ST 3224 (Full Review)

Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3224

A full review by crypticsue

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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***

Trickier than most Sundays but as usual with Dada clues, once you have solved them, they are easy to explain

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Across

1a    Loan’s secured for each fine (6)
SUPERB – SUB (loan) into which is inserted (secured) PER (for each)

5a    Dodge through with visa (6)
BYPASS – PER (through) PASS (visa)

10a    Joint grouch trimmed at both ends (5)
HINGE – Trim both ends of wHINGEr (grouch)

11a    Tree mashed up by molecular biologist — might one use willow? (9)
CRICKETER – An anagram (mashed up) goes after the molecular biologist who had a role in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule

12a    Set to embrace religious instruction, an insular type (7)
PURITAN – PUT (set) to ’embrace’ RI (Religious Instruction), the result followed by AN (from the clue)

13a    China and Japan, say, as after reforms (3,4)
FAR EAST – An anagram (reforms) of AS AFTER

14a    Analogist recollected wistful memories (9)
NOSTALGIA – An anagram (recollected) of ANALOGIST

17a    Flower has existence in time (5)
DAISY – IS (has existence) in DAY (time)

18a    Age of retired Irish writer (5)
RIPEN – IR (Irish) ‘retired’ or reversed and followed by PEN (writer)

19a    Bung in sucrose? (9)
SWEETENER – An informal bribe or something, like sucrose, that sweetens

21a    Weapon set to grab attention (7)
FIREARM – FIRM (set) to ‘grab’ EAR (attention)

23a    Doldrums, where shade sought in part of boat (7)
BOREDOM – RED (shade) in BOOM (part of boat)

25a    Newspaper employee corrected rude obits (9)
SUBEDITOR – An anagram (corrected) of RUDE OBITS

26a    Only some accessing other block (5)
INGOT – Hidden in some of accessING OTher

27a    More successful gambler (6)
BETTER – Double definition

28a    Figure disappeared in outskirts of Torquay (6)
TWENTY – WENT (disappeared) in the ‘outskirts’ of TorquaY

Down

2d    Fragment of wonderful narrative relating to member’s part (5)
ULNAR – Hidden in a fragment of wonderfUL NARrative

3d    Problem looking unsolvable ultimately, certainly in need of coach (9)
EYESTRAIN – The ultimate letter of unsolvablE, YES (certainly) TRAIN (coach)

4d    Money brought home — might it be saved? (5)
BACON – An informal term for money brought home, or to come off unscathed from a difficult situation

5d    Bag short suit (9)
BRIEFCASE – BRIEF (short) CASE (suit)

6d    Game with hands — or index finger? (5)
POKER – A card game (with hands) or something that can be used to poke, like an index finger

7d    Job moving to Tunisia (9)
SITUATION – An anagram (moving) of TO TUNISIA

8d    Get rid of popular composer (6)
CHOPIN – CHOP (get rid of) IN (popular)

9d    Quite nice (6)
PRETTY – Double definition

15d    Different extremes in suspense story (9)
SEPARABLE – The ‘extremes’ in SuspensE and PARABLE (story)

16d    Tank‘s broken down more gates (9)
GASOMETER – An anagram (broken down) of MORE GATES

17d    Fix mere dent, I fancy (9)
DETERMINE – An anagram (fancy) of MERE DENT I

18d    Turn away garbage (6)
REFUSE – Double definition

20d    Far away, on a little bit (6)
REMOTE – RE (on) MOTE (little bit)

22d    Check car seat, finally (5)
AUDIT – AUDI (car) T (the final letter of seat)

23d    First of all, bottle emptied, removing extremely tight cap (5)
BERET – The first letters of Bottle Emptied Removing Extremely Tight

24d    Enjoy computing number (5)
DIGIT – DIG (enjoy) IT (computing)