ACROSS
7 - Melodramatic hitter, distraught, clutching article on a varnish
resin from the east (10) - THEATRICAL {THE{A}TRI*}{CAL<-}
9 - The king in a falling financial market (4) - CASH [CD]
11 - Vocal European with a bank order for money transfer (6) - CHEQUE (~czech)
12 - Training to get rid of the bridge partners stretched in the tent
(5) - TEPEE TE(-ns+pe}PEE
13 - A chess move described in French, by the way (2,7) - EN PASSANT [DD]
14 - Bizarre facts gathered from what was thrown away (4-3) - CAST-OFF {CAST-{OF}F*}
17 - Salesman returning with the auditor's glasses made of
thermoplastic resin (7) - PERSPEX {PER<-}{SPEX} (~specs)
20 - Done with plans to resolve a problem with the bank balance?
(9) - OVERDRAFT {OVER}{DRAFT}
22 - Controls the committee (5) - PANEL [DD]
25 - A form of frozen water is no alternative to licorice that is
well-cooked (6) - ICICLE LICorICE*
26 - The individual behind Idaho's unity (8) - IDENTITY {ID}{ENTITY}
27 - Jar with seeds was sent back (4) - STUN <-
28 - Plastic that may put you in debt (6,4) - CREDIT CARD [CD]
DOWN
1 - Leading rabbi with a black eye goes up to the temple (6) - SHRINE SH(+r)RINE(-r)
2 - Charlie makes way for a new business suitcase (5) - TRUNK TRU(-c+n)NK
3 - Narrative in which the comptroller fired the worker (7) - ACCOUNT ACCOUNTant
4 - Summoned to secure the bolt in the barrier (8) - BLOCKADE {B{LOCK}ADE}
5 - Locate the entrance (6) - ACCESS [DD]
6 - Communication from the heirs about an African political party
(8) - ISSUANCE {ISSU{ANC}E}
8 - Somali men trained to conceal food (7) - ALIMENT [T]
15 - The devil's not against the popular opinion in reality (8) - ADVOCATE [CD]
16 - Eagerness resulting from NYC fever, maybe? (8) - FERVENCY*
18 - Convulsive listener's stand under the health resort (7) - SPASTIC {SPA}{STIC}(~stick)
19 - Corporate bigwig provided backing with abnormal force outside
(7) - OFFICER {OF{FI<-}CER*}
21 - Disown the disheartened old coward (6) - RECANT RECreANT
23 - Hospital employee's former partner's bird (6) - EXTERN {EX}{TERN}
24 - Claimed Icarus was smuggling in the army doctor (5) - MEDIC [T]
Metal has turned into money:
ReplyDeleteCash, cheque, credit card, account, overdraft, (bank) officer...
9A. Maybe a CD. But I somehow thought that if the king was out of the falling financial market it would be more appropriate.
ReplyDelete"Listener's" stand = STIC(K)? Help me understand please!
ReplyDeletesounds like stick(stand) with listener as indicator
DeleteI am still confounded by 12A. Does "Tense" mean training? And where does PE come from?
ReplyDeletePE means training (Physical education) Tense means stretched. Bridge partners N & S (North and South) are deleted from Tense.
DeleteTrust the rest makes sense now
@Sridhar:
ReplyDeleteTraining to get rid of the bridge partners stretched in the tent (5)
Training - Physical Eudcation (PE)
Bridge partners - (NS)
Stretched - (TENSE)
Tent - TEPEE
That should give you some idea. Your doubt is valid - it is "stretched" that gets rid of NS, but the clue reads as if 'Training' does. Also the replacement indication is absent...
Hi Shyam,
DeleteI think Neyartha intended 'to get rid of' as the replacement indication...as in, PE to get rid of (i.e. dislodge) NS. Agreed that this isn't perfect either, the clue needs to say 'from stretched'.
The articles could do with a relook, too - the surface does not suffer much and the cryptic is improved with: 'Training to get rid of bridge partners stretched in a tent (5)'
auditor is homophone indicator
ReplyDeleteHands up all who, while solving, guess which answers Colonel will provide images for?
ReplyDeleteFood generally gets an image :)
Good observation, Shuchi. I suppose it shows around my waistline :-)
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