Across
1 Note clothesmaker said to be no wholesale merchant (8) RE {TAILER}(~tailor)
6 Steady company? (4) FIRM
9 Posts additions to population register, we hear (6) BERTHS (~births)
10 Disappointment that has descended on you? (3-4) LET-DOWN
13 You listed cooks in a tiresome manner (9) TEDIOUSLY*
14 ”Behind the ___I’ll convey myself”: Polonius (5) ARRAS
15 Woman coming from behind us (4) INDU (I'm guessing that is Gridman's wife or daughter or granddaughter given that he inserted himself in 2dn)
16 I adapt Salk’s interpretation of a Marx work (3,7) DAS KAPITAL*
19 Kind of package for a concertina? (7,3) SQUEEZE BOX
21 Father allies himself with a goon in India (4) DAD A
24 Bibi and ghulam go with him in an Indian film (5) SAHIB
25 Write something to say what’s being left? (4,1,4) MAKE A WILL
26 Low gags featuring a city (7) GLASGOW
27 Officer Commanding on eastern grounds finds a prowler from Central America (6) O C E LOT
28 Tribal doesn’t complete now (4) TODA(-Y)
29 Cart nearabouts ___ a traveller’s need, perhaps (4-1-3) RENT-A-CAB
Down
2 Gridman, having finished case, is changed (7) E(ME)NDED
3 What you see when the first part of play is staged (6) ACT I ON
4 Is deprived of prestige ___ a dancer in a masked ball does sometimes (5,4) LOSES FACE
5 Team race in which last runners have to make it (5) RELAY
7 Piscator, needing no introduction, turns an advocate of equal power (7) (-P)ISOCRAT*
8 A brief word __yes or no? (12) MONOSYLLABLE
11 Vagrants are soft in public vehicles (6) TRAM(P)S
12 Without going into details ____how love might happen sometimes (2,5,5) AT FIRST SIGHT
17 Sort of furniture that a DYI enthusiast would buy (5-4) KNOCK-DOWN
18 As soaked in water for a cuppa (3,3) TEA BAG
20 How something remains if a person turns a deaf ear to it (7) UNHEARD
22 State ship sunk at Pearl Harbour (7) ARIZONA
23 Scot is up to taking time in judge’s room (6) CAM<-ERA
25 More thrown all over with this garden tool (5) MO(W)ER
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2 comments:
15a: Or it could be Gridman's mistress! Or one of his "dream-children"! Who knows?
Sure, why not? But that would be one cerebral mistress if Gridman has to please her by dedicating her with an appearance in one of is crosswords!!!
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