Crosaire No 16848 by Crossheir – Saturday, January 12th, 2019

Across:

1 Type of network (local area network = LAN-) for gangster (Don = -D ON) and those folks (them = THE M-) with nothing (-O-) scheduled (-ON) (LAND ON THE MOON) in Montes Alpes, for instance (Montes Alpes mountain range on the moon / LAND ON THE MOON),

10 Points finger at (ACCUSER) current (alternating current = AC-) clubs (-C-) taking drugs (-USER) (ACCUSER),

11 Superpower (AMERICA) provides key (music key A-) to Crimea (Crimea = -MERICA) suffering (= anagram indicator) (AMERICA),

Crosaire No 16845 by Crossheir – Wednesday, January 9th, 2019

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Crosaire No 16844 by Crossheir – Tuesday, January 8th, 2019

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Crosaire No 16843 by Crossheir – Monday, January 7th, 2019

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We have lost sight of who the children’s hospital is being built for

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12 Place of honour perhaps (DAIS) for cut (y) flower (‘daisy’ without ‘y’= DAIS),

13 Sobers up giving a miss to pub (‘sobers up’ giving a miss to ‘pub’ = soers = ROSES) for wine lovers (rosé wines / ROSES),

15 Derbyshire rejects heresy (‘Derbyshire’ rejects ‘heresy’ = drbi = BIRD) by Swift (BIRD),

17 Throw into bottle (‘throw into’ bottle = WIN) or pot? (WIN),

19 First opening (‘first’ opening = F-) scene (scene = -ENCES) mixed-up (= anagram indicator) (FENCES) by those defining the parameters around The Gate (FENCES),

21 In spite (POISON) of piano stool lacking a lot (‘piano stool’ lacking ‘a lot’ = pinoso = POISON),

22 Recognise (PICK OUT) cream (PICK) is not in date (OUT) (PICK OUT),

23 Cuts a rough diamond perhaps (rough cut/hack = HACKER) and is investigated for online fraud (HACKER),

25 One of those things (THAT-) from church (-CH) (THATCH) roof (THATCH),

27 Taoiseach content (‘Taoiseach’ content = SEA) with the natural border between Ireland and Britain, for example (SEA),

29 French occupation of Libya starts (‘French occupation of Libya’ starts = FOOL) with double cross (FOOL),

30 Devotedly missing love (‘devotedly’ missing ‘love’ = dtedy = TEDDY) from cuddly one (TEDDY),

31 Old (O-) newspaper (Sun = -NUS) (ONUS) raised the issue of responsibility (ONUS),

34 Gem (EMERALD) dealer (dealer = E-ERALD) confused (= anagram indicator) over what’s on top of moonstone (what’s on top of ‘moonstone’ = -M-) (EMERALD),

35 Serving (PLATE-) a (-A-) university (-U) (PLATEAU) that’s plainly on the rise (PLATEAU),

36 Part of The House (LANDING) reveals everything (STRIPS) (LANDING STRIPS) targeted by those flighty types in the travel industry (LANDING STRIPS).

Down:

2 Caution (caution = AUCTION) butcher (= anagram indicator) for selling lots (AUCTION),

3 Has no home in Sheikdom (has no ‘home’ in ‘Sheikdom’ = skid = DISK) and that’s a record (DISK),

4 It’s going to be tight (NARROW) in new (N-) Dart (dart = -ARROW) (NARROW).

5 Harbour (H-AVEN) around Point (compass point east = -E-) (HEAVEN) – God knows where that is! (HEAVEN),

6 Rendezvous (MEET) with trains coming off main street (‘trains’ coming off ‘main street’ = meet = MEET),

7 Roots (ORIGINS) of old (O-) revolutionary (= anagram indicator) Rising (rising = -RIGINS) (ORIGINS),

8 In a slavish way, Liberia originally (Liberia originally founded as a land for the settlement of freed slaves = LAND OF THE FREE) provided the song for America? (anthem LAND OF THE FREE),

9 Find oneself up the creek (LAND IN THE SOUP), acres (LAND) from where the stock can be found? (IN THE SOUP) (LAND IN THE SOUP),

14 Tasteless (SICK-) plot (-BED) (SICKBED) – you’d expect to get better if you were in it? (SICKBED),

16 It holds the line (fishing reel = RE-EL) around park (-P-) (REPEL) to ward off intruders (REPEL),

18 Casual girlfriends (MOTHS) tend to go out at night with flighty types (MOTHS),

20 Educationalist (SIR) retires (= reversal indicator) in impoverishment (in ‘impoverishment’ = ris = SIR),

21 Place (PUT) for raising (= reversal indicator) some of the quintuplets (some of the ‘quintuplets’ = tup = PUT),

24 Cut (-HOLE-) in credit (C-R-) for middleman (middle of ‘man’ = -A) (CHOLERA) would make you sick (CHOLERA),

26 Ill at ease (TENSE) at a wake? (a wake = awake = UP) (TENSE UP) You won’t relax if you do that! (TENSE UP),

27 Relative (son = S- ON) welcomes finish (-END) (SEND ON) by forward (SEND ON),

28 Decides to use (ADOPTS) toads (toads = ADO-TS) swimming (= anagram indicator) around top of pool (top of ‘pool’ = -P-) (ADOPTS),

32 Grounds (LAND) for listing airports near decisive summits (‘listing airports near decisive’ summits = LAND),

33 Couple (PAIR) of pirates set off (‘pirates’ ‘set’ off / without ‘set’ = pira = PAIR).