Saturday 20 February 2021

No 13176, Saturday 20 Feb 2021, Gridman

Across

 7 Cast off top of silo — see, it’s disgusting (6) SLOUGH {Silo}{LO}{UGH}
8 Omit // to jump too much? (8) OVERSKIP (DD)
9 Without being seen, a French ped’s collapsed over one (8) UNESPIED {UNE}{PEDS*} over {I}
10 Country is for real revolutionary (6) ISRAEL {IS}{REAL*}
11 Pass by old girl leaning backreally large (8) COLOSSAL {COL}{O}{LASS<=}
13 Calm down everybody at the far limits of bay (5) ALLAY {ALL}{bAY}
14 Every consignment, given credit at first, will pass fully (4,3,3,5) TICK ALL THE BOXES {TICK}{ALL}{THE BOXES}
17 Superhuman boy leaves a Greek order (5) IONIC {bIONIC}
19 Disappear after pocketing a diamond in an adventure (8) ESCAPADE {ESCAP{A}{D}E}
21 Apprehended for the bed, say (6) CAUGHT {~COT}
22 Rats! Game’s spoilt by big celebrity (8) MEGASTAR {RATS+GAME*}
24 Breads in pieces — have to press on! (4,4) BEAR DOWN {BREAD*}{OWN}
25 Demand fellows, leaving out first of them, to follow (6) ENTAIL {mEN}{TAIL}

Down

1 Style borrowed from Melania (4) ELAN (T)
2 Good to remove part of rifle (8) GUNSTOCK {G}{UNSTOCK}
3 In which presidents of meetings sit, no doubt (6) CHAIRS (CD)
4 Fine food shop with choice bit of old (8) DELICATE {DELI}{CATE} Anno thanks to Col.
5 Of the stars in a past rally (6) ASTRAL (T)
6 S u s t a i n e d? (6,4) WIDELY HELD (Rebus type clue, Sustained=Held, with extra spacing=>Widely Held)
8 Might he relate a rags-to-riches story later? (3,7,3) OLD CLOTHES MAN (CD)
12 Begins a rite — go in happily with saint (10) ORIGINATES {A+RITE+GO+IN*}{S}
15 See action unfolding in place (8) LOCATION {LO}{ACTION*}
16 Against work at river area (8) OPPOSITE {OP}{PO}{SITE}
18 One newspaper with a piece of news is up in Andhra Pradesh town (6) NAGARI {I}{RAG}{A}{News}<=
20 Fancy benign, sweet conclusions by bird (6) CYGNET {fanCY}{beniGN}{sweET}

23 A cricket teams turning point (4) AXIS {A}{XI}{S}

Reference List

See=Lo, A French=Une, One=I, Pass=Col, Old=O, Boy=B, Diamond=D
Good=G, Saint=S, See=Lo, Work=Op, River=Po, One=I, Newspaper=Rag, Cricket team=XI

Colour/Font Scheme

DefinitionSolutionComponent lettersEmbedded linksTheme word Reference list word, Anagram IndicatorC/C indicatorReversal IndicatorHidden word IndicatorLetter Pick indicatorDeletion IndicatorHomophone IndicatorMovement IndicatorPositional IndicatorSubstitution, IndicatorOpposite indicatorLink/Connector, Extraneous

 


5 comments:

  1. Nice puzzle! Widely held was nicely done.

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  2. Very nice puzzle. My favourites are widely held and tick all the boxes.

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  3. A doubt. 19A without 'after' and 3D without 'no doubt', won't the clues still make sense?

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    1. Yes. But what the setter thought at that time,only he can tell

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