The Stickler Weekly 233 Solution

Across Answers and Clues Explanations
1 REPUTATION
Energy put into helping character (10) (E + PUT) inside RATION
6 SPAR
Part of rigging a boxing contest (4) Double Definition
9 STORM
Part of forecast or, maybe, violent weather (5) forecaST OR Maybe
10 ALIGHTING
A feature of stage management is coming down (9) A + LIGHTING
12 EPIDEMICS
Medic is unsettled after recording outbreaks of disease (9) Anagram of MEDIC IS after EP
13 LATER
A little peripheral (a terminal) in the future (5) peripheraL A TERminal
14 SPAM
Keeps track of returned and unwanted mail (4) MAPS reversed
15 CONSTRUE
Prisoner’s right to read (8) CONS + TRUE
18 ON THE SLY
“Honestly” taken completely a different way? (2,3,3) &lit; Anagram of HONESTLY
20 IRIS
One trimmed wax plant with showy flowers (4) I + (RIS)E
24 ONSET
Start working as an actor (5) Double Definition
25 CRIMPLENE
Writer occupied by language originally used in crime material (9) [PEN outside (L)ANGUAGE] inside CRIME
26 SNAIL MAIL
Wild animal is attached to large, conventional post (5,4) Anagram of ANIMAL IS + L
27 ULTRA
Radical one sacrificed in bizarre ritual (5) Anagram of RITUAL minus I
28 SHED
Lose fragment right away (4) SHRED minus R
29 REAPPEARED
Paper re-filed with auditors turned up again? (10) Anagram of PAPER + EARED
 Down  Answers and Clues Explanations
1 RASHES
Skin problems are reportedly connected to remains (6) R (sounds like) + ASHES
2 PHONIES
One wearing rings may be misleading people (7) I inside PHONES
3 TEMPERAMENTAL
Harden a metal containing nitrogen that’s volatile (13) TEMPER + A + METAL outside N
4 THAT IS
Sit up holding hat, for example (4,2) SIT reversed outside HAT
5 OMISSION
Leader from overseas calling for exclusion (8) (O)VERSEAS + MISSION
7 PRINTER
Fast runner, missing the start, connected computer equipment (7) (S)PRINTER
8 REGARDED
Noticed rose, for example, growing outside pruned garden (8) RED outside GARDE(N)
11 HOLY SCRIPTURE
Representation of Christ purely about heart of God? (4,9) &LIT; anagram of CHRIST PURELY outside G(O)D
16 COLOSSUS
Giant loss accepted by company linked with America (8) LOSS inside (CO + US)
17 BLOCKADE
Barrier is secure in criminal quarter (8) LOCK inside BAD + (E)ast
19 TO SPARE
Seaport shifted over and above what is required (2,5) Anagram of SEAPORT
21 SHELTER
Security is transparently thin around vacant lot? (7) SHEER outside L(o)T
22 FILLIP
Dose of medicine, if knocked back, could be a shot in the arm (6) (PILL + IF) reversed
23 REWARD
Cheque writer picked up pay (6) DRAWER reversed

 

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One Response to The Stickler Weekly 233 Solution

  1. Arthur Maynard says:

    David
    Thank you for identifying the &lits, which confirmed my choices.