Crosaire No 17211 by Crossheir – Saturday, March 14th, 2020

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Across:

1 Lounge (lounge/laze = LOAF) behind (= position indicator) country dwelling (FARMHOUSE) (FARMHOUSE LOAF) producing homemade bread (FARMHOUSE LOAF),

10 French (-F-) in Ghana (Ghana = A-GHAN-) working (= anagram indicator) with Irish (-I) (AFGHANI) brought up in Asia (AFGHANI),

11 Iodine (-I-) found in Cream (cream = AMER-CA) Crackers (= anagram indicator) – get first aid (first ‘Aid’  = -A) (AMERICA) for us! (US = AMERICA),

12 Slung out of Mulligans (‘slung’ out of ‘Mulligans’ = mlia = MAIL) – what was the man of letters expecting? (MAIL),

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13 Trendy (IN-) place (-PUT) (INPUT) for computer figures (data/figures = INPUT),

15 Do a job in the ground (FARM) for all sides today (FARM on all sides of today’s grid),

17 That woman (SHE) in logistics headquarters (in ‘logisticS HEadquarters’ = SHE),

19 Scared out of one’s wits (AFRAID) by chicken (AFRAID),

21 Sounds like (= homophone indicator) my respiratory problem (‘my asthma’ = ‘MIASMA) leads to a bad atmosphere, in a literary sense (MIASMA),

22 Ain’t (aint) prepared (= anagram indicator) (aint = TI-AN) to cover risk (-BET-) (TIBETAN) hearing what’s said about the Himalayas? (TIBETAN),

23 Rotten (OFF-) bad habit (vice) doesn’t start (v) (‘vice’ without ‘v’ = -ICE) (OFFICE) in the workplace (OFFICE),

25 Dug up (= reverse indicator) best (best/top = POT-) part of the forest (-ASH) (POTASH) for fertiliser (POTASH),

27 Melody from low comedy (‘melody’ from ‘low comedy’ = wco = COW) produced by bully (bully/browbeat = COW),

29 It’s like gold dust (RARE) in uplifting itineraries (in uplifting ‘itinERARies’ = erar = RARE),

30 Freak out (PANIC) to local funk (‘local’ funk/fluster = PANIC),

31 Doing business (OPEN) at the back of the peloton (at the back of the ‘pelotoN’ = -N) with drugs synonymous with cyclists (EPO) in retrospect (= reverse indicator) (EPO = OPE-) (OPEN),

34 Unite or (unite or) ruin (= anagram indicator) (unite or = ROUTINE) practice (ROUTINE),

35 Padre is (Padre is) wrong (= anagram indicator) (Padre is = DESPAIR) to give up hope (DESPAIR),

36 The local place offering food (FARMERS’ MARKET) for Old MacDonald’s family (“Old MacDonald had a farm ...” = FARMERS) hawk (hawk/sell = MARKET) (FARMERS’ MARKET).

Down:

2 Ranger (ranger) on the rampage (= anagram indicator) (ranger = ANGR-ER) going around island (-I-) (ANGRIER) is more upset (ANGRIER),

3 Fragment of Home Alone (fragment of ‘hoME ALone’ = MEAL) set in the dining room (MEAL),

4 Remove pig from poisoning (remove ‘pig’ from ‘poisoning’ = osonin = ONIONS) a number of the vegetables (ONIONS),

5 Great aunts failed to get gran (‘great aunts’ failed to get ‘gran’ = etauts = STATUE) a garden gnome (STATUE),

6 Works of fiction (LIES) concealed by Charlie Sheen (concealed by ‘charLIE Sheen’= LIES),

7 Article (AN-) on a slim (a slim = -IMALS) novel (= anagram indicator) (ANIMALS) from The Kingdom (ANIMALS from the animal kingdom),

8 Those with growing concerns (farmers = FARM -ERS) around party (LABOUR-) (FARM LABOURERS) presumably working in their own field of excellence (FARM LABOURERS),

9 Caterpillars (FARM MACHINERY) employed by those who work for The Greens (FARM MACHINERY employed by those who work for the greens/vegetables),

14 Old carriage (PHAETON) office memo (note = -ETON) and article (-A-) on hire purchase (HP = PH-) going all the way back (= reverse indicator) (PHAETON),

16 Type of channel (DITCH) for director (D-) with compulsive desire (-ITCH) (DITCH),

18 Child (MINOR) produces main course with no sauce (‘main course’ with no ‘sauce’ = minor = MINOR),

20 Sal leaves ladies (‘Sal’ leaves ‘ladies’ = die = DIE) to cash in one’s chips locally (DIE),

21 Politician (M-P) taking in America (-A-) (MAP) would be lost without this (MAP),

24 Mural of (mural of) revolutionary (= anagram indicator) (mural of = FORMULA) with instructive set of words (FORMULA),

26 Is this what the pacifist would do (APPEASE) with article (A-) on power (-P-)? Charm (please) the Left to leave! (‘l’) (‘please’ without ‘l’’ = -PEASE) (APPEASE),

27 Calling (calling/vocation = CAREER) mercenaries to abandon mines (‘mercenaries’ to abandon ‘mines’ = ercear = CAREER),

28 Prudence (WISDOM) from Women’s Institute (WI-) upsets (= reverse indicator) old trendy group (mods = -SDOM) (WISDOM),

32 Irish men (Irish ‘men’ = ‘fir’ = FIR-) from ultimate (‘froM’ ultimate = -M) (FIRM) stable (FIRM),

33 Ciphers removed in strip-search (‘ciphers’ removed in ‘strip search’ = star = TSAR) of despot (TSAR).