Sunday 1 December 2019

Special, Sunday 01 Dec 2019, Doppelganger (Repeat)


Repeating CW No 3 from Doppelganger (without any changes so there will be goofups in the cluing) as I am out of stock of specials.

Three answers per commenter till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please submit all your answers in one comment.


Starred clues are undefined but they belong to the same category.

ACROSS
1*   Rubbished, rubbish versus operation (7)
5    Stand for a torpid doctor (6)
11  Adhere to second mark (5)
12  Entangled with governor of unusual size (8)
13* Manipulate second (9)
14  Gatherings of many key aliens (5)
15  Third power of a rookie? Ecstasy (4)
17* …if Spanish reversed jargon (7)
21* Confused priests (7)
22  Territory in the Far East (4)
26  Commanding Officer at one is an animal (5)
27* I’ll enter a highway (9)
29  Nursing home has a Scotsman doctor (9)
30  Scratches initial codes and rules (5)
31  Topless wide open shelter (6)
32* … likewise in the scheme (7)

DOWN
2    Feeling sorry ab initio, restraint ultimately is not good (5)
3    Aggressive sea raider provides victory for a ruler (6)
4    Port in Belgium unexpectedly attacked (6)
6*  Social order went without us (8)
7    Drive mechanism has support of modeller who isn’t fashionable (9)
8    Pastry is hard and flaky (6)
9    Soul of German city’s chief engineer (7)
10  Titus, you and I manufacture divers gear (7)
16* Club reserves an animal (9)
18* Princesses’ perception (8)
19  Brittle material mixed cream over a cocotte first (7)
20  Music for plays organised within the company (7)
23  Two upcoming accountants flying erstwhile airlines made Gum Arabic (6)
24  Flat, rational without severe punishment (6)
25  The Spanish in charge with appeal to arouse (6)

Acrosss Lite version can be accessed at DOPPELGANGER 3

Enjoy.

26 comments:

  1. 5a: TRIPOD (TORPID)*
    22A: AREA (T)
    25D: ELICIT (EL)(IC)(IT)

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  2. REPLACEMENTS:
    26A: CLAWS {C}{LAWS}
    11A: STICK {S}{TICK}

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  3. 10D) WETSUIT - (TITUS+WE)*
    19D) CERAMIC - (CREAM)*(I)(C)
    15A) CUBE - (CUB)(E)

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  4. 6d REGIMENT REGIME+ (-we)NT
    7d PROPELLER PROP+(-mod)ELLER
    14A M E ETS

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  5. 2D- Ruing- Feeling sorry
    Initial letters of restr...ult... is not good

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  6. My third-
    9D- Essence-Soul
    German city- Essence
    Chief engineer- CE

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  7. 16D Club reserves an animal (9)
    Battalion ( Not defined, theme word related to army)
    Bat is Club
    TA are the Reserve forces
    Lion is animal

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  8. 27A I’ll enter a highway (9)
    Artillery (another theme word)
    I'll enters Artery(highway)

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  9. 32A … likewise in the scheme (7)
    Platoon ( Yet another theme word)
    Too(Likewise) inside Plan(Scheme)

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  10. 29ac clinician clinic+Ian
    23dn acacia ac ac (ca) Ian
    11ac stick s(econd) tick(mark)

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  11. 13a ENGINEERS {ENGINEER+S} Another theme word.
    24d ATONAL {RATIONAL-RI}
    28d ERATO {ERA}{TO}

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  12. Clue 28Down missing in the blog but available in Across Lite version.

    The clue is TIME TO MUSE (5)

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  13. A 1,12,17,21,31
    D 3,4,8,18
    YET TO BE

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  14. 17A SIGNALS if=si, slang<=
    18d DI VISION PRINCESSES VISIONS dI'S VISION
    4D STONED ostend* indirect anag

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  15. The remaining:
    12A: OVERGROWN (W+GOVERNOR)*
    21A: STRIPES (PRIESTS)*
    31A: (-y)AWNING
    3D: V I KING
    8D: DANISH (IS H AND)*

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  16. Unable to annotate 1A. Anybody else can take that and close.

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