Solution to 9A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.
Open for anyone to answer, if not solved by 1 PM.
ACROSS
1 Scariest drug helps to get silver and bronze in the end (6,6) DEVILS BREATH {DE{SILVER+B}*ATH} B for Bronze? See comments
9 Support charter from left to right (5) E?S?L (Addendum - EASEL - (-l)EASE(+l)L - See comments)
10 Maiden was desperate for water (5,4) ADAMS WINE*
11 Imagination wonderful! Unknown twitch to go (7) FANTASY {FANTAStic}{Y}
12 Calling offspring to follow criminal to own up (7) CONCEDE {(~seed}CEDE}<=>{CON}
13 He shows no reactions when things are out of control destroying hotel (5,3) INERT GAS {ThINGS+ARE}*
14 Letterhead missing from kingdom's papers (5) REAMS REAlMS
18 Small cat gulped some rodent in rage (5) STORM {S}{TO{Ro...t}M}
20 Dead humour ultimately draws expression of disgust, haw-haw (8) LAUGHTER {LA{UGH}TE}{h...oR}
24 Suppressed hatred is nice over someone having access to private information (7) INSIDER [T<=]
26 I hear military officials are nuts (7) KERNELS (~colonels)
27 Hunt down international criminal in murder mystery (9) WHODUNNIT {HUNT+DOWN+I}*
28 Indian club's thali spread (5) LATHI
29 He is a flighty person in bar? (12) SCATTERBRAIN {IN+BAR}* [RA]
DOWN
1 Make germ-free, vigorously find insect without wings essentially (9) DISINFECT {FIND+InSECT}*
2 Stout-hearted Latvian at war (7) VALIANT*
3 Player almost struggles to receive attention? It takes one more day every time (4,4) LEAP YEAR {PLAYEr}*{EAR}
4 Part of one missing brainchild! (6) BRANCH {BRAiN}{CH}
5 Ecstasy used in blue scenes for content (7) ESSENCE {E} in {SCENES}*
6 Most of the gents' dress material (5) TOILE TOILEt
7 Electronic device died surprisingly after displaying a note (4-3) DEAF-AID {DIED}* over {A}{FA}
8 Flat looks similar whichever way you look at (5) LEVEL<=>
15 Old parent had given up right on son at last (4-5) MOTH-EATEN {MOTHEr}{ATE}{soN }
16 Maybe bats attack in a deceitful manner (8) BACKSTAB {BATS<=}
17 Radical physician taking wine biscuit heartily (7) DRASTIC {DR}{ASTI}{bisCuit}
19 Ugly bout after wine in Fort (7) REDOUBT {BOUT}*<=>{RED}
22 Sentiments of wives differ (5) VIEWS*
23 Dream ticket often smuggled across (6) TRANCE {TiCkEt} over {RAN}
25 Sister initially brings unnamed restorative for patient (5) STOIC {Si...r}{TOnIC}
Reference List
Bronze = B, Left = L, Unknown = Y, Hotel = H, Small = S, International = I, Child = CH, Ecstasy = E, Note = FA, Right = R, Wine ASTI and RED, Name = N
1a remember CV sir:g/s/b olympic medals
ReplyDeleteI think he meant BE from Bronze. Ends would have been better.
DeleteThe end:death.
Delete"helps" had me in knots. With SB for silver and bronze tried lot of P&C before resigning to (silver+b)*
Delete23d does across get ran inside?
ReplyDelete10a adams wine is very scotlandish. Should have had a hint. Adam's ale is gen usage.
ReplyDeleteGood Crossword. Enjoyed completing. Albiet two from the blog.
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ReplyDeleteBarring above comments a good CW.
ReplyDeleteLeap year (!!), Moth eaten and of course 9A were my fav
+1
Delete1a. Conventional notation for silver is argentum(ag,) and bronze is an alloy hence no symbol. How do you justify the answer.
DeleteLook at the medals in any sporting event, olympics esp
DeleteGold-g
Silver-s
Bronze-b
Silver is taken as silver here.
DeleteAnd bronze as b.
No takers for 9a
ReplyDelete9a EASEL = Support
ReplyDeleteLEASE = Charter, L (left) going to right
Col. said 1 pm and it is now 2.15. So why not?
ReplyDelete9A- Easel- Support
Lease (Charter) with L going from left extreme to right extreme.
Lease=> easeL
Easel is the slanting support for a board.
HR beat me to it. No harm.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, we both did it around the same time Sir! š
ReplyDeleteI found it a bit tough. I didn't know RAN is across.
ReplyDeleteIs CONCEDE own up - more like agree, give up or admit. I got stuck with CONFESS there which I couldn't parse.
However several nice clues.
My fav - MOTH EATEN, SCATTER BRAIN, ADAMS WINE.
Thanx KKR!
Smuggled:ran
DeleteThank u. I got it wrong. Thought smuggled is containment indicator.
DeleteThanx once more!
How can you find note -FA and wine-asti and red??? I'm a newbie
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