Cryptic Crossword 1-33

Theme: none

ACROSS

 1. N-word from countryside? (9)

  Backwater, implicit meta, N-word (target), countryside (def), one way to get N-word is via

  reversal (back) of drown (water)

 6. Top pocket (5)

  Shirt, DD

 9. That Spanish revolutionary North-Eastern beauty … (5)

  Queen, que (that in Spanish), revolutionary (reversal of) NE (north-eastern), beauty (def)

10. Drunken, road speed offender (9)

   Desperado, drunken (anagram of) road + speed, offender (def)

11. Animal that’s eellike? Nothing odd!!  (3)

   Elk, animal (def), nothing odd (delete odd letters in) eellike.

12. Part of Texan ranchers’ attire to bully the lad with kicks (6,5)

   Cowboy boots, part of Texan ranchers’ attire (def), cow (bully), boy (lad), boots (kicks)

14. City babes flipping anxiously (7)

   Tensely, Ely (city), tens (babes), flipping (reverse the order of the two words), anxiously (def)

15. A weave around the broken net should be enough (7)

   Aplenty, a (a), ply (weave), around (container), broken (anagram of) net.

16. Start from the beginning to perform properly without hesitation (4,3)

   From top, start from the beginning (def), properly (anagram of) to + perform – er (without

   hesitation)

19. Obstructed the nature journalist (7)

   Stuffed, obstructed (def), stuff (nature), ED (journalist)

22. Want to back out from narrow dead end? engage this kind of eager server (7,4)

   Reverse gear, want to back out from narrow dead end? engage this (cryptic def), kind of

   (anagram of) eager + server

23. Manage company (3)

   Run, DD

24. Celeb’s advises to the enterprises e.g. (9)

   Starships, star’s (Celeb’s), hips (advises), enterprises e.g. (def as in starship enterprise)

26. Rap the Italian in stomach (5)

   Guilt, rap (def), IL (the in Italian), in (insertion), gut (stomach)

27. The ventriloquist quickly became the life of the party (5)

   Event, of (hidden), party (def), rest is fodder.

28. Made money with the artist on the wild side (9)

   Monetised, made money (def), Monet (artist), on (juxtaposition), wild (anagram of) side.

DOWN

 1. Legacy of the bear hunt (7)

  Bequest, legacy (def), be (bear), quest (hunt)

 2. Enroll for the chicken dance (5,2)

  Check in, enroll (def), dance (anagram of) chicken.

 3. Ached badly during cold season for a jacket say (11)

  Windcheater, badly (anagram of) ached, during (insertion), winter (cold season), jacket say (def)

 4. Run route for river channel (7)

  Tideway, tide (run), way (route), river channel (def)

 5. Woke Spanish wave or the sixth disease? (7)

  Roseola, rose (woke), ola (wave in Spanish), sixth disease (def)

 6. Initially swap our man for a woman (3)

  She, s (initially swap i.e., first letter in swap), he (our man), woman (def)

 7. Fashion on a wing? at a classy do, you expect to see ladies in this (2,1,4)

  In a gown, fashion (anagram of) on + a + wing, rest is def.

 8. JetBlue for the red revolutionary? (7)

  Trotsky, trot (jet), sky (blue), red revolutionary (def)

13. Very straight jump, high and precise (4, 7)

   Bolt upright, very straight (def), bolt (jump), up (high), right (precise)

16. Predict 4C in speech (7)

   Foresee, predict (def), in speech (homophone of) 4C.

17. Do away with Russian banker who dined around 6 (7)

   Obviate, do away with (def), Ob (Russian banker as in river), ate (dined), around (container),

   VI (6)

18. Costly opium and not pellet, to secure paradoxical sleep (7)

   Premium, costly (def), not (deletion of) o (pellet) from opium, to secure (container), REM,