THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER: No.10802, Tuesday 18 Jun 13, Sunnet

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER

No.10802, Tuesday 18 Jun 13, Sunnet Jun 18th 2013, 03:00 Sunnet is after constellations, having worked an impressive 9 entries into the grid. Liked most of the clues with meaningful surfaces and unambiguous wordplay, but I have a few questions. Trying my hand at the latest tabulated posting format. It is definitely more time consuming! ACROSS 1 Burning a lover (6) AFLAME A + FLAME 4 Once in a while cuts back housing aid in error (8) SPORADIC CROPS <= outside AID* 10 Bear arms in our assembly (4,5) URSA, MINOR (ARMS IN OUR)* 11 Giant hunter running around a port (5) ORION ON outside RIO 12 Race to bet once more? (5) RELAY RE – LAY 13 Broadcaster let Electrical Engineer turn into a parasite (3,6) BEE, BEETLE BEEB + (LET EE)* 14 Northern countryside of Indian territory? (7) UPSTATE UP STATE 16 Topples over a skewer (4) SPIT TIPS <= 19 Gather back a noose (4) LOOP POOL <= 21 Flying transport in the sky? (7) PEGASUS CD 24 Treat acute runs of some stars (9) CENTAURUS (ACUTE RUNS)* 25 Will has a house inside a city (5) LHASA Hidden. What is the role of 'house' and is 'inside' sufficient as the indicator? 26 A politician's number one excuse (5) ALIBI A + LIB + I 27 Fall into the water with great enthusiasm (9) OVERBOARD DD. Isn't it 'go overboard' and shouldn't it be 'show great enthusiasm'? 28 License perhaps for fifty breadwinners (8) LEARNERS L + EARNERS 29 Professional rush (6) CAREER Can't really classify this since I don't understand the role of 'professional' DOWN 1 May be an electric car having water for starter seen moving high above the ground (8) AQUARIUS PRIUS with AQUA in place of P. Is the definition adequate/accurate? 2 Lackdaisical without schedule? (8) LISTLESS LIST LESS. I hope the typo in spelling 'lackadaisical' is courtesy of the publishers 3 Mother // is well preserved (5) MUMMY DD 5 Greek hero scrutinises and takes Ulysses' crown two steps down (7) PERSEUS PERUSES with U moving down two places 6 Resuming a round without doddering English peon (9) REOPENING RING outside (E PEON)* 7 Fine time to be outside the Macintosh Centre (6) DAINTY DAY outside macINTosh 8 Harmful growth // visible in the northern horizon (6) CANCER DD. Again, is the second definition enough? 9 Powerless peacekeepers take back an island (6) UNABLE UN  + ELBA<= 15 Love a party allowance (9) ADORATION A + DO + RATION 17 Become more serious with false case foisted on former (8) ESCALATE CASE* + LATE 18 Samoan perhaps is on a spacecraft (8) ISLANDER IS + LANDER 20 Room to lower standard charges ahead (7) PARLOUR PAR + LOUR 21 Sign of spices in a stew (6) PISCES (SPICES)* 22 Scratch one's tail and move forward slowly (6) SCRAWL S + CRAWL. Is one's tail E or S? 23 Leader from some of India's violent fighters (6) INDIRA IND + IRA. Does some = half seem fair? 25 Used to graduate's basic balance (5) LIBRA caLIBRAte? LINK TO SOLUTION

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