Finished in express train time today as there were too many CD's and DD's, had to google out the answer for 14A
ACROSS
1 - Note clothesmaker said to be no wholesale merchant (8) - {RE}{TAILER} (~tailor)
6 - Steady company? (4) - FIRM [DD]
9 - Posts additions to population register, we hear (6) - BERTHS (~births)
10 - Disappointment that has descended on you? (3-4) - LET DOWN [CD]
13 - You listed cooks in a tiresome manner (9) - TEDIOUSLY*
14 - ”Behind the ___I’ll convey myself”: Polonius (5) - ARRAS [CD]
15 - Woman coming from behind us (4) - INDU [T]
16 - I adapt Salk’s interpretation of a Marx work (3,7) - DAS KAPITAL*
19 - Kind of package for a concertina? (7,3) - SQUEEZE BOX [DD]
21 - Father allies himself with a goon in India (4) - {DAD}{A}
24 - Bibi and ghulam go with him in an Indian film (5) - SAHIB [CD] Have not seen this movie, must do so one of these days
25 - Write something to say what’s being left? (4,1,4) - MAKE A WILL [CD]
26 - Low gags featuring a city (7) - GLASGOW*
27 - Officer Commanding on eastern grounds finds a prowler from Central America (6) - {OC}{E}{LOT}
28 - Tribal doesn’t complete now (4) - TODA (-y) Have gone up a number of times throughthe Botanical Gardens in Ooty to see the Toda settlement
29 - Cart nearabouts ___ a traveller’s need, perhaps (4-1-3) - RENT-A-CAR* Clue needs refinement (Anagram of CART & NEAR) removal indicator of abouts from nearabouts missing
DOWN
2 - Gridman, having finished case, is changed (7) - E{ME}NDED
3 - What you see when the first part of play is staged (6) - {ACT}{I}{ON}
4 - Is deprived of prestige ___ a dancer in a masked ball does sometimes (5,4) - LOSES FACE [DD]
5 - Team race in which last runners have to make it (5) - RELAY [CD]
7 - Piscator, needing no introduction, turns an advocate of equal power (7) -(-p) ISOCRAT *
8 - A brief word __yes or no? (12) - MONOSYLLABLE [CD]
11 - Vagrants are soft in public vehicles (6) - TRAM{P}S
12 - Without going into details ____how love might happen sometimes (2,5,5) - AT FIRST SIGHT [CD]
17 - Sort of furniture that a DYI enthusiast would buy (5-4) - KNOCK-DOWN [CD]
18 - As soaked in water for a cuppa (3,3) - TEA BAG [CD]
20 - How something remains if a person turns a deaf ear to it (7) - UNHEARD [CD]
22 - State ship sunk at Pearl Harbour (7) - ARIZONA [DD]
23 - Scot is up to taking time in judge’s room (6) - {CAM<-}{ERA}
25 - More thrown all over with this garden tool (5) - MO{W}ER
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ReplyDeleteIn 29ac, 'abouts' (attached though it's to near) is perhaps intended to be the anagram signal.Try:
ReplyDeleteRain-battered Malayali? (4)
Rain-battered atleast has a hyphen in between to give NAIR whereas nearabouts is one word and too close for comfort!, though I get the general idea now that you mention it
ReplyDeleteI goofed up on amending the time of the posting, normally I schedule the blog to appear at 8:30 AM
ReplyDeleteAt the time I saw your blog, I had not got the printed paper here in Chennai.
ReplyDeleteI guess you solve the crossword from its online version that is up by 1 a.m. or so.
Do you print the pdf version? Or do you solve all the clues cold?
Or is your house in Bangalore so near the printing plant that you get the paper hot from the press?
My paper comes in at 6:30 and I normally start doing the CW after that, today I had to go out early so I started working from the online version, I don't print it, but check for the crossings after I solve as much as I can withour looking at the grid, in todays case i got 90% cold that's how I managed such an early post. You would not have come to know but for my goof-up in scheduling the post
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