No 14192, Tuesday 04 Jun 2024, Karaoke

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}

21 Heavy-built person maybe girl or a lady? Not right (7) GORILLA {GIRL+Or+A+L}*

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