| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | SOURCE | |
| Author’s cheekiness apparent in speech (6) | Sounds like SAUCE | |
| 4 | EDUCATES | |
| Schools see about collecting old gold coin (8) | SEE reversed outside DUCAT | |
| 9 | PITON | |
| Lean back on a mountaineering support (5) | TIP reversed + ON | |
| 10 | DALLIANCE | |
| Everyone I put together in social event is flirting (9) | (ALL + I) inside DANCE | |
| 11 | RANGERS | |
| Conclusion of professor greatly annoys park officers (7) | PROFESSO(R) + ANGERS | |
| 12 | COPYCAT | |
| Policeman prepared factory except for one likely to take off (7) | COP + (anagram of FACTORY minus FOR) | |
| 13 | TOLL | |
| Cost to start from London doubled (4) | TO + [(L)ONDON two times] | |
| 14 | HEATHROW | |
| International terminal’s manager curtailed launch (8) | (HEA)D + THROW | |
| 17 | DEFOREST | |
| Take away woods and land’s final lot of trees for development (8) | LAN(D) + anagram of OF TREES | |
| 19 | FADE | |
| Decline an ironclad promotion? (4) | AD inside FE | |
| 22 | ISOLATE | |
| Quarantine is slow absorbing oxygen (7) | (IS + LATE) outside O | |
| 24 | EARNING | |
| Getting scholarship after the end of school (7) | LEARNING after the letter SCHOO(L) | |
| 25 | SPECIFIES | |
| Defines condition contracted by taxonomic group (9) | IF inside SPECIES | |
| 26 | AROMA | |
| A tomato’s smell (5) | A + ROMA | |
| 27 | SPACE-AGE | |
| Ultra-modern speed popped by smart man (5-3) | PACE inside SAGE | |
| 28 | RECENT | |
| New CEO greatly involved in disunity (6) | (CE)O inside RENT | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | SEPARATE | |
| What a golfer might shoot at in view is distinct (8) | (PAR + AT) inside SEE | |
| 2 | UNTANGLED | |
| Nut twisted and bent should be straightened out (9) | Anagram of NUT + ANGLED | |
| 3 | CANNED | |
| Digitally captured image with no header is scrapped (6) | S(CANNED) | |
| 5 | DELICATESSENS | |
| Had food, two courses, in a variety of licensed food shops (13) | (ATE + S+S) inside anagram of LICENSED | |
| 6 | CHIPPER | |
| Machine that processes potatoes well (7) | Double Definition | |
| 7 | TONIC | |
| Shot in the arm not brought up by one with cold (5) | NOT reversed + I + C | |
| 8 | SLEUTH | |
| Hustler nearly butchered private investigator (6) | Anagram of (HUSTLE)R | |
| 10 | DISHEARTENING | |
| Putting a damper on plate with pureed tangerine (13) | DISH + anagram of TANGERINE | |
| 15 | WEARISOME | |
| Trying to have on one a little (9) | WEAR + I + SOME | |
| 16 | SERGEANT | |
| Sort of anger contained by hardened officer (8) | Anagram of ANGER inside SET | |
| 18 | FRAGILE | |
| Delicate piece of material found in dossier (7) | RAG inside FILE | |
| 20 | MISSES | |
| Battleship calls women with detachment (6) | Double Definition | |
| 21 | CREATE | |
| Coin and euros found in strongbox (6) | E inside CRATE | |
| 23 | OPERA | |
| Section in media report sent up a musical performance (5) | mediA REPOrt reversed |
YAY! – Arthur – looks like I was On Course with S+S in 5d.
Love it. I was intrigued by two courses the same. Not my usual cup of tea. And I had to work on my spelling to be sure how to use them plus the extra one in licensed. Of course the deli is the obvious place to get your courses.
I’m still not sure about S = south = course. South is a *direction* but I’m not sure that equates with a course.
Also, I’m lost on 5-dn and, as no one else is, it must just be me. A digitally captured image is a *scan*. So, if “scanned” is “digitally captured”., what do I do with “image” in the crpytic reading?
Thanks,
Steve = : ^ )
My references are consistent with a course being a direction especially in a nautical sense. From The Macquarie:
course
/kaws/.
noun
1. advance in a particular direction; onward movement.
…
11. Nautical
a. the point of the compass towards which a ship sails.
And Chambers:
course /körs or kōrs/
noun
1. The path in which anyone or anything moves
2. The ground over which a race is run, golf is played, etc
3. A channel for water
4. The direction pursued
As for the SCANNED thing, you are right. The way I’ve worded it makes the “image” redundant. Unless you can say: “I scanned and put the result on my computer”, which doesn’t sound quite right.
Best
David
I have no concerns with the clue for 3dn. To scan is to digitally capture an image. So, for the wordplay, the first 3 words can be read as “digitally captured (an) image”.
To me “Digitally captured image” does not necessarily identify a particular scan. It describes an action. He scanned = he digitally captured an image. “Digitally captured” could mean he used a digital camera or mobile phone which does not equate with scan. He may even have caught it with his fingers (perhaps a fly or a scrap of paper). I prefer the original clue. A bit late, but I checked this out today because I had nothing else to do. And I like a good discussion.
Point taken re ‘course’. 11. in the Mac and 4. in Chambers cover it nicely.
Steve = : ^ )
It’s not over ’til it’s over.
Must remember to revisit here in the weekly wrap-up.