Not as rare as hen's teeth, these days, Alconiere strikes again. Thanks to jackkt for the heads-up regarding this setter's habit of including a Nina - I wouldn't have spotted it (have I though?) without his hint.
Cracking puzzle: simple vocabulary, moderate in difficulty, a few taxing cryptics. Well played, setter.Definitions underlined.
Hidden in the grid is, "monkey see, monkey do". I don't see any further relevance, perhaps you do?
| Across | |
| 1 | Spell “issue” in reverse (4) |
| TIME - EMIT (issue) backwards (in reverse). | |
| 3 | Leaves office, concerned with omens? (7) |
| RESIGNS - RE (regarding, concerned with) and SIGNS (omens). | |
| 8 | Meekly assures wretched refugees (6,7) |
| ASYLUM SEEKERS - anagram of (wretched) MEEKLY ASSUMES. | |
| 9 | Understand bishop’s responsibility (3) |
| SEE - double definition. | |
| 10 | Chance to abandon golf for a leisurely walk (5) |
| AMBLE - gAMBLE (chance) missing the (to abandon) 'g' (golf). | |
| 12 | Delegate’s outside to help providing warrant (7) |
| DESERVE - first and last letters of (...'s outside) DelegatE then SERVE (help). | |
| 14 | In kitchen, no blender to raise (7) |
| ENNOBLE - hidden in (in) kitchEN NO BLEnder. | |
| 16 | A month’s broadcasts are astounding! (5) |
| AMAZE - A, then what sounds like (broadcasts) "may's" (month's). | |
| 17 | One finishes sentence? Party time! (3) |
| DOT - DO (party) and T (time). | |
| 20 | Terrible Tim trains road runner (13) |
| ADMINISTRATOR - anagram of (terrible) TIM TRAINS ROAD. | |
| 21 | Five go astray, cutting round a French swamp (7) |
| OVERRUN - V (five) and ERR (go astray), contained by (cutting) O (round) and UN ('a' in French). | |
| 22 | Sleep is something easy to do! (4) |
| DOSS - double definition. | |
| Down | |
| 1 | For example, hurling up some limestone, magma, etc (4,4) |
| TEAM GAME - hidden in (some) a reversal of (up) limestonE MAGMA ETc. | |
| 2 | Old chairman has year in Irish county (4) |
| MAYO - MAO (old chairman) containing (has) Y (year). | |
| 3 | Cloaked in scarlet, one’s king is imperilled (6) |
| RISKED - I'S (one's) and K (king) contained by (cloaked in) RED (scarlet). | |
| 4 | Desert’s peaks, bizarrely, for winter sportspeople (5,7) |
| SPEED SKATERS - anagram of (bizarrely) DESERTS PEAKS. | |
| 5 | Ray eager to straighten out something ill-defined (4,4) |
| GREY AREA - anagram of (to straighten out) RAY EAGER. | |
| 6 | Fair request for assistance leads to nothing (2-2) |
| SO-SO - SOS (request for assistance), then O (nothing). | |
| 7 | Chemistry equipment cook ruining cakes has sent briefly in (6,6) |
| BUNSEN BURNER - BUN BURNER (cook ruining cakes) containing (has... in) all-but-the-last-letter of (briefly) SENt. | |
| 11 | Great friendliness of bishop on one being invited into dwelling (8) |
| BONHOMIE - B (bishop), ON, then I (one) contained by (being invited into) HOME (dwelling). | |
| 13 | Awful sights I witnessed, reportedly with son (8) |
| EYESORES - sounds like (reportedly) "I saw" (I witnessed), then S (son). | |
| 15 | US inventor has no side, on reflection (6) |
| EDISON - reversal of (on reflection) NO SIDE. | |
| 18 | Left out of greeting that goes over saint’s head? (4) |
| HALO - take the letter 'L' (left) out of HALLO (greeting). | |
| 19 | Possible German teetotaller getting in a couple of rounds (4) |
| OTTO - TT (teetotaller) contained by (getting in) O and O (a couple of rounds). | |
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