1 - Reverse bet (4) – BACK [DD]
3 - They work at sea, surprisingly we learnt, carrying Royal Marines (10) – TRAWLE{RM}EN*
10 - Arguing after golf is on the increase (7) – {G}{ROWING}
11 - Passes? Last in literature fails (7) – {E}{LAPSES}
12 - Family member taking Ecstasy in French resort (5) – NI{E}CE
13 - Honest? Possibly, cutting Ace to win (2,3,4) – ON TH{E NO}SE*
14,17 - Where badly burnt sausages may need to go, making matters worse? (3,2,3,6,3,4,3,4) – OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE [CD]
21 - Clear as to changes in a financial clause (9) – ESCALATOR*
23 - Sound cheerful after opener's dismissed (5) – (-b)RIGHT
24 - Oxford University lecturer in enclosure in hooded top (7) – CAG{O}{U}{L}E
26 - Ornamental building material Lawrence on a tractor damaged (10) – {TE}{RRACOTTA*}
DOWN
1 - Offer to enclose information with engine part (3,3) – BI{G EN}D
4 - I'm toxic to livestock and grow wild in desert (7) – RA{GWOR*}T
6 - To rub out is simplicity, holding end of rubber (5) – E{R}ASE
7 - Fail to hear Redding laments and Cole Porter song? (4,4,7) – {MISS} {OTIS} {REGRETS}
8 - Girl endlessly urges on reserves (4,4) – {NEST(-a)} {EGGS} Never heard of NESTA as a girls name, see the meaning at the link
9 - Whistle along, but make less noise (4,4) – {PIPE} {DOWN}
15 - Mob constantly repeated phrase about very loud artist (4-4) – {RI{FF}-{RA}FF}
16 - Blow up and erupt, possibly engulfing country's capital (8) – {UP}{PER{C}UT*}
18 - Active and energetic, one got working round hospital (2,3,2) – ON T{H}E GO*
19 - Produce sharp, shortened waistcoat (7) – {(-s)HAR(-p)}{VEST}
20 - Academic ignoring us in workshop (6) – STUDIO(-us)
22 - Name of learner driver, distinctive character (5) – {L}{AURA}
HERE is a group photo of Richard and his family
Good Morning all: Col has fully done it. Congrats. Only to add Enfield reminds me of SMLE, Bren et all. Once on the firing range, I took 6 shots with a SMLE and found eight holes in my target. The shooter on my right was firing into my target.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Col, no credits are usually given on Sundays. What's with it?
Nesta a female version of Nestor, I presume.
ReplyDeleteI had to Google cagoule and Miss Otis Regrets.
ReplyDelete@ Richard: All the best for Easter. Vale Carnavale.
ReplyDelete@Kishore
ReplyDeleteThe Sunday Crossword is syndicated from the EVERYMAN crossword of the Guardin in UK. Name of the setter is not indicated in the EVERYMAN
@ Col: Thanks. I always felt the difference between Sundays and Weekdays. The Indian tinge was missing, no Chirala, Chikan, Kali et al.
ReplyDeleteIf the setter is from Ireland, would he be a Irish Setter?
ReplyDeleteGood morning and Easter wishes. Thanks, Kishore.
ReplyDeleteExcept the multiverbal phrases, almost all the rest were OK. 14, 17A indeed got me from the frying pan into the fire.
Enjoyed solving all the anagrams, CDs and telescopic clues.
Don Manley, UK crossword setter, often discloses that Everyman crossword in The Observer of The Guardian stable is at present composed by a single person, Allan Scott.
ReplyDeleteSeveral decades ago Everyman was no less a person than Ximenes, that is D. S. Macnutt. After him, it was also set by Alec Robins.
It is rumoured that if Scott is unable to set the crossword for reason of holiday or illness, it is set by Roger Squires, the person who sets the syndicated puzzle that appears in New Indian Express and other several UK crosswords. I have no confirmation of this but I can certainly ask Mr. Squires himself as he is an email friend of mine.
Pardon the pun (I know it is lowest form of humour, but I cant resist) Crossword puzzles are usually Squires'(squares)
ReplyDeleteHi Chaturvasi, Long time no hear. Nice to read your comments. Your silence made me presume you were on a visit to your brother in the US. You were being missed.
ReplyDeleteIs Macnutt Irish or a Scot ? I am asking because of Kishore's query above. :-)
The Odd one out in the following Macs? Macdonald, Mackintosh, Machinery, Macbeth, Macrennet, Macmahon
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