SunWeb28 by Athos

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ACROSS
8 Edward was elected to get the eaglet (8)
9 Periods of one hundred hopes (6)
10 Changed about the diva (6)
11 Raucous tridents about (8)
12 Nine year old's dream, like a familiar walking route (6)
13 'es transported goods before tea, eaten slow (8)
15 A bottle stopper down south (4)
17 A thousand cheers for this plotter (7)
19 Not in editions, though highly charged (7)
22 These donations settle down after a hundred (4)
24 Bees fail to find a workable solution (8)
27 Races down south for a gentle rub (6)
29 He had made a fire before the giant came around and went to court (8)
30 Hidden talent (6)
31 The ancients, with no saint had gone gone like the dogs (6)
32 Planned to have eaten around ten (8)

DOWN
1 Not berate with oxygen (6)
2 Denigrate, like a young child (8)
3 Soft-shoe on the waterspout (3-5)
4 Slew her for not paying up (7)
5 Ironic that the old Force came last (6)
6 Does this river waddle through Dublin (6)
7 Polished writer around the lower leg (8)
14 A grand apres-ski for a liquid layer (4)
16 Unwritten or the return of the French (4)
18 A grand chalice contains a reactant (8)
20 Give you a closet kiss (8)
21 Rock and roll was an annoyance to Titian, the old master (8)
23 About the limit in the county (7)
25 I take my clothes off with intent (6)
26 Prepare a round of bread Edward, on the face of it like a bird (6)
28 The islander lost forty nine to be a polisher (6)

Full Solution
ACROSS
8 delegate.
ED + EAGLET [anagram]
9 epochs.
C HOPES[anagram]
10 varied.
RE DIVA [anagram]
11 strident.
TRIDENTS [anagram]
12 beaten.
BE A TEN
13 escargot.
ES CARGO T
15 Cork.
CORK
17 schemer.
M CHEERS [anagram]
19 ionised.
EDI [T] IONS [deletion anagram]
22 alms.
[C] ALMS
24 feasible.
BEES FAIL [anagram]
27 caress.
RACES + S [anagram]
29 litigant.
LIT + GIANT [anagram]
30 latent.
TALENT [anagram]
31 canine.
ANCIEN [TS] deletion anagram
32 intended.
DINED TEN [anagram]


DOWN
1 aerate.
A + ERATE not B + ERATE
2 belittle.
BE LITTLE
3 tap-dance.
TAPDANCE
4 welsher.
SLEW + HER [anagram]
5 ferric.
FER RIC
6 Dodder.
Dodder
7 shinbone.
SHONE + NIB [anagram]
14 skim.
SKI + M
16 oral.
OR LA [anagram]
18 chemical.
M + CHALICE [anagram]
20 osculate.
U A CLOSET [anagram]
21 irritant.
RR + TITIAN [anagram]
23 Leitrim.
RE + LIMIT [anagram]
25 spirit.
I + STRIP [anagram]
26 beaked.
BAKE + ED [anagram]
28 sander.
[I] S [L] ANDER

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SunWeb27 by Athos

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ACROSS


1 Of fundamental importance or a ruddy capped measuring stick (1,8,4)

10 I am a moan, but I can bring you to your senses (7)

11 This line is on court at the same height (7)

12 Not in play of late (4)

13 Refined about the South, a money bag (5)

15 A goddess found in Thebes (4)

17 Not, I hear (3)

19 Father, have you taken these (6)

21 Would you grow a little one (6)

22 Rustled up a sweet one (7)

23 Bloody past-pupil (3,3)

25 Gratitude in China for domesticating the shrew (6)

27 For this, I cannot remember (3)

29 One mother leads prayers (4)

30 One needs a point, to help you get to the top (5)

31 Wager a letter (4)

34 After tea you and me cover a foot with a bunch of grass (7)

35 Quiet, the French piece of stiff paper is a poster (7)

36 The acrobat did cry when he lived in this paper town (9,4)



DOWN

2 He who gives 19 across is in this (7)

3 Right liquid for writing on thin ice here (4)

4 The artist has one in a repetitively boring way (2,1,3)

5 Use a little volume to charge (6)

6 Had made the call from the ladder (4)

7 With fifty one around the Loch, she has pride (7)

8 They will get to the heart of matters (13)

9 Sent to say hello, has sir cantered his horse about (8,5)

14 There's fifty in virtue, in a little watery way (7)

16 Andirons with no noise about, is a crime (5)

18 Fly high around fifty for this type of energy (5)

20 Sixty minus nine gives a pig pen (3)

21 Stake, miss a beat (3)

24 No life in this water (4,3)

26 Nice tax if rounded off (7)

27 Living fossil is no blooming tree, drink a thousand and don't stay (6)

28 Can a headless plug still wear a hat (6)

32 Before the cold be brave (4)

33 Soapy stone with a feline around fifty (4)


Full Solution

ACROSS


1 a cardinal rule.

A CARDINAL RULE

10 ammonia.

IM A MOAN [anagram]

11 contour.

ON CONTOUR [anagram]

12 dead.

DEAD

13 purse.

PUR [S] E

15 Hebe.

[T] HEBE [S]

17 tie.

TIE [ knot]

19 orders.

ORDERS [religious orders]

21 bonsai.

BONSAI

22 strudel.

RUSTLED [anagram]

23 old boy.

BLOODY [anagram]

25 taming.

TA MING

27 get.

[FOR] GET

29 imam.

I MAM

30 piton.

POINT [anagram]

31 beta.

BET A

34 tussock.

T US SOCK

35 placard.

P LA CARD

36 cardboard city.

ACROBAT DID CRY [anagram]


DOWN

2 command.

COMMAND

3 rink.

R INK

4 in a rut.

RA UNIT [anagram]

5 accuse.

USE A CC [anagram]

6 rung.

RUNG

7 lioness.

LI O NESS

8 Cardiologists.

CARDIOLOGISTS

9 greeting cards.

SIR CANTERED GG [anagram]

14 rivulet.

L VIRTUE [anagram]

16 arson.

A [NDI] RONS [anagram]

18 solar.

SA [L] AR

20 sty.

S [IX] TY [deletion]

21 bet.

BE [A] T [deletion]

24 Dead Sea.

DEAD SEA

26 inexact.

NICE TAX [anagram]

27 ginkgo.

GIN K GO

28 topper.

[S] topper [deletion]

32 bold.

B OLD

33 talc.

CAT L [anagram]


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SunWeb26 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb26 and apologies for being a little late.

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ACROSS


1 She rules the tribe from an armchair after tea (9)

9 Grandmother in a sheepish call for fruit (6)

10 Bet red or black around here about the outlet (8)

11 Forty nine in the face is easy (6)

12 The French cheese is around the dry one, not so sweet (6)

14 Tastes like 12 across and is not very basic (4)

15 With Richard you can choose a charge (5)

16 Covert disease carrier (6)

18 The reverend mother takes in counsel, it's a sore point (7)

21 Moss is around to balance the concentration (7)

24 Elbows out, and knees too, sounds like a Kimberley with no hygeine (6)

26 A verse without five about will rub it out (5)

30 No firm coupon, to keep a breast (2,2)

31 Give back the plaster (6)

32 The thing is, I had lost my identity (6)

33 Here I dined with the novice (8)

34 Or walk around Wicklow here (6)

35 Reunited up North by contract (9)
DOWN

2 No grand domains, said the handsome youth (6)

3 The senior clergyman lost his head to tell the story (6)

4 I treat myself to some clothes (6)

5 Create about a thousand by fire (7)

6 On the face of it fathers's around in it too (6)

7 Edward is into tiaras, and how he glows (8)

8 Charges at the door to intrude (4-5)

11 Nearly at sixes and sevens (5)

13 Half a century with the buzz on this river (4)

17 Counsel can do with his help, a regal pal (9)

19 I shake it and eat it back East (8)

20 With a piano it is inclined to be messy (5)

22 Could be a grand use of inspiration (4)

23 The first is back after a few decades (7)

25 Close your shirt, not in the tub (6)

27 Come to a river (6)

28 Silent draft (6)

29 Gets the game up in the air, thanks back in the ale (6)

Full Solution
 
ACROSS


1 matriarch.

ARMCHAIR T [anagram]

9 banana.

BA [NAN] A

10 roulette.

RE OUTLET [anagram]

11 facile.

FAC [IL] E

12 bitter.

BI + TT + ER

14 acid.

ACID

15 elect.

ELECT [RIC]

16 vector.

COVERT [anagram]

18 abscess.

AB + SC + ESS

21 osmosis.

MOSS IS [anagram]

24 akimbo.

A KIM BO

26 erase.

A [V]ERSE [deleteion anagram]

30 up on.

[CO] UP ON

31 render.

RENDER

32 entity.

[ID] ENTITY

33 initiate.

IN IT I ATE

34 Arklow.

OR WALK [anagram]

35 indenture.

REUNITED + N [anagram]
DOWN

2 Adonis.

DO [M] AINS [deletion anagram]

3 relate.

[P] RELATE

4 attire.

I TREAT [anagram]

5 cremate.

CRE M ATE

6 facade.

FAC [AD] E

7 radiates.

ED + TIARAS [anagram]

8 gate-crash.

CHARGES AT [anagram]

11 fives.

FIVES

13 Elbe.

L + BEE [anagram]

17 paralegal.

A REGAL PAL [anagram]

19 shiitake.

I SHAKE IT

20 slopy.

SLOP [P] Y

22 muse.

M + USE

23 tension.

TENS I ON

25 button.

NOT TUB [anagram]

27 arrive.

A RIVER [anagram]

28 enlist.

SILENT [anagram]

29 beater.

BE AT ER


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SunWeb25 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb25
Congratulations and Happy Birthday wishes to Derek Crozier, long time crossword setter to The Irish Times who this coming week will celebrate the publishing of his 1400th puzzle and the next day his 92nd. birthday.

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ACROSS

1 One metal two colours I see (10)

6 Southern wine is a hole, I hear, the beast (4)

10 Carps on a little bit (5)

11 See the lens on board, though unconscious (9)

12 Damn lass on the continent (8)

13 Improve after noon (5)

15 Around the side with hundreds the insect may react (7)

17 Disloyalty of the senator (7)

19 Leaves here with a crown (7)

21 Feel line, I hear (3-4)
22 I am not A, with you I hear it soak (5)
24 Aren't cut short? (8)
27 Live here on board (5-4)
28 See there, the French say there's oil in Virginia (5)
29 South of Houston Street from New York to London town (4)
30 Dry grannies with a bitter taste (10)


DOWN
1 A thousand in the hearth for a brew (4)
2 A tall tale of how to avert the rain (9)
3 Chew this for love around twenty two over seven (5)
4 Begin again about the southern pie (7)
5 Mend its attitude (4-3)
7 A weighty honour towards 4:30 (5)
8 I need cress in my houses (10)
9 Indulgent Declan has made his mark (8)
14 Legend illuminators on stage (10)
16 Like a beast in rut, as the editor learnt (8)
18 As a holy one, lit about in Oriental rice liquor (9)
20 Bring back the highest charges for the magic drinks (7)
21 One hundred flock to the North (7)
23 Half a century goes red in the shrub (5)
25 Spanish sparkler goes north to the county (5)
26 Without us the wealth will be about to stop (4)

Full Solution
ACROSS


1 monochrome.

MONO CHROME

6 boar.

BOAR [ S WINE ]

10 scrap.

CARPS [ anagram]

11 senseless.

SEE LENS SS [anagram]

12 landmass.

DAMN LASS [anagram]

13 amend.

AM END

15 oxidant.

O XI D ANT

17 treason.

SENATOR [ anagram]

19 treetop.

TREETOP

21 cat-like.

CAT-LIKE

22 imbue.

I'M B UE

24 truncate.

ARENT CUT [anagram]

27 house-boat.

HOUSE BOAT

28 voilà.

V OIL A

29 Soho.

SO HO

30 astringent.

TT GRANNIES [ anagram ]


DOWN

1 mash.

M ASH

2 narrative.

AVERT RAIN [narrative]

3 cupid.

CU [PI] D

4 restart.

STARTERS [anagram]

5 mind-set.

MEND ITS [anagram]

7 obese.

OBE SE

8 residences.

I NEED CRESS [ anagram]

9 decadent.

DEC A DENT

14 footlights.

FOOT LIGHTS

16 antlered.

RED TALENT [anagram]

18 saintlike.

SA [IN + TLI ] KE

20 potions.

POT IONS

21 cluster.

C + ULSTER [anagram]

23 blush.

B [ L ] USH

25 Cavan.

CAVA N

26 halt.

[WE] ALTH


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SunWeb24 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb24

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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


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