Irish Times Crossword No: 12,877 by Crosaire

ACROSS

ACROSS

1 Blow up a stick, by the sound of it, in a boastful way (9)

9 Commit matricide for the sake of her estate (6)

10 How the inspector's pamphlet may put one off (8)

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11 Saintly irritation from a sewer, perhaps (6)

12 From Kipling? No, from Japan (6)

14 Where a mean sort of approach may get one (4)

15 At sun-up I'm enough to nonplus you (5)

16 Have a gift and thanks for what the loan is (6)

18 Satisfied for what's in it (7)

21 A little bird tells me you'd use your fists with the trouble there (7)

24 Claim in here there's one 8 down (6)

26 At this one is free to a great extent (5)

30 Would one be fly enough to be like this? (4)

31 They deal with things as a matter of course for Easter (6)

32 The gap turns up for the short answer to 33 across (6)

33 How 32 across might cook the fowl (8)

34 Not a foot out when entering with the editor (2-4)

35 Father is back in his clothes, so may be spoken to (9)

DOWN

2 So it's up with the blooming flag of Egypt (6)

3 Not top of the bill in a play within a play (6)

4 One of the four of your sailor-boys (6)

5 Concentrated in verbal form (7)

6 Not in favour of getting on in the cart (6)

7 A playful king around a dirty place twelve months ago (4,4)

8 Might he tow this here? (2,3,4)

11 Ta's, and that was no lie (3,2)

13 One of 20 down, one over the eight (4)

17 There's a cunning father in agony (5,4)

19 With the van in reverse, I could get to the way in (8)

20 Pen them in the form of a chain (5)

22 Not the scum of the earth for the gala (4)

23 One over the eight to the building at last (7)

25 He gets a work out and gets his rag out at last (6)

27 This will make about two as good as new (6)

28 With all the rest he is working from scratch (6)

29 Once had the gall to sound like it (6)

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Solution to Crosaire 12,876

Across: 1 Back garden, 6 Abut, 10 Aroma, 11 Catalogue, 12 Acid test, 13 Tense, 15 Clearly, 17 Evident, 19 Ulysses, 21 Baggage, 22 Aware, 24 Unthread, 27 Irritable, 28 Idiom, 29 Edda, 30 Seasonings.

Down: 1 Boat, 2 Crotchety, 3 Grand, 4 Rockery, 5 Entitle, 7 Begun, 8 The weather, 9 Clothing, 14 Accusative, 16 Respects, 18 Emanation, 20 Stumble, 21 Batters, 23 Aired, 25 Reign, 26 Emus.