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ACROSS
1 Fancy cloth as a focus to show a bit of sophistication (1,5,2,5)
10 Big land owner is fat, clutching his heart (5)
11 Dead simple to pack an Indian carpet (9)
12 Agree, no one returned the instrument (9)
13 The dictator's internal rule (5)
14 Always there is a tiny mistake by the setter (7)
16 I've a new design to entwine (7)
18 Two drinks socially acceptable at the mansion (7)
20 The language of money in South America (7)
22 Music starts after main band arrives (5)
24 After change of hands, augmentation becomes bleak (9)
26 Keen to expose plan for ancient building (9)
27 Suffer from strike — part of Mumbai spared (5)
28 Coal shortage — I go all over the place for an excavator (13)
DOWN
2 It's almost two — impatient and worried (7)
3 Sabotage — result of a French and the German bomb (9)
4 Agatha Christie novel avoiding gate crash in the country (5)
5 Cast over relative showing off (9)
6 Interest seen among legends for a river (5)
7 Am I part of retrenched workers? Showing staying power (7)
8 Permits for beer — the entire lot has to go (9,4)
9 Shoot and catch on (3,3,7)
15 Clarify on cryptic clue, I see (9)
17 Evading glide overboard (9)
19 Perhaps normal to accept one finally as a benefactor (7)
21 Brief copies — recoup odd bits inside (7)
23 Followers of Amman hungry, not fed (5)
25 Stagger carrying cold fish basket (5)
1D, Twitchy=worried(Def.)
ReplyDeleteIt's almost two (tw)+ worried(itchy)
twitchy
10A, Laird=big land owner(Def.)
Deletelard= fat, i( his heart h I s)
la(i)rd
11A, Inanimate=dead(def.)
DeleteInane=simple(syn. silly), I(indian), mat(carpet)
pack is anind indicator
(Inane+i+mat)*
Inanimate
1A - A TOUCH OF CLASS - sophistication; {cloth as a focus}*; anagrid - Fancy
ReplyDelete13A - EDICT - Rule; thE DICTator; telescopic
28A - ARCHAEOLOGIST - Excavator; {coal shortage I}* anagrid - go all over the place
4D - HAITI - Country; AGATHA {CHRISTIE - GATE CRASH}*
16A - INWEAVE - Entwine; {I’ve a new}* anagrid - design
Delete24A, Inclement=Bleak(Def.)
ReplyDeleteincrement=augmentation
After change of hands, means R(hand) changes position and gets L.(hand)
Inc R ement becomes Inc L ement
Inclement
9A, Get the picture= shoot(catch on)
ReplyDeleteshoot=get a picture, catch on( realize or understand something)
clue type: Double definition