S & B York – puzzle by Dalibor

Dalibor’s rather unusual contribution to the party can be found here:   Dalibor @ York 2016
In case one still likes to have a go, do not read any further yet from this point onward.


Dalibor is not your guide for Le Tour de York, I’m afraid.
That said, turning 6d and 7d into an ellipsis, gave this puzzle at least some kind of connection to this great city.

There was an advance warning that several clues were faulty.
It turned out to be that all the (full) anagram clues, no less than 11 in total, were lacking the indicator.
But that was only half the story.
Coincidentally (but probably deliberately), in all these clues the anagram fodder was also a well-known anagram indicator.
Therefore, with some imagination, one might say that in each of these clues the anagram fodder was its own anagrind.

The completed grid, highlighting the ‘faulty’ clues, is added at the end of the blog.

Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate.

Across
1 PARSED Spread analysed in detail (6)
(SPREAD)*
5 BOOKWORM Philistine drinks fine wine for a start, then takes motorway grub (8)
BOOR (philistine) around {OK (fine) + W[ine]}, then + M (motorway)
9 MONROVIA Perhaps Matt’s classic way to acquire capital (8)
MONRO (Matt, the crooner Matt Monro) + VIA (‘classic’ way, e.g. in Rome)
Monrovia is the capital of Liberia.
Matt Monro (1930-1985):   The Man with the Golden Voice .
10 EDIRNE Turkish city rejected space travel (6)
EN (space) + RIDE (travel), together reversed [rejected]
A university city, once called Adrianopolis.
11 BOMBARDIER Revolutionary mob joins local girl to meet the Queen’s officer (10)
Reversal [revolutionary] of MOB + BAR (local) + DI (girl) + ER (the Queen)
12 EXIT Three seconds away from 20’s departure (4)
SEXISTS (the solution at 20d) minus S (second), actually all three of them
13 SABOTEUR Backstreet in Paris leading to Belgium when one has bad intentions (8)
RUE (street in Paris, i.e. in French) + TO + B (Belgium) + AS (when), together reversed [back]
One has to split ‘back/street’.
Let us not forget what happened about a year ago in Paris.
16 HOORAY One jumping around in bed makes you cheer (6)
Reversal [around] of ROO (one jumping) inside HAY (bed)
17 SUPERB Great Championship game having wise guy sent off (6)
SUPERBOWL (Championship game) minus OWL (wise guy)
19 MASSENET He composed religious work, ultimately gone down the toilet (8)
MASS (religious work) + the final letters [ultimately] of “gone down the toilet
Jules Massenet, French composer (1842-1912), best known for his opera Manon and the violin piece Meditation (from Thais).
21 DEUS God used …. (4)
(USED)*
Perhaps the ideal clue to find out what was going on in this puzzle?
22 ANNEXATION …. an old friend to invade country for takeover (10)
AN + {EX (old friend) inside NATION (country)}
25 CARNAL Sexual abuser finally arrested in the tube (6)
[abuse]R inside CANAL ((the) tube)
26 RESCALES Changes 52% to 48%? Careless! (8)
(CARELESS)*
27 KNEE-DEEP Want to occupy fort to a certain extent (4-4)
NEED (want) inside KEEP (fort)
28 SIENNA She‘s a shade insane (6)
(INSANE)*
An additional definition as a bonus.
Down
2 AB OVO Not freezing if energy’s lost from the beginning (2,3)
ABOVE 0 (not freezing) minus E (energy)
3 SHRUB Daphne, maybe you should not talk Polish (5)
SH (you should not talk) + RUB (polish)
4 DIVERSE Revised, therefore not the same (7)
(REVISED)*
5 BRAZIER Bizarre to find a barbecue in America (7)
(BIZARRE)*
6 ON EARTH Another answer to the question ‘Where are we?’ …. (2,5)
(ANOTHER)*
7 WHITE ROSE …. York! Symbolically – otherwise, for a glass or two? (5,4)
(OTHERWISE)* or, alternatively, WHITE (one glass of wine) + ROSE (another one)
8 RUNCINATE Uncertain how a leaf can be (9)
(UNCERTAIN)*
That’s five in a row!
‘Runcinate’ means: having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base like e.g. dandelion leaves.
If that’s too vague: 
 
runcinate
14 ACUTE PAIN Note: sweetbread in France will cause severe discomfort (5,4)
A (note) + CUTE (sweet) + PAIN (bread in France, i.e. in French)
Once more, we have to split a word: sweet/bread.
15 OBEISANCE New Order is brilliant, overwhelming – respect! (9)
N (new) with {OBE (order) + IS ACE (is brilliant)} around it
For those who don’t know, New Order is an English band once called Joy Division when Ian Curtis (1956-1980) was still part of it and with us.
18 BRAILLE Liberal system of writing (7)
(LIBERAL)*
19 MANTRAP Rampant sex loving woman (7)
(RAMPANT)*
20 SEXISTS Sweden is discriminating people (7)
S (Sweden) + EXISTS (is)
23 TRACE Mark‘s feathery scarf banned from annual event on the Thames (5)
BOAT RACE (annual event on theThames) minus BOA (feathery scarf)
24 ODEON Cinema screening Episode 1 in full? On the contrary (5)
Hidden solution [screening, but then the other way round]:   Episode One

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3 comments on “S & B York – puzzle by Dalibor”

  1. 15d to Dalibor!
    Brilliant puzzle – the anagrind anagrams are excellent, and you managed to get the York event into the puzzle at the same time!
    Thanks to Sil for the blog – and all the others!
    Another good get-together at the Fox and Roman, so thanks to John as well!

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