No 14218, Thursday 04 Jul 2024, Vidwan

Solution to 22D has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

Open for anyone to answer, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS

8   Flunking with his stupid, unrealistic idea (7,8) WISHFUL THINKING*

9   Small radio enthusiast is fake (4) SHAM {S}{HAM}

10 Doubt popular judgement (10) INDECISION {IN}{DECISION}

11 Shut if out for peep (6) SHUFTI*

13 Some job structures hinder progress (8) OBSTRUCT [T]

14 Vacation? Cold in England? Come with wine and immunity document! (7,8) VACCINE PASSPORT {VAC}{C}{IN}{E}{PASS}{PORT}

17 Pilot carried trash of sticky stuff that catches insects (8) FLYPAPER {FLY{PAP}ER}

19 Make thinner, air fry maybe! (6) RARIFY*

21 These fishers with AI can make mineral water (10) TRAWLERMEN [CA] {TRAWLERMEN+AI}*={MINERAL WATER}

22 Price's about right! Gratis! (4) FREE {F{R}EE}

23 Refer to nothing, talk and argue evasively after losing head on Zoom, for example (15) VIDEOCONFERENCE {VIDE}{O}{CONFER}{fENCE}

DOWN

1   Height could be 12.5%? (6) EIGHTH*

2   Fancy working hard in marketplace, at start (4) WHIM Acrostic

3   Test car scoring 1 in 100 (8) AUDITION {AUDI}{T{1}ON}

4   Accommodation for Lady Killer/Intelligence Officer, alone and slightly more than half mad (6,9) STUDIO APARTMENT {STUD}{IO}{APART}{MENTal}

5   Group of entertainers travelling about, mostly with people in general (6) CIRCUS {CIRCa}{US}

6   Short swashbuckling Indian batsman's small escapade, gets runs, stands tall like Burj Khalifa! (10) SKYSCRAPER {SKY}{SCRAPE}{R}

7   One who implements some regimen for certain? (8) ENFORCER [T]

12 Cosmetic item for loud master keeping Germany in control (4,6) FACE POWDER {F}{ACE}{POW{D}ER}

15 Hypersensitive - every unit of energy is consumed at start! (8) ALLERGIC {ALL}{ERG}{Is}{Co...d}

16 Unknown street guard (8) STRANGER {ST}{RANGER}

18 Quietly arrive at address (6) PREACH {P}{REACH}

20 Wild fire and ice! Most wild! (6) FIERCE {FIRE}*{iCE}

22 Following the law for contract (4) F?E? (Addendum FLEX  {F}{LEX} - See comments) 

Reference List

Small = S, Popular = IN, Vacation = VAC, Cold = C, England = E, Right = R, Runs = R, Loud = F, Germany = D, Street = ST, Quietly = P, Following = F

No 14217, Wednesday 03 Jul 2024, Spinner

Solution to 15A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

Open for anyone to answer, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS

1   Following Pythagoras' lead, peculiar nerd turned at ninety degrees (13) PERPENDICULAR {Py...r}{PECULIAR+NERD}*

10 Percentage of quota not fulfilled (5) RATIO RATIOn

11 West Indies coming with extremely laurelled aces - they don't need to get through qualification! (4,5) WILD CARDS {WI}{La...eD}{CARDS}

12 Work from test site owned by us (6) LABOUR {LAB}{OUR}

13 Guess English's complicated, at times! (8) ESTIMATE {E}{AT+TIMES}*

15 Line-up comes before kick-off, as time runs out in front of essentially tempestuous audience! (9) ?I?T?N?R? (Addendum - LISTENERS {LIST}{ENtER}{t...eSt...s} - See comments

16 Dealing with love, silly! (2,2) ON IT {0}{NIT}

20 Female choir's reverberation (4) ECHO [T]

21 Get shot by mistake while not being the intended target? (9) PHOTOBOMB {PHOTO}{BOMB} &lit

24 Dodgy check is caught in large heist upfront (8) TICKLISH {TICK}{L}{IS}{He..t}

26 Deceitful U-turn awkwardly exposed leader (6) UNTRUE {U+TURN}*{Ex...d}

28 Support side finally with new captain, as old as you and me! (9) ENCOURAGE {sidE}{N}{C}{OUR AGE}

29 Intense performance about upper-class eccentricities, primarily (5) ACUTE {AC{U}T}{Ec...s}

30 Caution : Spinner's returning with power and will! (13) DETERMINATION {DETER}{I'M<=}{NATION}

DOWN

2   Doctor hails best form (9) ESTABLISH*

3   Publicity over channel beginning to sell goods! (8) PRODUCTS {PR}{O}{DUCT}{S}

4   Scientist not working for slippery customer? (4) NEWT NEWTon

5   Clarify incorrect American cess trapping top taxpayers (10) ILLUSTRATE {ILL}{US}{Ta...s}{RATE}

6   Mischief-maker swaying without taking either side (6) URCHIN lURCHINg

7   Patriarchy shackles parts of the heart (5) ATRIA [T]

8   Faithfully obedient after troubling at first (5) TRULY {RULY}<=>{Tr...g}

9   Basically adds forced stress? (7) ASSERTS {Adds}{STRESS*} &lit

14 Fanaticism perhaps unseats him? (10) ENTHUSIASM*

17 Main menu cooked with complete, unending love (6,3) NUMERO UNO {MENU*}{ROUNd}{0}

18 Accepts sender's first letters randomly with no address, essentially! (7) SETTLES {Se...s}{LETTErS}*

19 Every association worker is rich (8) ABUNDANT {A BUND}{ANT}

22 Set clues having a catch! (6) CLAUSE {CL{A}USE*}

23 Enjoy part of movie featuring chief villain (5) REVEL {RE{Vi...n}EL}

25 Hoard auditor's money (5) CACHE (~cash)

27 Spotted rival players getting exercise on the sides (4) SEEN {S}{N} over {Ex...sE}

Reference List

English = E, Large = L, New = N, Captain = C, Upper-class = U, Publicity = PR, Over = O, Love = 0,  Rival players = S(south), N(North)