ACROSS
1 - Infant born during recess (4) - BABY {BA{B}Y}
3 - Passionate tale involving maiden (6) - STORMY {STOR{M}Y}
9 - Undergoing a state of transition at home, plotting changes involving text (2,3,7,3) - IN THE MELTING POT {IN} {THE ME}{LTING POT*}
10 - Draws on novel alibi to reveal talents (9) - ABILITIES {ALIBI*}{TIES}
11 - A bit of cork in my French wine (5) - MACON {M{A}{C}ON}
12 - English home with electronic source of power (6) - ENGINE {ENG}{IN}{E}
13 - Messy hit and run (8) - SLAPDASH {SLAP}{DASH}
16 - General behaviour in a Manhattan street (8) - BROADWAY {BROAD}{WAY}
17 - Crime writer's killers left out (6) - SAYERS {S
20 - Attack head of sixth-form college (3,2) - SET-ON {S}{ET-ON}
22 - Available in large quantities where Carrie Watts grew up (9) - BOUNTIFUL [DD]
23 - Deliver free (4,2,3,6) - COME TO THE RESCUE [DD]
24 - Type of ring, reportedly for a young bird (6) - CYGNET (~signet)
DOWN
1 - Body of troops ordered to capture equipment (7) - BRIGADE {B{RIG}ADE}
2 - Something for the beach, a bit much? Gent so embarrassed (7,7) - BATHING COSTUME*
3 - Move by one knight to intervene (4,2) - STEP IN {STEP} {1}{N}
4 - Boy let us out, dim-wittedly (8) - OBTUSELY*
5 - Motive, primarily, behind very short note (5) - MINIM {MINI}{M}
6 - Was king around end of thirties - abdicated (8) - RESIGNED {RE{S}IGNED}
7 - Constable, perhaps, getting results with tricks used in picture-making (7,7) - SPECIAL EFFECTS {SPECIAL} {EFFECTS}
8 - Very unpleasant smell coming from tail of cartilaginous fish (6) - STENCH {S}{TENCH}
14 - You'd think you'd find alligators on one, but you won't! (4,4) - PEAR TREE [CD]
16 - Cut and dry in brief space of time (6) - BISECT {BI{SEC}T}
18 - Joins privates after one drops out (7) - SOLDERS SOLD
19 - Boy in game, forward (6) - RUPERT {RU}{PERT}
21 - Dapper, some aldermen at Tynwald (5) - NATTY [T]
Todays special at 10:30 is by Filler, another new setter trying out his skills.
ReplyDeleteMy opinion, FWIW. Maybe we can gauge what others think.
ReplyDeleteI think that if the sol grid image is to be used at all, it can pop up on another page instead of it being so obvious when we open the day's blog. Some of us may not have solved/fully solved when we come here and we may not want the sol hitting our eyes from the grid.
Secondly - and more important - when all the answers are typed and typed with anno alongside the clues, where is the need for the sol grid? Aren't we expecting more work from the blogger? (He has to get the blank grid in a software and type in the answers that he already entered elsewhere - or so I think, unless he has facilitated easier steps or any app allows him to copy the image of a filled-in grid and paste it: I know that some don't and we have to give a file name, save it onto our disc and then recall it.) Those looking for any ans/anno should have the patience of looking for clue no. in the blog text instead of wanting to see the relevant quadrant in the sol grid. (I do expect a publication to use sol grid instead of run-on answers exactly for ease of spotting, but a voluntary blogger need not be saddled with any more work than they do.)
Coming in rather late today after a lot of chores, and a bit surprised to find that there's not a single comment on the Sunday crossword itself! Can't remember this in some time.
ReplyDeleteFound today a little more difficult (or say out of context) than usual, though patience was finally rewarded. Pear Tree: who would have thought?
Yes, the bar was raised a bit today and I had a few holes in the grid and had to look up the blog.
ReplyDeleteYes, Sunday participation is nowadays rather poor. That is why Col. thought of the special and seems to be a good move judging by the activity and the interest created.
Reg. CV's comments about the filled grid- maybe Col. can give a link in stead of openly posting the filled grid ( only for those who want to see.) But it makes it easier for us who fill up on paper to compare and find out where and why we have gone wrong. I am assuming,of course, that Col. does not mind, having started it.
ReplyDeleteFriday's Crossie byMOVER:
ReplyDeleteI have a bone to pick, to join others who too did the same: 20 across: TIDESSnamall change comes back--S EDIT -to change answers for TIDES= recurring fluctuations. However, 21 down: Dodgy sly dow sings in a high pitch-- anagram of LSY DOE= YODELS fits in snugly with 25 across: INVALID-D and 28 across NOVEL- L
MOVER should have come in wioth a rejoinder , in all fairness !!