Special, Sunday 05 Apr 2015, Le Roi

Three answers per commenter (annotations compulsory) till 6 PM

ACROSS
1   Monument found by wayward car of Parisian driven 10 m.p.h. into rootless tree (3,2,8)
10 Soldiers’ transport is a puzzle (5)
11 A Swiss brand employs spinner to manufacture race timer (9)
12 Peak achieved half day before time by network during olden days  (4,5)
13 Politician with hesitation returned land (5)
14 Lack charge for the assignment (7)
16 Latches secure Eastern Railway compartments (7)
18 Most senseless superlative figure, perhaps (7)
20 House inmates - well protected - left for wedding (7)
22 Boast ruthlessly with swagger (5)
24 Repent in retrospect as I answer people from both Europe and Asia (9)
26 Place most refined by substance from spiritual trance (9)
27 A tailless bird of prey flies back to pond scum (5)
28 Lost medal in desert of Saudi Arabia, perhaps (6,7)

DOWN
2   Ribbons’ prohibition in free society (7)
3   Princess to weep before heartless feudal lord to offend (9)
4   Inventor was buried in the institute’s laboratory (5)
5   Warning in frozen water with the French kind of triangle (9)
6   Parent undergoes heart transplant with tungsten cutter (5)
7   Gateau that sells at a rapid rate (7)
8   Rising politician expanded to become cabinet maker (5,8)
9   Shopping boulevard sale psyches me out (6,7)
15 Dutch cheese stored inside our French cathedral (5-4)
17 One restrained by irate worker made a soft breakfast item (9)
19 This almost comes after a regional opening in mother tongue (7)
21 Arrogant walk eggs war to erupt (7)
23 Reject nourishment with phosphorus as being lukewarm (5)
25 Dance makes king emerge on top from shadow (5)

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Special, Sunday 22 Feb 2015, Le Roi

Three answers per commenter (annotations compulsory) till 6 PM.
Please provide your answers in one comment as far as possible.

* Starred clues belong to a central theme and have no direct definition 

ACROSS
1   To enrapture, source of Indus flows with silence (6)
4   *Orb lacks earthly characters (5,3)
10 *Extraordinary babe in car (9)
11 Invisible light when mirrored in lead-free pole gave rudimentary seed (5)
12 Snow cart that is out of diesel went astray (4)
13 Apparent when East German joins English bridge partners to rewrite introduction of Holy book (10)
15 *A lower house within region (4,3)
16 Force resulting from husband breaching belief (6)
19 Beverage holder violated E.U. pact (3-3)
21 Ambience caused by hundred and fifty one friends almost (7)
23 *Illness caught in haze going around empty isle (4,2,4)
25 Auditor General Edward turned old (4)
27 Aqualung made by southern country famous for its cigars? (5)
28 *The French wasted hours endlessly parting knowledge (4,5)
29 Woman softly heard on radio, “Jesus is the good one” (8)
30 Bets for errors without note (6)

DOWN
1   Celebrity singer swings art nouveau (8)
2   Six surround loony artist on top of elevated storey in Paris to make it multi-coloured (9)
3   Mini submarines? (4)
5   Merciful to allow ugly nine inside (7)
6   *Dancing stock at Rio (4,6)
7   Firework, a damp one will fizzle out (5)
8   Exercise in the morning finally bore new primates (3-3)
9   *Communist view, reportedly (3,3)
14 Lunatic way to completely conceal small unknown quantity meat slice (10)
17 *Misplaced arrack kegs lost credit for good (9)
18 Late finishes or cul-de-sacs? (4,4)
20 Wise bird under an image building exercise with hesitation becomes a crook (7)
21 Weird position within city limits (6)
22 Absorbs energy in exchange for a couple of dirhams and outputs waste (6)
24 Upper garment without British parasite (5)
26 Church appeal to deliver a short note (4)

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Holiday Special, Friday 16 Jan 2015, Le Roi

Three answers per commenter (Annotations compulsorily to be provided with comment) upto 6 PM.
As far as possible provide all your answers in one comment.

ACROSS
1   Cowardly hundred birds with no tail (6)
4   Thrilled, I’d please seven sisters (8)
10 Chairs get arranged at old Parliament (9)
11 Soft force to wipe off (5)
12 Employees turned around and left for ultimate strong apartments (5)
13 Insect covers alien bearing gold rock (9)
14 Hide brooches in empty envelope (7)
16 Bind continent without community (4)
19 Mindless person loses right to become world revolver (4)
21 A day once in spring or once in autumn, horse loses direction to meet ox (7)
24 Look with difficulty around a mishmash killer fog  (3-6)
25 Dog has Styx circling it? (5)
26 Firm encountered heavenly object (5)
27 I is in this? (9)
28 Rectify angle error without alternative photographic equipment (8)
29 Feel sorry for each backward hospital unit (6)

DOWN
1   Nonchalant California official misses midpoint (8)
2   The Spanish graduate in retrospect has mineral friendly character (8)
3   Even test conduit nearly reveals spirit (5)
5   Rowing boat head falls down between opposite sides making it easier to carry (7)
6   Spontaneous politician in Indian Railways finds another engrossed in Old Testament which all can view (9)
7   Divert the German trouble (6)
8   It holds meat, slant with hesitation (6)
9   French honey almost spilt next to a messy place to impede (6)
15 Poor start spoilt infant orb (9)
17 Reindeer like animal to cry losing prime student for new good beginnings (8)
18 Rival gives up work substituted by late advocate (8)
20 Write back melody for Sea God (7)
21 Retarded simian encircling old city ring to discover satellite (6)
22 Earnings per share including diamond turns up coin money (6)
23 Tamil mother in small volume is a whale, perhaps (6)
25 Resolve standard bridge opponents (5)

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Special, Sunday 11 Jan 2015, Le Roi

Three answers per commenter (Annotations compulsory) upto 6 PM

ACROSS
8   Aim axe to cut food poisoning (8)
9   Unwind, General right next to French nude, from the east (6)
10 Graduate doctor has couple of ducks to find grass (6)
11 Oriental viper in brief animation is a kitchen utility (8)
12 Decision obtained by measurement breaking key resistance (8)
13 Studded fashionable topless Scottish wear (6)
14 Inebriated model hit for dead, lying between extremes (6,2,3,4)
18 Hundred and fifty gardenias essentially, it illuminates a romantic dinner (6)
20 Packed memory gas used in slaughter (4-4)
23 Cat in agony finally gone giving odorous compound (8)
24 Complete a royal tirade (6)
25 Period after cannabis appetiser (6)
26 Revolutionary group embraces German soldier to form a board with 32 warriors (5,3)

DOWN
1   Nil delivery due to foot over the line (2,4)
2   Skinny injured bear down (3-5)
3   Without difficulty, kiss gets model in for top consideration (6)
4   A soft crime scene unravelled postgraduate (6,2,7)
5   Swimmer laughs if a nutty part flipped (4,4)
6   Support the Spanish drive (6)
7   Some nail arranged for a pasta ingredient (8)
15 Homework passivity (8)
16 Cosmetic look at luxury ship (8)
17 Royal Engineer buried gold in celebration to make it green again (8)
19 Faculty head hiding setter to humiliate (6)
21 Surprised at labyrinth in our time (6)
22 Underwear that is lost to stay put (6)

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Special, Sunday 07 Dec 2014, Le Roi

Welcome to our new setter Le Roi. Bouquets and brickbats welcome with comments.
3 answers per commenter (With annotations compulsorily) till 6 PM.

ACROSS
1   Salvation Army teetotaler goes around house of a pupil to meet Goscinny or Uderzo perhaps? (8)
5   Fiends read reverse mantra in studies (6)
9   Representation of an adult insect which gained energy for nothing (5)
10 A model, a roman and I return to his lover (9)
12 Most stinky after demolishing waste site (9)
13 Persuade to leave home and find what adorns the top of a church (5)
14 Includes right inside maps within a map (7)
16 Fashionable, sharper without marrow essentially to be fit (2,5)
17 Driver chopped up trees with hesitation (7)
20 Laments for example surrounded by oriental fabrications (7)
23 I train eight male soldiers initially to obtain list members (5)
24 Ian Carter designed an act of delaying to move (9)
27 Untaught, trendy odd tourist starts itinerary viewing Eiffel (9)
28 A lake provides an elevated place to stay (5)
29 See rascals from the east who hid Indian dresses (6)
30 Bivouac holding oriental army is a rented place (8)

DOWN
1   Long narrow cuts illuminated within vessel (5)
2   Party student in empty trains goes places (7)
3   A stamped hand would allow you to do so within green terrace (7)
4   Look around home for Paris flower (5)
6   Northbound stooge loses ultimate love for Islamic State to become headless individualists (7)
7   Trocar in a keyhole operation conceals ceramic instrument (7)
8   Has demented football legend on a ship become amoeboid? (9)
11 France surrendered by fast rider with a member on each side (7)
14 Encourages home wines (9)
15 Nervous titters give rise to superimposed voices (7)
18 Explosive jet core leads to a device causing elimination (7)
19 R.I.P. seer failed to breathe (7)
21 Wax record associated with one is no longer alive (7)
22 Stimulate the constituents of thinner vein (7)
25 To thread a needle he must be a superman (5)
26 The Spanish Election Commissioner first tests the voted candidate (5)

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