No hiccups today, went like a knife through butter after yesterday's hammering by Neyartha
ACROSS
1 - Set up a partnership (5) - STAND [DD]
4 - Actual money to be made if top rent adjusted (3,6) - NET PROFIT*
9 - Take corners well racing in Jersey? (4-4,7) - ROLL-NECK SWEATER
10 - One male job in tax (10) - {I}{M}POSITION
11 - Endlessly hinder alliance (4) - BLOC(-k)
13 - Powerless, locked in sauna, bleeding (6) - UNABLE [T]
14 - Choose artist to illustrate a type of complex (7) - ELECT{RA} Had heard of Oedipus complex but not this one, see the explanation at the link
16 - Wear out car part (7) - EXHAUST [DD]
18 - Lean, adult leader of group diving into lake (6) - MEA{G}RE (Correction ME{A}{G}RE - Thanks to Bala)
20 - Fine linen from Prestatyn, Wales, sent over (4) - LAWN [T] Never knew Lawn was fine linen also
21 - Obstacles in rear by travelling cranes (10) - {HIND}RANCES*
23 - Writer of musical tale, we hear, receiving top prizes (6,9) - {OLIVER} {GOLDS}MITH (~myth)
24 - In succession to throne, displaced head of Tudors (2,3,4) - ON THE TRO{T}
25 - Solitary type Cockney fellow dismissed (5) - LON(-don)ER Londoners are not necessarily Cockneys
DOWN
1 - Runs in country getting injury (6) - SP{R}AIN
2 - Tolerant? Waspish? Possibly a mild rebuke is the answer (1,4,2,3,5) - A SLAP ON THE WRIST*
3 - Cheese in buns he laid out (6,4) - DANISH BLUE*
4 - Ascot's winning margin, then dead heat? (7) - {NECK}{TIE}
5 - Silk from refurbished US store (7) - TUSSORE*
6 - Part of film is serious, according to report ... (4) - REEL (~real)
7 - ... film total art fanatic misconstrued (5,10) - FATAL ATTRACTION* Great movie
8 - Develop film showing traitor (8) - {TURN}{COAT}
12 - Bone in arm, at least cracked (10) - METATARSAL*
15 - Rich source of oil, also buried diamonds (4-2-2) - {WELL}-TO-{D}O
17 - Start trip (7) - TRIGGER [DD]
18 - Malicious assertions over apartment in area of seaside land (3,4) - MUD FLAT
19 - Queen of Persia belonging to Xerxes, there? (6) - ESTHER [T]
22 - Children on the radio give up (4) - CEDE Anno pending (Addendum - (~seed) - Thanks to Chaturvasi)
22d: CEDE is hom. of ’seed’ (children), “on the radio” being the hom. signal
ReplyDeleteWomen like my mother, aunts and so on in the past decades used to have their blouses made of 'lawn' - a term that I used to hear when I was a boy. Similar to 'cambric' but made of cotton.
ReplyDeleteAnother term was 'longcloth' used to make pillowcases, etc, I think.
Yet another: Mull
ReplyDeleteShouldn't the anno for 18AC be: ME{A}{G}RE?
ReplyDeleteBala,
ReplyDeleteYes it should have been ME{A}{G}RE because of the presence of adult, though MEA{G}RE could also be correct as MEARE is the name of a lake.
Chaturvasi,
Thanks, didn't hit me that 'On the radio' was an indicator for a homonym.
Had heard of Mull and Longcloth but not Lawn.
The Chambers Dictionary is full of Shakespearean and Spenserian spellings of common words. 'Meare' for 'mere' (often occurring in crossword clues) is one of them.
ReplyDeleteIt is Spenserian, Edmund Spenser being a 16th c. English poet.
Well, I thought mere also meant a lake. Here's the definition from dictionary.com:
ReplyDeletemere
2 /mɪər/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [meer] Show IPA
–noun
1. Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
2. Obsolete. any body of sea water.
So, ME{A}{G}RE
I guess the setter would have to clear the anno for this.
This crossword, known as Everyman, is reproduced from The Observer of the UK and there is little chance of the setter coming along here to clear the anno for us.
ReplyDeleteBut when I blogged on another Everyman in its original avatar on a UK-based Website, the setter came along and posted a Comment.
As for MEAGRE, there is no doubt that it's ME(A,G)RE as only that parsing, as the Col. has said above, takes into account every component in the subsidiary indication.