Crosaire No 17076 by Crossheir – Saturday, October 5th, 2019

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Across:

1 Over intellectualise (MAKE A MEAL OF IT) what you’d expect chef to do with a number of ingredients (MAKE A MEAL OF IT),

10 Registered an interest in job (APPLIED) in the orchard (apple = APPL-E-) around island (-I-) to a degree (-D) (APPLIED),

11 One of those from The POD (SNOW PEA) is currently (-NOW) with Penny (P-) in the Mediterranean (Mediterranean S- -EA) (SNOW PEA),

12 Revise the literary type (EDIT) of extremes of Edith Nesbit (extremes of ‘EDith NesbIT’ = EDIT),

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13 Produces (MAKES) everything in 32 down (‘make’ = MAKE-) for society (-S) (MAKES),

15 Handy metal tool (VICE) is comparable to 17 across (VICE is comparable to ‘sin’),

17 Uplifting (= reversal indicator) part of Rathin Island (part of ‘RathiN ISland’ = nis = SIN) similar to 3 down (SIN is similar to ‘evil’),

19 Young men (boys) lose the head (b) (‘boys’ without ‘b’ = OYS-) with condition (term) briefly (m) (‘term’ without ‘m’ = -TER) of Pearl’s home (OYSTER),

21 Plucky type (GUITAR) of bouncer (guard), for the most part (d) (‘guard’ without ‘d’ = GU-AR), is protecting it (-IT-) (GUITAR),

22 Cleared (VAULTED) room for the wine (VAULT-) journalist (-ED) (VAULTED),

23 One (I-) is spent (spent = -NSTEP) travelling (= anagram indicator) (INSTEP) on foot (INSTEP),

25 Colour sergeant doesn’t get rest cure (‘colour sergeant’ doesn’t get ‘rest cure’ = ologan = LAGOON) by inland lake (LAGOON),

27 Methodists dismiss theists (‘methodists’ dismiss ‘theists’ = mod = MOD) of 60’s chic (MOD),

29 Instrument (TUBA) for serving up (= reversal indicator) in cocoa butter (in ‘cocoA BUTter’ = abut = TUBA),

30 The elder statesman (DOYEN) Bloom is out of blood money (‘Bloom’ is out of ‘blood money’ = doney = DOYEN),

31 Finishes all the dishes – spaghetti, veal, burrito (finishes all the ‘disheS– spaghettI, veaL, burritO’ = SILO) from food store (SILO),

34 Clever type (KNOW-ALL) of king (K-) is not in favour of referendum (-NO-) – it divides the room! (wall = -W-ALL) (KNOW-ALL),

35 Huge wave (TSUNAMI) from Parisian friend (French ‘friend’ = ‘ami’ = -AMI) after (= position indicator) opening the (opening ‘The’ = T-) paper (Sun newspaper = -SUN-) (TSUNAMI),

36 Bungle (MAKE A MESS OF IT) general instruction to a sapper (general instruction MAKE A MESS to sapper/soldier responsible for building works) to order (O-) convulsive attack (fit = -F IT) (MAKE A MESS OF IT).

Down:

2 Precious type (gold = AU -) is soft (softly = piano = P-) on heir’s (heirs) report (= homophone indicator) (‘heirs’ = ‘airs’ = -AIRS) (AU PAIRS) providing domestic support (AU PAIRS),

3 Made from Medieval (‘made’ from ‘medieval’ = eivl = EVIL) type of spirit that’s not good (EVIL),

4 Crazy (MAD-) Irish race (Irish ‘race’ = rás = -RAS) (MADRAS) from old India (MADRAS),

5 Old writer (Jane AUSTEN) from America (-US-) in The Sun idolised (Aten = sun god/sun disc god = A-TEN) (AUSTEN),

6 Finishes studio job too late (finishes ‘studiO joB toO latE’ = OBOE) for musician to handle (OBOE),

7 Impression (IMPRINT) left by character who walked all over runner (IMPRINT),

8 You can be certain (MAKE NO MISTAKE) this is presumably perfect advice (MAKE NO MISTAKE),

9 Play the chicken (MAKE A RUN FOR IT) or flea (flea) on the radio? (= homophone indicator) (‘flea’ = ‘flee’ = MAKE A RUN FOR IT),

14 Put down (KILL-) by woman (-JOY) (KILLJOY) in Misery? (KILLJOY),

16 Leo won’t participate in free love (‘Leo’ isn’t part of ‘ free love’ = freve = FEVER) – that’s far too much excitement (FEVER),

18 Half of those in 33 down (half of ‘JUdo’ = JU-) linked to the foreign (German ‘the’ = -DAS) (JUDAS) betrayer (JUDAS),

20 Up (= reversal indicator) in Montparnasse (in ‘MontPARnasse’ = par = RAP) or Knock? (knock/hit  = RAP),

21 Set (GEL) produced by some lounge lizard (some ‘lounGE Lizard’ = GEL),

24 A (-A) Trim (t) group (‘sort’ without ‘t’ = -sor = ROS-) on public transport (bus = SUB) all return (= reverse all indicator) (SUB ROSA) in secret (SUB ROSA),

26 Old (O-) capital in Europe (capital of Latvia = -RIGA-) a half a mile (a half a ‘MIle’ = -MI) (ORIGAMI) from crafty enterprise in Asia ORIGAMI),

27 Lost (-L-) in Somme (Somme = MOS-EM) possibly (= anagram indicator) (MOSLEM) or on the pilgrimage to Mecca (MOSLEM / Muslim),

28 Low points (DEPTHS) for PhD set (PhD set = DEPTHS) piece? (= anagram indicator),

32 Shape (MAKE) of all sides today (MAKE on four sides of today’s grid),

33 Mysterious (= anagram indicator) duo (duo = -UDO) (JUDO) after (= positional indicator) justice (J-) for those defending themselves in Osaka (JUDO).