36 minutes for this with 5dn and 13ac taking me over the 30 minute mark. A nice set of clues with only half a niggle and one clue perhaps not entirely understood.
Across | |
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1 | FAWN - W (wicket) inside FAN (cooler) |
3 | ADAMS APPLE - PP (very quietly in music) inside ADAM'S ALE (water) |
10 | GROUNDSEL - ROUNDS (periods of fighting) inside GEL (set) |
11 | CONGA - CONG |
12 | RAFFISH - RAF (part of armed forces), -ISH (like). To my mind that leaves an F unaccounted for but I expect there are precedents for doubling up the last letter of a word when adding a suffix. |
13 | ABSEIL - AB (rating in navy), SEIL (LIES, is prone reversed) |
15 | HALL OF RESIDENCE - Anagram of CELL REFASHIONED |
18 | A FAREWELL TO ARMS - The 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway and a reference to the famous statue by Alexandros of Antioch (qv 7dn yesterday) |
21 | WINGED - W |
23 | TOCCATA - TO, "CARTER". A virtuoso piece of music. Bach wrote possibly the most famous one with a fugue attached for organ. Edit: Thanks to ulaca for mentioning Vidor's Toccata which I suspect is more widely known these days than the Bach because of its popularity as a wedding voluntary e.g. at Will's & Kate's (nearly) two years ago. |
26 | ICIER - ICI (here on foreign trip), ER (monarch) |
27 | GANGPLANK - GANG (company), PLAN (scheme), K (Joseph K is the main character in Kafka's 'The Trial') |
28 | KHYBER PASS - Anagram of PESKY RASH + B |
29 | PELT - Triple definition: run, fall hard (like rain), trophy (as in hunting). |
Down | |
1 | FIGUREHEAD |
2 | WOOLF - WOOL (something spun), F(fine). Virginia Woolf 1882-1941. |
4 | DISCHARGE - Anagram of D |
5 | MALTA - M (minute), ALTA |
6 | ACCUSED - ACCU |
7 | PENSIONER - PENS (writes), 1 - ONE (one all), R |
8 | EGAD - D (daughter), AGE (long time) all reversed. Definition 'My!' |
9 | INDIGO - INDI |
14 | MESS JACKET - MESS (sloppy food, as in Eton mess) , JACKET (sort of potato, in its skin) |
16 | LIABILITY - LI |
17 | SPLIT ENDS - SPLIT being the town and ENDS its boundaries. |
19 | EN GARDE - GAR (cloth reversed), inside ENDE |
20 | OCCUPY - OC (officer), CUP (vessel), Y (unknown) |
22 | DIG UP - GI (soldier) inside PUD (Yorkshire, say) all reversed. |
24 | APACE - PA (old man) inside ACE (serve in tennis) |
25 | PINK - In snooker the pink ball is worth 6 points and the green is worth 3. |