Crosaire No 16893 by Crossheir – Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

Blog explanations available at 10pm on the day of publication

Across:

8 Concealed by carefree zealot (concealed by ‘carefree zealot’ = FREEZE) in spell of cold weather  (FREEZE),

9 Top Gun’s (ACE-S) all about mood (-TONE-) (ACETONES) of colourless, volatile, watery types (ACETONES),

10 One of The Greens (LIME green) in Muslim establishment (in “Muslim establishment” = LIME),

11 March (PROCESSION) parade? (PROCESSION),

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12 Part of the home brewing paraphernalia (TEAPOT) produced drink (TEA-) and drugs (-POT) (TEAPOT),

14 Wine (-PORT) route (PASS-) opens (= positional indicator) (PASSPORT) for those prepared to go overseas (PASSPORT),

15 Half of 6 down (half of ‘house-proud’ = HOUSE-) gets support (-HOLD) with what the children are expected to do at home (CHORES) (HOUSEHOLD CHORES) for homework (HOUSEHOLD CHORES),

18 They’d eat you out of house and home (TERMITES) and it (-IT-) gets to sweetheart (‘sweet’ heart = -E-) during semesters (TERM-S) (TERMITES),

20 Dudley Moore ignores odour (‘Dudley Moore’ ignores ‘odour’ = dleyme = MEDLEY) – it’s the potpourri? (MEDLEY),

22 The Parthenon in Greece (built to honour Athens’ patron goddess / HOUSE OF GOD) provides sanctuary for the faithful (HOUSE OF GOD),

24 Popular name in Ireland (PAT-) for English (-E) (PATE) spread (PATE),

25 Sweet talk (INVEIGLE) of criminal (= anagram indicator) living (living = INV-IGL-) around Spain (-E-) linked to drugs (-E) (INVEIGLE),

26 Psychic (psychic/fortune teller = AUGUR-) gets to finish ceremony (finish ‘ceremony’ = -Y) (AUGURY) in The Omen (AUGURY).

Down:

1 Land (ARRIVE) leads to a (A-) meandering (= anagram indicator) river (river = -RRIVE) (ARRIVE),

2 Charity event raising funds (FETE) for Aster leaving Free State (‘Aster’ leaving ‘ Free State’ = feet = FETE),

3 The latest intelligence (DESPATCH) of squabble (-SPAT-) between Germany (Germany domain = .de = DE-) and Switzerland (-CH) (DESPATCH),

4 Insider to stream a YouTube (insider to ‘stream a YouTube’ = MAYO) spread from the deli (MAYO),

5 In the main, Israelis (JEW-S) embraced The Foreign (Spanish ‘the’ = -EL-) (JEWELS) Stones (JEWELS),

6 The Dáil (HOUSE) gets reminder (prod = PRO-D) over Unionist (-U-) (HOUSE-PROUD) policy that might be OTT at The Lodge? (HOUSE-PROUD),

7 Secure or (secure or = RECOURSE) adapt (= anagram indicator) may be the only way out (RECOURSE),

13 Man of Letters (POSTMASTER) is in charge of The Blog? (POST MASTER),

14 Draws (PULLS) most of the bar (most of the ‘pub’ = PU-) with two types of port (port = left = L+L = -LL-) on bender (-S bend) (PULLS),

16 Face-to-face (ONE-TO-ONE) in 12-hour shift? (1pm to 1am = ONE-TO-ONE),

17 A demonic (a demonic = COMEDIAN) butcher (= anagram indicator) always makes me laugh (COMEDIAN),

19 Depression in the agricultural sector (TROUGH) feeds those with a beastly disposition (TROUGH),

21 They’d swallow anything (EATERS) to confuse (= anagram indicator) Teresa (Teresa = EATERS),

23 Irishman (GAEL) in Bundesliga eleven (in ‘Bundesliga eleven’ = GAEL),

24 Some Winnipeg apparatchik (some ‘Winnipeg apparatchik’ = egap = PAGE) gets backed up (= reversal indicator) (egap = PAGE) by taking a leaf from The Communist Manifesto? (PAGE).