Times 27167

ACROSS

1. dd - someone who 'minds' might 'object'
2. (aphid)S + PONGING = smelling bad = rank
10. (tall beast)*
11. DON (assume in the sense of put on) around I (one) J(udge)
12. A detective who is busy in a TV show. Morse code has dashes (as well as dots).
14. dd- sight = lot in the sense in English slang of 'large quantity'
16. SLING around NAFF (pants, in English slang, both meaning 'bad')
18. UTTER = complete + N inside ACE (one)
20. Last letters of founD neW lifE somE joB
21. French for 'so so' (mcc aim come come)*
25. dd
26. MADE + LEI + NE(w)
27. (often too)*
28. MEAT + US (over the pond, ie Atlantic Ocean) it's a canal in the ear

DOWN

1. X (sign of error) inside OT (Old Testament = books)+ AILS + Oxford University Press
2. the def. is 'digs' as in 'makes sense (of)' BE (live) is inside I (one) S ('s)
3. L(iberal) inside CEMENT (stick)
5. incl. in reciPE TERiyaki
6. NOD (green light) + S ('s) + OFF (extinguished)
7. JUST (fair) after IN (home) + ICE (distance - as in 'icy reserve', say)
8. Take the I (I despatched) out of GOING; a GONG is an award such as medal or knighthood
9. (in sparta)*
13. It's an American term for helicopters, so Richmond refers to the one in Virginia; EGG (oval) + BEATERS (winning team)
15. def. is 'tackle'; GET DOWN is duck + TO(o)
17. A REAC(h) + ODE (a poem - that kind of work)
19. def. is 'fast time' - it's a Muslim fast; A MAD inside RAN
20. Cecil B. de Mille has accepteD + EMILE (Zola) + LE (the definite article in French) - there seem to be one E too many ... it's a mistake, as the editor has now admitted
22. CO-MET, meaning 'they also met'
23. E + VICT(im)
24. LA (solfa note) inside IF

This was blogged for TƒT by Verlaine - the best of the bloggers in that group. His blog is much better than this one, and my only excuse for this existing is that I got mine online before his.

KEY

to abbreviations and 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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Garry Gillard | New: 12 October, 2018 | Now: 13 October, 2018