The wordplays of 25 clues (including 18D) obey the instruction heard in 18D. Definitions are unchanged.
Eight clues are from a work associated with 13/2/15.
19D is ANAGRAM, and every clue has had one word in the definition replaced by an anagram.
Across
1. Tom’s => Most
5. Bride’s => Debris
10. hornet => throne
11. reunites => retinues
12. Night => Thing
13. hatred => thread
14. Hustler’s => ruthless
16. Aral => Lara
18. doorbell => bordello
20. ads => sad
23. groans => sarong
24. Flow => wolf
26. Unseals => sensual
27. Lanced => candle
28. notes => tones
29. Sartre => arrest
Down
2. Times => smite
3. Bella => label
4. loans => salon
6. Rescue => secure
7. Tame => meat
8. stream => master
9. Cardies => sidecar
15. trap => part
17. Sole => lose
19. Clambers => scramble
21. camps => scamp
25. state => taste
Here are the 21 rule breaches:
There are supposed to be 21. I’ve only found 20.
In the clues (1112):
11A, 12A, 19A, 22A, 24A, 29A,
1D, 3D, 4D, 5D, 18D, 21D
In the answers (9):
1A, 19A,
2D, 4D, 8D, 16D, 18D, 20D, 23D
Seven clues share a feature with the 1993 movie. Their definitions are complete, but their wordplay is not.
Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas!
Just like that, another crossword.
David’s visiting today. Let’s see if he inspires another clue as desperate as OFFENCE RELATING TO FIRE EXITS.
What a terrible host I am.
Here’s one I did as a potential between-rounds handout sheet for the pub quiz I work on. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts to make it easy, it was deemed too hard.
There’s a couple of full grids on the bubble. I hope to complete at least one before the end of the year!
Five across clues have no definition. They intersect their 25 acrosses, which have no clue at all.
