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ACROSS
1 Introduces small pastries (6)
4 Challenge the purpose (6)
8 Estates held by veteran chessman (7)
9 Mother's old and injured (7)
11 Choices in Sweden polls (10)
12 Apes destroyed plants (4)
13 Mixture for repasts in the middle with gateau essentially (5)
14 Went hungry around noon, with leading eating-house being closed (8)
16 New readers take time to get engaged (8)
18 Say, people from Emirates are mostly sailors (5)
20 Investigates the boarding-house (4)
21 Award given to nurse and civil engineer at meeting (10)
23 Treadle broken, so changed (7)
24 Set rice, cooked and delivers (7)
25 Governing body leaders speak English, no alternate to engage (6)
26 Snatches small ducks (6)
DOWN
1 Suggestion to cycle in hell (5)
2 Say, Sagittarians could be weapon handlers (7)
3 Matter resolved with specialist's medication (9)
5 Boycotts import of primarily exotic plants (5)
6 Questions pastor and the French model (7)
7 Youngsters enter false age inside school (9)
10 Certain to confess taking the book (9)
13 Traces of cocaine and some LSD in raves (9)
15 Saint had people get Times report (9)
17 Each authoritarian is oriental (7)
19 Plant a top mole initially in a country (7)
21 Sneaked agent into Connecticut (5)
22 Sides of screw damaged (5)
23a
ReplyDeleteChanged=altered
(Treadle)*
17d eastern - e(each) stern-authoritarian
ReplyDelete2d- archers- weapon handlers-Sagittarius sign
ReplyDelete11a
ReplyDeleteChoices=selections
Sweden=s
Polls=elections
s+elections=selections
25a
DeleteGoverning body=senate.
Leaders is the indicator
of the first letters
S,e,n,a,t,e
15d
Deletereport =statement
Saint=st,had=ate,people=men,times=t
(st+ate+men+t)=Statement
1A STARTS - introduces; {S}mall, pastries {TARTS}
ReplyDelete8A RANCHES - estates; vete{RAN CHES}sman
11A SELECTIONS - choices; {S}weden, polls {ELECTIONS}
1D SHADE - suggestion; hell {HADES} cycle
2D ARCHERS - weapon handlers; sagittarians
Instead 2D
ReplyDelete13A PASTE - mixture; re{PAS}ts, ga{TE}au
Instead of 11A
ReplyDelete7D TEENAGERS - youngsters; {ENTER{AGE}}* School
19d america from A M from mole and erica a plant
ReplyDelete24a recites from set rice anagram
ReplyDelete26a steals from S from snatches with teals -duck
ReplyDelete13d Particles from rave- Parties and C and L
ReplyDeleteParti (cl) es
DeleteThis is how it is clearly stated
After two intense grids, this is a toned down version of Afterdark!
ReplyDeleteGood for beginners like me
Delete18a-arabs, sailors mostly are -
ReplyDeletearABS
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ReplyDelete5 a - ranches anagrind from (vete)ran ches(sman)
ReplyDelete12a - peas anagram of apes
24a - recites anagram of set rice
21a - conference indicator of meeting between people
ReplyDelete4a - object indicator of challenge
Please take another look at these annotations
DeleteKrishna, you must give the wordplay also indicating how you got it. Merely giving the dilutions is not correct. It will be deleted. Many if ya have repeatedly told you. This is not the place to gues the solution
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ReplyDelete3D: (MATTER)* + ENT = TREATMENT
ReplyDelete9Ac DAMAGED - {DAM}{AGED}
ReplyDeleteDAM - Female parent of a mammal
Defn. - Injured , {Dam(mother as above)+Aged (is old)}
Delete14A FASTENED-closed( def) FASTED - went hungry around N (noon) E (eating)
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