Sunday, 13 March 2022

Special, Sunday 13 Mar 2022, Veeyares

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VEEYARES 11

By Veeyares
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Exolve Print Notes Jotter Ⓒ Veeyares & THCC

Across
1Growing bacteria, a way of life (7)
5Fancy old miss (5)
9With rum, returning husband noticed sweetheart hiding in disguise (9)
10Journalist to get him (5)
12Check the shower, as told (4)
13Agreement to include mess building estimate (10)
15Husband aghast about number sign (7)
16Awfully tempting model sent away to get paint (7)
17Attend to delivery (7)
19Read in article from East featuring family of amphibians (7)
21Directed by Supreme Court, entering race. It is put in writing (10)
23When India initially aspired to become a great landmass (4)
25Oddly admin sick of dance music (5)
26Pile ordered into gentle slope finally giving rise to garden pest (9)
27Different shirt, hero worried (5)
28Answers not about lawsuits (7)

Down
2Joins world body provided liaison not starting before first September (7)
3Bristle with irate emotions inside (4)
4Apportions again motives entertaining limited suggestion where nothing existed (9)
6Insist on deputy to get journalist (5,5)
7Present at this place? Quite the opposite (7)
8First ever article about second person in olden times (4)
9Kind of reward he at the end of exam managed (11)
11Mark day when threatened denying right to play (4,3,4)
14Article in unbound book on room for Instrument (10)
16Curvaceous funny labor cap worn by setter (9)
18No more place for the unflagging (4,3)
20Figure out tale, get credentials in exchange (7)
22Diagram printed showing slope (4)
24Bird starts to kill indiscriminately wandering insects (4)

Enjoy.

61 comments:

  1. 1a CULTURE (DD)
    2d TEEM; bristle (T)
    12a REIN; check; ~rain

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  2. 12A REIN ~RAIN
    23A AS I A
    22D RAMP T

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  3. Substitute for 12A
    24D KIWI Acrostic

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  4. 2d - UNIFIES - joins
    UN (world body) + if (provided)+ ie (liaison (t)ie) + sept 1st

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  5. 24dn kiwi (acrostic)
    16ac pigment (tempting-t) *
    25ac disco aDmIn SiCk Of

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  6. 9dn - WARMHEARTED
    (reward+ he +at+m)*

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  7. 15ac - HASHTAG - Number sign
    H + (aghast)*

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  8. 16d PARABOLIC: curvaceous
    (Labor cap I(setter))*

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  9. 4d REASSIGNS SIG(n) inside REAS(-o)NS
    21a TRANSCRIBE
    SC inside T(RAN)RIBE

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  10. 9a WHITEWASH
    WITH* +(H+SAW+E)<
    E fron swEet

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  11. 5ac OPINE: fancy
    O(old) PINE(miss)

    6d PRESS AGENT;
    PRESS( insist) DEPUTY(agent): journalist

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  12. Excellent Puzzle. Favourites were 18D and 11D.

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    1. +1; Another great thing about this crossy is that the answers are not a challenge to ones vocabulary.

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  13. 7d : NOWHERE (NOW HERE)
    27s : OTHER (T+HERO)*
    28a : ACTIONS (REACTIONS - RE) About = Re

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  14. Very nice grid. Agree with JB. No need to google.

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  15. 21ac & 16dn- my favourites

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  16. Late entry and enjoying the solve. Any idea what is left- so I may not repeat.

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  17. Lovely Sunday fare! Thank you Veeyares!

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  18. 10ac, 17ac, 19ac remaining

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  19. 11dn, 20dn, 18dn

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  20. 13A- Assessment-Estimate- ASS(ESSM)*ent
    Assent is agreement.
    I liked it and I hope it is not done so far.

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  21. 17A- Delivery- DD- Attend to/ Address.
    Simple! Nothing extra.

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  22. 17ac.ADDRESS..DD
    18d. DEAD SET..DD

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  23. My third-
    10A- Edwin- Him
    Ed- Journalist
    To get- Win

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  24. Replacement
    20d.. DISCERN..CREDENTIALS * MINUS TALE

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  25. Replacement
    19ac RANIDAE..READ IN* A(article)

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  26. Thank YOU Veeyares. Had a good time.

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  27. Only 11dn left

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  28. If I'm not mistaken only 11d remaining

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  29. 11D NOTE THE DATE {TH(-r)EATENEDTO}*

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  30. Doc.always has the last word!!

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  31. A man told his friend that he always has the last word in any argument with his wife. His friend was surprised and asked him about the secret. He said," Whatever she says after that is the start of the next!"

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