Crosaire No 16710 by Crossheir – Wednesday, August 1st, 2018

Blog explanations available at 10pm on the day of publication

Across:

8 Editorials dismiss diet (‘editorials’ dismiss ‘diet’ = orials = SAILOR) with salt (salt/old salt = SAILOR),

9 Endorse a (endorse a = REASONED) play (= anagram indicator) that’s well presented (REASONED),

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

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11 Kind of sweet (GOBSTOPPER) for Marsh (marsh/bog = GOB-) retiring (= reversal indicator) to Cork (cork = -STOPPER) (GOBSTOPPER),

12 Madeleine dismisses lie (‘Madeleine’ dismisses ‘lie’ = madene = DEMEAN) as put down (DEMEAN),

14 Music (ROCK music) similar to 8 across (SALT similar to ‘sailor’) (ROCK SALT) coming out of The Cellar (ROCK SALT from the salt cellar),

15 Peacekeeper (United Nations = UN-) on diet (diet/assembly = -PARLIAMENT) cooked (= anagram indicator) ray (ray = -ARY) (UNPARLIAMENTARY) contrary to house rules (UNPARLIAMENTARY),

18 Is it meat (is it meat = IMITATES), bananas (= anagram indicator) or parrots? (IMITATES),

20 Ruffle someone’s feathers (ENRAGE) with a Green (a green = ENRAGE) remedy (= anagram indicator),

22 Half the bunch of flowers (half the ‘posy’ = -SY-) cut into pieces (-CHOP-) in trail (P-ATH) (PSYCHOPATH) recognised by profiler (PSYCHOPATH),

24 No Kir in milk bar (no ‘Kir’ in ‘milk bar’ = mlba = LAMB) for one of Mary’s followers (LAMB),

25 Weekend (‘week’ end = -K-) in Chester (Chester = S-ETCHER) mobile? (= anagram indicator) (SKETCHER) One can draw one’s own conclusions! (SKETCHER),

26 Hesitantly drops this (‘hesitantly’ drops ‘this’ = eantly = NEATLY) in an orderly fashion (NEATLY).

Down:

1 Partner (MAT-E) admits old city (-UR-) (MATURE) is developed as much as it can be (MATURE),

2 In addition (ALSO) to some potential soundtrack (some ‘potential soundtrack’= ALSO),

3 Gloria in (Gloria in = ORIGINAL) dress? (= anagram indicator) That’s a first! (ORIGINAL),

4 Pub (bar = -RAB) chain to open (chain to open = C-) up (= reversal indicator) (CRAB) – is that a sign? (CRAB is sign of Cancer),

5 Architect releases her (‘architect’ releases ‘her’ = acitct = TACTIC) plan (TACTIC),

6 One (-I-) is consumed by pile in the farmyard (COMPOS-T-) – initial odour (initial ‘odour’ = -O-) is never-ending (‘never’ ending = -R) (COMPOSITOR) and affects what’s going on in printworks (COMPOSITOR),

7 Religious type (JEW-) takes head off (t) bank employer (‘teller’ without ‘t’ = -ELLER) (JEWELLER) for casting the first stone perhaps (JEWELLER),

13 The Spanish (the = EL-) sparking wine (-ASTI-) from Barcelona, for instance (-CITY), (ELASTICITY) is good at a stretch (ELASTICITY),

14 Goes through the books (READS) of Great Dane’s missing agent (‘Great Danes’ missing ‘agent’ = rdaes = READS),

16 Drunk in Tokyo (-SAKE) goes after (= positional indicator) big shot (NAME-) (NAMESAKE) – it’s a similar brand my father gave me (NAMESAKE),

17 Show off (= anagram indicator) the plane (the plane = ELEPHANT) – it’s a Jumbo (jumbo = ELEPHANT),

19 Knocks back (= reversal indicator) drink (port = TROP-) ­– it’s a reserved type (shy) that needs no introduction (s) (‘shy’ without ‘s’ = -HY) (TROPHY) in The Laurels? (laurels/prize = TROPHY),

21 Run a risk (GAMBLE) with a feature of the roof (GA-BLE) around back of the stadium (back of ‘stadium’ = -M-) (GAMBLE),

23 A measure of one of those grounded types (ACRE) of sources coming off racecourses (‘sources’ coming off ‘racecourses’ = race = ACRE),

24 Charge (LOAD) one of those stable types (stable lad = L-AD) admitting nothing (-O-) (LOAD).