A pleasant, if fairly easy, puzzle today. Not too much to comment on here.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | MEDICATION C (cold) in MEDIATION (good offices) |
| 7 | FLAT dd |
| 9 | HIND dd |
| 10 | ENTERPRISE ENTER (embark upon) P (positive) RISE (promotion) |
| 11 | COSSET COS (lettuce) SET (planted) |
| 12 | EXACTING EX (late) ACTING (performance) |
| 13 | TERMINAL dd |
| 15 | SECT C (Charlie) in SET (agreed). As in, “we set a date” |
| 17 | OPAL OP (work) A L (large) |
| 19 | ON THE RUN *(NONE HURT) |
| 22 | DRESSAGE DRESS (groom) AGE (season) |
| 23 | ADVICE AD (notice) VICE (weakness) |
| 25 | ASTONISHED *(THEN SAID SO) |
| 26 | GLEN L (sinister) in GEN (information). There was discussion in one of the Guardian blogs recently about the indirectness of sinister = left =L. I don’t object to it |
| 27 | SLIT S (bob, i.e., shilling) LIT (illuminated) |
| 28 | SCRAMBLING SCRAM (get out) BLING (jewellery). We don’t usually see such up-to-date slang. This calls for an appropriate emoticon: 8) |
| Down | |
| 2 | EPISODE EP (record) IS (one’s) ODE (poem) |
| 3 | INDUS hidden in hINDUStan |
| 4 | ABETTING A BETTING (price) |
| 5 | IN THE ALTOGETHER *(HITHERTO ELEGANT) |
| 6 | NORMAL NORMA (Bellini heroine and crossword stalwart) L (left) |
| 7 | FORETASTE ETAS (Greek letters) in FORTE (speciality) |
| 8 | ARSENIC *(RACINE’S) |
| 14 | MILKSTOUT MILKS (takes advantage of) TOUT (solicitor). A sweet kind of stout, containing lactose. Chambers, Collins and COED all have this as two words, so I think the enumeration should be (4,5) rather than (9). |
| 16 | AT RANDOM RAND (foreign money) in ATOM (scrap) |
| 18 | PERUSAL PER (through) USA (American) L (literature initially). The definition, READ, should be understood as a noun here (“gave it a read”). |
| 20 | UNCLEAN UNCLE (pawnbroker and therefore usurer) AN (article |
| 21 | LADIES I.E. (that is) in LADS (boys) |
| 24 | VIGIL VIRGIL (Roman poet) minus R (run out) |
Hi Agentzero
If you liked 28ac, you may also like, in Guardian 24,670, 10th April:
‘Inept display of glitz au derrière [8] 🙂