No 11047, Tuesday 01 Apr 2014, Gridman

Another special for AFD.

At 1 dn, 14, 26 and 15 dn, solvers have to enter a well-known saying.

Hint: Will there be a stampede today?

ACROSS

1   With no shape, don’t create so much (8) FORMLESS {FORM}{LESS}

5   Aboard, maps redrawn in sudden bursts of activity (6) SPASMS {S{MAPS*}S}

9   Mother’s mother puts a daughter in refurbished dolly (3,4) OLD LADY {OLD L{A}{D}Y*}

10 Round and round around the model (6) ROTUND {RO{T}UND}

12 Rain party? (6) SHOWER [DD]

13 A number, working, noticed the carpenter’s tool (5,3) TENON SAW {TEN}{ON} {SAW} 

16 Bring to ruin leaders of Uttarakhand notoriously delaying operations (4) UNDO {U}{N}{D}{O}

17 Correspondence of study group — publishers exit with fifty per cent of presence after a bit of uproar (10) CONGRUENCE {CON}{GRoup}{U}{presENCE}

19 Nothing low by the way in this part of the town (4,6) HIGH STREET {HIGH} {STREET}

21 I led going hither and thither, without purpose (4) IDLE*

24 National hurriedly nearing one (8) NIGERIAN {NEARING+1}*

25 Alarm caused by bed put back — it’s wrong (6) TOCSIN {TOC<=}{SIN}

27 Patron’s right in court (6) CLIENT {C{LIEN}T}

28 State half of them are angry (7) EMIRATE {thEM}{IRATE}

29 Take in a summary (6) DIGEST [DD]

30 New range of the French handbombs (8) GRENADES {RANGE*}{DES}

DOWN

1   Part 1 of a saying FOOLS RUSH IN

2   Concerning dead forest tree (7) REDWOOD {RE}{D}{WOOD}

3   Departs with pages? (6) LEAVES [DD]

4   Utters consent in ship (4) SAYS {S{AY}S}

6   Pressure on rascal to include old line in introduction (8) PROLOGUE {P}{R{O}{L}OGUE}

7   Surrounds hovels steeped in wrong-doing (5,2) SHUTS IN {S{HUT S}IN}

8   Unhappy it’s dead (3) SAD {SA}{D}

11 Held sway: it wasn’t fair, we’re told (7) REIGNED (~rained)

14 Part 2 of a saying WHERE ANGELS

15 Part 4 of a saying TO TREAD

18 Violinist’s items — what the skimpily clad might display (1-7) G-STRINGS [DD]

20 Smothering joke — good one I started narrating to girl (7) GAGGING {GAG}{G}{I}{N}{G}

22 Brute’s dead — a celebrity’s dead (7) DASTARD {D}{A}{STAR}{D}

23 Many — ten — get new soothing liquid (6) LOTION {LOT}{10}{N}

26 Part 3 of a saying FEAR

27 Physician’s thrown up fish (3) COD <=

Note:  As your cartoonist is still recovering from the excesses committed at the dining table at yesterday's Yugadi feast, the cartoon is incomplete and will be uploaded when fully done, by around 10.30 ack emma.