No 10710, Saturday 02 Mar 13, Incognito

Long-winded clues from Incognito, enjoyable all the same.

ACROSS

1, 19 Book first transmission from a satellite about grounding of a bird (3,5,3,6) THE EAGLE HAS LANDED [DD]

5   Billy Bunter’s a creature of the night (3,3) THE OWL [DD]

10 Foreigner with a right (5) ALIEN {A}{LIEN}

11 Weaponry found when Royal Military Academy replaced part in apartments (9) ARMAMENTS A(-part+rma)RMAMENTS

12 Egotist loses heart but remains self-centred (6) EGOIST EGOtIST

13 Egg-whites made by aliens, without eye, say, surrounding vagrant (8) ALBUMENS {ALi{BUM}ENS}

15 Back in Bruxelles, this place is a commuter town (5) EXURB [T<=]

17 A month earlier, National Aerospace Laboratories made an eight-sided figure (9) OCTAGONAL {OCT}{AGO}{NAL}

19 See 1 across

20 A type of union seen in drug by-products (5) RUGBY [T]

21 Cloth portrait made by eccentric novice artists (8) VERONICA {NOVICE+RA}*

23 USAF flies this parrot around (6) RAPTOR*

27 They cool cars and heat rooms (9) RADIATORS [E]

28 A girl was out of place (5) AMISS {A}{MISS}

29 Camouflaged by mafioso, other hoodlums placate (6) SOOTHE [T]

30 Another name for 22 dn: communications sans cables (8) WIRELESS {WIRE}{LESS}

DOWN

1   English or Scottish aristocratic landholder’s suburb in Mumbai (5) THANE [DD]

2   Seeing one record after another, basically guess, the concluding words found in some books (9) EPILOGUE {EP}{1}{LOG}{gUESs}

3   Female relatives mince small tuna (5) AUNTS {S+AUNT}*

4   Metal that is in the forefront (4) LEAD [DD]

6   Gardener’s lawman who, in short, sounded like a denizen of a German city (9) HAMBURGER {HAMilton BURGER}

7   Bounce, when opening bowler went out, a small quantity (5) OUNCE bOUNCE

8   Sally sets out food for a person with high BP (4,5) LESS SALTY*

9   Distance travelled by Bob when cooking a plum diet (9) AMPLITUDE*

14 Busman who took out little crocodile donut (9) CONDUCTOR {CROC+DONUT}*

15 Repeat: “Malicious stuff is found in the gut” (9) ECHOVIRUS {ECHO}{VIRUS}

16 Modify thought by an organ rinse (9) BRAINWASH {BRAIN}{WASH}

18 Spooner treated light knife for evening entertainment (9) NIGHTLIFE {(-l+n)NIGHT(kn+l)LIFE}

22 Method of communication where a small advertisement is placed in Portuguese river (5) RADIO {R{AD}IO}

24 Not asleep after a death ceremony (5) AWAKE {A}{WAKE}

25 Ornamental ceiling fittings look like flowers (5) ROSES [DD]

26 Spore cells of fungi initially found at Administrative Staff College of India (4) ASCI {A}{S}{C}{I}

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No 10709, Friday 01 Mar 13, Mover

 Some nice clues from Mover today. Liked 6D the best.

ACROSS

1   Discomfort caused by tangled belts and harnesses? (14) BREATHLESSNESS*

10 The head will yield fabric (5) TWILL {T}{WILL}

11 Back alley holds terrible woes for a wet body near Korea (6,3) YELLOW SEA {YELL{OW SE*}A}

12 Essential furniture for the sartorially resplendent! (7) DRESSER [DD]

13 Congressman Grant’s opponent gobbles steak bone, feeling stuffed (7) REPLETE {REP}{LE{T}E}

14 Sudden loud noise behind old Japanese coin (5) OBANG {O}{BANG}

16 Writing desk for the senior official (9) SECRETARY [DD]

19 Pine arose, possibly behind ducks’ milieu (9) PONDEROSA {POND}{AROSE*}

20 Flower part to lapse badly (5) SEPAL*

22 “Rats!” snorted Daffy (7) RODENTS*

25 Confounded and knocked to the ground (7) FLOORED [DD]

27 Man hugging Spanish aunt after boy returned spotted dog (9) DALMATIAN {DAL<=}{MA{TIA}N}

28 Book intro by mere poet (5) BLAKE {B}{LAKE}

29 Close-knit, like some stupid criminals? (5,2,7) THICK AS THIEVES {THICK} {AS THIEVES}

DOWN

2   Probably Adam and Eve kick up a fuss (5,4) RAISE CAIN [CD] Why probably?

3   Titan found in a school desk? (5) ATLAS [DD]

4   Voila! poetry she composed (3,6) HEY PRESTO*

5   Edmonton hockey team player sounds like a mathematician (5) EULER (~oiler)

6   Urgent news from Saint Harry? (4,5) STOP PRESS {ST}{OP PRESS}

7   Measure and take action to follow (5) ENSUE {EN}{SUE}

8   August gallery artfully surrounded (7) STATELY {S{TATE}LY}

9   Sexy man I love in artist’s workshop (6) STUDIO {STUD}{I}{O}

15 Fresh support for the U.S. dollar? (9) GREENBACK {GREEN}{BACK}

17 Bird is short distance behind trash (9) CHAFFINCH {CHAFF}{INCH}

18 As Norm connected with gentle, sweet thing (9) ASPARTAME {AS}{PAR}{TAME}

19 Precious stone fairy gets her dowry (7) PERIDOT {PERI}{DOT}

21 Served boy in the van (6) LADLED Anno not clear (Addendum - {LAD}{LED} - See comments)

23 Capital held somehow by Italian leader (5) DELHI {HELD*}{I}

24 Leaders of South Korea in disgrace suffer slippages (5) SKIDS {S}{K}{I}{D}{S}

26 Card game causes guy to lose his head (5) OMBRE hOMBRE

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