Cryptocracker

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Solution to THC # 9032 (incomplete)

Across

 1 Working to educate, he may have class! (6,7) SCHOOL TEACHER

10 Fail to wake up in time (9) OVERSLEEP

11 Crazy bishop with a fighting force (5) BARMY

12 Transfer a design from a hand-made calendar (5) DECAL

13 Distracting close tail, swing back and forth (9) OSCILLATE

14 Petty officer in British navy is a money-spinner (6)

16 Show respect but put off (5)

19 Mat on table is a bit dirty, greasy (5) SOILY

20 Disguise is done within court (6)

25 Play a winning card, one to beat a possible winner (9) OVERTRUMP

26 Place a restriction on an agreement covering uranium (5) BOUND

27 Indian cart in a Pacific island (5) TONGA

28 Easily annoyed by liar, tribe revolts (9) IRRITABLE

29 Position of military alertness to extend across duration of holding one’s interest (9, 4) ATTENTION SPAN

Down

 2 Browbeating a C.O. on rice distribution (8) COERCION

 3 Aquatic bird on a merry-go-round lacking car (5) OUSEL

 4 Be prone to sound like a cow? Keep quiet! (3,3)

 5 Old partner deep in trouble about little money — that is not a surprise (8) EXPECTED

 6 Spanish gent in a secret plot with new role (9) CABALLORE

 7 Cerumen that makes a listener increase in strength (6) EARWAX

 8 Time for a don’s dance in a month (6)

 9 In the car they reduce gritty resistance to an extent (5) TYRES

15 Command a turnaround (5,4) ABOUT FACE

17 Chaurasia or Ramani (8) FLAUTIST

18 Writer on Burma spells out ‘Half Shadow’ (8) PENUMBRA

21 Straightened out, it went up and ceased to exist (6) TIDIED

22 Small cubicle makes footwear hot (5) BOOTH

23 Currency note put up for a curdling agent (6) RENNET

24 Ducks going round harbour in Portuguese city (6) OPORTO

26 Small morsels of food, the best I cooked (5) BITES

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