Garry Gillard > crosswords > solutions > 27181
Definitions in italics
ACROSS
1 Sheep from flock west of Scottish town (8) HERD,WICK - Wick is the Scottish town
5 False report an eccentric circulates (6) CANARD - AN inside CARD (eccentric)
9 Person keeping official records for hospital doctor (9) REGISTRAR - dd
11 Some come to terms over fetish? (5) TOTEM - incl.rev.
12 Poem and piece of music heard (7) RONDEAU - homophone for 'rondo'
13 Satirise a politician taken in by rascal (7) LAMPOON - A MP inside LOON
14 Diligent cousins notice changes (13) CONSCIENTIOUS - (cousins notice)*
16 I visit in class, without exception (13) CATEGORICALLY - I CALL inside CATEGORY (class)
20 Knock public house sign, unfortunately (7) INNINGS - INN + (sign)* - referring to cricket
21 Lab gear reassembled for this subject at school (7) ALGEBRA - (lab gear)*
23 Fat? Briefly run, slowly (5) LARGO - LAR(d) + GO
24 Up for a big band number (2,3,4) IN THE MOOD - dd - Glen Miller standard
25 Son not out, rotten sailor (6) SINBAD - S + IN + BAD
26 Islamic emblem in curved terrace (8) CRESCENT - dd
DOWN
1 Hot, a remarkable African capital (6) H,A,RARE
2 Duke of Cornwall's wife, for example, went without (5) MEGAN - EG inside MAN - COD
3 Partners back film (7) WESTERN
4 Body of people with crime writer detailed to tour university college (6,7) CORPUS CHRISTI
6 Bid a tenner at first to tantalise (7) A,T,TEMPT
7 Scientific study: like essay about new moon (9) ASTRONOMY (moon)* inside AS + TRY
8 Drop off short skirt to be collected by fine-looking girl (8) DIMINISH - MINI inside DISH
10 A series of ups and downs as ocean wave hits vessel (6,7) ROLLER COASTER - obvious
14 Clear out of joint with ladder (3,3,3) CUT AND RUN - a CUT is a joint
15 Longs to nurse poorly Greek hero (8) ACHILLES - ILL insides ACHES
17 Departs in lagoon after repairing canal craft (7) GONDOLA - D inside (lagoon)*
18 Very drunk on fewer (7) LEGLESS
19 Robber in gang, Italian (6) BAND,IT
22 Agent, not quite penniless (5) BROKE(r)
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
Garry Gillard | New: 27 October, 2018, Solved in 20:26; blogged at 0842 WST | Now: 29 October, 2018