ACROSS
1 A magical mantra engineered just like this clue? (14) ANAGRAMMATICAL (A MAGICAL MANTRA)* &LIT too?
10 A poetic commendation inherent in a silken voice (5) ENVOI (T)
An example is appended at the end of this post
11 Bird's tail was cut off and the sound that followed was piercing (9) THRUSTING (THRUSh TING)
12, 19 Pronounce, ponder and put away the lining which children would circle on cold, frosty mornings? (8,4) MULBERRY BUSH (~MULL BURY BUSH)
13 Animal that goes 'Pop' due to a pointed stand (6) WEASEL (W(est) EASEL)
15 Holy hippos out in the pursuit of wisdom (10) PHILOSOPHY (HOLY HIPPOS)*
16 Like the evergreen stuff that made a comeback with the sleazy Nipponese (4) PINY (T<)
Two continuous words starting with P and ending with Y !
19 See 12 Ac.
(See up there, didn't Spinner tell you so ?!)
20 An effect of the recessive gene makes the British want a woman with the European Parliament (5,5) BLACK SHEEP (B LACK SHE EP)
An African chief's wife gave birth to an albino baby. The chief went up to the white missionary and charged
"I black, my wife black, baby white, you white, how?" The padre, wanting to explain how albinism
occurs due to the recessive gene, showed him the mountainside, saying "all sheep white, one sheep
black, how?". The chief, with acknowledgement of guilt, declared ceasefire with: "You no tell, I also no tell".
23 The fallen man without a surname had a swelling and was extremely teary (6) HUMPTY (HUMP TearY)
25 Sybarite's weird,
unusual collection (8)
BESTIARY (SYBARITE)*
27 Missing man and sailors cheat mutineer who turned his back on them (9) ABSCONDER (ABS CON DER<)
28 Game makers can
consume home-food (3,2)
EAT IN (EA (Ref to
Electronic Arts, a video game maker, whose logo is EA) TIN)
Fell in love with this one at first sight, because love is blind
DOWN
2 Television disowning one broadcast that shows new stuff (9) NOVELTIES (TELEVISION -1)*
3 Leader of the blind community? (5,3) GUIDE DOG (CD)
A seeing-eye dog
4 Stakes on the Brazilian city's odd rally raised already (10) ANTERIORLY (ANTE RIO RaLlY)
5 She's bloody as a spirited tomato (4) MARY (CD)
Tomato juice with spirit, vodka=Bloody Mary, not Queen of Scots
6 One who analyses the canopy (6) TESTER (2)
7 Provides an upper surface to slice bananas (5) CEILS (SLICE)*
8 Part and then unite cleanly? (7) LEGALLY (LEG ALLY)
Not sure if def. is fully apt
9 Mountain cat and alien return to form an alliance (4,2) TEAM UP (PUMA ET)<
Sometimes we have minced 'mountain cat' for breakfast !
14 Stylish perception needed to manage an avian enclosure (7,3) CHICKEN RUN (CHIC KEN RUN)
Another game,
though not in the same class (kindergarten) as others, and not by EA 17 Stiff final held in one nice ground (9) INELASTIC (LAST in (1 NICE)*)
18 This other map contains a line that connects the equally hot (8) ISOTHERM (T)
19 Where you would find the left lung inside-out (2,5) BY HEART (DD)
Knowing something inside out = knowing something by heart. This is the real objective of those games, getting the songs by heart ...
21 Agassi first quit running, then started practising (6) PLYING (PLAYING -A)
22
Slogged and smashed in with a trace of
roughness (6)
STROVE (R in
STOVE)
24 Thinker recalled unfinished summary (5) MUSER (RESUMe)<
Reminded me of Rodin's Le Pensuer.
The word play reminded me that I should complete my unfinished Résumé 26 Implicit devotee of Lord originally in a lifeless form? (4) IDOL (I D O L)
Welcome, Spinner,
Our new compiler,
A web-master or a verbal shaman,
Or deliverer of a turning Chinaman ?
Looks like you are a winner !
Spinner opened with songs and games !
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