Today's CW appears to be written by Mr Manna's understudy!!!
ACROSS
1 - An exciting batsman without finesse (7) - SLOGGER [CD]
5 - Irritate an insect that is very brave! (7) - {GALL}{ANT}
9 - Lover boy (5) - ROMEO [E]
10 - The odd person gets a letter (9) - CHARACTER [DD]
11 - Section reserved for a review (6) - NOTICE* Where's the S
12 - Then in Asia, some may be lacking in strength (8) - ASTHENIA*
14 - Legally permitted (5) - LICIT [E]
15 - Opening election, party to make a speech carefully worked out (9) - {E}{LAB}{ORATE}
18 - Shoot off to unload (9) - DISCHARGE [DD]
20 - The New Testament follows the first lady to find an incident (5) - {EVE}{NT}
22 - Blinded to reality by imaginary dirt (8) - {STAR}{DUST}
24 - You may need to widen a search for her (6) - EDWINA*
26 - Careless possibilities of a pop record (3,2,4) - HIT OR MISS [CD] ?
27 - Get together in company (5) - AMONG [E]
28 - Impede taking advantage of an agreement (7) - {BAR}{GAIN}
29 - Returned to use to make useful again (7) - RETREAD Anno pending
DOWN
1 - Eccentric about 50 many obstructed (9) - STRANG{L}E{D}
2 - Measure of gradual absorption of liquids (7) - OSMOTIC [E] Can we use the word measure here?
3 - Highly desirable groom can be relied on to hold a ball (4,5) - GOOD CATCH
4 - A class has a fixed course for a run (4) - RACE [DD]
5 - Smoother mirror on the Mirror? (5,5) - GLASS PAPER Anno pending
6 - Allow liquid to percolate over fallow land at church (5) - {LEA}{CH}
7 - The girl to number sodium with a feeler (7) - {AN}{TEN}{NA} Girl AN ?
8 - Right to rate earth the Italian way (5) - TER{R}A*
13 - A slump causes real unhappiness (10) - DEPRESSION [DD]
16 - Finished sketch gains credit (9) - {OVER}{DRAFT}
17 - Set garden in order despite being disaffected (9) - ESTRANGED*
19 - Disperse this sort of brain (7) - SCATTER [DD]
21 - Does pie alter soap part? (7) - EPISODE*
22 - Indian way to address person of rank (5) - SAHIB [E]
23 - Radio tuned properly may reveal her whereabouts (5) - DORIA Hearing this name first time
25 - Ruler of drunken tars? (4) - TSAR*
12ac: For me it's a simple insertion of THEN in ASIA.
ReplyDeleteIn my humble opinion, it's not worth sweating over the clues where you have raised queries.
ReplyDeleteI second your opinion, in fact I should not have wasted my time writing those queries!
ReplyDeleteMirror is a common Newspaper name.
ReplyDeleteThere is Mumbai Mirror - a tabloid
DORIA Hearing this name first time
ReplyDeleteThere is a firest time for everything, isn't there?
Right, and more definitely so with Mr Manna
ReplyDeleteThere is a first time for everything, isn't there?
ReplyDeleteThere is great philosphy in this sentence of pammechchu. I thoroughly enjoyed it.