Stickler Boxed Set 1, Puzzle 12 Solution

Across Answers and Clues Explanations
1 DRESS REHEARSAL
Her lasses are beaten up behind doctor’s practice (5,9) Anagram of HER LASSES ARE behind DR
10 HOUSING
Inside of shop making use of enclosure (7) s(HO)p + USING
11 ROTUNDA
Large cask consumed by staff in front of a domed building (7) TUN inside ROD + A
12 RADII
Bones one found in raid scattered everywhere (5) I inside anagram of RAID
13 TRUNCHEON
Look after cold in the working club (9) (RUN + C) inside THE + ON
14 SURE
User tinkered with safe (4) Anagram of USER
15 TIMEKEEPER
Watch spy throw out retired royal (10) (PEEK + EMIT) reversed + ER
19 SUPPLEMENT
Extra flexible people head to trampoline (10) SUPPLE + MEN + T
20 WEEP
Go to the bathroom quietly and cry (4) WEE + P
23 GOLD MINER
Antique, owned by me, collected by Greek prospector (4,5) (OLD + MINE) inside GR
26 OUTER
Peripheral network devices with limitations removed (5) r)OUTER(s
27 OBTAINS
Gets boat repaired in shipyard primarily (7) Anagram of BOAT + IN + S
28 PITIFUL
I lift up broken base (7) Anagram of I LIFT UP
29 IMPRESSIONABLE
One simple bra is twisted open (14) Anagram of ONE SIMPLE BRA IS
 Down  Answers and Clues Explanations
2 ROUND-TRIP
Head away from Earth time on current orbit (5-4) g)ROUND + T + RIP
3 SLIP IN
Casually add fieldsman behind the batsman at the crease (4,2) SLIP + IN
4 RIGHT
Religious ceremony pronounced correctly (5) Sounds like RITE
5 HERCULEAN
Powerful copper laid into the woman with a thin build (9) CU inside (HER + LEAN)
6 ATTACHED
A typist, gutted, felt pain in a relationship? (8) A + T(ypis)T + ACHED
7 SENSE
Be aware of auditor’s assessment of working capital (5) Sounds like CENTS
8 LEARNER
Unqualified driver left well-paid job (7) L + EARNER
9 THIRDS
This, used on both sides of road, divided sections (6) THIS outside RD
16 IMMUNISES
Provides shots in issue distributed about cloned male (9) Anagram of IN ISSUE outside MM
17 PLENTIFUL
Productive input fell terribly (9) Anagram of INPUT FELL
18 SLIMLINE
Nothing turned up in gooey stuff containing little or no sugar (8) NIL reversed inside SLIME
19 SIGNORI
Italian men or one after recruit (7) (OR + I) after SIGN
21 PERILS
Rising representative is accepting large risks (6) REP reversed + (IS outside L)
22 CONTRA
Kid with great skill turned around right winger (6) CON + ART reversed
24 LET UP
Passengers climbing inside hardtop ute like to relax (3,2) hardtoP UTE Like reversed
25 REPRO
Copy reformed prisoner free of sin (5) Anagram of PRISONER minus SIN

 

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