ACROSS
8 Useless house next to setter's residence (4) HOME {HOuse}{ME}
9 Banished person from old French island (5) EXILE {EX}{ILE}
10 Just light coloured (4) FAIR [DD]
11 It contains new device to blow air for toddler (6) INFANT {I{N}{FAN}T}
12 Members of catering staff served water before commencement of dinner onboard ship (8) STEWARDS {S{WATER*}{Di...r}S}
13 Roar, "I too composed large musical piece" (8) ORATORIO*
15 Cleaned note and passed away (6) TIDIED {TI}{DIED}
17 Seaman sailing around beginning of December gets wreaths placed on the head (7) ANADEMS {ANA{De...r}EMS*}
19 Personal assistant and son's time travel (7) PASSAGE {PA}{SS}{AGE}
24 Papa going around America carrying student and sweetheart gets claps (8) APPLAUSE {APP{L}A*}{US}{swEet}
26 Wrongly earths to variable resistor (8) RHEOSTAT*
28 English bay and swamp (6) ENGULF {EN}{GULF}
30 Quote, "It's inside church" (4) CITE {C{IT}E}
31 Happy to make mistake, in my case (5) MERRY {M{ERR}Y}
32 In short, at the earliest, in Sophia's apartment (4) ASAP [T]
DOWN
1 Satellite's low at the beginning of night (4) MOON {MOO}{Ni..t}
2 Left portion mentioned in legal document (8) DEPARTED {DE{PART}ED}
3 Gambler is improving (6) BETTER [DD]
4 Twins confused about PM (7) WINSTON {TWINS*}{ON}
6 Scared? RAF's flying and getting assistance (6) AFRAID {RAF*}{AID}
7 Considerate type (4) KIND [DD]
14 Managed Chinese farm in the US (5) RANCH {RAN}{CH}
16 Sledge sides have rims (5) EDGES [T]
18 Average age for intervening period (8) MEANTIME {MEAN}{TIME}
20 Han hag is injured in city (8) SHANGHAI*
21 Apprehend short officer near river (7) CAPTURE {CAPT}{URE}
23 After leaving US, outsider went berserk and created civil disturbance (6) RIOTED OuTsIDER*
25 Disinfectant layer placed in ply construction (6) PHENYL {P{HEN}YL*}
27 Hot wind may help to dry this (4) HAIR {H}{AIR} Sem&lit
29 King in Uncle Arthur's custody (4) LEAR [T]
Reference List
Old = EX, Island in French = ILE, New = N, Ship = SS, Note = TI, Son = S, Student = L, English = EN, Church = CE, Low = MOO, Chinese = CH, Layer= HEN, Hot = H
Nice start with a 'Useless' house!!
ReplyDelete+1.....
Deletesetter will make use of it with with excellent WP
House and home/residence was to be avoided.
DeleteI think it's nice cryptic clue.
DeleteSherpa was the last to fall- perhaps because he is not supposed to fall?
ReplyDelete4D- Would have preferred British/ Ex or at least a ?, especially since it is his first name.
ReplyDeleteIn a way he was PM to India!
DeleteEx is choice of setter since current is only one. Rest all are ex.
Am I hearing a political comment🤔😉
DeleteYour choice. There is only one PM.post per nation.
Delete25D- Layer sits nicely in the cue!
ReplyDeleteOf course I know and have used many times, but can someone tell me why CE for church? Is it Church of England?
ReplyDeleteYes. It is Anglicanism.
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CE for church of England is inndict.
DeleteThe diff between CH and CE used to be "the church" for later.
IMO, 9A has to be (ex)(I)(le)
ReplyDeleteSathia
Sorry! It is in French (ile) for island.
DeleteSathia
I too annotate the same......it's french island......tricky WP by Incognito
Deletelovely grid by Incognito.......it's very interesting WP..........Nice Fare Mr Kishore.............have a gr8 weekend
ReplyDelete19A anno has to highlight "s" at the end of son'S.
ReplyDelete28a engulf etymology is en-gulf.
ReplyDeleteAn avoidable split.
Nice grid.
ReplyDeleteOnly House/Home right at the start seemed inelegant for Kishore.
Winston took a while since I was looking for an Indian PM.
Thanx for a breezy though theme less affair.
All is FAIR in the World of Spies...
ReplyDeleteVladimir thought he was suffering from DEMENTIA and AFRAID to trust his own eyes, when he saw WINSTON at the SHANGHAI airport.
He had personally ensured WINSTON'S PASSAGE HOME, by getting LEAR to sign the order. On the cruise liner, he had bribed the STEWARDS to keep an eye on him.
They were of a KIND and had been friends as INFANTS. They even had their bad HAIR days together. Their attempts to hike under the MOONlight with a SHERPA had earned them their first EXILE.
ORATORIOS could be written about their BETTER days of friendship & misadventures with RHEOSTATS & PHENYL bombs, before they joined the force.
But all this DEPARTED, when MERRY widow Anna entered the scene. ENGULFED with passion for her, he invited her for a road trip to a RANCH. There, as he TIDIED his friends backpack, he found the first signs.
He knew he had to act ASAP. EDGE Winston out of the scene. CITING his cold & flu as a cause, he RIOTED in absentia & had his friend CAPTURED & sent HOME in disgrace.
Expecting APPLAUSE, all he had received MEANTIME, had been innumerable reports of Anna's affairs with the other agents.
Now at a crossroads, he wondered 'What next?'
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DeleteHis kind friends scraped together some ANADEMS, only stuff that remained from Vladimir's misadventure to stay INCOGNITO. 😅
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