Bottom left corner took me a little while, otherwise quite an entertaining CW, needed the grid to get quite a few
ACROSS
1 - Notedly more eccentric member of the band (7) - {D}{RUMMER}
5 - Initial electric lantern may be everlasting (7) - {E}{TERNAL*(-n)} Deletion of N not clearly brought out, may can indiacte an anagram as well as usage of some of the letters
10 - Be of service (6) - ASSIST [CD]
11 - Rebuke salesman for taking fish (8) - {REP}{ROACH}
12 - Certain to get up to chase (6) - {PU<-}{RSUE*}
13 - Goods put into containers (8) - PACKAGED [CD]
14 - Use proper road to traverse on courses (6) - {R}{OUTES*} Surface reading of clue not very good
15 - Lee is left out — that’s not right for him (6) - {L}ESLIE*
18 - Go back and give in again (6) - {RE}{CEDE}
20 - Newspaperman got some credit originally (6) - EDITOR [T]
23 - Foreign aristocracy exploding grenades (8) - GRANDEES*
25 - Plan to have a purpose (6) - INTENT [DD]
26 - Cheat a servile dependant to get control (8) - {DO}{MINION}
27 - Impart changes with hollow result (6) - ARMPIT* Did not like this clue
28 - Shatters violently and creates a quiet mess (7) - SM{A}{SH}ES
29 - A repairman going round a winding course (7) - ME{A}NDER
DOWN
2 - Free to secure the injured (6) - RESCUE*
3 - Change dominates this part of Kent (9) - MAIDSTONE*
4 - Plead for net rate to be reviewed (7) - ENTREAT*
6 - Optical illusion that is currently popular (7) - TOPICAL*
7 - Woman soldiers taking a carrier in (5) R{HOD}A
8 - A couple of hundred possibly tried to get commission (8) - {A}{CC}REDIT*
9 - Attractive way of prematurely acquiring proprietorial rights (13) - {PRE}{POSSESSING} Nice clue
16 - By temperament he is given to playing game (9) - SPORTSMAN [CD]
17 - To her, appear to be hiding one object of value (8) - HE{I}R{LOOM}
19 - Write a song of mourning (7) - ELEGISE [CD]
21 - Impersonate (7) - IMITATE [CD]
22 - Conforming to being properly dressed (2,4) - IN LINE [DD]
24 - Hard-bitten things? (5) - NAILS [CD]
Col,
ReplyDelete15 - Lee is left out — that’s not right for him (6) - {L}ESLIE*
What's Leslie to do with the ans?
7 - Woman soldiers taking a carrier in (5) R{HOD}A. What is RA?
1 - Notedly more eccentric member of the band (7) - {D}{RUMMER}
Is notedly = D? We use G also in some cases for Note, like in yesterday's ET Xword:
23 Note sounding vibrant with desire (6)G REEDY
Leslie is the "him" at the end of the clue... Man's name
ReplyDeleteNote refers to any note between A and G... musical scale
ReplyDeleteRaghunath,
ReplyDeleteSiddharth has given you the answer for 15A and also the answer for Note in 1A and 7D, both D & G are musical notes.
As regards RA it stands for Royal Artillery which is an arm of the Army in the UK