Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment
ACROSS
1 Father concealing deceit ultimately backs risky speculations (6)
4 Criticize harshly! Shocking to grab single female (7)
8 Summon strike first and run riot (7)
9 Girl with evidence backing dissident (7)
11 Singer, endlessly conceited, lousy in circuit (10)
12 Mountaineers plausibly keep going around mountains (4)
13 Forgetting name, relatives recollect unusual but friendly form of address (5)
14 Largely overindulge devouring a lot, possibly leading to this? (8)
16 Take a bath perhaps and be overtly flirtatious? (3,5)
18 Mockery! Bit unfair on youngster (5)
20 Swimmer beginning to accelerate in concluding event (4)
21 Business associate admits debt is on a massive scale (10)
23 Plans to hide his reckless misadventures (7)
24 Ace by wife captures king, finally making contract (7)
25 Utter...utter radio silence (4,3)
26 Grain given by sailors in barge (6)
DOWN
1 Right to take in student showing talent (5)
2 How poet introduced himself? Shut up! (7)
3 A character chasing girl in skirt! That's nonsense (9)
5 Take away suspicious parcel unopened (5)
6 Top arts centre renovated to stage a past event (7)
7 Shallowness and impertinence by Trump finally breaks illusion (9)
10 Jump to embrace maiden with body that's a stunner (9)
13 What one might do with champagne bottle to delay action? (4,2,3)
15 Possible to disregard old boy crushed by weapon that is thrown (9)
17 Fellow flogged and shot (7)
19 Victory for Republican! Speech gets applause (7)
21 Caught pair cavorting in Italian island (5)
22 Allowed princely leader to change sides (5)
Across Lite version can be accessed at IXL 18 Final 2
Enjoy.
22d -R +L EGAL
ReplyDelete6d: reenact (a+centre)*
ReplyDelete17D O -R +V ATION
ReplyDelete5d: clear {(-p)arcel}*
ReplyDelete1D F (L) AIR
ReplyDelete16A:GET FRESH DD
ReplyDelete20A COD A
17D F LASHED
21d: Capri (c+pair)*
ReplyDelete12A : Mountaineers plausibly keep going around mountains (4) ALPS [T]<=
ReplyDelete23A : Plans to hide his reckless misadventures (7) MISHAPS {M{ISH*}APS}
24A : Ace by wife captures king, finally making contract (7) ABRIDGE {A}{BRID[G]E}
24A Anno : {A}{BRID[-kinG]E}
Delete23ac mishaps (m(his)*aps)
ReplyDelete6dn reenact A(rts)+(centre)*
1dn flair f(l)air
2D How poet introduced himself? Shut up! (7)
ReplyDeleteImpound meaning to confine or shut up
Ezra Pound the poet would introduce himself as I'M Pound
13D What one might do with champagne bottle to delay action? (4,2,3)
ReplyDeleteKeep on Ice A cryptic Definition of what you might do with the bubbly to produce the "Champagne" effect.
There is more to this.
DeleteIt is a DD.
"What one might do with champagne bottle"
"to delay action"
25A Utter...utter radio silence (4,3)
ReplyDeleteDead Air
Another Cryptic and Imaginative Definition A dead 'Air' is the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.
I loved this puzzle a lot.
There is again something more in this clue.
DeleteUtter=Dead
the space given by ... denotes air.
Utter radio silence is the definition.
This one beat all the contestants on stage and was picked up by Junior Champ Kumaresh Ramakrishnan, who was sitting next to me:)
DeleteCorrection Second utter=air(like in to air one's view)
DeleteRadio silence is definition.
8AC RAM PAGE
ReplyDelete9AC HER ETIC<=
13AC KI[-n] DDO<=
3dn rigmarole ri(g)m+a+role
ReplyDelete11a: troubadour(singer) - {t(p̷roud̷)+(bad=lousy)our=circuit}
ReplyDelete1a: fliers(risky sp...) - [f(lie=deceit)r+b̷a̷c̷k̷s}
15d O MISSI(B)LE
ReplyDelete21A (CO)(LOSS)(ALLY)
14A bloating (A LOT)* in BING(-e)
26ac kernel ke(rn)el
ReplyDeleteSailor-rn
Barge-keel
7dn flippancy
ReplyDeleteF(lip+p)ancy
21a: colossally(massive) - co(loss=debt)+ally(associate)
ReplyDelete10d: bombshell(stunner) - {bo(ma̷i̷d̷e̷n̷)b+shell(body)}
ReplyDelete1a&18a unsolved. Can I send
ReplyDeleteHad a good meeting at Chennai with CV, Bhavan, Bhargav, Bhala, Paddy, Ramki, Sudarsan. Photographs will be uploaded tomorrow in the THCC Families blog
ReplyDeleteYay! Still 2 left for me!
ReplyDelete4A SCAR(I + F)Y
18A IRONY (hidden)
I really liked 25A and the surface reading of 5D.
--Fraser
1a: scarify(cri....harshly) - {scar(i)(f)y=shocking)
ReplyDelete18a: irony(T)
There are too many of these distracting intruders in the blog of crosswords! Is the Col aware ? Do they pay for these ?
ReplyDeleteToday ‘s crossword is of a very high standard indeed! Today in this town with sub-zero , temperature, we had a total power outage leaving us cold , reminiscent of India !For nine hours, a second time in a fortnight!Managed to complete late night, fully warmed up!