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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
Solved Grid
1 comment:
Hi Tommy,
Tomtara!
I found this to be another very Crosairish puzzle (bar the signature Tommy deletion clues which add so much!). I congratulate you.
Here are my notes along the way:
VECTOR: I think I might have vaguely remembered VECTOR as being something to do with contagious disease, but maybe not. So, it's Lookup of the Day for me.
ABSCESS: classic clue ... very nice.
UP TO: a lovely deletion.
ADONIS: and another!
FIVES: this clue reads so well ... very inventive.
BUTTON: another classic, that reads so well.
BEATER: this was my last, and so cleverly written. Definitely Clue of the Day.
Most enjoyable, Tommy ... thank you!
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