Special, Sunday 31 May 2020, Doppelganger

Day 68 of 68 Stay safe at home

(Last day of Lockdown 4.0)

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Starred clues are undefined but they belong to the same category.

ACROSS

5   *51 Queen's men ... (6)

7   * ... my French flyer arrested in shelter (8)

9   Different date mix-up holds back Nobel laureate (8)

10 Make certain it's seen mysteriously over the ancient city (6)

11 *Best fruit held back to be offered to a Holy man at first (5-7)

13 *Scratch a wedge used to prevent motion (6)

15 *A high priest of Shiloh detained nine Romans initially (6)

18 *A reprimand over an unhealthy area given after this epidemic (12)

21 *Bowled over with no energy to a novice (6)

22 *Reap if it's in a bad way (8)

23 Continent after follower's model composition (8)

24 *Pontiff without a fight got support (6)

DOWN

1   *Give a name on World Wide Web (8)

2   Court order makes him squirm (6)

3   Fool! An order held returning parasite (8)

4   In agreement peacekeepers have an issue (6)

6   USA since corrected provision (8)

7   The French comic died for a young Scotsman (6)

8   Missile thrown back during extradition (4)

12 Brae skin without complaints (8)

14 Hard limb to a small extent is benign (8)

16 I twice held back some money but had to start off (8)

17 *Restrained animal, a Gaur? (6)

18 Troubled start across layer (6)

19 City's parish priest held by a sign (6)

20 *Scrollsaw cut oddly! (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at DOPPELGANGER 30

Enjoy.

Special, Sunday 09 Feb 2020, Doppelganger

Three answers per commenter till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
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ACROSS
1   Function over street expenditure (5)
4   Custody of the French charged item without temporary accommodation (9)
9   Neeson perhaps returned to win a sack of letters (7)
10 Give birth to the short German organ (7)
11 Countryside of a large river not hot on the contrary (5)
13 Switch positions over a tear jerker (5)
15 Setter came yesterday initially frozen (3)
16 Idiot is happy regularly (3)
17 Wonderful small merchandise (5)
19 University writer died causing a great state of confusion (5)
21 Say you ought to sail in this (5)
23 Choose from some lectures … (5)
24 ... they are over a period of time (3)
25 3/8th of the solution is hot stuff (3)
26 Initially a boy at first travelled towards the stern (5)
28 General caught his first parasite (5)
29 Disgusting, revolting emission is eliminated for nothing (7)
31 Football club's magazine (7)
33 Capable part had an alien. Not on! (9)
34 Relative's fashionable act (2-3)

DOWN
1   Acting chary as me but he cannot become a model if … (6-3)
2   Auditory ossicle provides support (7)
3   Initially some old boys blubber (3)
4   Depart after pet is out of sight (5)
5   At last a dime for a small boy ... (3)
6   ... destroyed only love fabric (5)
7   Present and come out with bill (7)
8   Headless exotic Wyvern is jumpy! (5)
12 Walk sanctioned by law (5)
14 Susie's illegitimate child (5)
18 Artist replaces novice at first in open theatrical presentation (5)
19 Peacekeepers tipsy, went back upto the point (5)
20 Passing stroke delivered the coup de grace (9)
22 Devotion to extremes of light music for a change  (7)
24 Immortal headless bird held another (7)
25 Boy in charge of audible sound} (5)
26 A flower sprang up!(5)
27 Extra items had quality (5)
30 Period of time at the brink  (3)
32 Flat runner held by this killer (3)

Across Lite version can be accessed at DOPPELGANGER 27

Enjoy.

Special, Sunday 01 Dec 2019, Doppelganger (Repeat)

Repeating CW No 3 from Doppelganger (without any changes so there will be goofups in the cluing) as I am out of stock of specials.

Three answers per commenter till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
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Starred clues are undefined but they belong to the same category.

ACROSS
1*   Rubbished, rubbish versus operation (7)
5    Stand for a torpid doctor (6)
11  Adhere to second mark (5)
12  Entangled with governor of unusual size (8)
13* Manipulate second (9)
14  Gatherings of many key aliens (5)
15  Third power of a rookie? Ecstasy (4)
17* …if Spanish reversed jargon (7)
21* Confused priests (7)
22  Territory in the Far East (4)
26  Commanding Officer at one is an animal (5)
27* I’ll enter a highway (9)
29  Nursing home has a Scotsman doctor (9)
30  Scratches initial codes and rules (5)
31  Topless wide open shelter (6)
32* … likewise in the scheme (7)

DOWN
2    Feeling sorry ab initio, restraint ultimately is not good (5)
3    Aggressive sea raider provides victory for a ruler (6)
4    Port in Belgium unexpectedly attacked (6)
6*  Social order went without us (8)
7    Drive mechanism has support of modeller who isn’t fashionable (9)
8    Pastry is hard and flaky (6)
9    Soul of German city’s chief engineer (7)
10  Titus, you and I manufacture divers gear (7)
16* Club reserves an animal (9)
18* Princesses’ perception (8)
19  Brittle material mixed cream over a cocotte first (7)
20  Music for plays organised within the company (7)
23  Two upcoming accountants flying erstwhile airlines made Gum Arabic (6)
24  Flat, rational without severe punishment (6)
25  The Spanish in charge with appeal to arouse (6)

Acrosss Lite version can be accessed at DOPPELGANGER 3

Enjoy.

Holiday Special, Tuesday 03 Sep 2019, Doppelganger (Repeat)

No paper due to Vinayaka Chathurthi.

Repeating CW No 1 from Doppelganger (without any changes so there will be goofups in the cluing) as I am out of stock of specials. KKR has sent me one which will be used next Sunday.

Each person may enter a maximum of three answers till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please submit all your answers in one comment.

ACROSS
1   Father and Uncle Sam with a journalist took a break (6)
5   The company without any permit had energy to finish  (8)
9   Escape after playing an old prank in his stint (5,3)
10 The short film was not good, it was pathetic (6)
11 Indicate, whether with evidence it is resistant to the elements (12)
13 A detailed milling on the screw head becomes a knot (4)
14 Former law is suitable. Perfect! (5,3)
17 Attractive little devil (3,5)
18 God’s at home in this weather (4)
20 A clear idiot he is, dressed in muftis (5,7)
23 Wine with no heart is like a tissue (6)
24 Bearing built with one silver racer (8)
25 The operator takes time while angling for this (8)
26 Make offensive remarks about a small student who is on the border (6)

DOWN
2   A Cree owns land (4)
3   Loyal supporters like limited delay before time in battles (9)
4   They adored revolutionary growth (6)
5   Movie starring Tom at church with the setter crunching a fancy debt note (5,2,2,3,3)
6   A monument made by Doppleganger in a short while with some money (8)
7   The French had a very limited bar (5)
8   Timeless temporary shelter for the nobleman, it’s with a complaint (10)
12 The French with new Morel is cooked up with a contract at registration (10)
15 What a lathe operator does with a Mah-Jong piece to make a gate (9)
16 Each carriage sounds like an acquisition (8)
19 Silence with leftovers, are like movie trailers (6)
21 I first called in every Ranger as it got colder (5)
22 Past girl is all excited (4)

No Across Lite version as the Across Lite site is down.

Enjoy.