Filled this one in without too much fuss, though looking over at the end I’m impressed by the larger blocks in this grid – there’s two 4×3 fully-checked regions of the grid and four 4×2 regions, while still having one unchecked letter in each answer. Recently I’ve been trying to create US-style grids that require big chunks of fully-checked cells (though you can get away with murder in those grids, crossing proper names and using abbreviations willy-nilly).
Away we go…
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | APEPSY: APE(animal) then half of PSYCHE |
| 5 | MASSIF: anagram of FAMISHES missing HE |
| 10 | ROSETTA STONE: ROAST(slate), ONE(I) found outside SETT(badger’s burrow) |
| 11 | GUTTA: double definition |
| 12 | CLAY: C, then LAY(put down) |
| 13 |
AVESTA: A, VESTA |
| 14 | TARPON: NO, PRAT all reversed |
| 16 | HAULT: U(superior) in HALT(an incomplete railway station) |
| 17 | SEA TROUT: SEAT(country abode, mansion), ROUT(a fuss) |
| 21 | ENSHEATH: ENS(being), HEATH(countryside) |
| 24 | CUSUM: US inside CUM(with, Latin) |
| 27 | HIPPIC: HIPPIE(dropout) mising E, then C. Was this DM’s tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Human Be-In? |
| 28 | ACATER: anagram of CREAM,TEA missing ME |
| 29 | EMIN: half of EMINENCE |
| 30 | ATONY: A, TONY(simpleton) |
| 31 | SECRETARIATE: anagram of CARE and TREATIES |
| 32 | TREBLY: TREMBLY(quivering) missing the M |
| 33 | RECTUS: R, ECT(shock treatment), U/S(unserviceable) |
| Down | |
| 1 | ARGANS: SNAG(trouble) and RA(Sun) all reversed |
| 2 | ESTER: the book of ESTHER missing the symbol for hydrogen, H |
| 3 | PETSIT: PETIT surrounding S |
| 4 |
STATE: ESTATE(property) missing E |
| 5 | MALTHUSIAN: MAL(sickness), THUS(so), IAN(Scotsman) |
| 6 | STYRAX: the river STYX containing RA(member of the Royal Academy of Arts) |
| 7 | SOLPUGA: PUG inside SOLA(spongewood) |
| 8 | INSOLATE: or IN SO LATE |
| 9 | FEINTS: sounds like FAINTS |
| 12 | CANONICITY: CANON(cleric), I, CITY(Durham, say) – a term used commonly now to refer to episodes of TV shows |
| 15 | BEGUILER: anagram of RUE, BILGE |
| 18 | AUSPICE: AU(gold), SPICE(relish) |
| 19 | SCHIST: CH,IS inside ST |
| 20 | SUPERB: REP inside BUS, all reversed |
| 22 | ENATIC: ENA, TIC – the wordplay is clear, but I had a bit of a moment just now – I looked it up in Chambers and it is nowhere to be found. ENATE is, as an adjective. Collins has ENATIC as an alternative to ENATE. |
| 23 | HERYES: he wants to hear HER YES (unless he is proposing to another male) |
| 25 |
SCARE: S |
| 26 | STOAT: or S TO A T |
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