Cryptic Crossword 1-24

Across

1. Unit head with social worker is deaf to reason? (7)

· Adamant, a (unit), dam (head), ant (social worker), deaf to reason (def)

5. Czarina buried in boat under sea? Ok he dives there, then what? (7)

· Khedive, czarina (def), buried I (hidden), rest is fodder

10. Rub elbows with Devil (4)

· Sort, DD

11. Politician with urgency resulting in harmony (10)

· Congruency, con (politician), resulting in (anagram of) urgency, harmony (def)

12. Fudge crepe (6)

· Waffle, DD

13. Hallucinatory, pernicious yen possessing American soldiers (8)

· Illusory, hallucinatory (def), ill (pernicious), y (yen), possessing (container), US (American), OR (soldiers)

14. Serenity is called cold in Paris? (4-5)

· Sang-froid, serenity (def), sang (called), froid (cold in Paris i.e., in French)

16. Brahms with a harp like stringed instrument went west to find emerald forming mineral (5)

· Beryl, B (Brahms), lyre (harp like stringed instrument), reversal (went west), emerald forming mineral (def)

17. Clay brick from dilapidated house (5)

· Adobe, clay brick (def), dilapidated (anagram of) abode (house)

19. How to make a donut from stone? (3-3-3)

· Out-and-out, how to make (meta), a donut (target), stone (def), one way to get a donut is via anagram (out) of “and out”

23. Royal monkey with eastern and middle eastern currency (8)

· Imperial, royal (def), imp (monkey), E (eastern), rial (middle eastern currency)

24. Train the street gang (6)

· String, train (def), ST (street), ring (gang)

26. Run criminal cliques into the river (10)

· Deliquesce, run (def), criminal (anagram of) cliques, into (insertion), dee (river)

27. Department store pushcart overturned (4)

· Mart, department store (def), tram (pushcart), overturned (reversal)

28. One who appreciates beauty in art, essentially sees the telegenic quality in it (7)

· Esthete, one who appreciates beauty in art (def), essentially (hidden), rest is fodder

29. Guilty like an overdramatic journalist (7)

· Ashamed, guilty (def), as (like), ham (overdramatic), ED (journalist)

Down

2. Designer with a degree in 3D miniature art (7)

· Diorama, Dior (designer), a (a), MA (degree), rest is def

3. Test on given topic (5)

· Motif, mot (test), if (given), topic (def)

4. Unidentified impeccable type of energy (7)

· Nuclear, nu (unidentified), clear (impeccable), type of energy (def)

6. Cripple the French with a bomb? (6)

· Hurtle, hurt (cripple), le (the French), bomb (def)

7. Reseda luteola from ground shell of red yew seed? (5,4)

· Dyer’s weed, reseda luteola (def), ground (anagram of) RD (shell of red i.e., 1^st and last letters) + yew + seed

8. Mountbatten for example in her majesty’s service. Royal appointee to India during Independence (7)

· Viceroy, Mountbatten for example (def), in (hidden), rest is fodder

9. Bohemian men transfixed by a model (13)

· Individualist, bohemian (def), individuals (men), transfixed by (container around) I (a), T (model)

15. American soldiers accepting bribe, potentially on the house? Nonsense!! (9)

· Gibberish, GIs (American soldiers), accepting (container holding), potentially (anagram of) bribe, H (house)

18. Banquet on ship hosting the spymaster in somberness (7)

· Dimness, dine (banquet), SS (ship), hosting (container), M (spymaster), somberness (def)

20. Leading Australian (New South Wales) editor, released surprising results (7)

· Answers, leading (acrostic i.e., first letters in), “Australian ... surprising” (fodder), results (def)

21. Paralyze peacekeepers with the bottle? (7)

· Unnerve, paralyze (def), UN (peacekeepers), nerve (bottle)

22. Quiet!! quite abnormal card game (6)

· Piquet, P (quiet), abnormal (anagram of) quite, card game (def)

25. Dance for sailor raised on booze? (5)

· Rumba, dance (def), AB (sailor), raised (reversal), on (after), rum (booze)