Across
1 Astronaut Glenn aims to re-enter extremely dramatically (4,9)
10 Horse beset by frantic one with spur(3,2)
11 Buzz notably with anaesthetic to suppress (6,3)
12 Overcoming resistance, president conducted cosmic expedition’s starting points and departure (9)
13 Nationalist wanting moon landing: adventure primarily requiring money (5)
14 Earth gets horrendously toxic article, matter from afar(7)
16 People going into space? (7)
18 Immediately, Soviet leader subdued with worry: ‘This is not rocket science!?’ (2,5)
20 Niçoise ingredient? (7)
22 In conclusion, this setter has to improve (5)
24 ‘Ready to go off!?’ ‘Ready to go off.’ ‘Nonsense!’ (9)
26 Showed up with spots, ruby-red essentially: unlikely to take a selfie (6-3)
27 Early on, 1 recalled being in space (5)
28 Small step among alien surroundings at first: it diverted a generation (5,8)
Down
2 Painter returning from greengrocer gleefully (2,5)
3 Mentally derail nut with influence of the moon (5,4)
4 Enter at speed and arrest(3,2)
5 ‘Balanced’ lunatic emits cry about first sign of moon (9)
6 Space, they say, is cold (5)
7 Put heads together for veggie dish (3,4)
8,9 Pinnacle: men of America walked out with message from 1(2,4,2,5,3,3,7)
15 Contrary and tense, I assembled hors d’œuvres (9)
17 Visiting the moon – or returned from journey? (2,3,4)
19 Dim son to join forces (5,2)
21 More bananas or more nuts? (7)
23 Architectural order seen in sand or ice (5)
25 Sky etc originally passed at Yuri’s tremendous velocity (3,2)
Published - September 21, 2019 04:02 pm IST
