Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3291
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
A fairly straightforward Sunday Prize Puzzle with a nice mix of clues
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Across
9a First of all, left and right get exchanged – great! (5)
LARGE – The first of Left And Right Get Exchanged
10a Complainant in flap unfortunately about suit that’s backfired (9)
PLAINTIFF – An anagram (unfortunately) of IN FLAP goes about a reversal (that’s backfired) of FIT (suit)
11a Pig heading for Gatwick Airport munching last of breakfast (7)
GLUTTON – G (the heading for Gatwick) LUTON (airport) ‘munching’ the last letter of breakfasT
12a Electra, suspiciously sweet thing (7)
TREACLE – An anagram (suspiciously) of ELECTRA
13a Gong that sounds like fiddle? (5)
MEDAL – A homophone (sounds like) of MEDDLE (fiddle)
14a Remarkable tennis art, passing (9)
TRANSIENT – An anagram (remarkable) of TENNIS ART
16a Appear callous – as would closed down penitentiary? (4,2,9)
TAKE NO PRISONERS – As would a closed down penitentiary
19a Tailored robes carried by steed – the rear of it? (9)
HORSEBACK – An anagram (tailored) of ROBES inserted into (carried by) HACK (steed)
21a Name bird, wings on ledge (5)
TITLE – TIT (bird) and the ‘wings’ on LedgE
23a Difficult job of examiner? (7)
TESTING – Double definition
25a One has packed plain case (7)
PATIENT – I (Roman numeral for one) inserted into (packed) PATENT (plain)a
27a Carriage alongside blue European lake (9)
CONSTANCE – STANCE (carriage) goes ‘alongside’ CON (blue, Conservative)
28a Two-way detector? (5)
RADAR – This detector is a palindrome (two-way)
Down
1d Advertise bathroom item (4)
PLUG – Double definition
2d Golf: eighteen holes reduced to dust! (6)
GROUND – G (the letter represented by Golf in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet) ROUND (eighteen holes on a golf course)
3d Old killer when steps into field arrested by coppers (10)
PESTILENCE – STILE (steps into field) ‘arrested’ by PENCE (coppers)
4d Keyboard instrument has screw in place (6)
SPINET – PIN (screw) in SET (place)
5d Seasoned meat where I shop, idiot served up (8)
PASTRAMI – A reversal (served up in a Down solution) of I (from the clue) MART (shop) SAP (idiot)
6d Monarch: some Georgian next? (4)
ANNE – One of Crosswordland’s most useful monarchs is hidden in some GeorgiAN NExt
7d Is island south of capital in Dakar separate? (8)
DISCRETE – IS (from the clue) and CRETE (island) go south of the ‘capital’ in Dakar
8d A terribly fat setter – might one be bitter? (10)
AFTERTASTE – A (from the clue) and an anagram (terribly) of FAT SETTER
13d Striker, one in the box? (10)
MATCHSTICK – A cryptic definition
15d Tal? (5,5)
SHORT STORY – The word in the clue Is a truncated SHORT TALE or STORY
17d Combustible liquid treating sore knee (8)
KEROSENE – An anagram (treating) of SORE KNEE
18d Chap supporting proposal, deep and mournful (8)
PLANGENT – GENT (chap) ‘supporting’ PLAN (proposal)
20d Fish, one probably on bed? (6)
KIPPER A type of smoked fish or someone napping
22d Upper-class, quaint and dainty in the extreme (6)
TWEEDY – TWEE (quaint) and the extreme letters of DaintY
24d Nothing in it, a tiny amount (4)
IOTA – O (nothing) inserted in IT (from the clue) followed by A (from the clue)
26d Go and go off! (4)
TURN – A go at something or go rotten (off)