Everyman No. 3275 (July 5th).

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Thanks to Andrew Kitching for the alert re the publishing error on this week’s Observer crossword web page;  we never looked at the incorrect pdf file, so therefore solved this cold from the newspaper.  Whether this week’s offering will still be a valid prize crossword, we do not know.

Again, another fairly easy jog, but the puzzle does seem to be getting a tad more difficult over the last two weeks.

Legend to solution comments:
*  =  anagram.
<  =  word reversed.

Across
1. MARIA M + ARIA
4. TWO SEATER (ROW ESTATE)*
9. PENAL SETTLEMENT ((SETTLE [order] + MEN [soldiers]
after [to board, i.e. getting on] (PLANE)*) + T (heading for terrible)
This is a bit contrived, we think – hard to work out the word play.
10. IMPRUDENCE R in IMPUDENCE
11. SWAN S + WAN
13. TORRENT OR in TRENT – river
15. LINING Hidden: popLIN IN Gaberdine
17. COLOUR CO + L + OUR
18. LAST OUT L.A. + STOUT
20. APEX APE + X
21. EFFUSIVELY FF + US + IVE in ELY
24. FRENCH ONION SOUP (PHONE COUSIN FOR)* around N
25. AUTOMATON AUTO = car + MAN around TO
26. DWELT LEWD< + T
Down
1. MEPHISTO (THIS POEM)*
2. RUN UP ladder = RUN (as in stockings) + UP (ahead)
3, 4. ALL QUIET ON THE
WESTERN FRONT		 cryptic def. i.e. no cowboy films being made
5. OPTICAL ILLUSION cryptic def.
6. EDEN E + (END)*
7. TAE KWON DO (DAN WE TOOK)*
8. RETINA RE + TINA re = musical note (see re² in Chambers)
12. UNASSIGNED UNAS + SIGN + ED
14. ROOSVELT (RESOLVE TO)*
16. STAYS PUT TAY in SS + PUT  – river tay, put = express as in say
19. RAFFIA RAF + (I in FA)
22. ELOPE (subtract pen)ELOPE
23. SCAM (C in SA) + M

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