No 11384, Saturday 02 May 2015, Lightning

Neat one from Lightning.

Across

1 Travelling salesmen problem (8) LAMENESS {SALESMEN*}
5 Like lime // tart? (6) ACIDIC (DD)
9 Drag mace over bridge, say (4,4) CARD GAME {DRAG MACE*}
10 Complicated, unfinished button on teletypewriter (6) KNOTTY {KNOt}{TTY} {KNOb}{TTY} See comments
12 Former tennis star, always on time for starters (5) EVERT {EVER}{Time}

13 Bird, fantastic at the start of championship game (9) SUPERBOWL {SUPER B}{OWL}
14 Periodic osmosis saves plant (6) COSMOS (T)

16 Hard wind sliced Mohawk for one (7) HAIRCUT {H}{AIR} {CUT}
19 Timeless rental agreement essentially ripped apart (7) ETERNAL {RENTAL agreEment}*
21 Assassin to strike British isle (6) HITMAN {HIT}{MAN}
23 Boring story describing odd settee on ship (9) TASTELESS {TA{SeTtEe}LE}{SS}
25 Flower petal I lackadaisically held (5) LILAC (T)
26 Eskimos freeze soldiers (6) ICEMEN {ICE}{MEN}
27 Traveller’s data processing device primarily made for power (8) COMMUTER {COM(-p)(+Made)UTER}
28 Finally dispatching garbage to cave (6) GROTTO {dispatchinG}{ROT}{TO}
29 Accidentally close to fortune (2,6) BY CHANCE {BY}{CHANCE}

Down

1 Pawn seal opener (6)  LACKEY {LAC}{KEY}
2 Sullen chief operator let out cipher used for communication (5,4) MORSE CODE {MORoSE} {CODE}
3 Nobleman beheaded in a period of darkness (5) NIGHT {kNIGHT}
4 Snacks from Assam in pieces, therefore returned inside (7) SAMOSAS {SAM{OS<=}AS*}

6 Fraud busted, cast into Tihar at last (3,6) CON ARTIST {CAST INTO tihaR}*
7 Same day appeal turned over to begin with (5) DITTO {D}{IT}{Turned}{Over}
8 Tyre coil damaged by mineral (8) CRYOLITE {TYRE COIL*}

11 Work on a hard fish (4) OPAH {OP}{A}{H}

15 Mixture of team? (9) MINCEMEAT {MINCE}{TEAM*} Reverse Anagram
17 The French interrupting plot by a new imposter (9) CHARLATAN {CHAR{LA}T}{A}{N}
18 Agitated eye with object (8) SEETHING {SEE}{THING}
20 Bulb list (4) LEEK {LEEK<=} List = Keel over
21 That man’s conservative record (7) HISTORY {HIS}{TORY}
22 Collect bill with auditor’s team (6) ACCRUE {AC}{~CREW}
24 One scribbling notes (5) STENO {NOTES*} &lit
25 Extremely lazy method originally used to measure alkaline level of fluid (5) LYMPH {LazY}{Method}PH}

Reference List

Teletypewriter=TTY,Hard=H,Ship=SS,Power=P

Day=D,Appeal=IT,New=N

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No 11383, Friday 01 May 2015, Incognito

Pangram with 11A*=15A*=22A*=28A*=3D*=6D*=23D*=25D*

ACROSS
8   Master of meditation's funny bear (4) YOGI [DD]

9   West Indian dance in place for the un-baptized (5) LIMBO [DD]
10 Fiends have one representative “Bob” (4) IMPS {1}{MP}{S} I presume Bob = Shilling = S
11 Admits confused Yeltsin after Yankee went away (4,2) LETS IN yELTSIN*
12 Stuart is trying hiding brilliance of a painter, for example (8) ARTISTRY [T]
13 Questioners ask endlessly before first section starts (8) QUERISTS {QUERy}{1ST}{Se...n}
15 Period before Easter's advanced (2,4) IS LENT {IS} {LENT}
17 Fish Tintin's friend consumed on wharf (7) HADDOCK {HAD}{DOCK}

19 The French have the first right in this port (2,5) LE HAVRE {LE} {HAV{Right}E}
22 South Indian gave money to mum (6) SILENT {S}{I}{LENT}
24 Mark around a premier tech institute with a sword (8) SCIMITAR {SC{1}{MIT}AR}
26 Zebu doll runs around cow (8) BULLDOZE*
28 Hear! Trainee setter has a gun (6) LISTEN {L}{I}{STEN}
30 Promises “Five-Zero” to two Bridge players (4) VOWS {V}{O}{W}{S}
31 First schedule for a finalist who has lost a fin (1-4) A-LIST finALIST
32 One bird, to begin with, is a bird (4) IBIS {1}{Bird}{IS}

DOWN
1   Funny story: Take a particular card and cut off its end (4) JOKE JOKEr
2   Female is certain: “Dead and disintegrated” (8) FISSURED {F}{IS}{SURE}{D}
3   Electronic intelligence inputs obtained from scrambled teleprinters after R. Peter left (6) ELINTS  TELeprINterS*
4   Setter goes back with fish (yellow at first) to diplomatic office (7) EMBASSY {EM<=}{BASS}{Ye...w}
5   Tie roots around a creature (8) TORTOISE*
6   Showy material made from can with Selenium corner (6) TINSEL {TIN}{SE}{L}
7   Fight with a strut (4) SPAR [DD]
14 INA worked under United Nations school of medicine (5) UNANI {UN}{INA*}
16 She might have a ruined manor (5) NORMA*
18 Selina Kyle had chap chasing pair behind accountant (8) CATWOMAN {CA}{TWO}{MAN}
20 Broke maid's hip halfway between bow and stern of a vessel (8) AMIDSHIP*
21 Put sulphur into a type of acid for a hermit (7) ASCETIC {A{S}CETIC}
23 Jump line on street and sign up (6) ENLIST {LINE*}{ST}
25 23 mad coves (6) INLETS ENLIST*
27 State “Working over” (4) UPON {UP}{ON}
29 Alien captures team at the egress (4) EXIT {E{XI}T}

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