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ACROSS
8 Notice American eating Australian fruit (6)
9 Verified Google maps, for one and drove around (8)
10 Big picture of cover guy, per Spooner (6,4)
11 Dull poet's retrospective (4)
12 Artisan touring English Church in a frenzy (8)
14 Light coal without lead (6)
15 Monsters almost gobble and injure son (7)
17 Flexibility of girl replacing bachelor in faculty (7)
20 Parades potentially showcasing tyrant (6)
22 Optimistic article boring mad genius (8)
24 Basically happy or lively Indian celebration! (4)
25 Initially Rio cycles to join friend after drink (10)
27 Regularly learned Watkins was revolting in some way (2,2,4)
28 Doctor had given genetic material in agitation (6)
DOWN
1 Aha! Ban erotica to suppress hot stuff (8)
2 Keep supporting Tesla (4)
3 Alert engineers blocking complex network (6)
4 Store installing awfully old security device (7)
5 Broadcasting about president's expense (8)
6 Master Chef's coloured bourbon - extremely fancy (6,4)
7 Department renewing this academic's term (6)
13 Stop in best parts (4,6)
16 N/n: Get 1 or n - it's complicated (8)
18 Knotting a piece of twine before fishing (8)
19 Dreams of snakes controlling anger (7)
21 Say nothing at first to narcissist (6)
23 Early signs of numerous aquatic insects acquiring wings of dragonflies! (6)
26 Unfortunately like to entertain the French (4)
14a - light ignite coal, lignite without l(ead)
ReplyDelete19d- dreams,aspires- asps, snakes-anger, ire
ReplyDeleteExplain how do you combine the two
DeleteAsp-ire-s
Delete22a.
ReplyDeleteOptimistic=sanguine
article=an,
(an+genius)*=sanguine
20a
Deletetyrant=despot
Para(des pot)entially.
Telescopic
1d
Deletehot stuff=habenero
A(ha ban ero)tica
Telescopic
26d
DeleteUnfortunately=alas
like=as,the French=la
(as+la)=alas
11a
DeleteDull=drab
Poet=bard., retrospective is reversal indicator
22a- not a straight anagram
Delete20a. DESPOT (tyrant) telescopic
ReplyDelete24a. HOLI (celebration) first letters of clue words !
ReplyDelete9A APPROVED - verified; google maps {APP} {DROVE}*
ReplyDelete17A ABILITY - faculty; {A{-b+G}ILITY}
25A ORIGINALLY - initially; {ORI}, drink {GIN}, friend {ALLY}
17A incorrect. Needs rethink.
DeleteHe has not expressed it correctly
Delete27A AS IT WERE - in some way; lEaRnEd WaTkInS wAs <=
ReplyDelete28A DHARNA - agitation; {HAD}" genetic material {RNA}
Correction
ReplyDelete17A AGILITY - flexibility; faculty {A{-b+G}ILITY}
18d:
ReplyDeletePiece of twine =T
fishing = ANGLING
T+ANGLING -> TANGLING = knotting
6d: CORDON BLEU
COLOURED + BN (bourbon extremely)
Master chef's fancy is CORDON BLEU
4d: PADLOCK
ReplyDeleteStore = PACK
PACK+OLD -> PADLOCK, security device
awfully is anagram indicator
15Ac GORGONS - {GORG(-e)}{SON*}
ReplyDelete5DN: spending=expense-
ReplyDeletebroadcasting(sending)about
president(p).
12A: artisan= mechanic
ReplyDeleteM(e)(ch)anic
Sathia
16 N-nitrogen n get 1 orn*
ReplyDelete8a SAPOTA; fruit; S (A)POT(A)
ReplyDelete23d: NAIADS
ReplyDeleteFirst letters of Numerous Aquatic Insects Acquiring gives NAIA
wings of DragonflieS gives DS
NAIADS = Early immature form of insects
10a. MASTER PLAN = Big picture
ReplyDeletePLASTER = Cover
MAN = Guy , Spoonered
3D WARREN- network (def,) RE - engineers in WARN -alert WAR(RE)N
ReplyDelete2d, keep = fort
ReplyDeleteSupporting = for
Tesla = t
IMO, 7D, 13D, 21D are left to be solved.
ReplyDeleteSathia
21d - egoist = narcissist.
ReplyDeleteSay=eg, nothing=o, first=its.
21D Egoist - narcissist
ReplyDeleteSay - eg
Nothing- o
First - 1st
Eg o Ist
In lieu of 21D
ReplyDelete13 D High Points- best parts
(Stop in)* - points