Independent 7,033 by Dac – Fifteensquared

*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.

Aha, so here’s this week’s Dac. Whilst I do have a habit of missing such things, there doesn’t appear to be any particular Mayday theme here as might have been expected. A fairly straightforward outing, though in a couple of cases I’m left with spare bits of clue that I can’t explain away.

Across
1	CUTLASS – UT “carried by” CLASS.
5	SCARPER – [-thi]S CAR PER[-haps].
9	MARIENBAD – (MAN A BRIDE)*. Apparently a reference to a 1961 film named “Last Year at Marienbad”.
10	KICKS – KINKS “having change of heart”.
11	LEND – [-colone]L + END.
12	STABLEMATE – STALEMATE “involving” B.
15	TOAST – T[-r]O[-j]A[-n]S [-a]T[-e].
17	NICHOLAS – (COLIN HAS)*.
19	MARRIAGE – I don’t follow this at all, beyond the def, and maybe AGE = “time”.
20	TOKAY – T + OKAY. Tokay is a Hungarian wine, so I wonder where “drinking woman’s health thus” fits in?
22	RICHARDSON – (RICH + ARSON) “pinching” D. I don’t know who this refers to, but a quick Google for authors named Richardson brings back numerous options.
23	YORK – YOR[-e] + K.
26	ALIBI – ALI + B + I.
27	EUPHORBIA – B[-ride] “carried amid” EUPHORIA.
28	SATINET – SET “round” (A TIN).
29	DIPTERA – PARTIED*.

Down
1	COMPLETE – L “joining in” COMPETE.
2	TURIN – TU + R + IN.
3	APEX – dd.
4	SUBSTANDARD – SUB + STANDARD.
5	SAD – DAS<. I’m not sure where “complaint” fits in.
6	ANKLE BOOTS – (A BLOKE’S NOT)*.
7	PICKABACK – PICK + A + BACK.
8	RESTED – RE ST[-e]ED.
13	BACHELOR PAD – (PLACE BRO’ HAD)*. Nicely done.
14	STARVATION – (A RV) “enters” STATION.
16	ANARCHIST – (A + IN CHARTS)*.
18	GYMKHANA – hom. of “Jim” + KHAN + A.
21	ARRAYS – hom. of “A RAISE”.
24	OMBRE – dd. Ombre is a card game, and “ombré” means “with colours or tones blending into each other to give a shaded or striped effect”.
25	POOP – PO + PO<.
27	EAT – [-f]EAT[-hers].

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