SunWeb6 by Athos

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ACROSS
8 With a crate of ale you can go on the tear (8)
9 The coolest cat to come without the South (6)
10 You cannot do any more than this (6)
11 This seller is about the ends of the end (8)
12 Woe is this, is the ebb and flow (6)
13 This flowering plant needs drainage (8)
15 No writer, not closed (4)
17 A nice ode, coined in the East, will dull the pain (7)
19 Sounds like we have the track ‘ere, for a breather (7)
22 This keeper has been topped and tailed by a sword (4)
24 Lies by the Lee, we can do it (8)
27 I, am not insincere, in the cinema (6)
29 Is Edward back over the trot, after a drink from this (8)
30 Rutabaga with the North, and in the weeds (6)
31 Sounds like you got it wrong eight times, how refreshing (6)
32 This is no grand threesome, to stretch your shoes on (8)


DOWN
1 No toper in the bale, but still a fight (6)
2 No detective in the gene, what a slaughter (8)
3 All worshipping here, around for the fry up (8)
4 Gaze at a long time, and see a noble group (7)
5 Around about when you expect to arrive, on the head, of the river (6)
6 If you gorge like this, how can you fit through such a narrow place (6)
7 The river is around the Forth after the numbers, it seems is in a sharp decline (4-4)
14 Your mother’s sister was here before, I hear (4)
16 D’ye ken this huntsman, even before he took off his skin (4)
18 Hard to dream like this, you see (4-4)
20 Alternatively, after it is in the rest, it might reduce your current outgoings (8)
21 These eight, about five sail fast to protect (8)
23 This lady of 4 down, ships east after the harbour wall, I hear (7)
25 This holy beetle in denial, sounds like. A wound mark on a sailor (6)
26 The bar about the man in the water (6)
28 One side, before noon (6)

Full Solution



ACROSS
8 lacerate.
CRATE + ALE [anagram]
9 ocelot.
COOLE [S] T [anagram without the S]
10 utmost.
UTMOST
11 retailer.
RE + TAIL + ER
12 betide.
BE + TIDE
13 gardenia.
DRAINAGE[anagram]
15 open.
O + PEN
17 codeine.
NICE + ODE [anagram] or COINED + E [anagram]
19 trachea.
TRACHEA
22 épée.
[K] + EEPE + [R] [anagram lose the K and the R]
24 feasible.
Lies = FIBS + LEE [anagram]
27 screen.
S + [I] + NCERE [anagram without I]
29 decanter.
DE + CANTER
30 Sweden.
SWEDE(rutabaga)+ N and N + WEEDS [anagram]
31 aerate.
AER (err) + ATE (eight)
32 shoetree.
THREESO + [M] + E [anagram without M = 1000= grand]

DOWN

1 battle.
BA + TT(no toper = teatotaller) + LE
2 genocide.
GEN + O + CID + E
3 pantheon.
PAN + THE + ON
4 peerage.
Gaze= PEER + AGE = a long time
5 boater.
Around = ORB +ETA =arrival time [ anagram ] a type of hat
6 defile.
Gorge = DEFILE
7 nose-dive.
NOS + ED + IV +E
14 ante.
Aunty sound like ANTE
16 peel.
D’ye ken John PEEL
18 open-eyed.
OPEN EYED
20 resistor.
RES + IS + T + OR
21 corvette.
OCTET + RE + V [anagram]
23 peeress.
Pier sound like PEER + E + SS
25 scarab.
SCAR + AB
26 bather.
THE + BAR [anagram]
28 eleven.
ELEVEN

Solved Grid

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