No 14269, Monday 02 Sep 2024, Arden

Solution to 7D 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   Crazy Place, it usually comes with three scoops of ice cream (6,5) BANANA SPLIT {BANANAS}{PL}{IT}

7   Fashion will disappear shortly (3)  FAD FADe

9   Let go club king (5) CLEAR {C}{LEAR}

10 A large vest on small country folk (9) ALBANIANS {A}{L}{BANIAN}{S}

11 Place around central hall sees abrupt transition (9) SALTATION {S{hALl}TATION}

12 Push below ground (5) ELBOW*

13 Reprieve as girl gets home (7) AMNESTY {AM{NEST}Y}

15 Catch some Australians returning (4) NAIL [T<=]

18 Starts getting new aircraft to fly (4) GNAT {Ge...g}{New}{Ai...t}{To}

20 When it comes to the Diet, he makes the rules (7) SPEAKER [CD]

23 Protected in a way from terrible weather (5) SLEET {S{LEE}T}

24 Separate layer on the old monument (9) PARTHENON {PART}{HEN}{ON}

26 Chemical - one made it explode (9) ACETAMIDE {ACE}{MADE+IT}*

27 Start all over again to cut trees... (5) RESET*

28 ...leaves mostly timber (3) TEA TEAk

29 Cancel people's sporting event (7,4) SCRATCH RACE {SCRATCH}{RACE} Semi&lit

DOWN

1  You cede control when you take it (8) BACKSEAT [CD]

2   Wanting to arrest labour leader for provoking (8) NEEDLING {NEED{La...r}ING}

3   Girl left everyday (5) NORMA NORMAl Seems to be the other way round?

4   Frighten Mark before providing male chromosome? (7) SCARIFY {SCAR}{IF}{Y}

5   No arrest, the Spanish go up country (7) LEBANON {NO}{NAB}{EL}<=

6   Can suppress indignation, close to language mandarin, perhaps (9) TANGERINE {T{ANGER}IN}{l...gE}

7   Meat in iron frame, spirit set on fire (6) F?A?B? (Addendum - FLAMBE {F{LAMB}E} - See comments)

8   Is covered in feathers - I don't want it (6) DISOWN {D{IS}OWN}

14 Bands entertaining, also bunkers (4,5) SAND TRAPS {S{AND}TRAPS}

16 Inability to move cattle within a large area of land (8) AKINESIA {A{KINE}SIA}

17 Woman once evenly spread butter around (8) BRUNETTE {BRU{oNcE}TTE*}

19 Pressure as measured in line is higher, in other words (7) TIPSIER {PSI} in {TIER}

20 Abundance of vitamin in cut fruits (7) SURFEIT {SURF{E}IT*}

21 Nasal spray, time for listing (6) ASLANT {NASAL*}{T}

22 Mostly universal groups (6) GENERA GENERAl

25 Hit and run, some hard line leaders are cruel (5) HARSH Acrostic What's the role of line?

Reference List

Place = PL. Club = C, Large = L, Small = S, Way = ST, Male chromosome = Y, The in Spanish = EL, Pressure = P, Vitamin = E, Time = T