Independent 6,918/Dac

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Nothing too difficult here, but absolutely nothing to complain about either. Lovely clues as ever from Dac, and a nice way to pass the time on the 73 bus between Angel and Euston (in moderate traffic!)

Across
1 SWEATERS – S,WEAT[-h]ERS
6 ALCOVE – AL (Capone),COVE
9 KNOB – K[nocks],NOB
10/11 CONGESTION CHARGE – CON,(AGGRO IN CHESTE[-r])* – Nice use of the word ‘scam’ here which some Londoners might argue could be part of the definition too!
12 OVERLAID – (LIVE RAD[-i]O)*
13 STATUTE – TU in STATE
14 DEPICT – Hidden in granD EPIC Tableau
15 BEGGAR – EGG in BAR
17 CROYDON – CRO[-n]Y,DON
19 PROMISER – PRO,MISER – ‘Someone close’ for MISER is very nice
21/22 LEADER OF THE HOUSE – (FOOLED E HEATH RUSE)*
23 HATE – Hidden in tHAT Enmity
24 VENETO – VEN,E,TO
25 ESSAYIST – SAY,IS in [-p]EST[-o]
Down
2 WINCHESTER RIFLE – (WRESTLER-IN-CHIEF)*
3 ALBERTA – B in ALERT,A
4 EXCHEQUER – EX,CHEQUER[-s]
5 SAN JOSE – JO’S in SANE
6 ADELE – A,DELE
7 CAT FLAP – A ‘queen’ is an adult female cat
8 VIOLIN CONCERTOS
14 DROLLNESS – ROLL in SEND rev. – I like send-up for DNES
16 GYM SHOE – (MY GOSH)*,[-rac]E
17 CAROUSE – CAROUSE[-l]
18 DEATHLY – (THE LADY)*
20 SCHMO – SCH,MO

5 comments on “Independent 6,918/Dac”

  1. If you were on the 73 bus around 9am, then I was a little way beneath you, just finishing this one off as my Northern Line train pulled into King’s Cross!

  2. I only really struggled on Veneto which, not being an expert on Italy, I thought might be Reveto. Ven, which is assume is short for venerable, didn’t leap to mind for cleric.

  3. After the somewhat loose definitions in yesterday’s Guardian, where politicians’ promises were lies and the sounds in the House of Lords were ZZ, I was relieved that Dac didn’t define the congestion charge as a road toll scam.

  4. The usual excellent stuff from Dac, but I noticed two differences from the norm:
    a) this was unusually easy (although having said that, I had REVETO for 24ac)
    b) for the first time that I can remember Dac has been ever so slightly un-Ximenean, or at least un-Azedian: two of his clues (7dn, 8dn) are cryptic definitions (unusual for Dac I think but am not sure), and (in 14dn) he has ‘send-up’ as an anagram of ‘send’.

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