No 14309, Saturday 19 Oct 2024, Afterdark

ACROSS

1   Involvement of circle inspector is with personal assistant in division (13) PARTICIPATION {PARTI{CI}{PA}TION}

10 Article about goods at mess, has no source or understanding (9) AWARENESS {A}{WARE}N}{mESS}

11 Accompaniment to artist's one that goes missing often (5) RAITA {RA}{1}{ThAt}

12 Mad! Player is missing, it's silly (5) INANE INsANE

13 To do this, I got silicate compound (9) ITILACISE {I}{SILICATE*} Definition not shown in Italics?

14 Girl had a superior cake (6) GATEAU {G}{ATE}{A}{U}

16 Force is inadequate (4) LEAN [DD]

19 Man in capital city... (4) MALE [DD]

20 ...breaks lid of new article of widow, say (6) RELICT aRTCLE*

25 Say, maybe on towards USA (9) STATESIDE {STATE}{SIDE}

26 Series of chapters on artificial intelligence by Newton (5) CHAIN {CH}{AI}{N}

27 Best priest, bartends often (5) ELITE {ELI}{barTEnds} Often for taking the middle letters!!

28 Herb gets dangerous ammo in a South American country (9) CHAMOMILE {CH{AMMO*}ILE}

29 Act with that woman at Delhi University to organise rest for cleaner (7,6) FEATHER DUSTER {FEAT}{HER}{DU}{REST*}

DOWN

2   Ananthram gets new plant (8) AMARANTH* {amaranth+n=ananthram}

3   Article on ashes appearing frequently is an indicator, perhaps (5) THESE {THE}{aShEs}

4   Churchman Eric takes 100 pounds (6) CLERIC {ERIC}<=>{C}{L}

5   Father's guards skilled but average (8) PASSABLE {PA}{SS}{ABLE}

6   End course with a new article on casteism essentially (9) TERMINATE {TERM}{1}{N}{A}{casTEism}

7   Coworker heartily had a drink at the beginning (6) ORIGIN {cowORker}{1}{GIN}

8   Bold lawyer takes on cartel (6) DARING {DA}{RING}

9   Ladies' quarters found in Doha remnants (5) HAREM [T]

15 A boy's worried facing people, takes some tablet and gets relief (9) ABATEMENT {A}{B}{ATE}{MEN}{Ta...t}

17 Average medic or leading endocrinologist going wrong? (8) MEDIOCRE {MEDIC+OR+En...t}*

18 Settle aliens if they are touring (8) FINALISE*

21 At the start, Tamil uncle near Neyveli explained lengthy passage (6) TUNNEL Acrostic

22 Accompany American lady (5) USHER {US}{HER}

23 Hand luggage found in Virginia Isle is broken (6) VALISE {VA}{ISLE*}

24 Question daughter seen with man in English Department (6) DEMAND {D}{E}{MAN}{D}

26 Renowned Tamil editor's private secretary meets hacks (5) CHOPS {CHO}{PS}

Reference List

Player = S(South in Bridge game), Girl = G, Superior = U, Chapters = CH, Newton = N, 100 = C, Pounds = L, New = N, Lawyer = DA, Boy = B, Daughter = D, English = E, Department = D