Once again, we did most of this in good time, but then needed a second session to get the last few. We filled this one out while sitting in Cleaver Square in Kennington with a pint in between watching people play petanque. Very pleasant.
ACROSS
1. B(UR S)AR
4. DE(CAD)E
8. P.R. A.G.M. AT I ST
9. A(L)MS
10. RE(PORT)ED
11. R I SING
12. F OWL
13. THEREUNDER (deer hunter)*
15. STICK I TOUT
18. JO H N
19. ACTING dd. I always find it amusing when people are referred to as ‘caretaker manager’, it makes me think of Brian Clough wandering around with a broom and bucket
21. TRAINERS (terrains)* Neat clueing, and a quick solve for any Scrabble players who know their ‘retain plus one letter’ words
23. CAVE dd, as in ‘cave canem’
24. RINDERPEST (president r)* A new word for us, but relatively easily worked out
25. IMP END
26. HAT RED
DOWN
1. BURNED OUT implied anagram of ‘burden’
2. R(AG D)OLL
3. A(PA)RT
4. DETER GENT Is there any other way of cluing this word? A Mars Bar in the post to the setter who manages it…
5. CH AN(S)ON
6. DEMON ‘me’ backwards in ‘don’, a nice little clue
7. RI(D.D.)LE
13. T(RIGGER)ED ‘old rocker’ I assume to be a ‘teddy boy’
14. ETHERISED (the desire)*
16. CHINESE ‘hi’ in ‘scene’ anagramised
17. OS TEND
18. JUN(IP)E R
20. lunatiC HAS Married
22. ARE(N)A
Before my time, but I understand that there were Mods and Rockers and the Teddy Boys were the “Mods” in which case the clue doesn’t work unless there’s a rocker called Ted?
Teddy Boys certainly were not Mods. Different decade, different dress, different music. Nothing to do with the Rockers who fought the Mods either, they just liked rock’n’roll.
Yes, I read it like the blogger, Ted = teddy boy = rocker (from the 1950s).
Loved this! Finished in less than an hour.Top right last clues to solve.