ACROSS
1 - The Saint of Avila sat here awkwardly (7) - THERESA*
5 - Prolonged shortage must follow a medical man (7) - DROUGHT {DR}{OUGHT}
8 - Seize moneylender softly without hesitation (5) - USURP {USURer}{P}
9 - Try diamonds, perhaps, for an evaluation pack (4,5) - TEST CARDS {TEST} {CARDS}
11 - Father with elongated limbs for a harvestman (5,8) - DADDY LONGLEGS {DADDY} {LONG}{LEGS}
18 - A Uris novel follows the writer's reference books (8) - THESAURI {THE}{A+URIS}*
19 - Wild lust follows publicity for men and women (6) - ADULTS {AD}{LUST*}
24 - Is this aromatic herb in an unused state? (4,9) - MINT CONDITION {MINT} {CONDITION}
26 - Find worst shifting winter weather phenomenon (9) - SNOWDRIFT*
28 - Sincere article Hemingway rewrote (7) - EASTERN {A+ERNEST}* Mover has forgotten to change the definition!!
29 - Suggests it hasn't changed (5,2) - HINTS AT*
DOWN
1 - End hurt badly for lightning follower (7) - THUNDER*
2 - Duo race around to reach this South American country (7) - ECUADOR*
3 - Take away recycled item (5) - EMPTY [DD]
4 - Norse god follows gold for a writer (6) - AUTHOR {AU}{THOR}
5 - Run counter to ruined sari edge (8) - DISAGREE*
6 - Seeds article missing from Europeans (5) - GERMS GERManS
7 - Assigns chores (5) - TASKS [DD]
10 - Washed up unravelled lace end (7) - CLEANED*
12 - Measures in your ear; quite an achievement (4) - FEAT (~feet) Can be the other way around also.
14 - Wan like a rowan tree? (4) - ASHY [CD]
15 - Describing my well-informed friend in court (7) - LEARNED [CD]
17 - Part of a splinter group harbouring king (8) - FRACTION {F{R}ACTION}
20 - Tories in disarray after Liberal leader lingers on (7) - LOITERS {L}{TORIES*}
21 - Freckle caused by our star's drug (7) - SUNSPOT {SUNS}{POT}
23 - This could be a sticky solution (5) - PASTE [CD]
24 - Makes fast untidy rooms (5) - MOORS*
Eastern problem in the south west...
ReplyDeleteWrote Earnest and got into touble
28A a real faux pas. I did not get the answer. I also did not get 23D. I wrote Resin and that did not help. Not a clue I liked because it could lead to multiple answers.
ReplyDeleteDeepak, liked your illustration for Mummy Longlegs !
ReplyDeleteAn interesting trivia - "frostwind" is another anagram that fits in 26A; had that initially and went awry.
ReplyDeleteBoxed myself into the SW corner by filling frostwind and earnest.
ReplyDeleteSW corner botched up thanks to my 'earnest' belief!
ReplyDeleteIs it right for anagrams to depend on crossings in a cryptic CW?
ReplyDeleteNot sure about this in general. But at least in this case "frostwind", though it seemed right to me, does not exist in the dictionary. Also the term "wind frost" exists as two words. So I guess the only word that fits is snowdrift.
DeleteI think they are called cognate anagrams. We had a discussion on this forum about two years ago.
Delete1. Tree producing fir cone (7)
2. New Orleans in Italy (7)
3. Supersonic instruments (10)
4. Soldiers armed with guns? (9)
5. Noiseless wild animals (9)
6. The raffia-weaving business (6)
7. They are used for duplicating clients' letters (8)
8. Indicatory anagram book (8)
No. 7 may be found outdated. With some of the quickest solvers around, I wouldn't be surprised to get answers within seconds.
Suresh will sure call me names.
Who would want an 8?
DeleteAnd the enus are all jumbled up oo
DeleteQuite likely. I am no expert, sir. I just copied them from sources.
DeleteMy religious knowledge helped in getting THERESA at first glance. Also got the following among others, though I did not complete the cw.
ReplyDeleteLiked 29A - HINTS AT
20D - Nice play with the names of British political parties.
Solutions: 1 CONIFER; 2 SALERNO; 3 PERCUSSION; 4 GUARDSMEN; 5 LIONESSES; 6 AFFAIR; 7 STENCILS; 8 DICTIONARY
ReplyDeleteRichard, For 8, the lettes should have been (10).
And 7 should be 7
DeleteMy apologies for the typo.
DeleteSuresh,
ReplyDeleteRichard has correctly given enu of 7 as 8.
'They' for the required definition indicates a plural word.
CLIENTS' stands for CLIENTS'S
Anagram of this gives STENCILS (they are used for duplicating).