Sunday, January 17, 2010

SunWeb33 by Athos

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ACROSS
1 On balance, on the bar it is not light (7-6)
10 Very thorough, hinted page (2-5)
11 A bastion in another dialect (7)
12 This French headgear is dry, old fellow (4)
13 A French one is single at mid-week (5)
15 Show show knee, I skip back but not to Delhi (4)
17 After tea, sounds like another attachment (3)
19 A swimmer in a grand salon? (6)
21 No artist in the push-cart for this takeover (6)
22 Rages at the crowd to disperse it (4-3)
23 Used to be witty, with electricity in the feet (6)
25 A tailor in Dublin (6)
27 He would give you old money (3)
29 I owe a little thanks to the Greeks (4)
30 Rival type of illness (5)
31 Shop around to be stylish (4)
34 Bearing SE ahead, directly into the waves (4,3)
35 A grand million for us (7)
36 The melancholy musical score of 8 down (5,3,5)

DOWN
2 No even dance for this geek (7)
3 No springtide around the scruff (4)
4 A Scottish lord 'e, like the end of 22 across (6)
5 Sounds an evil game (6)
6 Enter this and get involved (4)
7 Its hard son, to have particles like these about (7)
8 Old money, Senor, five and three or two and six (6,2,5)
9 Mostly no thumbs, like magic (7-2-4)
14 Soldier with invisible rays in the arrow (7)
16 Non-drinker in the water closet, bingo (5)
18 Add 101 back for harmony (5)
20 She used to be called this, even back before she got married (3)
21 One better than a bogey (3)
24 Don't pry into patriarchy for ancient European sect (7)
26 Leonard IX, like one having pride (7)
27 I see the barb, so father this is your nickname (6)
28 Get a cut above the rest in his chair (6)
32 She has a Book, this queen of Persia in short (4)
33 Due to take them to the skies (2,2)



Full Solution
ACROSS
1 counter-weight.
COUNTER WEIGHT
10 in-depth.
HINTED P [anagram]
11 citadel.
DIALECT [anagram]
12 chap.
CHAP[EAU]
13 unwed.
UN + WED
15 Hopi.
HOP + I
17 eat.
[T] EAT
19 salmon.
SAL [M] ON
21 putsch.
PUSHC [AR] T
22 tear-gas.
RAGES AT [anagram]
23 facete.
AC + FEET [anagram]
25 Rialto.
TAILOR [anagram]
27 bob.
BOB [ a shilling]
29 iota.
I O TA
30 viral.
RIVAL [anagram]
31 posh.
POSH
34 head sea.
SE AHEAD [anagram]
35 billion.
BILLION [ = 1000 million in America]
36 eight bar blues.
EIGHT BAR BLUES


DOWN
2 oddball.
ODD BALL
3 nape.
NEAP [anagram]
4 ethane.
E THANE
5 wicket.
WICKET
6 into.
INTO
7 hadrons.
HARD SON [anagram]
8 pieces of eight.
PIECES OF EIGHT
9 sleight-of-hand.
SL + EIGHT OF HAND
14 warrior.
IR + ARROW [anagram]
16 lotto.
LO [ TT ] O
18 music.
CI SUM
20 née.
NEE
21 par.
PAR
24 Cathari.
[P] ATRIA [R] CH [Y]
26 leonine.
LEO + NINE
27 bicarb.
IC BARB [anagram]
28 barber.
BARBER
32 Esth.
ESTH
33 El Al.
EL AL

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

SunWeb32 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb32
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ACROSS
1 Not a long suit for paper transport (9)
9 Up in the air in the beer (6)
10 Me and the barmen on the sheet (8)
11 Limb before the charge of this military unit (6)
12 Well-being with fifty in Hampstead (6)
14 Fire fodder (4)
15 This royal eastern county (5)
16 The clue is to get the water away (6)
18 Damn icy and not so still (7)
21 This grannie ran away from Fionn, with Diarmuid (7)
24 Go up the glen for a dip (6)
26 Rouse yourself to spend a few (5)
30 The artist has forty nine on track (4)
31 Little sister with me and 'im are getting sick (6)
32 This type of face, around tea relates to a body cavity (6)
33 The Vikings fled from here at nearly a quarter past ten (8)
34 WIth this score 10-0, he sang up (6)
35 Misjudge about red tuna (9)
DOWN
2 This joint is partly underwater (6)
3 Listen Mummy, if I am back for my degree at 9:50 (6)
4 Ha ha and a millilitre, for a dance (3-3)
5 Engrave in the sky, but not the full picture (7)
6 Fifty reels will flog it again (6)
7 I nail up after 104 though I am no soldier (8)
8 Give this incompetent lender the rub (9)
11 The earl's optical device (5)
13 Swarm the side, I hear (4)
17 Father Pat is around and can make these changes (9)
19 Sounds like a new tree, no smaller than 22 down (8)
20 This is how I start the game, if it suits (5)
22 A little one but not n to z (4)
23 Flies with a €500 note in place (7)
25 Serious fifty with rasping sound (6)
27 Unlikely meteor (6)
28 Which part of the corset is in the round (6)
29 A tiger with a tall feather (6)



Full Solution
ACROSS
1 briefcase.
BRIEF + CASE
9 aerial.
AIR + ALE [anagram]
10 membrane.
ME + BARMEN [anagram]
11 legion.
LEG + ION
12 health.
HEA [L] TH
14 coal.
COAL
15 Meath.
MEATH
16 sluice.
CLUE + IS [anagram]
18 dynamic.
DAMN + ICY [anagram]
21 Gráinne.
GRANNIE [anagram]
24 plunge.
UP GLEN [anagram]
26 euros.
ROUSE [anagram]
30 rail.
RA + IL
31 emesis.
SIS + ME + E [anagram]
32 atrial.
A [T] RIAL
33 CLONTARF.
CLONTARF [ battle of 1014]
34 linnet.
LIN- NET [ = TEN-NIL backwards]
35 underrate.
RE + RED + TUNA [anagram]
DOWN
2 reefer.
REEF + ER
3 embalm.
EM + BA + LM
4 cha-cha.
HA HA CC [anagram]
5 sketchy.
SK + ETCH + Y
6 resell.
REELS + L [anagram]
7 civilian.
CIV I LIAN
8 blunderer.
LENDER + RUB [anagram]
11 laser.
EARLS [anagram]
13 teem.
TEEM
17 adaptable.
DA PAT ABLE [anagram]
19 neutrino.
NEU TRI NO
20 ideal.
I DEAL
22 atom.
A TO M
23 pelican.
IN PLACE [anagram, flies=bird, €500 note=large bill]
25 gravel.
GRAVE + L
27 remote.
METEOR [anagram]
28 sector.
CORSET [anagram]
29 aigret.
A TIGER [anagram]

Solved Grid