Monday, March 29, 2010

SunWeb36 by Athos

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ACROSS
1 Go north in twos to an empty place (5,4)
9 Expose to fresh air with a small battery in a tree (6)
10 Auburn toxic bloomer with small drop of water (8)
11 Lark about with tax or a hundred (6)
12 That's me in the foliage, she said (6)
14 Plum! Um! No second best (4)
15 Was the French lad born with a silver one? (5)
16 Rails against the periodical out east (6)
18 Fifty one peels, but not quite round (7)
21 A stand-in for the king has got the chemistry right (7)
24 Rein me in my Royal fur (6)
26 Quiet charitable offerings about an old holy verse (5)
30 Appear to sound like this, Sir (4)
31 Billed, but with no charge (6)
32 Grass like 16 across, I hear (6)
33 A response to creation (8)
34 This steamer does not open the letters; it carries them (6)
35 Don't adore this toiletry (9)

DOWN
2 Oriented, father is around in this regard (6)
3 No oils equals this (6)
4 Nathan came back before Edward, like hide (6)
5 Second class elm and yew play there in London (7)
6 Ten years for the bounder in the river (6)
7 Came around in a limo to take some tea (8)
8 Yet I flirt with such prolificacy (9)
11 Thrown into a class system, by the sounds of it (5)
13 Quiet charitable offering around an old light (4)
17 Select Edgar Allan as a magnifier (9)
19 Fifty mice can irk in the West (8)
20 An advantageous purchase sounds hard (5)
22 The conductor was competent despite losing his head (4)
23 An ostentatious display using leg and spur (7)
25 Ne'er 'ad been so close (6)
27 A plank on the ship (6)
28 Oh, you should not be in the mortuary, because you have died (6)
29 Complain, doctor about the legume (6)


Full Solution

ACROSS
1 ghost town.
TWOS NTH GO [anagram]
9 aerate.
AA TREE [anagram]
10 laburnum.
AUBURN + ML [anagram]
11 cavort.
VAT OR C [anagram]
12 female.
FEMALE
14 lead.
LEAD [PLUMBUM = Pb = metallic lead]
15 ladle.
LAD + LE
16 serial.
RAILS E [anagram]
18 ellipse.
LI + PEELS [anagram]
21 reagent.
A REGENT [anagram]
24 ermine.
REIN ME [anagram]
26 psalm.
P ALMS [anagram]
30 earl.
EARL [PEER]
31 beaked.
BEAKED
32 cereal.
CEREAL
33 reaction.
CREATION [anagram]
34 packet.
PACKET
35 deodorant.
DONT ADORE [anagram]

DOWN

2 headed.
HEED + DA [anagram]
3 squeal.
EQUALS [anagram]
4 tanned.
NAT NED [anagram]
5 Wembley.
B ELM YEW [anagram]
6 decade.
DE [CAD] E
7 camomile.
CAMOMILE
8 fertility.
YET I FLIRT [anagram]
11 caste.
CASTE
13 lamp.
LAMP
17 telescope.
SELECT POE [anagram]
19 Limerick.
L MICE IRK [anagram]
20 steal.
STEAL
22 able.
[C] ABLE
23 splurge.
LEG SPUR [anagram]
25 neared.
NEER AD [anagram]
27 aboard.
A BOARD
28 martyr.
M [O] RT [U] ARY [deletion anagram]
29 bemoan.
MO BEAN [anagram]

Solved Grid

Monday, March 8, 2010

SunWeb35 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb35


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ACROSS
1 Tough Greek prays for a hypotenuse (10)
6 The elderly managed without him (4)
10 Yours worn around the East (5)
11 Sounds like we have been seen by them, in our favourite wordbook (9)
12 Not in print after this (8)
13 Inverse, with me at last (5)
15 Och this bun has French cheese on the outside (7)
17 Call up your boys around you in small measure (7)
19 Grasp a little digit to get a small advantage for future progress (3-4)
21 Around the sternum down south here (7)
22 Expect it to sound heavy (5)
24 This Royalist is all alone (8)
27 Can put up with this lore in the table (9)
28 Look out after counsel (5)
29 County, not up in the North (4)
30 Depend on the cleric being back around ten, with respect (10)
DOWN
1 Whichever way you look at this deck, it is at the back (4)
2 Fruit eaten with a grin (9)
3 Pungent loss of current around a cardiac case (5)
4 Draught here on paper by the sound of it (7)
5 Sparingly (7)
7 Sounds like a bloody mess on the east coast (5)
8 Prissy dean comes to the clinic (10)
9 He is no milkmaid (8)
14 Removed like a bad scatter (10)
16 It was not a good Friday for the Norsemen here (8)
18 Not in about the least (9)
20 Five hundred can incapcitate (7)
21 Sounds like I'll cross the Mediterranean (7)
23 Everybody hurts, I hear, let it be (5)
25 State of culture (5)
26 Cathy lost a hundred in Kildare (4)



Full Solution
ACROSS
1 Pythagorus.
TOUGH PRAYS [anagram]
6 aged.
[MAN] AGED [deletion]
10 owner.
WORN + E [anagram]
11 thesaurus.
THESAURUS
12 deadline.
DEADLINE
13 rhyme.
RHY ME
15 brioche.
BRI + OCH + E
17 summons.
S + U + MM + ONS
19 toe-hold.
TOE HOLD
21 Munster.
STERNUM [anagram]]
22 await.
AWAIT
24 solitary.
ROYALIST [anagram]
27 tolerable.
T [OLER] ABLE [anagram]
28 scout.
SC + OUT
29 down.
DOWN
30 reverently.
RE + VER + ENT + LY
DOWN
1 poop.
POOP
2 tangerine.
TANGERINE [anagram]
3 acrid.
[CA] RDIAC [anagram]
4 outline.
OUTLINE
5 useless.
USELESS
7 Gorey.
GOREY
8 dispensary.
PRISSY DEAN [anagram]
9 dairyman.
DAIRYMAN
14 abstracted.
BAD SCATTER [anagram]
16 Clontarf.
CLONTARF
18 outermost.
OUTERMOST
20 disable.
D + IS + ABLE
21 Maltese.
MALTESE
23 allow.
ALL +OW
25 taste.
STATE [anagram]
26 Athy.
[C] ATHY [deletion]

Solved Grid