Across
7 Fine
offer attracting soldiers to bar (6) FORBID - F (OR) BID - C/C
8 Eagerness
of a councillor uniting ordinary people (8) ALACRITY - Anno to be given by any reader (Addendum - {A}{LA{CR}ITY} - See comments)
9 Uplifting
song with and without a curse (8) ANATHEMA - AN(A)THEM A - C/C cum cha
10 Run from
either side keeping dead straight (6) LADDER - L (DEAD)*R - C/C with anag
11 Temperamental
doctor, oddly absent at intervals (5) MOODY - MO O[d]D[l]Y - Cha with letter picking
12 Permit to
trap local bird (6) LINNET - L(INN)ET - C/C
14 Dilemma
in front of others, not prepared to pledge loyalty in marriage (6,4,5) PLIGHT ONE'S TROTH - PLIGHT (OTHERSNOT)* - Cha with anag
17 Continue
summary (6) RESUME - Two meanings
18 This aunt
gives advice for pain (5) AGONY - AGONY [aunt] - Elliptical
22 Affair
around the palm tree (6) RAFFIA - (AFFAIR)* - Anag
23 Unusual
thing, flying close to sound barrier (4,4) RARE BIRD - Anno to be given by any reader (Addendum - {sounD+BARRIER}* - See comments)
24 Instrument
to cut, trim and also pound (4,4) EDGE TOOL - EDGE TOO L (pound, the currency) - Cha
25 Gradually
collects in area between valleys (6) GLEANS - GLE(A)NS - C/C
Down
1 Sentimental about toy, a decorative figure in straw (4,5) CORN DOLLY - CORN(DOLL)Y - C/C
2 Sailor dined and died - sank (6) ABATED - AB ATE D - Cha
3 Did extremely little at work? (5) IDLED - CD (Addendum - {DID+LittlE}* &lit - See comments)
4 Enterprise sheltering large and small pets (8) DARLINGS - DAR(L)ING S - C/C cum cha
5 One owed praise for cancelling function (8) CREDITOR - CREDIT OR - Cha (Addendum - {CREDIT}{fOR} - See comments)
*** Do you think the def, as it appears, is quite apt?
*** Do you think the def, as it appears, is quite apt?
6 Sheer pace overcoming one in the end (5) STEEP - ST(E)EP - C/C
8 Digital representation of exceptionally rare animal cub? (6,7) ARABIC NUMERAL - RAREANIMALCUB)* - Anag
13 Travelling in time through Tintin comic (9) ITINERANT - ERA in (TINTIN)* - C/C with anag
15 Beasts (howlers) eating bird without wings (8) GIRAFFES - G([b]IR[d])AFFES - C/C with letter picking
16 Person willing to check upcoming duty list (8) TESTATOR - TEST ATOR<- - Cha with rev
19 Spit obstruction in wine glass (6) GOBLET - GOB LET - Cha
20 Helpful, splendid husband for first daughter (5) HANDY - [-D+H]ANDY - Letter sub
Isn't 3D & lit too ? Did + l (ittl)e
ReplyDeleteWell, if you take 'at work' as anag signal, that clue is the clue type "read the clue again for def". Don't ask me if it is &lit, full or semi.
DeleteHowever, most solvers will look at it as a CD.
Only those with some interest or experience in parsing will see anything beyond CD.
This is my humble opinion.
I agree with Shrikanth
DeleteMe too
DeleteUnusual thing, flying close to sound barrier (4,4) {RARE BIR}*{(-soun)D}
ReplyDelete8 A Eagerness of a councillor uniting ordinary people (8) ALACRITY
ReplyDelete{A}{LA{CR}ITY}
8 Eagerness of a councillor uniting ordinary people (8) ALACRITY - Anno to be given by any reader
ReplyDeleteMy take: {A}{LA{CR}ITY} A councillor (CR) uniting broken LAITY.
Sandy has beaten me. :-(
DeleteShe did it with alacrity.
Delete:-)
DeleteKishore, sorry to hear about your problem. Get well soon and get going. Otherwise, we won't have spine.
ReplyDeleteNot meaning to aggravate it, I recalled a mock headline coined by a media colleague a few years ago, when I had a similar complaint.
Richard's Back in Trouble
Better than your getting someone 'in trouble'
DeleteHmmm..! Got what you had in mind. :)
DeleteThings can balloon up without a balloon too...
Delete5 One owed praise for cancelling function (8) CREDITOR - CREDIT OR - Cha
ReplyDeleteThis is I think: CREDIT (-f)OR. If I owed money am I a debtor or Creditor? CAs/ auditors like the setter may answer
'One who is owed' should have been OK.
DeleteThese responses confirm my doubt.
DeleteRaghunath, thanks for your parsing which indeed is better.
I took 'for' as a connector and 'cancelling function' as OR as in men or women, humans or animals. But that is rather far-fetched.
Happy to have keen readers looking at these annos carefully and setting them right if warranted.
Apart from the anno, I did not think the setter would use 'for' as a connector. As a link between def and WP is fine
DeleteRe comment at 18A. What is 'elliptical'?
ReplyDeleteDic says it also means concise, terse, compact etc.
DeleteThe term is 'agony aunt'.
ReplyDeleteWhen the clue writer has this in mind and writes a clue not for the phrase as a whole but rather for AUNT with just an intimation for the preceding word - expecting you to pluck the word 'agony' from the air as it were, I use the classification 'elliptical'.
Something missed out, so to speak.
A dict meaning for elliptical is "using few words".
Could 'Tangential' describe it better?
DeleteDD/CD; agony = pain
DeleteAll annotations come to me even as I read these clues.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it happens that that just doesn't happen.
It is at such times that I, without scratching my head or staring at the space or waiting for the spark to fall from the early morning sky, I leave it to my gentle, learned readers to step in.
Sir, with due respect, we are not learned readers, .... reading learners might be more apt
Delete21D- Is it 'Drugs'- substituting U for E? 'Medicines' has been indicated as Def. Also, 'Grounds' has to be 'Dregs'.
ReplyDeleteDefinition corrected
DeleteThank you Col. Now clarified. I seem to have mixed up the two.
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