Saturday 23 March 2019

No 12581, Saturday 23 Mar 2019, Lightning


Across

1. Force leaderless, depressed cricket side to bat again (6,2) FOLLOW ON {F}{hOLLOW} {ON} Anno correct? Depressed=Hollow? See comments
5. Fearful of a fine, search by police (6) AFRAID {A}{F}{RAID}
9. Somehow I regret holding second record (8) REGISTER {I+REGRET*} around {S}
10. Ailment curtailed a river animal (6) COUGAR {COUGh}{A}{R}
12. Heat source sent back? Overwhelming energy charges (5) RATES {STAR<=} around {E}
13. Sailor cop busted at citadel (9) ACROPOLIS {SAILOR+COP*}
14. Knock down every other steel sword in tent (6) TEEPEE  {sTeEl}{EPEE}
16. Shiny decoration is grand waste (7) GLITTER {G}{LITTER}
19. Theft of large bow at eastern New York (7) LARCENY {L}{ARC}{E}{NY}
21. Leaders of third unit entering den on the way back for ceremony (6) RITUAL {LAIR<=} around {Third}{Unit}
23. Ordinary lines come almost broken up by punctuation mark (9) SEMICOLON {O+LINES+COMe*}
25. Passage in a land surrounded by water (5) AISLE {A}{ISLE}
26. Appeal by insurers covering area in leaning type (6) ITALIC {IT}{A}{LIC}
27. Millions participating in firm and direct protest (8) COMPLAIN {CO}{M}{PLAIN}
28. Penguin easily dwells in this country (6) GUINEA (T)
29. Intern he corrected is essential (8) INHERENT {INTERN+HE*}

Down

1. Commotion in messages, you are breaking at the front (6) FURORE {F{U R}ORE}
2. Astronomical unit of trivial period of our orbit (5-4) LIGHT YEAR {LIGHT}{YEAR}
3. Water source ordinary and without warranty (5) OASIS {O}{AS IS}
4. Missing primary drug recipe, had to run (7) OPERATE {dOPE}{R}{ATE}
6. One could stomp this to impress and get space for resources (9) FOOTPRINT {FOOT}{PRINT}
7. A new member backing early stage investor (5) ANGEL {A}{N}{LEG<=}
8. At first extremely sorry, I’d become insulting (8) DERISORY{Extremely+SORRY+I'D*}
11. Boast about clothing (4) BRAG {GARB<=}
15. Order public relations secretary to restrain engineer (9) PRESCRIBE {PR}{E}{SCRIBE}
17. Convert lean start for a change (9) TRANSLATE {LEAN+START*}
18. Boon bowled without batting glove to begin with (8) BLESSING {B}{LESS}{IN}{Glove}
20. American university withheld many alerts (4) YALE (T)
21. Operated with hired thug at former capital (7) RANGOON {RAN}{GOON}
22. Place protecting each new source of oil (6) PEANUT {P{EA}{N}UT}
24. I’m coming back twice to go around a port city (5) MIAMI {I'M<=}{A}{I'M<=}
25. Plenty of core specimens (5) AMPLE {sAMPLEs}

Reference List


Force=F, Fine=F, Second=S, River=R, Energy=E, Grand=G, Large=L, Eastern=E, New York=NY, Ordinary=O, Appeal=It, Insurers=LIC, Area=A, Millions=M, Firm=Co
Recipe=R, New=N, Public Relations=PR, Engineer=E, Bowled=B, Batting=In. Each=Ea

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10 comments:

  1. +1 for 1a anno. Hollow "a depressed or low part of a surface
    especially : a small valley or basin"

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    1. Hollow = Depression. Not sure if depressed can be taken as hollow

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    2. Intended anno was hollow == depressed. Had checked this with online chambers just to be sure: https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=hollow&title=21st

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  2. Typical Lightning puzzle. Crisp clues.

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  3. Some really nice surfaces. Thanks VP!

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  4. 28. Penguin easily dwells in this country (6) 
    20. American university withheld many alerts (4) 

    Telescopic indicator placed wrongly ?

    28. Fodder dwells in answer or Answer dwells in fodder ?
    20. Answer withheld fodder or fodder withheld answer ?

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  5. 28. Penguin easily dwells in this country (6)
    Put a word divider | after easily and in.
    The middle section 'dwells in' looks back.
    Not much of a prob IMO.

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