The original puzzle may be found here.
A themed offering from relative newbie Dice. It took me ages to see the parsing of NOTE, and some of the charade clues took some untangling, but the theme of EDUCATION helped. You could possibly argue for ANGLE, ELEMENT and FAIL to be theme words, but that may be a bit of a stretch.
Thanks Dice
| ACROSS | ||
| 1 | SUBJECT |
Take flight, carrying Charlie, following sea transportation issue (7)
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| JET (“take flight”), carrying C (Charlie in the NATO phonetic alphabet) following SUB (“sea transportation”) | ||
| 5 | HONOURS |
Recognises love shared by you and me? (7)
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| HON (term of endearment, so “love”) + OURS (“shared by you and me”) | ||
| 9 | HEADS |
Oversees advancement of ecstasy in hell (5)
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| HAD(e)S (“hell”) with E (ecstasy) advanced becomes H(E)ADS | ||
| 10 | TIMETABLE |
Schedule board to pursue Master embroiled in relationship (9)
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| TABLE (“board”) to pursue M (master) embroiled in TIE (“relationship”) | ||
| 11 | ORDINARILY |
Normally, on the other hand, start off cautiously after loud noise (10)
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| OR (“on the other hand”) + [start off] (w)ARILY (“cautiously”) after DIN (“loud noise”) | ||
| 12 | FACT |
Reality show tailing female (4)
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| ACT (“show”) tailing F (female) | ||
| 14 | DISPLACEMENT |
Being out of order, criticise and put down setter, heartless nut! (12)
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| DIS (“criticise”) + PLACE (“put down”) + ME (“setter”) + [heartless] N(u)T | ||
| 18 | INTELLIGENCE |
Another order for gilt Nile scene excluding special information (12)
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| *(gilt nile cene) [anag:another order for] where CENE is (s)CENE excluding S (special) | ||
| 21 | GRID |
Giganet’s first free network (4)
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| G(iganet) [‘s first] + RID (“free”) | ||
| 22 | BATTALIONS |
Flying creature with claws circling international groups of soldiers (10)
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| BAT (“flying creature”) with TALONS (“claws”) circling I (international) | ||
| 25 | EDUCATION |
Teaching can die out if it’s disordered (9)
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| *((can die out) [anag:if it’s disorganised] | ||
| 26 | ANGLE |
Swing headless fish (5)
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| [headless] (d)ANGLE (“swing”) | ||
| 27 | TREBLES |
Wood surrounding the outskirts of Blackpool gets three times bigger (7)
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| TREES (“wood”) surrounding [the outskirts of] B(lackpoo)L | ||
| 28 | ELEMENT |
Part company in English hamlet, half-cut (7)
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| MEN (“company”) in E (English) + (ham)LET [half-cut] | ||
| DOWN | ||
| 1 | SCHOOL |
Principally, social categorisation has one overwhelming limitation – it’s divided by class (6)
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| [principally] S(ocial) C(ategorisation) H(as) O(ne) O(verwhelming) L(iimitation) | ||
| 2 | BOARDS |
Chief briefly interrupted by a doctor turning tables (6)
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| BOS(s) (“chief”, briefly) interrupted by A + <=Dr. (doctor, turning) | ||
| 3 | ESSENTIALS |
French milk served up in German city’s just what we need (10)
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| <=LAIT (“French” for “milk”, as in cafe au lait, served up) in ESSEN”S (“German city’s”) | ||
| 4 | TUTOR |
Instructor’s express disapproval with soldiers (5)
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| TUT (“express disapproval”) with OR (other ranks, so “soldiers”)
The surface doesn’t read well here, maybe “expression of” would have been better? |
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| 5 | HUMILIATE |
Smell I left before I ate is cause to feel bad (9)
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| HUM (“smell”) + I + L (left) before I ATE | ||
| 6 | NOTE |
N American, African, Asian, Oceanian or even from the Antarctic! (4)
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| NOT E (European) (all the other continents seem to be covered) | ||
| 7 | UNBIASED |
Open-minded nude American Bishop is sacked (8)
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| *(nude a bis) [anag:is sacked] where Bis. = bishop) | ||
| 8 | SPECTATE |
Watch Spooner’s electronics series? (8)
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| TECH SPATE (“electronics series”) if it had been uttered by Spooner may have been SPEC-TATE | ||
| 13 | PENCIL-CASE |
Nice places being arranged – somewhere to accommodate writers (6-4)
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| *(nice places) [anag:being arranged] | ||
| 15 | PRIMARIES |
1Ds for young, strait-laced group of stars (9)
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| PRIM (“strait-laced”) + ARIES (“group of stars”) | ||
| 16 | DINGIEST |
Gin diet’s crazy – and most dull! (8)
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| *(gin diets) [anag:crazy] | ||
| 17 | ATTITUDE |
Mood elevation when drinking Tango, putting away litres! (8)
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| A(l)TITUDE (“elevation”) putting away L (litres) and drinking T (Tango, in the NATO phonetic alphabet) | ||
| 19 | DONGLE |
It may be carrying files from the French supporting Eastern currency (6)
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| LE (“the” in “French”) supporting DONG (unit of currency in Vietnam, so “Eastern currency”) | ||
| 20 | ASCENT |
State agreement for rise (6)
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| Homophone/pun/aural wordplay [state] of ASSENT (“agreement”) | ||
| 23 | TENSE |
Disorganised teens stressed (5)
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| *(teens) [anag:disorganised] | ||
| 24 | FAIL |
Antifa illegally concealing collapse (4)
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| Hidden in [concealing] “antiFA ILlegally” |
loonapic re 7 down, I think it is nude a b is, where b is the chess notation for bishop and ‘sacked’ as the anag.
Two days left here until school returns and I haven’t lost too many braincells because this was a rare time I noticed the theme.
Like the blogger the last one in NOTE took a little bit of thinking.
A few trickier parsings than I would usually expect from Dice but the theme helped a lot.
Liked HONOURS, DISPLACEMENT and BATTALIONS.
Thanks Dice and Loonapick