SunWeb23 by Athos

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ACROSS

8 I am hailed by the seaside north of Dublin (8)

9 Ah, your old father's about and you don't care (6)

10 Rein in the orange-brown horse (6)

11 Sent it back around the north-east with feeling (8)

12 With fifty and the lady's crown you might be caught in the loop (6)

13 The gall of that outside the city (8)

15 Sounds like you might cry this after a row (4)

17 A grand mistake before the charge in the square in Dublin (7)

19 A garland, cut in the county (7)

22 Stop the flow with the saint when I come back (4)

24 Sounds like a hair-do he has eaten passes through (8)

27 This miss has not run over and out (6)

29 A clean bin to hold the compass on board (8)

30 Scotsman back for the crude metal (2,4)

31 Sounds like you agree to sow it (6)

32 Pass away north after this honour before tea and be compliant (8)


DOWN

1 This layer is no animal (6)

2 The French boar gave us a song and sounded untruthful (8)

3 After 51 and A, the river mammal came back in this musical script (8)

4 It's a wise bet that you'll find it online (7)

5 The Cardinal has lost his identity and become of the flesh (6)

6 The captain has lost his head on the surface of the metal (6)

7 Kidnap on board, in this Eastern city (8)

14 Grain cereal in by this Cheltenham district (4)

16 Not out on the street this month (4)

18 Sounds like I'll look through it to put it together (3-5)

20 God with us, I am around by hand and back with the French (8)

21 The part of the wheel in the rut with six and the three in charge of old Rome (8)

23 The Queen dotes on shipworm (7)

25 Where to get a stable diet with 1000 cross (6)

26 Bowed to reach hundreds (6)

28 Unpredictable ranter (6)


Full Solution

ACROSS

8 Malahide.

AM HAILED [anagram]

9 apathy.

A + PA + THY

10 ginger.

REIN + GG [anagram]

11 sentient.

SENT IT NE [anagram]

12 lariat.

L + TIARA [anagram]

13 Tallaght.

GALL + THAT [anagram]

15 tier.

TIER

17 Merrion.

M + ERR + ION

19 Leitrim.

LEI + TRIM

22 stem.

ST + EM

24 permeate.

PERM + E + ATE

27 maiden.

MAIDEN [over as in cricket]

29 binnacle.

CLEAN + BIN [anagram]

30 no more.

NO M + ORE

31 accede.

ACCEDE [ sounds like 'a seed']

32 obedient.

OBE + DIE + N + T

DOWN

1 lamina.

ANIMAL [anagram]

2 sanglier.

SANG + LIER

3 libretto.

LI + B + RETTO
4 website.

WISE + BET [anagram]

5 carnal.

CAR [DI] NAL deletion

6 patina.

[C] APTAIN [deletion anagram]

7 shanghai.

SHANGHAI

14 arle.

[B] ARLE [Y]

16 INST.

IN + ST

18 eye-piece.

EYE + PIECE

20 Emmanuel.

EM + MANU + EL

21 triumvir.

RIM + RUT + VI [anagram]

23 teredos.

ER + DOTES [anagram]

25 manger.

M + ANGER

26 arched.

REACH + D [anagram]

28 errant.

RANTER [anagram]

Solved Grid

SunWeb22 by Athos

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ACROSS


8 I am hailed by the seaside north of Dublin (8)

9 Ah, your old father's about and you don't care (6)

10 Rein in the orange-brown horse (6)

11 Sent it back around the north-east with feeling (8)

12 With fifty and the lady's crown you might be caught in the loop (6)

13 The gall of that outside the city (8)

15 Sounds like you might cry this after a row (4)

17 A grand mistake before the charge in the square in Dublin (7)

19 A garland, cut in the county (7)

22 Stop the flow with the saint when I come back (4)

24 Sounds like a hair-do he has eaten passes through (8)

27 This miss has not run over and out (6)

29 A clean bin to hold the compass on board (8)

30 Scotsman back for the crude metal (2,4)

31 Sounds like you agree to sow it (6)

32 Pass away north after this honour before tea and be compliant (8)


DOWN

1 This layer is no animal (6)

2 The French boar gave us a song and sounded untruthful (8)

3 After 51 and A, the river mammal came back in this musical script (8)

4 It's a wise bet that you'll find it online (7)

5 The Cardinal has lost his identity and become of the flesh (6)

6 The captain has lost his head on the surface of the metal (6)

7 Kidnap on board, in this Eastern city (8)

14 Grain cereal in by this Cheltenham district (4)

16 Not out on the street this month (4)

18 Sounds like I'll look through it to put it together (3-5)

20 God with us, I am around by hand and back with the French (8)

21 The part of the wheel in the rut with six and the three in charge of old Rome (8)

23 The Queen dotes on shipworm (7)

25 Where to get a stable diet with 1000 cross (6)

26 Bowed to reach hundreds (6)

28 Unpredictable ranter (6)

Full Solution

8 Malahide.


AM HAILED [anagram]

9 apathy.

A + PA + THY

10 ginger.

REIN + GG [anagram]

11 sentient.

SENT IT NE [anagram]

12 lariat.

L + TIARA [anagram]

13 Tallaght.

GALL + THAT [anagram]

15 tier.

TIER

17 Merrion.

M + ERR + ION

19 Leitrim.

LEI + TRIM

22 stem.

ST + EM

24 permeate.

PERM + E + ATE

27 maiden.

MAIDEN [over as in cricket]

29 binnacle.

CLEAN + BIN [anagram]

30 no more.

NO M + ORE

31 accede.

ACCEDE [ sounds like 'a seed']

32 obedient.

OBE + DIE + N + T


DOWN

1 lamina.

ANIMAL [anagram]

2 sanglier.

SANG + LIER

3 libretto.

LI + B + RETTO



4 website.

WISE + BET [anagram]

5 carnal.

CAR [DI] NAL deletion

6 patina.

[C] APTAIN [deletion anagram]

7 shanghai.

SHANGHAI

14 arle.

[B] ARLE [Y]

16 INST.

IN + ST

18 eye-piece.

EYE + PIECE

20 Emmanuel.

EM + MANU + EL

21 triumvir.

RIM + RUT + VI [anagram]

23 teredos.

ER + DOTES [anagram]

25 manger.

M + ANGER

26 arched.

REACH + D [anagram]

28 errant.

RANTER [anagram]

Solved Grid

SunWeb21 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb21

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ACROSS

1 Iberian castle wines (6,3,4)

10 Grecian tipple retains a resin flavour (7)

11 I see the harbour around this entrance (7)

12 Quiet help with no more expense (4)

13 After tea on court in the West (5)

15 Meet 'er in verse, I hear (4)

17 The saint has lost it, yet retains his identity (3)

19 Windy's music with 15 across, I hear (6)

21 He is not about to be bothered with his bills (6)

22 Farmer shoots arrows northwards (7)

23 There is a hundred in the set and six legs too (6)

25 The Sultan ate one French rib (6)

27 He is around the Ladies here (3)

29 Typical, no man around (4)

30 Gullible Irishman (5)

31 It is not with tubing you close the hole (4)

34 Bringing four to the altar is hard work (7)

35 I go back for a drink there and stop commerce (7)

36 Turn the e-mail typo around in a begging way (13)


DOWN

2 Greet the abstainer with gin, striking (7)

3 Disarm without the lady with an ambush (4)

4 Longs for a time at the poles (6)

5 The god is back before his family with a bib (6)

6 Sounds like you cut the fruit down bit by bit (4)

7 Fancy dress for me on the train (7)

8 Consumed no amateur helping in a balanced way (13)

9 Quiet or pitch the heavy fish around the Midlands (13)

14 Northern slope at the start (7)

16 The stuffing of comedy (5)

18 Alone in the south-west, with 13a in Wicklow (5)

20 When do you think you will come to tea? (3)

21 No credit without it and she comes of age (3)

24 A Catholic in celebration with scorn (7)

26 No charge here on the fence (7)

27 With fifty in the metal made a hammer (6)

28 Senators not so far back on board (6)

32 Raise the pitch with nothing on ahead (4)

33 Help to do no good with 15 across around (4)

Full Solution

ACROSS

1 SHERRY AND PORT.

Sherry and Port are fortified wines

10 retsina.

RETAINS [anagram]

11 portico.

PORT + I C + O

12 paid.

PAID

13 Ennis.

[T] ENNIS

15 beat.

BEAT

17 san.

San as in San Francisco

19 reggae.

West Indies music = reggae

21 debtor.

BOT [HE] RED deletion anagram

22 rancher.

ARCHER + N [anagram]

23 insect.

IN + SE [C] T

25 Brunei.

UNE + RIB [anagram]

27 mna.

MAN [anagram] = Gaelic for ladies

29 norm.

NO + MR [anagram]

30 patsy.

PATSY

31 bung.

[T] + UB +[I] + NG deletion anagram

34 travail.

IV + ALTAR [anagram]

35 embargo.

ME + BAR + GO [anagram]

36 importunately.

TURN EMAIL TYPO [anagram]


DOWN

2 hitting.

HI + TT +GIN [anagram]

3 raid.

DI [S] AR [M] delete Ms

4 yearns.

YEAR + NS

5 napkin.

NAP + KIN

6 pare.

PARE

7 raiment.

ME + TRAIN [anagram]

8 proportionate.

PRO + PORTION + ATE

9 Portarlington.

P + OR + TAR + LING + TON

14 nascent.

N + ASCENT

16 farce.

FARCE

18 Kerry.

KERRY

20 eat.

ETA [anagram]

21 deb.

DEB [IT] deletion

24 sarcasm.

A + RC + MASS [anagram]

26 neutral.

NEUTRAL

27 mallet.

L + METAL [anagram]

28 astern.

[S] ENAT [O] RS deletion anagram

32 capo.

O + CAP [anagram]

33 abet.

ABET

Solved Grid

SunWeb20 by Athos

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ACROSS


1 Professional lightweight performance (9)
9 The engineer didn't go seafaring overland (6)
10 Mother, insanity holds it all together (8)
11 On the face of it, a calf with me (6)
12 Trap her underneath (6)
14 Stories after tea to seal it up (4)
15 Fish 'n' chips (1-3-1)
16 Mother kneels before the metal boxes to pray at daybeak (6)
18 Not on strike, way-out (7)
21 Perceived to have lost four beforehand (7)
24 Swiss Italian capital will put a shine on your plate (6)
26 Is X around here in the big picture? (5)
30 Not written or a fifty (4)
31 You'll hear it from Bray Head (6)
32 Freak mutt is not available (6)
33 It's fifty fifty to win a grand around here (8)
34 Approved to be alright before a dye (6)
35 Gee, mother beams back and forth before these fishes (5,4)

DOWN

2 About father and the Queen in the textbook (6)
3 Ghi for a peaceful Indian (6)
4 Back on board (6)
5 Just a month in London (7)
6 Has spoken in a sheepish way in Malaya (6)
7 Notwithstanding I get up, sounds ridiculous (8)
8 Murder the young bull around this village here (9)
11 I am back in the fur, for the big bone (5)
13 Artistic support or agreement with fifty (4)
17 Mother sings and hums a lullaby in the West (9)
19 Stamp of approval covers these after last month (5-3)
20 Warn later (5)
22 Fence off the end of the Indian tent (4)
23 Led to uncertainty by the Imam (7)
25 Molly was one in Dublin (6)
27 Manholes have none for peace (6)
28 Balance precariously with a tree on the end (6)
29 I heard y'all come around after the state, to the tribal city here (6)

Full Solution
ACROSS
1 programme.
PRO + GRAMME
9 safari.
S [E] AFARI [NG] deletion
10 mainstay.
MA SANITY [anagram]
11 facial.
A CALF I [anagram]
12 nether.
NET HER
14 ales.
[T] ALES deletion
15 I-and-I.
One-and-one I-AND-I
16 matins.
MA TINS
18 offbeat.
OFF BEAT
21 precede.
PERCE [IV] ED deletion anagram
24 chrome.
CH ROME
26 inset.
IS TEN [anagram]
30 oral.
OR A L
31 heehaw.
HEE HAW
32 mutant.
MUTT NA [anagram]
33 Milltown.
M L L TO WIN [anagram]
34 okayed.
OK A DYE [anagram]
35 gamma rays.
G AM MA RAYS

DOWN
2 reader.
RE AD ER
3 Gandhi.
G AND HI
4 astern.
ASTERN
5 Mayfair.
MAY FAIR
6 Bahasa.
BA HAS A [insertion]
7 satirize.
SAT I RISE[phononym]
8 Killester.
KILL STEER[anagram]
11 femur.
F + EM + UR
13 ease.
EASE[L] or [L]EASE
17 Roscommon.
MOM CROONS [anagram]
19 first-day.
FIRST DAY
20 alert.
LATER [anagram]
22 épée.
[T] EPEE
23 dilemma.
LED IMAM [anagram]
25 monger.
MONGER
27 shalom.
MA [N] HOL [E] S deletion anagram
28 teeter.
TEETER
29 Galway.
GA + YAWL [anagram]

Solved Grid