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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]
Solved Grid
4 comments:
Hi Tommy,
Enjoyed doing and (even better)finishing your crossword this morning. Your clues read very well and liked so many of them but have to say coming from a teacher 'bloody past-pupil' is brilliant! Wonder will I manage to break your ro15w record tomorrow? Fingers crossed.
Martina
Hi Tommy,
Great puzzle ... Crosaire written all over it. The Saturday theme was particularly nice, I thought, with four great clues. I missed my tomtara by one letter. I got lost looking for BOLD (silly me, really), and had a wild shot with HOLD. I got down to that last clue in one mug of Barry's finest though, which isn't a bad pace.
Notes along the way:
HEBE: A lucky guess for me!
BONSOI: Nice would/wood in a short, pithy clue.
OLD BOY: As always, a well-spotted anagram.
GET: Great clue, classic structure.
TUSSOCK: Also classic, and TUSSOCK is a Crosaire fave.
CARDBOARD CITY: The best of the theme clues, with a lovely anagram.
COMMAND: Nice link with ORDERS.
ACCUSE: The inventive use of "little volume" gets my vote for Clue of the Day.
STY: "Sixty minus nine" ... an A in maths! Brilliant!
BET: Classic Tommy deletion clue.
INEXACT: The anagram of the day!
GINGKO: Lookup of the Day, without a doubt!
Another great puzzle, Tommy. Thank you!
Bill
Hi Tommy, Martina and Bill
Have fallen behind on doing SUNWEB recently so it was good to get back to it today...especially when I can report a clear round!
Really liked the Saturday grid and four outside clues...CARDBOARD CITY held out the longest but was a great clue!
HEBE and PITON were today's lucky guesses for me.
Favourites were BONSAI, OLD BOY, ACCUSE, LIONESS, SOLAR, STY, INEXACT and GINKGO...
Some great anagrams and deletion clues today.
'Twas a TOPPER Tommy!
Liz
Thank you all for your kind comments It has been my pleasure to compile it, and all the more that you have enjoyed it.
Tommy
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