Solving time : OK - I'll admit. I'm in no state to be solving or blogging and it's showing through - 1 hour and 5 minutes later I'm being told I have a correct solution, which is a minor woohoo moment, but I'm not quite sure how. I had to load the grid three times and this blog twice.
I'm going to finish this and pass out, so any corrections/edits/sober thoughts are likely to be found in the comments.
And away we go...
I'm going to finish this and pass out, so any corrections/edits/sober thoughts are likely to be found in the comments.
And away we go...
Across | |
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1 | SACK: double definition |
3 | SCAFFOLDER: CAFF in SOLDIER minus I |
10 | APENNINIES: PEN,NINE(a "small" number) in A,S |
11 | DEMO,B |
12 | KNOW-ALL: OK reversed over N, then WALL |
13 | DANISH: NIB minus B in DASH |
15 | ESCALATOR CLAUSE: anagram of CALCULATORS+EASE |
18 | OCCASIONAL TABLE: or OCCASION,ALT,ABLE |
21 | UP(in court),DATE(partner) |
23 | IVANHOE: (I,HAVE,NO)* |
26 | FJORD: J |
27 | CREAM SODA: SO(very),DA |
28 | ROYAL FLUSH: ROY and AL are the boys, then FLUSH(drunk) As pointed out in comments, this is more probably ROY,ALF,LUSH |
29 | RAZE: CRAZE missing the first letter |
Down | |
1 | S,HACK,LET ON |
2 | CREDO: DO(party) under CRE |
4 | CANALETTO: (A,TALENT)* in CO |
5 | F,USED |
6 | ORDINAL: DIN in ORAL |
7 | DAMP SQUIB: MPS,QUI inside DAB |
8 | ROB(mug),E |
9 | ENTAIL: LINE reversed with TA inside |
14 | DEGENERATE: (TEENAGER)* in D |
16 | CACOPHONY: CA(about),CO |
17 | READINESS: READ,NESS about 1 |
19 | SCAN,DAL |
20 | TRAUMA: ART reversed then |
22 | EXCEL: sounds like "XL"(very large) |
24 | HOO-HA: HOO |
25 | AFAR: hidden reversed in gReAt FeAr |