No idea about 11A as my German is bad!!! Had to do a google search to get it
ACROSS
1 - Brothers and sisters as a group (8) - SIBLINGS [CD]
5 - Break in — ten leave furiously to break in (6) - I(-nte*)RRUPT New word for me
9 - Turn to trios to get an Italian dish (7) - RISOTTO*
10 - Goes away, with bag and baggage (5,2) - PACKS UP [CD]
11 - Is it not true, in German? (5,4) - NICHT WAHR
12 - Profanes and does hose repair (5) - DARNS [CD]
13 - Little swimmers that can also do the crawl (4) - EFTS [CD]
14 - New slates smashed? But that’s known to me already! (5,4) - STALE NEWS* Reminds me of the phrase 'Stale news stinks and so do you'
17 - What wrong in is sentence this (4,5) - WORD ORDER [CD]
19 - One has the journalist’s backing in indigenous style (4) - DE<-{S}{I}
23 - Relative mentions joints (5) - NIECE (~knees)
24 - If some persons are so, they are agreed! (2,3,4) - OF ONE MIND [CD]
25 - Recruited through deception — what a cowboy did, perhaps (5,2) - ROPED IN [CD] Roping in is not exactly recruiting by deception
26 - Fellow high jumper accepts wager over right (7) - RO{BE{R}T}O
27 - They are the pits (6) - ABYSMS [CD]
28 - Grime settles on worker, a displaced person (8) - EMIGR*{ANT}
DOWN
1 - More quaint alien (8) - STRANGER [DD]
2 - Former U.S. President’s cautious act on animal (4-3) - {BUSH} CAT*
3 - Tito on converting entirely (2,4) - IN TOTO*
4 - Fine — a fine bird ducks over the bottom of the garden for greeting (4,9) - GOOD {A}{F}{TERN}{OO}{N}
6 - Going back on yielding (8) - RECEDING [CD]
7 - Twist in anti-clockwise direction (7) - UNSCREW [CD} Not applicable to pieces of jewellery
8 - Pity goes out to good man being an office worker (6) - TYPI*{ST}
10 - For a four-sided shape, roll a large map out (13) - PARALLELOGRAM*
15 - Literary supplement? (8) - ADDENDUM [CD]
16 - Discovers — able to have sound disposition (5,3) - FI{NDS OU*}T
18 - Give more money than what is due (7) - OVERPAY [CD]
20 - In summer it reaches the country (7) - ERITREA [T]
21 - A new vision is incomplete for her (6) - {A}{N}DREA(-m)
22 - As used to infuse some flavour into hot water (3-3) - TEA-BAG [CD]
In 25ac I think two meanings are merged seamlessly. Of course, "rope in" may be just 'enlist'. But when you "rope (someone) in", you "draw (someone)in as if with a rope; lure". Hence the clue-writer seems to have added 'through deception'.
ReplyDeleteJust explaining away: you are entitled to your view.
Col,
ReplyDeleteThe link from 'offering', prob. to the word 'oblation' in a dict., needs to be fixed.
Chaturvasi,
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing out the error, one of the vagaries of copy-paste. I have since corrected it.