No 11838, Saturday 29 Oct 2016, Neyartha

Happy Deepavali

ACROSS

1 Encounters swarm from the east with a disfigured sign (8) MEETINGS {MEET<=}{SIGN*}

5 Incentives after commencement bring unwelcome obligations (6) ONUSES {bONUSES}

9 Fortify retreat as eccentric Aslam goes around with some musical compositions (9) MADRIGALS {ASLAM*} around {GRID<=} {GIRD<=} See comments

11 Heard almost half of Ceylon is getting a synthetic fibre (5) NYLON {~NIGH}{ceyLON}

12 Divert letters from the admirer outed... (7) REROUTE (T)

14 ...by the cunning cowherd to get the thick soup (7) CHOWDER {COWHERD*}

15 Aristocrat seizes strangely wan container for the Frenchman's oil and coal, say (12) NONRENEWABLE {NO{N{RENE}WA*}BLE}

17 Shutting away the queen's tigers after review (12) SEQUESTERING  {QUEEN'S TIGERS}*

20 Trimmed space-suit design presents a favourable sign (7) AUSPICE {sPACESUIt}*

22 Sanitised old record for the church of the holy man (7) ASEPTIC {AS(-ce+EP)IC} {AS(-ce+EP)TIC} See comments

23 In the pan, success might be difficult to reproduce (5) FLASH (CD)

24 Run over to prepare for the warm season, reportedly (9) SUMMARISE {~SUMMERISE}

26 Plan to return notice after shortening the backer's name at the wrong place (6) AGENDA {A(-n)GE(+N)l}{DA<=}

27 Sweet-talk? That is a cover for the Nevada police officer with the Spanish revolutionary (8) INVEIGLE {I{NV}E}{IG}{LE<=}

DOWN

1 Tribute to the storage in a computing system (6) MEMORY (DD)

2 Gift, including almost all of the stock farm, shows the strength... (9) ENDURANCE {ENDU{RANCh}E}

3 ...hidden in the vision of a Pakistani agency (1,1,1) I S I (T)

4 Doctor Green's classes show a lack of co-ordination and elegance (13) GRACELESSNESS {GREEN S CLASSES*}

6 Storage that is unaffected by loss of power? (3-8) NON-VOLATILE (E)

7 Firm's dependable (5) SOLID (DD)

8 Guard's right about providing protection for the books by the king (6) SENTRY {SE{NT}{R}Y<=}

10 Note about knight on watch with the son (a nut) losing the tail of the North Pacific fish (7,6) SOCKEYE SALMON {SO}{C}{K}{EYE} {S{{ALMONd}

13 Desperately hungry peacekeepers attached to New Orleans (old city) are in a single hut (11) UNNOURISHED {UN}{NO}{UR}{I}{SHED}

16 Newton participates in ignition to generate an electric storm (9) LIGHTNING {LIGHT{N}ING}

18 The French get overwhelmed by the Iowa lottery for a palm tree (6) RAFFIA {RAFF(-le+IA)}

19 Plan by the leaders of some conservative Hungarians ends my embarrassment (6) SCHEME (Acrostic)

21 Condition of the son going to the top in appreciation (5) STATE {(+S)TA(-s)TE}

25 One out of a job might have received it (3) AXE (CD)

Reference list

Frenchman=Rene, Old record=EP, Church=CE, Notice=Ad, That is=IE, Nevada=NV, Police Officer=IG, The Spanish=EL
The books=NT (New Testament), King=R (Rex), Note=So, About=C, Knight=K, Son=S, Peacekeepers=UN, New Orleans=NO, Old City=UR, Single=I (One), Newton=N, The French=Le, Iowa=IA

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