ACROSS
1 - Could they make stumbling wigeons stutter? Difficult to say
(6,8) - TONGUE TWISTERS*
8 - Noble time of the year (6) - AUGUST [DD]
9 - Plates and saucers, for use in apartments only? (8) - FLATWARE {FLAT}{WARE}
11 - Assistance for half of Rome included in new pageant (9) - PATRONAGE {PAT{ROme}NAGE*}
12 - The best part of Portuguese literature (5) - ELITE [T]
13 - Journalist following old tennis star was turned out (7) - EVERTED {EVERT}{ED}
15 - Surfeit, for example, engulfing union beginning to tire (7) - SATIETY {SA{TIE}{T}Y}
17 - Relative, daughter, substituting article in anagram somehow
(7) - GRANDMA (-a+d)DNAGRAM*
19 - Dark red wheel parts carried by swindler (7) - CRIMSON {C{RIMS}ON}
21 - Cheerful deception (5) - BLUFF [DD]
23 - Machinery to provide people with time (9) - EQUIPMENT {EQUIP}{MEN}{T}
25 - Faraway settlements to spot sun whirling? Not new (8) - OUTPOSTS {TO+SPOT+SUn}*
26 - The one with no choice (6) - BEGGAR [CD]
27 - Mysterious but ardent clan sent scurrying? (14) - TRANSCENDENTAL*
DOWN
1 - Flatten models' walkway left in the outskirts of Tennessee
(7) - TRAMPLE {Tenn{RAMP}L}esseE}
2 - Drink tossed up: high tension follows in the dark hours (5) - NIGHT {NIG<-}{HT}
3 - Not noticed, not marked (9) - UNSPOTTED [DD]
4 - Ailment afflicting one student and another on the cape (7) - ILLNESS {I}{L}{L}{NESS}
5 - Tenth part of an object covered in article (5) - TITHE {T{IT}HE}
6 - Boy scout's state (9) - READINESS [CD]
10 - Part of a hospital in big conflict, beginning of disaster
(4) - WARD {WAR}{D}
14 - Our valet, last in suburbia, trained as a judge of the worth of
things (9) - EVALUATOR {OUR+VALET+A}*
16 - Coming at the end of a chapter it casts a shadow on truce, we
hear (9) - TAILPIECE {TAIL}{PIECE}(~tale peace)
17 - Small ape makes grand exit from troubled Brobdingnag (6) - GIBBON BrOBdINGnag*
18 - A good man, one hundred, holds record for being free from germs
(7) - ASEPTIC {A}{S{EP}T}{I}{C}
19 - What you are reading now! (4) - CLUE [CD]
20 - An obvious choice? Not surprising (7) - NATURAL [DD]
22 - The French have a disapproving look (5) - FROWN {FR}{OWN}
24 - Disease of rye? So begin treatment (5) - ERGOT {ERGO}{T}
There it is- a nice smooth flowing one (though I still missed a few) and no comments! An interesting week in prospect!
ReplyDeleteBack to Sankalak after a long time, and he has not disappointed. I see a change in style too, has become a bit more cryptic than it used to be
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