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ACROSS
9 Concerns watches (8) LOOKOUTS [DD]
10 Get old Tory schooled! He's outdated! (10) TROGLODYTE*
11 Pardoned, a royal left and belted! (4) SPED SParED
12 Half of bee-houses at Capital of Samoa (4) APIA APIAries
13 It is about hearing waves (5) AUDIO [CD]
14 Role model, some heroic one! (4) ICON [T]
16 Charm a model with finesse, overcoming initial resistance (7) ATTRACT {A}{T}{T{Re...e}ACT}
17 One in almost identical state, earlier (4) SIAM {S{1}AMe}
20 Bird sound, almost sentimental (4) TWEE TWEEt
21 Theoretical objective, Proust often ignored (4) PURE {PURposE}
23 Disadvantage of large replica (10) LIMITATION {L}{IMITATION}
26 In favour of 'backwards' being kept in abyss for personal gain (6) PROFIT {P{FOR<=}IT}
DOWN
1 Dancing! Its rules trip you behind closed doors! (15) SURREPTITIOUSLY*
2 Quietly trail similar works, dropping line, lifting secretly (10) PLAGIARISM {P}{LAG}{SIMIlAR}*
3 Become aware of loony toon (4) ONTO*
4 Deployed large decoy, caused weariness by excessive pleasure! (6) CLOYED {L+DECOY}*
5 Interesting! They (not English) wrote on blunders! (10) NOTEWORTHY {THeY+WROTE+ON}*
6 Sounds of bull or tailless deer (4) MOOS MOOSe
7 Southern hero is real Scot! Free of sickness of heart! (15) ATHEROSCLEROSIS {S+HERO+IS+RAEL+SCOT}*
13 Liquidate girl, one greeting dead! (10) ANNIHILATE {ANN}{1}{HI}{LATE}
14 One's right! Sex in quota is pain! (10) IRRITATION {1}{R}{R{IT}ATION}
19 These beautiful girls love its starting for hypnotism (6) NYMPHS [CA] {NYMPHS+O+ITS}* Seems to be an error in the clue. How is T deleted?
22 Where in essence is our new currency? (4) EURO {whEre}{OUR*}
24 Spit out clues (4) TIPS*
Reference List
New = N, Royal = R, Model = T, Large = L, Quietly = P, Line = L, English = E, Southern = S,Rigyt = R, Sex = IT
8a:
ReplyDeleteDefinition is "Capital"
DUBLIN {BUILD*}{N} ("fancy" is anagrind)
12a:
Definition is "Capital of Samoa"
APIA (first half of "APIARIES", bee houses)
17a: SIAM
Definition is "state, earlier"
One = I
Almost Identical = SAMe (without the e)
SIAM = An earlier name Thailand
13d:
Definition is "Liquidate"
Girl = ANN
one = I
greeting = HI
dead = LATE
{ANN}{I}{HI}{LATE}
22d:
Where in essence = E, the central letter, or "essence" of the word "Where"
"New" is anagrind for the letters OUR
{E}{OUR*} = EURO
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👍 Swift and neat.
Delete1d. Anagram of "its rules trip you ", gives surreptitiously which is behind closed doors.
ReplyDelete4d. Large(l) and decoy , gives you cloyed.
26a. Abuse is pit.in favor is for. Hence you get profit which is personal gain.
10a. Anagram of jumbled get old tory gives you troglodyte , which is updated.
13d. Girl is Ann, one greeting is ih,dead is late. Hence to liquidate is to annihilate.
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Relook 26A.
Delete10a. Sorry for the slip it's outdated. Typo.
ReplyDeleteTypo in 26a also
Delete1 d Surreptitiously is from anagram of its rules trip you
ReplyDelete14a icon contained in heroIC ONe
15a Xijiang is the river you get from connecting the leaders XI Jingpin and JIANG Zemin
ReplyDelete23A. {L}{IMITATION}
ReplyDelete25A. ELRITCH. {ThEiR + CHILD}*
18A. {H{AND}Y}
9A. LOOKOUTS [DD]
5D. NOTEWORTHY. {TH-eY + WROTE ON}*
Typo in 25a. The enumeration is (8)
DeleteYes ELDRITCH
Delete21a PURE: theoretical
ReplyDeletePURPOSE( objective) - POS( PrOuSt: often ignored) gives PURE
2D Quietly trail similar works, dropping line, lifting secretly (10)
ReplyDeletePLAGIARISM - lifting secretly
{p}{lag}{simi (-l)ar}*
quietly - p
trail - lag
line - l
dropping - Del. Ind.
works - Anind
14Dn IRRITATION - {I}{R}{R{IT}ATION}
ReplyDelete2d PLAGIARISM; lifting secretly: P LAG (SIMILIAR-L)*
ReplyDeletesubstitute for 2d
ReplyDelete11a SPED; belted; sp(-a)(-r)ed
Replacement
ReplyDelete16A Charm a model with finesse, overcoming initial resistance (7)
ATTRACT - charm
{a}{t}{tact} over {r}
a - a
model - t
finesse - tact
initial reasoning - r
overcoming - Cont. Ind.
13.a it is about hearing waves
ReplyDeleteAudio
[CD]?
Delete6d, sound of bull = moos
ReplyDeleteTailless deer = moose (-e)
20a, sentimental = twee
(Tweet - t), bird sound almost
13a, role model = icon (T)
18a, helpful = handy
Extremely homely = hy
[ h (and )y]
3d become aware = onto
Toon*
7D
ReplyDeleteSickness of heart:atherosclerosis.
Anagram of S(outhern)heroisrealscot
Free:anagrind.
Easy for Doctor, difficult for us!
Delete20A- Twee- Almost Tweet (Bird sound)- Sentimental
ReplyDelete24d TIPS = Clues
ReplyDeleteAnagram of spit, out anind
19d remains to be solved
ReplyDelete19D NYMPHS are beautiful girls, Nymphs + o+ its gives hypnotism
ReplyDeleteNymphs*
Delete@ Chandrasekhar
Deletes occurs twice whereas hypnotism has only one s.
19D-Nymphs-these beautiful girls; Starting for means departing Hypnotism minus o(love) and its
ReplyDeleteAnagrind missing?Unless hypnotism itself is an anagrind!
ReplyDelete@ N. Sridhar
ReplyDeleteWhen you remove 'o' and 'its' from hypnotism, where do you get the letter s from to pluralise nymph
Hypnotism minus o and its will give nymph
ReplyDeleteIt is Hypnotism- O- it (not its)
ReplyDeleteThat is what Chandrasekar was trying to explain.
Only way it can work is to interpret starting as 'it' of 'its'.
Starting of ITS will be Just I and not IT
DeleteIn the good olden days it would have been a printers devil.(' misspelt!).
DeleteI think it's it's.
(is) starting is anind.
"I think it's it's" ????
Delete.... love it's starting for hypnotism
Delete@Paddy
ReplyDeleteIn his annotation, he has added. o and its to nymphs giving rise to the occurrence of s twice. That's why I was misled.
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ReplyDelete26A in favour of (for) backwards - rof
ReplyDeleteIn abyss - pit
Personal gain - p(rof)it
Good one.
Delete24d - TIPS* anagram of SPIT
ReplyDeletebit doubt in reverse indicator as out. the answer gives in reverse too.
DeleteSPIT<----
perceived that 'spit out' . hence, to get 'in' by reverse indicator (out). Hence, my take is TIPS<----
ReplyDeleteignore my post 13:23. no anagram.
Yes,out is the reversal indicator.
ReplyDeleteThank you Paddy sir......coz, this puzzle has only 3 indicators. def., reverse indicator and fodder. So, setter well done the word play here.
Delete13a DD?
ReplyDeleteRelated to hearing//wave
audio wave is the vibration of air molecules, which is how sound travels.
Lot of words required googling after filling like TROGLODYTE, ATHEROSCLEROSIS, ELDRITCH.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise fairly easy grid from Vidwan.
My cod - XIJIANG, PLAGIARISM, IRRITATION.
Thanx