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ACROSS
1 As a seaman in California with a yellow skin (6)
4 This grand maestro monkeys about with claws (8)
9 Tea urn in the wild (6)
10 'e trots ten back slowly (8)
12 A grand tragic King rules around here (5)
13 After around in the word for this southern city (9)
15 When we will arrive for tea (3)
16 Counsel ten about for fragrance (5)
17 It wasn't Harold, I heard the Cockney certify it (6)
22 You'll find no former hexagram up north (6)
24 Yoh in the States for some oriental sauce (5)
27 With beer you could be stuck on the rascal (3)
28 Classic condiment for the bath (5,4)
31 £100 to get one seen urgently at the hospital! (3-2)
32 A vanishing bed on a fowl day (8)
33 That's clever, father came before the riot disbanded (6)
34 Use oars then in this cold water (5,3)
35 Blimey, cry about Isaac (6)
DOWN
1 Cornelius and Reginald are around for this meeting on board (8)
2 Its not in attitudes where this is located (8)
3 Weatherglass, with a degree in Italy for good measure (9)
5 Stop before the end when vibrato loses a half a dozen (5)
6 Rhythm on the end of 3 down (5)
7 Traveller, outfitter, infantryman ........ (6)
8 Rent by the yard to be fashionable (6)
11 Izaac is looking pale back around the celebration (6)
14 This time is not a certain erasure (3)
18 Thanks, hello it is back in this exotic place (6)
19 He gives back chat, while he ponders about it (9)
20 Both ends of a commute after school (8)
21 A rodentlike bread roll in Clare, I hear (8)
23 She's not a double nor a single (3)
25 Fastened with no saint to numb the sense, I hear (6)
26 No grand marshal on these stone blocks (6)
29 Hamlet lost fifty around the county (5)
30 Firefighter Red in Limerick (5)
Full Solution
ACROSS
1 casaba.
C AS AB A [type of melon]
4 marmoset.
M + MAESTRO [anagram]
9 nature.
TEA URN [anagram]
10 tortoise.
TORT OI SE
12 realm.
LEAR + M [anagram]
13 Waterford.
W + AFTER [anagram] + ORD
15 eta.
TEA [anagram]
16 scent.
SC + TEN [anagram]
17 notary.
NOT 'AR[R]Y
22 Armagh.
H [EX] AGRAM [deletion anagram]
24 shoyu.
SHOYU
27 imp.
IMP [ALE] deletion
28 Epsom salt.
EPSOM + SALT
31 one-er.
ONE -ER [slang for 100 pounds sterling]
32 foldaway.
A FOWL DAY [anagram]
33 adroit.
DA RIOT [anagram]
34 North Sea.
OARS THEN [anagram]
35 crikey.
CR + IKE + Y
DOWN
1 congress.
CON + REG + SS [anagram]
2 situated.
A [T] TITUDES
3 barometer.
BA {RO {ME} TER}
5 abort.
[VI] BRATO [deletion anagram]
6 meter.
METER
7 sailor.
SAILOR [tinker, tailor, soldier ..........]
8 trendy.
RENT YD [anagram]
11 kwanza.
K WAN ZA
14 era.
ERA [SURE] deletion
18 Tahiti.
TA HI TI
19 responder.
PONDERS RE [anagram]
20 homework.
HOME WORK
21 Bunratty.
BUN RATTY
23 Mrs.
MRS
25 deafen.
FA [ST] ENED
26 ashlar.
[M] ARSHAL [deletion anagram]
29 Meath.
HAM [L] ET [deletion anagram]
30 Adare.
{RED} ADARE
Solved Grid
1 comment:
Hi Tommy,
This is a great puzzle, I had to work on it on and off all day, before finally picking up my trumpet for a tantara flourish ... which went flat. I had a bad guess for KWANZA, putting in a wild OWANDA instead.
Clue of the Day for me was HOME WORK. Even after I had worked out the answer, it took me ages to cop on to the clue. Brilliant!
I had two lookups after I was done, namely CASABA, and SHOYU. Being a vegan, I should have been quicker with both of those clues!
Notes along the way:
ETA: a sneaky little anagram ... very clever.
ARMAGH: you do love your deletions! This is one my favorites.
EPSOM SALT: A classic indeed ... and very pithy.
CRIKEY: again very short and sweet.
BAROMETER: the "ME" serving double duty here foxed me for quite a while.
SAILOR: What a great twist on an old Crosaire favorite ... super clue.
ASHLAR: Another one of Crosaire's favorite answers, but Tommy style.
Thanks for the challenge, Tommy. I got awfully close, so am feeling pretty cocky about next week's offering.
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