Garry Gillard > crosswords > solutions > Guardian > 27651
The puzzle is here: https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/27651.
Across
5 Get under someone's skin, might it? (6) NEEDLE - dd
6 Painter related to darkest shade, as he used to say? (6) RE,NOIR
9 Test buoyancy ultimately in fish (3,3) TRY OUT - Y inside TROUT
10 Attack top and bottom (8) HEAD,BUTT
11 See 18
12 Erect using poles etc, obvious long parts (5,1,4) PITCH A TENT - ITCH (long) inside PATENT (obvious)
13 Where a bridge is bent (2,3,6) ON THE FIDDLE - dd - the bridge on a violin
18,11 Go on sponsored walk primarily, middle of week taken off (6,4,4) POWDER ONE'S NOSE - (on sponsored w ee)* - where 'taken off' is the anagind
21 See 22
22, 21 Applies oneself, like a gorilla? (8,4) KNUCKLES DOWN - dd
23 One is oddly patchy (6) UNEVEN - maybe a triple definition
24 Ticklish rear of lieutenant aroused (6) T,HORNY
25 Ursine, might you say? Just about (6) BARELY - homophone for 'bearly' = like a bear (joke) = ursine
Down
1 Organ composition in fruit (8) MELODEON - ODE inside MELON
2 Cunning clue for "dump illegally" (3-3) FLY-TIP - FLY (cunning) + TIP (clue)
3,7 Getting frisky, Catherine dated bit of a looker after divorce? (8,6) DETACHED RETINA - (catherine dated)*
4 Ice has to remain in order (6) SORBET - BE inside SORT
5,20 Near catastrophe, question getting involved in hideous US-Korean war (6,6) NARROW SQUEAK - another long anagram (q us korean war)*
7 See 3
8 Matt, perhaps, in 5 20 (5,6) PHOTO FINISH - 'matt' refers to the non-glossy finish of a photo
14 Little time in sport for speeding (8) HUR(T)LING - hurling is an Irish game a bit like hockey
15 Damaged by run, boy runs indeed? (8) LADDERED - LAD + R inside DEED
16 Poetry like this half-cut poet served up (6) SONNET - SO + TENN(yson) rev.
17 Wet under thatched roof of the rural gentry? (6) TWEEDY - T (roof - first letter in a down clue - of Thatched) + WEEDY (wet)
19 Who could be in court loading a revolver? (6) DOCTOR - CT (court) inside (revolving) DOOR
20 See 5
KEY to abbreviations/terms/symbols which may have been used
(raga man)* = anagram of 'anagram'
cd = cryptic definition
dd = double definition
incl. = inclusive (hidden word)
def. = definition (synonym, literal)
rev. = reversed
anagind = anagram indicator
homophind = homophone indicator
surface - the apparent meaning of the clue, disguising what's really going on
&lit. - a clue in which the whole clue is the 'definition'
COD = clue of the day (imo); FOI, LOI, first/last one written in
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