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1 Weak Queen refused to fast after start of summer (6)
4 Warning boy to leave nasty, immoral habit (6)
8 Mounting covert police operation to nab foreigner (7)
9 Delighted when entering sanctuary in outskirts of Palakkad (7)
11 Nicely go around flashing a new Tesla (10)
12 Bird starting late gets worm? (4)
13 Further education lags in that respect (5)
14 U.S. never bothered about India and the world (8)
16 Maybe Vasco da Gama from Portugal learning routes in the beginning (8)
18 Military vehicles and tense, faceless rows of soldiers (5)
20 Follow hooligan cycling around entrance of estate (4)
21 In fact, session at home is fixed (10)
23 Boy working hard without accomplishment ultimately gets extremely angry (7)
24 What bowlers do when de Villiers bats - won't have slip mostly (7)
25 Makes pens out of unhealthy styrene primarily (6)
26 About to exit central building, understood? (6)
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1 Is finally all right? Great. (5)
2 Bit of cream soup (no piece of potato) and cheese maybe (7)
3 Listen, leaders of national eminence lost and are angry (4,2,3)
5 Lloyd botched an easy catch (5)
6 Judge one with a drink in Middle East (7)
7 Implements tariffs restricting export revenues in the beginning (9)
10 Say most regressive, senseless last words perhaps (2,2,5)
13 Revolutionary took best, essentially Marxist reading material (9)
15 Check and re-enter if wrong (9)
17 King and Queen maybe switching sides and allegiance (7)
19 More curious about India becoming rowdier (7)
21 Slow person needs backing from time to time (5)
22 Equalise at the end of tight game (5)
22D, Event=game(def.)
ReplyDeleteEqualise=even+t(at the end of tight...T)
1A, sickly=weak(def.)
ReplyDeleteafter start of summer=s(summer)+ick(refused to fast)+ ly(queen=Lady)
sickly
Relook
Delete12A, Inch=worm(def.)
ReplyDeleteBird=Finch(_F) is Inch, inch worm.
Bird starting late means (-F inch)
Bird starting late gets worm , we know is an Idiom.
13A, There= In that respect
ReplyDeleteFurTHER Education
There
clue: T
6D, Imagine=judge(def)
ReplyDeleteDrink=gin, Middle East=M E, One=I , A
so, [I+ M( a)+(gin)E]
Insertion clue
Imagine
14A UNIVERSE - world. I in (US never)*
ReplyDelete13D TEXTBOOKS ,- reading material.
ReplyDelete(took best x)*. (marXist)
3D - LEND AN EAR - Listen; (N)ational (E)minence {AND ARE}* anagrid - angry
ReplyDelete5D - DOLLY - an easy catch; {Lloyd}* anagrid - botched
15D -INTERFERE - Check; {re-enter if}* anagrid - wrong
Delete18A - TANKS - Military vehicles; (T)ense rows of soldiers - RANKS-R; faceless means delete the first word; T+ANKS
9A - PLEASED - Delighted; PallakaD (outskirts are P…D); sanctuary - Lease;
DeleteEntering lease between P and D making P(lease)D
Great surfaces Ananth!!!!
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteSathia
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ReplyDeleteYou have already answered 5
Delete18 A
ReplyDeleteMilitary vehicles = TANKS
Tense = T
Rows of soldiers = Ranks
Faceless = Deletionindicator for first letter " Are " of " ranks "
T ANKS = TANKS
20 A
ReplyDeleteFollow = OBEY
Hooligan = BOY
Cycling of BOY = OBY
Estate = E
Around = Containment indicator
OB ( E ) Y = OBEY
Hooligan is not boy it is yob.
DeleteSathia
Thanks
Delete24 A
ReplyDeleteWhat bowlers do = DELIVER
Slip ( mostly ) = sli
Won't have = Deletion indicator
de Villiers- sli = DEVILER
Bats = Anagrind
DEVILER = DELIVER
Great clue!!
DeleteThanks
Delete26 A
ReplyDeleteUnderstood = LEARNT
About = C
To exit = Deletion indicator for " C "
Central - C = ENTRAL
Building = Anagrind
ENTRAL = LEARNT
Good Solve.
DeleteSathia
Thanks again
Delete17 D
ReplyDeleteAllegiance = LOYALTY
King and Queen = ROYALTY
Sides = L , R ( Left , Right )
Changing sides = L changed to R / R changed to L
ROYALTY = LOYALTY
In lieu of 18 A
ReplyDelete19 D
Roadies = NOISIER
More curious = NOSIER
India = I
About = Containment indicator
NO ( I ) SIER = NOISIER
Roadies = TYPO
DeletePL READ IT AS = ROWDIER
THANKS
5.dn.Dolly. Easy catch ( Lloyd is botched )
ReplyDelete15.dn.Interfere. rearranging letters from 're-enter if'
19.dn. Noisier. Nosier (more curious) + I(ndia).
22.dn.Event (=game). Even(equalise) + t (end of tight)
17. Loyalty. Royalty (King and Queen).Replace 'R' with 'L' (switching sides)
21a: determined = fixed.
ReplyDeleteFact - deed, session - term and home -in.
4a: advice = warning.
ReplyDeleteNasty - (B)ad, immoral habit - vice.
16A:explorer=Vasco da Gama
ReplyDeletefrom(ex) Portugal(p) learning(lore)
routes in the beginning(r)
(ex)(p)(lore)(r)
10 s et tu brute-famous last words
ReplyDeletesay-utter-r< senseless-brute
11a PLEASANTLY; nicely; go = PLY around (A N TELSA)*
ReplyDelete