DT 28582

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28582

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This puzzle was published on 11^th November 2017

BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment ***

Cephas provided us with a nice straightforward crossword which turned out to be a pangram too.

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Across

6a    Fruitful series triumph of one barely running (7,6)
WINNING STREAK – A triumph that might be achieved by someone running without any clothes on

8a    Lines one very good soldier from Down Under cut (6)
STANZA – ST (one very good) ANZAc (soldier from ‘Down Under’) without its last letter (cut)

9a    Item for storing leaves two things on course, we hear (3,5)
TEA CADDY – Homophones (we hear) of TEE and CADDIE, two things found on a golf course

10a    Old bird making endless lament (3)
MOA – This extinct bird is an ‘endless’ MOAn or lament

11a    Box holding English produce (6)
CREATE – CRATE (box) ‘holding’ E (English)

12a    Metal barrel by gents removed (8)
TUNGSTEN – TUN (barrel) [followed] by an anagram (removed) of GENTS

14a    Thoroughly fashionable wisdom (2,5)
IN DEPTH – IN (fashionable) DEPTH (wisdom)

16a    For audience shortly, host gives wave (7)
TSUNAMI – Homophones (for audience) of SOON (shortly) and ARMY (host)

20a    Fringe breaks record time to show short-lived things (8)
EPHEMERA – HEM (fringe) ‘breaks’ or is inserted between EP (record) and ERA (time)

23a    Bottled gas could offer a new energy to get behind yet (6)
BUTANE – A (from the clue) N (new) E (energy) behind BUT (yet)

24a    Vigour this person’s displayed after five (3)
VIM – I’M (this person’s) displayed after V (the Roman numeral for five)

25a    Entailed adjusting what may be found at top of paper (8)
DATELINE – An anagram (adjusting) of ENTAILED

26a    Quite a strange one having fled European match (6)
EQUATE – An anagram (strange) of QUITE A, without the I (one having fled) followed by E (European)

27a    Going off celeb’s heavenly body that’s flared up (9,4)
EXPLODING STAR – EXPLODING (going off) STAR (celeb)

Down

1d    Soak fruit one sister’s put on (8)
INUNDATE – I (one) NUN (sister) put on [top of] DATE (fruit)

2d    Film Etna erupting — fibre’s needed (8)
FILAMENT – An anagram (erupting) of FILM ETNA

3d    Disturb a person working in US military gallery (7)
AGITATE – A GI (person working in US military) TATE (gallery)

4d    Injury riddle (6)
STRAIN – Double definition, one a noun, the other a verb

5d    Where people go round night and day getting to the heart of problem answers (2,4)
LE MANS – Lurking in the heart of probLEM ANSwers

6d    Oasis panic, greet law roughly (8,5)
WATERING PLACE – An anagram (roughly) of PANIC GREET LAW

7d    Hoaxer going to church in Worcs town (13)
KIDDERMINSTER – KIDDER (hoaxer) going to MINSTER (church)

13d    Animal found in alarming numbers (3)
GNU – Found in alarminG Numbers. Did anyone else spend a good part of their Saturday trying to get the Flanders and Swann song out of their head??

15d    Woman briefly turning chart over (3)
PAM – MAP (chart) turned over

17d    Coach comes up with ‘Join together or go under’ (8)
SUBMERGE – A reversal (comes up in a Down clue) of BUS (coach) with MERGE (join together)

18d    Quotient resolved, almost (3,5)
NOT QUITE – An anagram (resolved) of QUOTIENT

19d    Live jumps during January Olympic event (7)
JAVELIN – An anagram (jumps) of LIVE inserted into (during) JAN (January)

21d    Grant immunity to former partner, nearly clear (6)
EXEMPT – EX (former partner) EMPTy (nearly all of a synonym for clear)

22d    One runs daily or weekly perhaps (6)
EDITOR – Someone running a daily or weekly newspaper, perhaps

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