ACROSS
1 - Enduring affliction marked X (7,1,5) - BEARING A CROSS [DD]
8 - Sheep quarter modelled for brother’s children (7) - {N}EPHE{W}S*
9 - Counting as influential (7) - TELLING [DD]
11 - Get Ray somehow to move round (6) - GYRATE*
13 - Feelers put out before holding a woman up (8) - ANT{ENNA<-}E
15 - Trunk or boot or some other name for a container (5) - TORSO [T]
16 - Professional rubber? (7) - MASSEUR [E]
18 - Stretch of river occupied by vessels (7) - EX{PANS}E
19 - Consent, but will be a long time coming round again (5) - AG{RE}E
21 - Stocky rustic among the test players (8) - T{HICK}SET*
23 - Promotion of one of those in flight (4,2) - STEP UP [CD]
25 - No strain in distribution of fixed allowance (7) - RATI{O}NS*
26 - A spider changed the emotion (7) - DESPAIR*
28 - Pretty girls get misspelt letters which are great literature (6-7) - BELLES {LETTRES*} New phrase for me
DOWN
2 - An Antarctic penguin (7) - EMPEROR [E]
3 - Port or whiskey (3) - RYE [DD]
4 - A quarter on road becomes a comfortable resort (4) - {NE}{ST}
5 - Surprised a shed is not damaged (10) - ASTONISHED*
6 - May rile beginner to include him in a small trench (5) - RI{L}LE*
7 - The one who twists the yarn or turns the ball? (7) - SPINNER [DD]
8 - Dark, stout hotel worker on late shift (5,6) - NIGHT WAITER [CD]
10 - On course, does he retain the pot? (5,6) - GREEN KEEPER [CD]
12 - Poor time for the return of a band of people (5) - {T}ROOP<- )
14 - In uses a man varies from his secretary (10) - AMANUENSIS* Another new word for me
17 - Old to exert force to extort (5) - {EX}{ACT}
18 - Lee gets tips about a letter (7) - EPISTLE*
20 - Substitute heavy fabric with very fine fabric (7) - {REP}{LACE}
22 - To knock out couple of pounds not possible on top of hillock (5) - {K{N}O}{LL}
24 - Advantage makes the aged generally content (4) - EDGE [T]
27 - Posed as a model (3) - SAT [E]
I think 8DN should be NIGHT PORTER since STOUT has been used.
ReplyDeleteParthasarathy, Chennai
http://www.sparthasarathy.com/crosswords/indexcw.html
10 - On course, does he retain the pot? (5,6) - GREEN KEEPER [CD]
ReplyDeleteThink this should be GRASS KEEPER as reference is made to POT which is also GRASS/ HASHISH.
"I think 8DN should be NIGHT PORTER since STOUT has been used." Logically should be right, but the anno still does not fit. STOUT is Portly but how does PORT{-LY}+{ER} explain in the clue?
Never heard of Grass Keeper as a word. However Greenkeeper does exist
ReplyDeleteporter is an old english word for a dark ale or stout
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