ACROSS
1 - Chose bar, newly built in Welsh resort (8) - ABERSOCH*
5 - Blunder made by fielder at Oxford? (4-2) - SLIP-UP {SLIP)-{UP}
9 - One instrument after another producing a piece of music for an old dance (8) - HORNPIPE {HORN}{PIPE}
10 - Type of sausage obtained from one of the Greek islands, mostly (6) - SALAMI SALAMIs
11 - Detest gaudy bar small house installed (5) - ABHOR {AB{HO}R*}
12 - Ten inside a large church in a Devon town (9) - AXMINSTER {A}{X}{MINSTER}
14 - Formal clothes is what a woman may wear at a funeral, we hear (7,5) - (~mourning)MORNING DRESS
18 - St Michael viewed differently after the play (3,9) - THE ALCHEMIST {THE} {STMICHAEL*}
21 - Sword found in former Catholic burial ground (9) - EXCALIBUR {EX}{C}{BURIAL*}
23 - Last of a series of home games (5) - OMEGA [T]
24 - A gallon in pool is unsatisfactorily small in amount (6) - MEAGRE {ME{A}{G}RE}
25 - Overwhelm one person in religious order with fruit (8) - INUNDATE {I}{NUN}{DATE}
26 - Most certainly with more justification (6) - RATHER [CD]
27 - Visual faculty certainly needed in rowing crew (8) - EYESIGHT {E{YES}IGHT}
DOWN
1 - Retreat from wood ahead of pack (6) - ASHRAM {ASH}{RAM}
2 - Blue celestial body close to Mercury (6) - EARTHY {EARTH}{Y}
3 - Exceptionally good ball in championship match (5,4) - SUPER BOWL {SUPER} {BOWL}
4 - Tyrannical whaler, at a pinch a cruel seaman (7,4) - CAPTAIN AHAB {AT+A+PINCH+A}*{AB}
6 - Pick up king, then knight (5) - LEARN {LEAR}{N}
7 - Sparkling repartee - it should bear fruit (4,4) - PEAR TREE*
8 - Tedious talk about border plant (8) - PRIMROSE {P{RIM}ROSE}
13 - Corny moment involved dog in classic tale (11) - MONTMORENCY*
15 - Demonises criminal in a state capital (3,6) - DES MOINES*
16 - Arrest me for flying flag (8) - STREAMER*
17 - Liking poem's initial charm (8) - PENCHANT {P}{ENCHANT}
19 - Write a note, then another, in a Malaysian state (6) - PENANG{PEN}{AN}{G} (Addendum - {PEN}{A}{N}{G} - See comments)
20 - Article left in shelter, a special gift (6) - TALENT {T{A}{L}ENT}
22 - Lively lager and stout (5) - LARGE*
1 - Chose bar, newly built in Welsh resort (8) - ABERSOCH*
5 - Blunder made by fielder at Oxford? (4-2) - SLIP-UP {SLIP)-{UP}
9 - One instrument after another producing a piece of music for an old dance (8) - HORNPIPE {HORN}{PIPE}
10 - Type of sausage obtained from one of the Greek islands, mostly (6) - SALAMI SALAMI
12 - Ten inside a large church in a Devon town (9) - AXMINSTER {A}{X}{MINSTER}
14 - Formal clothes is what a woman may wear at a funeral, we hear (7,5) - (~mourning)MORNING DRESS
18 - St Michael viewed differently after the play (3,9) - THE ALCHEMIST {THE} {STMICHAEL*}
21 - Sword found in former Catholic burial ground (9) - EXCALIBUR {EX}{C}{BURIAL*}
23 - Last of a series of home games (5) - OMEGA [T]
25 - Overwhelm one person in religious order with fruit (8) - INUNDATE {I}{NUN}{DATE}
26 - Most certainly with more justification (6) - RATHER [CD]
27 - Visual faculty certainly needed in rowing crew (8) - EYESIGHT {E{YES}IGHT}
DOWN
1 - Retreat from wood ahead of pack (6) - ASHRAM {ASH}{RAM}
2 - Blue celestial body close to Mercury (6) - EARTHY {EARTH}{Y}
3 - Exceptionally good ball in championship match (5,4) - SUPER BOWL {SUPER} {BOWL}
4 - Tyrannical whaler, at a pinch a cruel seaman (7,4) - CAPTAIN AHAB {AT+A+PINCH+A}*{AB}
6 - Pick up king, then knight (5) - LEARN {LEAR}{N}
7 - Sparkling repartee - it should bear fruit (4,4) - PEAR TREE*
8 - Tedious talk about border plant (8) - PRIMROSE {P{RIM}ROSE}
15 - Demonises criminal in a state capital (3,6) - DES MOINES*
16 - Arrest me for flying flag (8) - STREAMER*
17 - Liking poem's initial charm (8) - PENCHANT {P}{ENCHANT}
19 - Write a note, then another, in a Malaysian state (6) - PENANG
20 - Article left in shelter, a special gift (6) - TALENT {T{A}{L}ENT}
22 - Lively lager and stout (5) - LARGE*
Fixing a typo perhaps:
ReplyDelete19d breakup should be PEN A N G
15d: I have not been there exactly but touched it while on a visit to Cedar Rapids and was travelling here and there in Iowa and neighbouring states.
ReplyDeleteThat was my first visit abroad - first flight, in fact - and I was staying with my niece and her family for a month.
For knowing more about Des Moines recommended reading is Bill Bryson's Travels in Small-Town America. Twp quotes from the same.
ReplyDelete"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to".
Opening line.
"When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a girl called Bobbie and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbie and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever".
Brilliant. Must get hold of the book
DeleteA clue (from today's Observer) that would surely appeal to the Mathematician in Kishore:
ReplyDeleteKey issue in 2011, say (5,6)
By definition, Earth is not a celestial object.
ReplyDeleteThat is an easy one:
ReplyDelete(PRIME) (NUMBER)