ACROSS
8 Endlessly
booed
scordato member of orchestra (4)
OBOE BOOE
d*
9 Course sped around with appropriate safeguards (3,7) DUE PROCESS*
10
Composer's name called out (6)
HANDEL (~handle)
11 Intoxicated faun to make incursion, being fearless (8) UNAFRAID {FAUN*}{RAID}
12 Doing borders of Hawaii, then either border of Woodstock (9) HANDIWORK {Ha..iI}{Wo...cK}(H and I)(W or K)
14 Eldest of children usually expressed pretentiousness (4) AIRS (~heirs)
15 Big cheese regularly chills (4) ICES {bIg+ChEeSe}
16 Kerfuffle before token of love offered on vacation lovingly, lovingly (9) ADORINGLY {ADO}{RING}{Lo...lY}
20 Dry in the morning; before start of
afternoon,
Italian's knocked back
liqueur (3,5)
TIA MARIA {AIR}{AM}{A
f...n}{IT}<=
21 Someone with a lisp's shy, becoming
talkative (6)
MOUTHY (~mousy)
23
Vet'
s confused after duck escapes holding
underwear (6,4)
STRING VEST {VETS}*<=>{ST
oRING}
24 Singer's keen on retiring (4) DIVA<=
25
Cheered and
chased off
something from Somerset (7,6)
CHEDDAR CHEESE {CHEERED+CHASED}*
DOWN
1 Primarily '
correspondence':
arcane
Biblical
beliefs;
Abrahamic
literature
absorbed? (7)
CABBALA Acrostic &lit
2 Whereby unpleasant
bur
den is exclusing
reek, primarily? (1-4)
U-BEND BU
rDEN*
& lit3
So Dad's starter comes on a
salad?
Something bad will inevitably occur (4,3)
SODS LAW {SO}{D
ad}{SLAW}
4 Wildly cheered queer car that's had good and bad times (9,6) CHEQUERED CAREER {CHEERED+QUEER+CAR}*
5 Some forsake
n or waylaid in the country (6) NORWAY [T]6
Going back to find suspicious P
uert
o Rica
ns denied tap dancing (9)
RECURSION {
pUER
tO+RIC
aNS}*
7 Fool with slander, perhaps, about young women (7) LASSIES {L{ASS}IES}
13 'Milk a deer'? That's freakish, surreal (9) DREAMLIKE*
15 Unwise to assemble 3rd, 7th, 9th, 20th, 22nd, 27th & 28th pieces from Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (7) IDIOTIC {dmItri+DmItrievich+shOsTakovICh}
17 Mum's overcome by strain when game's played again (7) REMATCH {RE{MA}TCH}
18 Corrupt c
hevali
er's heading off, abandoning one
French city (2,5)
LE HAVRE {
cHEVAL
iER}*
19 Run into tree? Everyman would, becoming unresponsive (6) FRIGID {F{R}IG}{I'D}
22 Fun duet; 'side splitting'? ... a bit much (5) UNDUE {fUN}{DUEt}
Reference List
Italian = IT, Run = R