SunWeb19 by Athos

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ACROSS
1 Put the flowers underground in London (10)
6 Thanks for the rustling in Ulster, of old (4)
10 Up there in 6 across a clumsy favourite (5)
11 Change oar and we'll moor here (9)
12 River rodent, we art twice around (5,3)
13 Praise from ten to fifty back East (5)
15 Fifty-one pig calls about to keep one dry (7)
17 I was not a little upset about work, in a manner of speaking (7)
19 Splash out in these pools, whether you've won them or not (7)
21 The crazy liar is in charge on board (7)
22 Once had fifty inside, that is before he left home (5)
24 His own girl, by the Scots reasoning (8)
27 Its about napkins when running before the wind (9)
28 Inverse of a low dove's lovesong from the Orient, I hear (5)
29 You should eat this fruit when you meet the lady (4)
30 Beat it a hundred times on a road back from Bertie's place (10)

DOWN
1 Neither an A or a C rig on board (4)
2 Protected worker above everyone Edward (9)
3 No finish, he's on the dry after mother in the Orient (5)
4 This African War brought sad images from a far bin (7)
5 The performance, make it real about a hundred (7)
7 Fat sailor in retrospect (5)
8 Fifty eyes and fifty ends, to no avail (10)
9 Zorba gave his twelfth letter back with force, after an instant (8)
14 Flattened by her rule about in the fish (10)
16 I've seen your ilk Kenneth in the Southeast (8)
18 Afraid, if retired (9)
20 Speaks about hunting (7)
21 An arm and a leg without the French, is what this is (7)
23 501 nothing in it fool (5)
25 A brute encountered on swift journeys (5)
26 Ancient childminder in the West Indies (4)


Full Solution
ACROSS
1 Bloomsbury.
BLOOMS + BURY
6 Tain.
TA + IN
10 inept.
IN + PET [anagram]
11 anchorage.
CHANGE + OAR [anagram]
12 water rat.
WE +ART+ ART [anagram]
13 extol.
E + X + TO + L
15 oilskin.
LI+ OINKS [anagram]
17 litotes.
SET + TOIL [anagram]
19 puddles.
PUDDLES
21 admiral.
MAD + LIAR [anagram]
22 exile.
EX + I + L + E
24 analysis.
AIN + LASSY [anagram]
27 spinnaker.
RE + NAPKINS [anagram]
28 haiku.
HIGH COO sounds like HAIKU
29 date.
DATE
30 Drumcondra.
DRUM + C + ON + DR + A

DOWN
1 brig.
B + RIG
2 overalled.
OVER ALL ED
3 matte.
MA + TT + E
4 Biafran.
A FAR BIN [anagram]
5 recital.
IT + REAL + C [anagram]
7 abaft.
FAT + AB [anagram]
8 needlessly.
L + EYES + L + ENDS [anagram]
9 momentum.
MOMENT + MU[back]
14 compressed.
COD + EMPRESS [anagram]
16 Kilkenny.
K [ILK] ENNY
18 terrified.
IF + RETIRED [anagram]
20 stalker.
TALKS + RE
21 anagram.
AN + ARM +A + [LE]G [anagram]
23 idiot.
I [ DI + O ] T
25 yahoo.
YAHOO [ from Gulliver's Travels by J. Swift]
26 Cuba.
CUBA

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SunWeb18 by Athos

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ACROSS
1 If many had a bad name (6)
4 Neither parent saw the wider picture (8)
9 Jump into another year (6)
10 Predatory female? (3-5)
12 Below a grand in the States (5)
13 Get out of the way to walk around these three rocks (9)
15 Almost ask you where to find bloomers in London (3)
16 Take a single lice to the dance here (5)
17 I won, its amell (6)
22 Welfare statesman across the water, he wont drink by the Cork river (6)
24 Edward was axed from the episode and found his balance (5)
27 Long one back out of the wind (3)
28 Exaggerate where the ruler is (9)
31 The shady character is back in the red (5)
32 The holy man is on a flight path to the top floor (8)
33 This seed sounds like it going on, and on (6)
34 A sainted k before Easter (4,4)
35 Hundreds North in the ale, not straight (6)

DOWN
1 To such an extent that this is a grand cushion (8)
2 Conifers will find the evidence (8)
3 Address in short from these swinging times (9)
5 'e nearly kept up with this native in the US (5)
6 The Greek, 'e paid 'omage, down to the last letter (5)
7 A short back and sides around the North, for some spirit in the glens (6)
8 Sounds like we're all eyes together (6)
11 No breaker afloat, too (2,4)
14 Like 6 down, around a Greek joint (3)
18 Oh I am allowed, of course (6)
19 Replace exceptional pip (9)
20 A perpetual journey there in Dublin, by the Great South Wall (8)
21 He may make you the start of 20 down (8)
23 The rodent may knock twice more (3)
25 So up we ate in Russia (6)
26 Roundabout in the House here, and way off track (6)
29 Southern team to make fast (5)
30 You wont cut butter with this saw (5)

Full Solution
ACROSS
1 infamy.
IF + MANY [anagram]
4 panorama.
PA + NOR + A MA
9 spring.
SPRING
10 man-eater.
MAN-EATER
12 minus.
M + IN + US
13 Stepaside.
STEP + ASIDE [suburb of Dublin]
15 Kew.
[AS]K YOU = KEW
16 ceili.
I + LICE [anagram]
17 egoist.
EGO + IST [first], all about me
22 Attlee.
A + TT + LEE
24 poise.
EPISO[DE] anagram
27 lee.
LEE
28 overstate.
OVER + STATE
31 rogue.
ROUGE [anagram]
32 stairway.
ST + AIRWAY
33 cereal.
CEREAL sounds like serial
34 Holy Week.
HOLY + WEE + K
35 bender.
BE + N + D + ER
DOWN
1 insomuch.
M + CUSHION [anagram]
2 forensic.
CONIFERS [anagram]
3 miniskirt.
MINISKIRT
5 apace.
APAC [H] E deletion
6 omega.
OMAGE [anagram] 24th, and last letter of Greel alphabet
7 Antrim.
A + N + TRIM
8 agreed.
AGREED = ALL AYES[all in favour say AYE]
11 as well.
A + S WELL
14 phi.
HIP [anagram] 21st letter of Greek alphabet
18 omelet.
O + ME + LET
19 supersede.
SUPER SEED [anagram]
20 Ringsend.
RINGS END
21 jeweller.
JEWELLER
23 tat.
[RAT] TAT [TAT]
25 borsch.
BORSCH
26 derail.
D + [ER] + AIL
29 screw.
S + CREW
30 adage.
ADAGE

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SunWeb17 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb17

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ACROSS
1 Its very moving to take a flight (9)
9 Is Graham up north (6)
10 I see a list after the piggery, in a manner of speaking (9)
11 Did he slip back in the long one, to cover the crown (6)
12 Ran out 150 in Ulster, by night (9)
13 For all it's like a bloomer (6)
17 One of these would make you wonder, once (3)
19 This terminal has a feline brick carrier to the east (7)
20 No ten could fly in England but not in part here (3-4)
21 This water is ever about in verse (3)
23 55 North about 3 e's inside (6)
27 It is that I can put a value on it (9)
28 Poke at the French, steady on (6)
29 It's crazy to take it out of the oven during the interval (4-5)
30 The Scotsman is around sir, with prejudice (6)
31 They'd dare to remove the water (9)

DOWN
2 No drink for us back on the Northside (6)
3 Recede about fifty by erosion (6)
4 Become imbued around south after the seaman (6)
5 Are the Magi back in the fold here (7)
6 Interpret the art back up north on the roof (9)
7 Spoil more Albert with streaks and veins (9)
8 Feel fifty fish defore it goes off (5,4)
14 Roy came around after the saints had a hundred in one, in a supportive role (9)
15 Natter on cue by making this (9)
16 Sounds like four suits reclaimed the mortgage (9)
17 With a German one in this place (3)
18 Towards the east on foot (3)
22 Leave two poles to subjugate (7)
24 This fifty sounds a bit iffy as it divides the city (6)
25 This market sounds very unconventional (6)
26 Fifty one in small change for the customer (6)

Full Solution
ACROSS
1 escalator.
ESCALATOR
9 Armagh.
GRAHAM [anagram]
10 stylistic.
STY + LIST + I + C
11 enamel.
E + NAM + EL
12 nocturnal.
RAN + OUT + CL + N [anagram]
13 floral.
FOR + ALL [floral]
17 hit.
HIT
19 cathode.
CAT + HOD + E
20 out-half.
No. 10 position in rugby team, fly-half or OUT [not in] + HALF [part]
21 ree.
E'ER
23 eleven.
E + E + E + LV + N [anagram]
27 estimable.
EST [it is] + I'M ABLE
28 stable.
STAB + LE
29 half-baked.
HALF - BAKED
30 racism.
MAC +SIR [anagram]
31 dehydrate.
THEY'D + DARE [anagram]

DOWN
2 Sutton.
TT + US + ON [anagram]
3 ablate.
ABATE + L [ anagram]
4 absorb.
AB + S + ORB
5 origami.
MAGI + ROI [anagram]
6 translate.
ART + N + SLATE [anargam]
7 marmoreal.
MAR + MORE + AL
8 shelf life.
FEEL + L + FISH [anagram]
14 accessory.
A [C]CE + SS + ORY
15 utterance.
NATTER + CUE [anagram]
16 foreclose.
FORE CLOSE
17 her.
HER + [EIN]
18 toe.
TO + E
22 enslave.
LEAVE + N + S
24 Liffey.
L + IFFEY
25 bazaar.
BAZAAR [souns like bizarre]
26 client.
C [ LI] ENT

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SunWeb16 by Athos

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ACROSS
8 Did she invest in Acme Oils (8)
9 Guillotine the guillotined, to be going in the that direction (6)
10 The Scotsman is back in his London lair (6)
11 Oh how spineless, this fun guy is not so nice (8)
12 The Queen frosts around her ruddy cake (6)
13 Sounds both male and Sharon (8)
15 ... so good, you can sit on it, I hear (4)
17 Did I mention my anger at the sign of the dagger (7)
19 Its not for cornflakes that I slow down (7)
22 Length by breadth, you could almost stage an event here (4)
24 One was looking at one's nose with this (5-3)
27 Desmond was the winner. (6)
29 You could be wrong and in pain after tea with this edible pet (8)
30 Abundant high ball from the crease (6)
31 A vicar, of course (6)
32 Your entree to Dublin south, I hear (8)

DOWN
1 Tin monkey for starters (6)
2 Bill went out of his mind tilting at one like Don Quixote (8)
3 A lady enumerator (8)
4 Fore and aft around, to remove by force (4,3)
5 I had a blow to get one (6)
6 Bright and merry around the holemaker in the west (6)
7 Press it smaller (8)
14 After tea this would ruffle your hair (4)
16 Like a native hardwood, all right (4)
18 He could be a manager of his own boat (8)
20 This spotted hen has six legs (8)
21 Did Roger smuggle these guns through a window (8)
23 Get this retinue together again (7)
25 Rodney is around with Sidney and not very nice (6)
26 Eastern Member with anger could rule here (6)
28 Listen in the vessel for the cutters (6)


Full Solution
ACROSS
8 camisole.
ACME OILS [anagram]
9 headed.

10 Camden.
CAM [MAC back] + DEN
11 ringworm.
RING [ O ] + WORM [spineless = invertebrate]
12 cerise.
ER + ICES [anagram]
13 ferryman.
FERRY [ sounds very ] + MEN [male], or [both sounds like BOAT + MAN = FERRYMAN], or CHARON [ferryman to Hades]
15 sofa.
[So far sounds like] SO FA
17 obelisk.
Cross[anger] + Reference[mention] symbol = OBELISK
19 slacken.
C + [OR] +N + [F] + LAKES [deletion ]
22 area.
ARE + [N] + A [deletion]
24 cross-eye.
CROSS -EYE
27 desist.
DES + IST = STOP[period]
29 terrapin.
T + ERR + APIN [ anagram of PAIN]
30 bumper.
BUMPER
31 caviar.
A + VICAR [anagram]
32 Terenure.
UR + ENTREE [anagram]

DOWN
1 canapé.
CAN + APE
2 windmill.
WILL + MIND [anagram]
3 countess.
COUNTESS
4 tear off.
FORE + AFT [anagram]
5 shiner.
SHINER
6 Galway.
GAY + AWL [anagram]
7 decrease.
DECREASE
14 ease.
[T] + EASE
16 okay.
OAKY [anagram]
18 bargeman.
B + MANAGER [anagram]
20 ladybird.
LADYBIRD
21 casement.
[Roger] CASEMENT
23 reunite.
RETINUE [anagram]
25 sordid.
S + ROD + ID [anagram]
26 empire.
E + MP + IRE
28 shears.
S + HEAR + S

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