Times Crossword 10,334 - Another Antique!

Solving Time: About 22 minutes. We have another offering from the 1960s today, as the second qualifier is published. I thought this a pleasant, essentially fair crossword, if a little strange in places. It didn't seem at all difficult, so I was rather startled on entering it this morning to be told I have two wrong. I can't see any typos, so unless I see something as I do the blog, suggestions will be welcomed..on edit: see 4dn, 15dn.. stupid boy!

The qualifier can be found here, thanks mc. I will blog it later, and publish when the solution becomes available.


cd = cryptic definition, dd = double definition, rev = reversed, anagrams are *(--), homophones indicated in ""

ODO means the Oxford Dictionaries Online

Across
1	standard - seek election = STAND + A R(URAL) D(ISTRICT)
5	wallop - everything = ALL in captive = POW rev.
9	counsels - COUNSELS. I confess I looked this up, though if I'd had all the checkers in place I think it might have been gettable.
10	sample - MP in SALE (Cheshire).
12	Edith - hidden in bED I THought. I assumed the sleeping bit was just padding to improve the surface, but it might in fact be a reference to Matthew 9, 24-26: "He said unto them, Depart: for the girl is not dead, but sleeps. And they laughed him to scorn. But when the people were put outside, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the girl arose. And the fame of this went abroad into all that land."
13	eglantine - *(INELEGANT)
14	presentiment - hmm, not a cd or a dd, just a d really.. even for those days, a little odd. Not an easy clue to check, if you're trying to find an error!
18	stage manager - *(GERMAN AGATES)
21	land-reeve - *(REVEALED IN) .. but with a surplus I, presumably accounted for by the "mostly"
23	arrow - school = (H)ARROW
24	exarch - EX + ARCH. An exarch is one of various kinds of satrap or provincial governer
25	Wendover - WEND + OVER
26	sodden - rum = ODD in S, E & N. I wondered if this is one I got wrong, since really the clue should say "soaked."
27	estrange - EST(ABLISHED) + RANGE (of hills)
Down
1	sicker - SICKER(T), a reference to Walter Sickert, an artist so well known even I had heard of him
2	Anubis - A NUB IS. Anubis is the doggy-headed member of the Egyptian pantheon
3	discharge - D IS CHARGE - nowadays it would have to be "An old penny is..."
4	roller-skates - a jocular cd, but I carelessly put "roller-skater," and I think that's one of my two errors
6	again - a success = A GAIN
7	lop-sided - *(ODD PILES)
8	presents - *(TEN) in papers = PRESS
11	Plantagenets - *(AGENT) in stars = PLANETS. Though they don't of course, not for me at any rate
15	Icelander - but stupidly I put IRELANDER for my other mistake.. just didn't notice the dual possibility. The word does exist, but I'm not sure if it's in the "usual sources" or not. It isn't in ODO, which helpfully says "Did you mean Icelander?"
16	psalters - footnote = PS + ALTERS
17	mainland - sea = MAIN + country = LAND. A simple but neat clue
19	graven - G + RAVEN. I wondered if I had this one right, since the G is not really explained.. is it meant to be FINISHIN(G)?
20	swerve - *(V(I)EWERS)
22	ruche - CH in RUE, CH being a Companion of Honour