organised to find intruder (11) |
| GREAT SEARCH* | ||
| 19 | GUT | Boat heads west in sort of canal (3) |
| TUG (boat) reversed | ||
| 20 | TRAVERSER | One comes across wild folk invading territory (9) |
| RAVERS (wild folk) in TER (territory) | ||
| 22 | INERT | Some complainer that’s disinclined to do anything (5) |
| hidden in “..complaINER That’s…” | ||
| 24 | INCLINE | Slant of glib talk by trendy Conservative (7) |
| LINE (glib talk) after [ IN (trendy) C (conservative) ] | ||
| 26 | COGNATE | Firm taking a gent inappropriately from the same family (7) |
| CO (firm) A GENT* | ||
| 27 | GORGE | Mad king? Not the first leader of England in deep depression (5) |
| GeORGE (mad kind, without E – first leader of England; could have done without ‘first’?) | ||
| 28 | DETERGENT | Feature of dishwashing to put fellow off (9) |
| crptic clue; to be read as DETER GENT (put fellow off) | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | TIBET | Country – it’s upset, having taken gamble (5) |
| TI (reverse of IT) BET (gamble) | ||
| 2 | MAGNETO | Explosive megaton produced by machine (7) |
| MEGATON* | ||
| 3 | SPASMODIC | Jerky old man aboard ship, up-to- date one, 100 (9) |
| [ PA (old man) in SS (ship) ] MOD (up-to-date) I (one) C (100) | ||
| 4 | ABYSSINIANS | Old natives in deep pit, involved with a sin that’s terrible (11) |
| ABYSS (deep pit) IN (involved) [ A SIN]* | ||
| 5 | ELM | Some damsel meandering in wood (3) |
| hidden in “..damsEL Meandering ..” | ||
| 6 | DORIC | Greek party, endlessly sumptuous (5) |
| DO (party) RICh (sumptuous, endless) | ||
| 7 | SHOW OFF | Ostentatiously display message disappointing those hoping to see musical? (4-3) |
| cryptic clue | ||
| 8 | SLIGHTEST | What sounds like cunning experiment is most trivial (9) |
| sounds like SLY (cunning) TEST (experiment) | ||
| 13 | CHESHIRE CAT | Something cheesy, funny act? One can’t stop smiling (8,3) |
| CHESIRE (something cheesy) ACT* | ||
| 14 | RIGHT WING | Where Aaron Lennon would play as one of the Blues? (5-4) |
| cryptic clue; blues referring to the color of the conservative party (Thanks Geoff!) | ||
| 16 | DERRINGER | The German admits making mistake providing weapon (9) |
| DER (the, in german) containing ERRING (making mistake) | ||
| 18 | TRAMCAR | Sailor carries sheep around in vehicle (7) |
| TAR (sailor) containing [ RAM (sheep) C (around) ] | ||
| 19 | GRENADE | European in work unit set up explosive device (7) |
| reverse of DANE (european) in reverse of ERG (work unit) | ||
| 21 | EXILE | Like Napoleon once on foreign island (5) |
| EX (once) ILE (french for island) | ||
| 23 | TWEET | Time and time again includes a brief message (5) |
| T (time) T (time) containing WEE (brief) | ||
| 25 | END | Aim to be here (3) |
| cryptic clue; last clue of the crossword | ||
*anagram
I think in 27 across ‘leader of England’ is E while ‘not the first’ indicates that it is the first E in ‘george’ which has to be removed.
I agree with passerby@1. Note that you have a typo in spelling Defoe in 15a. No idea who Aaron Lennon is and no real interest in finding out. Thanks to all.
I thought Aaron Lennon played for Everton (blues) on the right wing. Hardly cryptic.
Pretty lightweight for the Don, I thought.
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
Don’t think that I finish too many of the Don’s puzzles under the half hour, but did with this one over the lunch break on Friday. Enjoyable enough though with many of the clues having a close surface reading to the actual answer – in particularly 10a, 15a, 27a, 14d and 21d.
Last few in were EXILE, RIGHT WINGER and TRAVERSER.