Thanks Redshank, for serving us a gentle breezy challenge this Friday.
FF: 9 DD: 6
| Across | ||
| 9 | EXTRACURRICULAR | Revised EU tax circular about rights outside school (15) |
| EU TAX CIRCULAR* around RR (rights) | ||
| 10 | EVADE | Avoid English Channel heading west (5) |
| E (english) DAVE (channel, tv), all reversed | ||
| 11 | DEFRAUDED | Did Bonn woman and daughter join in act? (9) |
| [FRAU (bonn woman, german lady) D (daughter) ] in DEED (act) | ||
| 12 | INNKEEPER | Landlord offers board and lodging in private (9) |
| KEEP (board and lodging) in INNER (private) | ||
| 14 | LOOFA | Somewhere to go with Fanny Adams for rubber? (5) |
| LOO (somewhere to go) FA (Fanny Adams) | ||
| 16 | MOBILE LIBRARIES | Phone signs overlap in Reading buses (6,9) |
| MOBILE (phone) LIBR[A]RIES (overlapping signs of the zodiac) | ||
| 19 | PANDA | How to spell ‘secretary’ for Chinese resident (5) |
| PA (secretary, personal assistant) is spelt as P AND A | ||
| 21 | BREAD ROLL | Wad of banknotes for snack? (5,4) |
| cryptic def; BREAD referring to money | ||
| 23 | CORMORANT | My tirade lashes second flier (9) |
| [COR (my) RANT (tirade)] containing MO (second) | ||
| 25 | REFIT | Fix up whistle-blower with appeal (5) |
| REF (whistle-blower) IT (appeal) | ||
| 26 | EXPENSE ACCOUNTS | Claim against these old writers’ European relations (7,8) |
| EX (old) PENS (writers) E (european) ACCOUNTS (relations) | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | GENETIC MAP | Doctor (GP) came in holding film for DNA scan (7,3) |
| GP CAME IN * holding ET (film) | ||
| 2 | STRAIN | Southern transport causes tension (6) |
| S (southern) TRAIN (transport) | ||
| 3 | FAREWELL | Are Welsh occupying floor for so long? (8) |
| [ARE W (welsh)] in FELL (floor) | ||
| 4 | QUID | Pound mollusc, removing head (4) |
| sQUID (mollusc, without head) | ||
| 5 | PREFERABLE | It’s better for each skilled judge to be admitted (10) |
| [ PER (each) ABLE (skilled) ] containing REF (judge) | ||
| 6 | SCRAWL | Small stroke – or some wiggly ones? (6) |
| S (small) CRAWL (stroke) | ||
| 7 | GLADIOLI | Good boy with no-frills violin blossoms (8) |
| [G (good) LAD (boy)] vIOLIn (no frills, i.e. without end characters) | ||
| 8 | GRID | You’re looking at one Swedish girl who’s not chic (4) |
| inGRID (swedish girl, not chic i.e. who is not IN ) | ||
| 13 | PALLBEARER | Grim reaper seizes everyone born – borne by him? (10) |
| REAPER* containing [ALL (everyone) B (born)] – very clever clue | ||
| 15 | ABSOLUTIST | Despot crazy about lists (10) |
| ABOUT LISTS* | ||
| 17 | BANKRUPT | British worker accepts German firm nearly failed (8) |
| [B (british) ANT (worker)] containing KRUPp (german firm, nearly) | ||
| 18 | ANDERSON | Wartime shelter soon hides the German head of state (8) |
| ANON (soon) containing [DER (the, german) S (head of State)] | ||
| 20 | AROUND | Some ships run here, bypassing Gulf nearby (6) |
| AgROUND (some ships run here, without G – gulf) | ||
| 22 | OFFEND | Where diver goes to break the law (6) |
| cryptic def; read as OFF END (~where diver goes) | ||
| 23 | CHEF | Galley worker put in such efforts (4) |
| hidden in “..suCH EFforts” | ||
| 24 | TACK | Stitch jockey’s kit (4) |
| double def | ||
*anagram
Thanks for the blog, Turbolegs.
Another sparkling puzzle from Redshank. Many super clues but my top favourites today were DEFRAUDED, MOBILE LIBRARIES, GENETIC MAP, PALLBEARER and ANDERSON [neat name check for our setter 😉 ].
I was amused by 2dn, having just blogged Paul’s 1ac: “Train’s hour late, extremely annoying – the usual reason? (8,4)”.
Many thanks, Redshank – I loved it.
Thanks Redshank and Turbolegs
Found this one a little easier than normal for this setter, but still some classy clues to be enjoyed on the way though. Think that PALLBEARER was my favourite out of a very good lot.
Got started with EXTRACURRICULAR first in and finished in the SW corner with PANDA and AROUND the last couple in.
Thanks to Redshank and Turbolegs. Very enjoyable. I too finished with PANDA (I kept trying to to set up PA…) and AROUND – and I agree about PALLBEARER. For a change I managed to parse everything, though I had to google Dave as a TV channel and ANDERSON as a wartime shelter. Is it worth noting that ‘”ref” turns up twice in the solutions?
Thanks Turbolegs and Redshank.
GRID brought a grin and the face of Ms Bergman to mind…having recently seen BERGMAN in another puzzle. Other likes similar to Eileen’s
Another really nice crossword from Mr 18!
No complaints here, although I wondered about 8d.
Why? Well, for me, when you read the clue, the definition “You’re looking at one” should lead to ‘clue’ (because I cannot look at the clue and the grid at the same time). Just an observation.
Many thanks Turbolegs & Redshank.