1 Lover's lost love in European capital (4) ROME ROME
3 Leaders, real idiots, in dissaray (10) EDITORIALS* Disarray misspelt!!
10 Agree to study mould (7) CONFORM {CON}{FORM}
11 I name magazine that's current (2,5) IN VOGUE {I}{N} {VOGUE}
12 Substantially surrounded by German city church (2,7) IN ESSENCE {IN} {ESSEN}{CE}
13 Celebrity, first in training to jump (5) START {STAR}{T}
14 Extremely happy, nun once idol destroyed (2,5,4) ON CLOUD NINE*
18 Stable in eastern walled city (11) CONSTANTINE {CONSTANT}{IN}{E}
21 Decline drinks, say (5) LAPSE (~laps)
22 Thinking back, criminal hid things (9) HINDSIGHT*
23 Check on fatality by entrance to Stormont Castle (7) SCHLOSS {S}{CH}{LOSS}
25 Cool enough? (10) SATISFYING [DD]
26 Male part shortened (4) STAG STAG
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1 Flinch in fear on bend (6) RECOIL {RE}{COIL}
2 Bodyguard died in pit on top of ridge (6) MINDER {MIN{D}E}{R}
4 Sister in party dress can (9) DOMINICAN {DO}{MINI}{CAN}
5 What some northerners eat is rubbish (5) TRIPE [DD] Why northerners?
6 Reading this may get one over sin, might we deduce? (7,7) REVISED VERSION {REVISED} {OVER+SIN}* Semi&lit
7 Cooked, covered with breadcrumbs, I turn Aga off (2,6) AU GRATIN*
8 Tapes wound round small garden plant (5,3) SWEET PEA {S{WEE}T PEA*}
9 Favouritism in the workplace that does not extend to girls? (4,3,3,4) JOBS FOR THE BOYS [C&DD]
15 Bulbs kept initially in paper (9) ONIONSKIN {ONIONS}{K}{IN}
16 Old copper writes down eye specialists (8) OCULISTS {O}{CU}{LISTS}
17 Flares up over recently stolen photograph (8) SNAPSHOT {SNAPS<=}{HOT}
19 Horrified at hag's concoction (6) AGHAST*
20 Prison camp over in Bengal, at Siliguri (6) STALAG <=
22 Muscular dog (5) HUSKY [DD]
5 What some northerners eat is rubbish (5) TRIPE [DD] Why northerners?
ReplyDeleteTripe and Onions is a speciality dish of Lancashire (North England)
Special at 10:30 by new setter Troy
ReplyDeleteTRIPE: parts of the stomach of a cow or sheep, used as food. Possibly a dish, prepared using Tripe, by the Scots.
ReplyDelete17 Flares up over recently stolen photograph (8) SNAPSHOT {SNAPS<=}{HOT}
Why SNAPS<= ? Snaps : Flares up.
I too thought of the Scots and haggis wrt the northerners. Calling their food rot is no way to encourage them to remain in the UK!
ReplyDeleteRemember the def. of 'Oats' supposedly by Johnson- "Food for horses in England and men in Scotland"! Englishmen are probably notorious for such comments.
Delete1 Lover's lost love in European capital (4) I first put it as OSLO (OS+L+O)
ReplyDeleteSo did I and got lost!
ReplyDeleteBut how does the anno work even if it's OSLO?
DeleteIt does not. I was searching for it all the time. I could not not get 1 & 2 Dn. I am not sure which is the cause and which effect?
ReplyDeleteLover's lost love in European capital (4) OS for lovers LO from lost? could be a Neyarthan or Enjay's trick? Good decoy, though. If 9 out of 10 solvers had put in OSLO, the compiler can chuckle in his sleeves !! Yuk Yuk !!
ReplyDeleteGood crossie that should be tried by all the bloggers. I, for one, was on 14 across after solving this ! Why aren't they visiting this every Sunday?