Sunday Times Prize Crossword 4406 Sunday November 7th 2010

[Frank97]

Good morning, 14a Drops in test failure for scaled down transport system 5,3 --A-N-E-. 13d Old medium wave broadcast during asteroid storm 5,5 -----RADIO

[kayakamina]

14 train set

13 steam radio

[bibblebub]

trainset
steam radio

[Frank97]

Thank you

[robert551069]

Please help me with the last 2 :-
17 across "Going out of control into a pile-up" A?R???
3 down Business craft"(Two w0rds) M?R??h?N? (h might be wrong) and ??E?T

[Lie-in King]

17a Adrift
3d Merchant fleet

[kog63]

adrift
merchant fleet

[robert551069]

I think that 17 across might be "airway" (Going out of control into a pile-up)

[robert551069]

Thank you Lie-in King and kog 63
Robert

[kog63]

train set
steam radio

[NIMROD]

A DRIFT is a pile-up(e.g. snow) and ADRIFT may mean 'going out of control'

[NIMROD]

Does anyone agree that 8 down must be WINDSURFER (not windsurfed) although the clue seems to suggest a verb rather than a noun? Or have I missed the point here?

[ratfugel]

Stuck on 27 across . Can't see the model part?

[kayakamina]

The model is T

O (nothing) SENSIBLY ( Reasonably) + T (model)

OSTENSIBLY - seemingly

[gen2]

Neither can I
In fact I can't see any part of the clue for 27a in this thread.