SunWeb15 by Athos

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ACROSS
1 Left in the ship and similar to him, thats fair (13)
10 Made fast here and not go anywhere, like the arab and gin (7)
11 After you've come before ten (6-1)
12 You cannot write when you have this, said the pig (4)
13 Sounds like this tree is on the shore (5)
15 Is current after a hundred under canvas (4)
17 It's bound to be a pain in the neck (3)
19 A ten in the ties, you can flag them down (6)
21 Sounds like a canine in this place, to mark your place (3-3)
22 Mike ran to get the dish (7)
23 I am not the full package, but I will pass it on (6)
25 It is a far better way to describe this unique trip (6)
27 Cor, what a monster (3)
29 This letter belongs to me and I get the prize (4)
30 Does he snore during siesta (5)
31 This report from the north in a sack (4)
34 A hundred on 15 across, that's what is in it (7)
35 The citation lost nothing and was still a great force (7)
36 A strong drink for the queen here, windy way down south (4,9)


DOWN
2 Dial a side in this park in Dublin (7)
3 It's dry around here for an attack (4)
4 The gin set makes its mark (6)
5 Father is around to testify with Benito (6)
6 Its twice the praise coming back (4)
7 I larked about in this county (7)
8 Sounds like, I am a rounded person since I got permission the bring it in (6,7)
9 Not the main part but capturing tops (10,3)
14 Not in relation to lateral motion control (7)
16 Mistake nearby, sweet or sour (5)
18 Jonathan had a laugh about it, read it again (5)
20 It comes up before the sun does (3)
21 With a hundred this gets around (3)
24 That's me with the coloured horse around, all sugar and spice (7)
26 Sounds like the holy man was after a Prophet or opposed to it (7)
27 Learnt how to let it out (6)
28 AB no, its about the rest, to conquer Mexico (6)
32 Even with no baton the policeman has this (4)
33 Give it your best shot, but not with a gun (4)


Full Solution

ACROSS

1 sportsmanlike.
S + PORT + S + MAN + LIKE
10 mooring.
MOOR + ING
11 double-u.
DOUBLE-U [ after UV and before X]
12 oink.
O + INK
13 beach.
BEACH [ sounds like BEECH]
15 camp.
C + AMP
17 tie.
TIE
19 taxies.
T + A X + IES
21 dog-ear.
DOG + EAR [here, sounds like]
22 ramekin.
MIKE + RAN [anagram]
23 impart.
IM + PART
25 safari.
IS + A + FAR [anagram]
27 roc.
ROC
29 Emmy.
EM + MY
30 Señor.
SNORE [anagram]
31 bang.
BA + N + G
34 content.
C + ON + TENT
35 titanic.
CITATI + [O] + N [deletion anagram]
36 Port Elizabeth.
PORT + ELIZABETH

DOWN
2 phoenix.
PHONE + XI [anagram]
3 raid.
ARID [anagram]
4 signet.
GIN + SET [anagram]
5 adduce.
AD + DUCE
6 laud.
LAUD
7 Kildare.
I + LARKED [anagram]
8 import licence.
I AM PORTLEY SINCE = IM PORT + LI + CENCE
9 supporting act.
CAPTURING TOPS [anagram]
14 aileron.
RELA [T]ION [deletion anagram]
16 berry.
B + ERR + Y
18 Jonah.
JON + AH, [Book of Jonah, from Prophets {a gain}}
20 sat.
SATurday
21 Dis.
DIS + C
24 pimento.
PI + [ME] + NTO = allspice or sweet pepper
26 against.
A + GAIN + ST
27 rental.
LEARNT [anagram]
28 Cortez.
RE + C TO Z [anagram]
32 beat.
BEAT
33 stab.
STAB

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SunWeb14 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb14

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ACROSS

1 After a stint in ices, he came up with a theory (9)
9 Runs rings around every year, I hear (6)
10 If hard comes after the water colours and oils, it may escape (8)
11 Her husband Burns and she is confused, like rage 101 (6)
12 The editor swears about standing for a photograph (6)
14 I didn’t know that Jane had the lowest lake down under (4)
15 One of the two artists is back after the hundreds, that is how they were located (5)
16 Sounds like your aim is back to front, in liquid waste (6)
18 The first back to make a mistake after a thousand is this square here (7)
21 To give a gift to the gods, it has to be pure back after it’s not on (5,2)
24 Please, pass by time (6)
26 Sounds like this bloomer would like to throw a party (5)
30 Yes mother, it sounds like an Indian death god (4)
31 You have a gift if you can get a fifty under canvas (6)
32 Suck these lemons and you too can be serious (6)
33 Mostly in the air and the North (8)
34 Teach English as a foreign language? No, you would never stick to it (6)
35 It’s all a blur in this din Edward, not restrained (9)


DOWN
2 You could blow away five from this convert (6)
3 He could die around this mountain top or just be here (6)
4 Followed this in a detecting type of way, thanks, I brought up the lead (6)
5 I have seen people cry at the appearance of the place (7)
6 This Irish river and the nun, won’t let you sleep at night (6)
7 With three strings I hear fifty and a hard drum (8)
8 Not a true Dubliner if you were born beyond the light of these (4,5)
11 Gee, what a collar for an ill-humoured person (5)
13 With fifty gone off the rails, these foreign ladies can now be dressed (4)
17 It’s unusually great, sounds like I am the males in the city (9)
19 Its about Albert and his way of living, no theory here (4,4)
20 You could take this canoe there (5)
22 Sounds like you could take a picture of this beastly park down south (4)
23 Quiet please, she is on this river here (7)
25 I hear the clash of this icon (6)
27 Decays back around your thanks, as the rotor goes around it (6)
28 A nine hundred and fifty on hundreds, its nuts (6)
29 These joints below the south, sounds like you have a cold (6)


Full Solution

ACROSS
1 scientist.
STINT + ICES [anagram]
9 annuli.
Sounds like ANNUALLY
10 artifice.
ART + IF + ICE
11 Gracie.
RAGE + CI [anagram]
12 depose.
DE + POSE
14 eyre.
EYRE
15 radar.
RA + D + AR
16 uremia.
URE + MIA
18 Merrion.
M + ERR + I ON [ number one back]
21 offer up.
OFF + ERUP
24 elapse.
PLEASE [anagram]
26 hosta.
HOST + A
30 Yama.
YA + MA
31 talent.
T + A + L + ENT
32 solemn.
LEMONS [anagram]
33 nitrogen.
NITROGEN
34 Teflon.
TEFLON
35 unbridled.
BLUR + DIN + ED [anagram]



DOWN
2 cornet.
CON + [V] +ERT deletion anagram
3 editor.
DIE + TOR [anagram]
4 tailed.
TA + I + LED
5 scenery.
SEEN + CRY
6 snorer.
S + NORE + R
7 dulcimer.
L + ICE + DRUM [anagram]
8 Five Lamps.
FIVE + LAMPS [ Dublin landmark]
11 gruff.
G + RUFF
13 sari.
RAI + [L] + S deletion anagram
17 immensity.
IM + MEN + SITY [ sounds like city]
19 real life.
RE + AL + LIFE
20 ocean.
CANOE [anagram]
22 Fota.
FOTA sounds like photo
23 Shannon.
SH + ANN + ON
25 symbol.
SYMBOL soynds like cymbal
27 stator.
S + TA + TOR
28 almond.
A + L M + ON + D
29 sneeze.
S + NEEZE [ sounds like knees]

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SunWeb13 by Athos

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ACROSS
1 To imitate a pen, not for the news here (10)
6 Taken with rhu, you may be hooked (4)
10 When you have this, that’s when coffee is fine (2,3)
11 There’s fifty one in the roof-top just in case (9)
12 I heard this mad regal play one of his own (8)
13 Made a mistake around about not in the black (5)
15 No rest and relaxation in this code, sounds like it will test your mettle (7)
17 The French fleet in a booklet (7)
19 Very demanding former first gentleman (7)
21 I ‘m in a tangle, trying to make dessert (7)
22 My pink paper has been stolen (5)
24 Not short for crossing the river in this place (8)
27 These gypsies have a ball on the north side (9)
28 One horn or two, this beast (5)
29 Every ache considered on its own (4)
30 Take tea with fifty in New York after ten years, corruptly (10)

DOWN
1 This country has lost nothing to come across to the west of here (4)
2 Poor you, had a trip and landed in a scented mixture (3-6)
3 Backward is no bad, on the shore (5)
4 I beg for some rope and 1051 (7)
5 One is larger and taller than my six sisters in the northwest (7)
7 A no gin gambler can play his cards much better after losing a thousand (5)
8 It is wide and hard here, though long off the rails in Dublin (10)
9 In spite of expectations, double fifty at the end of a long time at the end of a vessel (5,3)
14 Satisfactory, to take 7 down without its tail (10)
16 Sounds like I am obvious, as we play past the whistle (8)
18 Set fire to the old city with a US soldier and a saint, I know my rites (9)
20 The sewers work on it, more ditches than stitches (7)
21 Let there be no obstacles to this Hindu, and no wider in hydrangeas (7)
23 In principle and it sounds like you have the hiccups (5)
25 Fake this gofer (5)
26 Hundreds in this lad, and not a corpse (4)

Full Solution

ACROSS

1 copywriter.
COPY + WRITER [here = in the Irish Times, not for the news = advertising]
6 barb.
rhu+ BARB
10 no tea.
NO + TEA
11 portfolio.
LI + ROOF+TOP [anagram]
12 folksong.
madrigal = FOLKSONG
13 erred.
Not in the black= in the red, ER + RE + D
15 corrode.
C + O + RR + ODE
17 leaflet.
LA + FLEET [anagram]
19 exigent.
EX + I + GENT
21 gelatin.
I + TANGLE [anagram]
22 theft.
THE + F[inancial] T[imes]
24 Longford.
LONG + FORD
27 Bohemians.
BOHEMIANS
28 rhino.
I + HORN [anagram]
29 each.
ACHE [anagram]
30 decadently.
DECADE + N + [T+ L] + Y


DOWN

1 CONG.
CONG + [ O ] deletion
2 pot-pourri.
POOR + U + TRIP [anagram]
3 wrack.
[BA] + CKWAR + [D] deletion and anagram
4 implore.
ROPE + MLI [Roman numeral 1051] anagram
5 Errigal.
I + LARGER [anagram]
7 abler.
[ G ] + A + [M ] + BLER double deletion
8 Broadstone.
BROAD + STONE
9 after all.
AFT + ERA + LL
14 acceptable.
ACCEPT + ABLE
16 overtime.
OVERT + IME
18 liturgist.
LIT + UR + GI + ST
20 tillage.
TILLAGE
21 Ganesha.
H + [YDR]+ ANGEAS [deletion and anagram]
23 ethic.
ET [and] + HIC
25 forge.

26 body.
BO + D + Y

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SunWeb12 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb12

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ACROSS
1 Crawl around this inland town (6)
4 Unquestioning, I am quiet and with fifty I see it (8)
9 One hundred and fifty and a little bit, what a hug (6)
10 To abuse like this is all trite (3-5)
12 Ever inverse that is, a strange feeling (5)
13 Sociable, to solidify around the North (9)
15 With fifty this can kill (3)
16 With no detectives in the accident, to play it out (5)
17 Sounds like Natalie came back and played with the sailor from the Isles (6)
22 Inactive, but not early up North before tea (6)
24 Taxi to the artist, north of the Liffey (5)
27 Ingrate (3)
28 The French termite tells how high (9)
31 This consumer is eastern, with no polar influences (5)
32 This go-getter sounds like he has used a blender (5,3)
33 On in the wheel cover up North (6)
34 Generate a healthy infusion (5,3)
35 What remains of broken brides (6)

DOWN
1 Clock about East to get you up in the morning (8)
2 Sounds like a genuine Irish course, to keep you on the straight and narrow (8)
3 Short race with a baton wielder (9)
5 Fifty in the main has a head up north (5)
6 After fifty I can still be the supple one (5)
7 The circle of a holy man (6)
8 Thank the non-drinker for the French babble (6)
11 This reaper might be chesty (6)
14 With pitch this might have a bull (3)
18 The sailor has spent too much, slow down (6)
19 A cheap tyre is not the original (9)
20 Have a riot back with a bat and some beasts will die here (8)
21 In this there can be just ice and beauty (8)
23 Of course you can start here (3)
25 Does this little one wear an 'airpiece on its 'earer (6)
26 Did the saint drive a horse or take a walk (6)
29 Whether or not, its head is opposite 5 down (5)
30 Not bitter, these people (5)

Full Solution
ACROSS
1 Carlow.
CRAWL + O [anagram]
4 implicit.
IM + P + L +IC + IT
9 clinch.
CL + INCH
10 ill-treat.
ALL + TRITE [anagram]
12 eerie.
E'ER + IE
13 congenial.
CONGE +[NI] + AL
15 say.
S +[L] + AY
16 enact.
AC + [CID] +ent [anagram]
17 tartan.
TAR[sailor] + TAN [Natalie back] = plaid
22 latent.
LATE + N + T
24 Cabra.
CAB + RA
27 ash.
ASH [ found in a grate]
28 altimeter.
LA + TERMITE [anagram]
31 eater.
EA + [S] + TER +[N] [lose the North N and South S]
32 whizz kid.
Sounds like Whisked
33 Tyrone.
TYR + ON + E
34 green tea.
GENERATE [anagram]
35 debris.
BRIDES [anagram]

DOWN
1 cockerel.
CLOCK + RE + E [anagram]
2 railroad.
RAIL [ sounds like real] + ROAD
3 orchestra.
SHORT + RACE [anagram]
5 Malin.
MA + L + IN
6 lithe.
L + I + THE
7 cleric.
CIRCLE [anagram]
8 tattle.
TA + TT + LE
11 scythe.
CHESTY [anagram]
14 get.
[TAR] + GET
18 retard.
RE + TAR + D [TAR in the RED]
19 archetype.
CHEAP TYRE [anagram]
20 abattoir.
A + BAT + TOIR [RIOT back]
21 fairness.
JUSTICE = FAIRNESS = BEAUTY
23 tee.
TEE
25 earwig.
EAR + WIG
26 stride.
ST + RIDE
29 Mizen.
MIZEN
30 tribe.
BI + [T] +TER [anagram after one T, i.e. noT, is removed]

Solved Grid

SunWeb11 by Athos

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ACROSS
1 Sounds like this condition is the rub after your boy, in hot conditions (9)
9 Cut off the North, between the rose and the leek (6)
10 This red mitten can do some damage (9)
11 In the mood, for a game piece or a half-mask (6)
12 For the bigot to ascertain (9)
13 This young feline upgraded initially to a thousand, for a warm hand (6)
17 If I had this little light, I would have done nothing (3)
19 Ugh, without you around, is not slow and not gold (7)
20 XINXE is severe, I hear (7)
21 The Reverend Mother lost her donkey and came back, on her way out to sea (3)
23 Not so esoteric, to tell the tale (6)
27 Mai, what a tumult, for the final demand (9)
28 Heat rays in the spit, a djinn (6)
29 Not B little it around, for a tickle (9)
30 This stranger is no saint, alone with a gg called Ag (6)
31 It’s torn, reckoned after a fine fabric (9)

DOWN
2 Neville is after you before the North, patchy (6)
3 This priest is about for a magical little one (6)
4 Note, about a thousand went with Noah's craft (6)
5 Sounds like you can get bargain relations down south (7)
6 Sounds like the young horse I had eaten, to take the leaves off (9)
7 Bitten the fig, how appropriate (9)
8 Reads on the media, lightweights after Anne (9)
14 Sounds like a certain support for her after a thousand, although open to be fired through (9)
15 These acorns fit into parts (9)
16 You and me are back and dirtied, without interruption (9)
17 This revolutionary has lost out in the lychee, but stays caustic (3)
18 Summon back (3)
22 It's all in a degree, over in the West (7)
24 504 I have had, to cut it up (6)
25 The bloomer, father and fifty one in a laugh (6)
26 In a relative way, she goes north after Oz with a cravat (6)

Full Solution
ACROSS
1 sunstroke.
SUN [ son = your boy] + STROKE [ rub]
9 Severn.
SEVER + N
10 detriment.
RED + MITTEN [anagram]
11 domino.
IN + MOOD [anagram]
12 sectarian.
ASCERTAIN [anagram]
13 mitten.
[K] + ITTEN replace K with M
17 led.
[ID] + LED
19 mercury.
Not slow =quick, not gold = silver i.e.QUICKSILVER = HG = mercury
20 intense.
IN in between X’s i.e. TENS + E sounds like INTENSE
21 ebb.
A +[ BBE] + SS, back
23 recite.
E + [SO] + TERIC [anagram]
27 ultimatum.
MAI + TUMULT [anagram]
28 spirit.
SP +[ IR = infra red rays] + IT
29 titillate.
Not B i.e. A + LITTLE + IT [anagram]
30 ranger.
[ST] + RANGER {the Lone Ranger and his horse [gg] called Silver [Ag=chemical symbol for Silver]}
31 lacerated.
LACE + RATED

DOWN
2 uneven.
U + NEV + EN
3 sprite.
PRIEST [anagram]
4 remark.
RE + M + ARK
5 Kinsale.
KIN + SALE
6 defoliate.
DE[the] + FOL[foal] + I + ATE
7 befitting.
BITTEN + FIG [anagram]
8 Announces.
ANN + OUNCES
14 embrasure.
EM [sounds like M= a thousand] + BRA + SURE
15 Fractions.
ACORNS + FIT [anagram]
16 sustained.
SU [ us back] + STAINED
17 lye.
LY + [CHE] + E
18 dib.
DIB
22 Ballina.
B + [ALL + IN] + A
24 divide.
DIV [Roman numeral 501] + IDE
25 dahlia.
DA + H + [LI] + A
26 auntie.
AU + N + TIE

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