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ACROSS
8 Irrelevance of poor, desperate singles coming to head (15) MEANINGLESSNESS {MEAN}{SINGLES*}{NESS}
9 Champion of the romantics (4) HERO [T]
10 Support or convert into symmetry (10) PROPORTION {PROP}{OR}{INTO*}
11 Ban English for zero level (4) STEP ST(-o+e)EP
12 Supreme Court in splits! Certain to be charmed! (10) FASCINATED {FA{SC}{IN}{A}TED} A from?
15 Limit of accounts without limits (4) EDGE lEDGEr
16 Runs every distance (5) REACH {R}{EACH}
17 Don't start to talk at summit (4) PEAK sPEAK
19 Curious street diner, most exotic! (10) INTERESTED {STREET+DINEr}*
21 Finishes send-off (4) ENDS*
22 It is fine carbon copy prepared in careful and systematic manner (10) SCIENTIFIC {IT+IS+FINE+CC}*
26 Keen on it? No? Maybe! (4) INTO*
27 Logical justification right before state takeover of private property? Not new! (15) RATIONALISATION {R}{nATIONALISATION}
DOWN
1 Picked one of the top players, having half of classes cancelled (8) SELECTED {SE{LECTures}ED}
2 Short, popular race covering third of mile (10) INCOMPLETE {IN}{COMP{miLe}ETE}
3 Moves camera lens around for a photograph (4) SNAP<= It's the camera that is moved and not just the lens
5 Stunned! A second hundred! He is surprisingly beginning to dazzle! (10) ASTONISHED {A}{S}{TON}{HE+IS}*{Da...e}
6 Join Navy in uniform (4) KNIT {K{N}IT}
7 Aground like sex worker without work (6) ASHORE {AS}{wHORE}
12 Not remembering? Make time! Thing's not hard! (10) FORGETTING {FORGE}{T}{ThING}
13 Move one displaced by a staff (5) SHAFT SH(-i+a)AFT
14 Like epic art recreated in parody (10) APPRECIATE {EPIC+ART}* in {APE}
18 Shun cocaine habit for increment (8) ADDITION ADDIcTION
20 Drink and do trance (6) NECTAR*
23 Go out and have sex with an old flame first (4) EXIT {IT}<=>{EX}
24 Bureaucrat's life, perhaps! (4) FILE* &lit
25 Go after hot, unemployed client (4) CASE ChASE
Reference List
Head = NESS< English = E, Runs = R, Carbon copy = CC, Right = R, New = N, Popular = IN, Second = S, Hundred = TON, Navy = N, Work = W, Hard = H, Cocaine = C, Sex = IT, Hot = H
I have not answered on a friday in the past so many weeks.
ReplyDeleteDoes that make me regular or irregular or non-regular!!
Regular/ Non regular does not depend on Fridays only!!!
DeleteYou are a Veteran and you can choose to be anyone ( regular or irregular or nonregular)😀
DeleteSathia
sree sree is Veteran & regular solver
DeleteI've NEVER answered on a Friday.
DeleteOr any other day except Sunday.
That makes you regularly irregular!
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ReplyDeleteAnd the annotations?
DeleteVery enjoyable cryptic clues today. 25d was the last to fall and that is my COD
ReplyDelete10a proportion- symmetry
ReplyDeleteSupport- prop
or
(Into)*- tion
Convert- anagrind
22a scientific- careful and systematic manner
Carbon copy- cc
(it is fine cc)*
Prepared- anagrind
11a bare- zero level
Ban- bar
English- e
9a hero- champion
DeletetHE ROmantics
Of- telescopic indicator
3d snap- photograph
DeleteMoves camera lens- pans
Around - reversal indicator
11A is incorrect. Please see the crossings (1D & 2D)
Delete20d - nectar - drink - anagram of trance
ReplyDelete9a - hero - anagrind from the romantics
19a - interested - anagram of Street diner
Relook 19A
Delete24d. - file - anagram of life
ReplyDeleteLovely clues. Enjoyed solving. Thanks Vidwan.
ReplyDelete5d- astonished A Second hundred=ton he is (anagram- ishe) Dazzle.
ReplyDelete6d - knit n (navy) kit=uniform.
7d - ashore as (like) sex worker - whore (without Work).
4d ALSO: too
ReplyDeleteALONSO(Xabi: footballer) - ON( not working) gives ALSO
27A: (+R/-n)ATIONALISATION = logical thinking
ReplyDelete12Dn FORGETTING - {FORGE}{T}{T(-h)ING}
ReplyDelete4D: too = also
ReplyDeleteFootballer is alonso
Al(-on)so
Sathia
In lieu of 4D,
Delete25D: client= case
Go is chase
C(-h)ase
Sathia
2 d incomplete.-short
ReplyDeletepopular -in race compete
third of mile miLe.
in comp(l)ete.
1A MEANINGLESSNESS- IRRELEVANCE(DEF) MEAN -poor, (SINGLES)* NESS -head
ReplyDeleteMany superb clues from Vidwan today. He is my sought after setter.I don my hat to him. Extremely enjoyed solving.
ReplyDelete23D Exit - ex (old flame) + it (sex)
ReplyDelete18D Addition (increment) - Addi(c)tion - habit -shun c(ocaine))
17A Peak(summit) - (S)peak (talk) - S removed from Don't start
4D Also(too) - Footballer Xabi Al(on)so - not working
21A Ends(finishes) - anagram of send
1D : SELECTED = Picked
ReplyDeleteSE(LECT)ED
One of the top players : SEED
Having half of classes = LECT(-ures)
In Sports : A player who has been seeded for a tournament, often at a given rank: a top seed.
DeleteGood one Sir
Delete12a FASCINATED = Charmed
ReplyDeleteFATED = Certain
SC = Supreme Court
IN
FA+SC+IN+ATED
Splits = Insert. Ind.for SC and IN
How to account for an extra A
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DeleteTop-notcher from Vidwan! Enjoyed solving. 😊
ReplyDeleteyes......I too feel the same
Delete+1
+1
ReplyDeleteI think there's no provision for the extra a .
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteAgree. However cannot think of a different solution thanks to crossings
Delete27a RATIONALISATION; logical justification; R nATIONALISATION
ReplyDeletesustitute
Delete11a STEP; level; ban=STOP; E (English) for O (Zero) gives STEP
16a - {R}{EACH}
ReplyDeletedef. Distance
Runs- R
every - Each
15a, limit = edge
ReplyDeleteAccounts = ledger
Accounts without limits = ledger, - l - r
= edge
9.ac.Hero. he from the, and 'ro' from romantics.
ReplyDelete21.ac.Ends. rearranging letters from 'send'
27.ac. Nationalisation. (DD)
12.dn. Forgetting. Make=forge, time= t, thing - h (hard)
18.dn.Addition. Addiction ( habit) -c (cocaine)
27A is incorrect
Delete14d Appreciate
ReplyDelete(Epic art)* in (ape)
Def: like
26A & 13D yet to be solved. Open for regulars, Col?
ReplyDelete13D SHAFT
ReplyDeleteDef = staff, SHIFT (move) with I (one) replaced by A
26A - INTO *
ReplyDeleteanag. of it + no
Crypt enjoyable clues- particularly the long ones nicely clued. Had a great time. Thank you Vidwan.
ReplyDeleteGreat Grid.
ReplyDeleteWell defined clues thus making even lo.....ng words easy to get.
My fav
SCIENTIFIC, APPRECIATE, ASTONISHED, EDGE.
Thanx Vidhwan.