A perhaps over-ambitious attempt on my part, to finish this without any kind of research materials. I filled the grid in reasonable time, but it seems I invented a couple of words in the process! SENHORA was particularly elusive, as neither SEN nor HORA was familiar. I had one other careless misspelling, but otherwise a pretty good showing, I think, and a great puzzle as always.
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | SPORTS JACKET – S + PORTS + JACKET. |
| 10 | YEDE – [e]YED + E. |
| 12 | EPURATE – EP + (A TRUE)*. |
| 13 | NEGLECT – GEN< + LECT. |
| 14 | TROUT – TR + OUT. |
| 15 | GIZZEN – G + [m]IZZEN. |
| 16 | HAMMERSTEIN – (ME + R) in (THIS NAME)*. |
| 18 | EBRIETY – BRIE in YET*. |
| 21 | SENHORA – SEN + HORA. |
| 23 | ANGELS’ SHARE – [troop]S in (GENERAL HAS)*. I thought “loss of spirit” was a nicely misleading def. here. |
| 25 | SMEECH – EC in HEMS<. |
| 27 | SOLVE – SO + L[o]VE. |
| 28 | ANEURIN – AN + URINE*. |
| 29 | ARTISTE – (‘TIS + T) in ARE. |
| 30 | SOLS – SO[u]LS. |
| 31 | STEPMOTHERLY – (TEMPER’S HOTLY)*. |
| Down | |
| 1 | SYNTHESIS GAS – S + (HASTINGS YES)*. |
| 2 | PEERAGE – PEE + RAGE. |
| 3 | RELUME – MULE< in RE. |
| 4 | SECURER – CURÉ in SER. |
| 5 | AUDITRESSES – AU + (IT in DRESSES). |
| 6 | CROZE – R in COZE. It took me a while to fully explain this – “repeated part of barrel, part of barrel” seemed odd, but of course R is the repeated part of barrel! Excellent clue. |
| 7 | KARZIES – KAR[k] + SIZE*. |
| 8 | ETHE – E + THE. |
| 9 | TEENSY-WEENSY – TEEN + SY + WEEN + SY. |
| 11 | HETEROECISM – (SOME HERETIC)*. |
| 17 | ANNETTE – NET in ANTE. |
| 19 | BASINET – SINE in BAT. |
| 20 | TORVILL – TOR + V. ILL. |
| 22 | CHOUSE – C + HOUSE. |
| 24 | GENIP – G + PINE<. |
| 26 | MART – TRAM<. |