Wednesday 17 June 2009

No 9561, Wednesday, 17 Jun 09, Nita Jaggi

ACROSS
8 - To pretend sorrow, large rats swallow an egg head after the fabulous bird is inside the coiled structure (9,5) - C{ROC}ODILE* {T{E}ARS}
9 - Even catch our ones with hard fruits (6) - {A}{C}{O}{R}{N}{S}
10 - Regular cold Alice developed around the neck bone (8) - {C}{L}{A{V}ICLE*} V from V-neck sweaters
11 - Woman sounds a bell for the fishes (8) - {HER}{RINGS} Thank God it was not a Red one!!
13 - Mental condition put to rest (6) - TRANCE [CD]
14 - Mother and a woman have a problem (6) - {MA}{LADY}
16 - Now, detective is back on time for an enthusiast (6) - {AD}{DIC<-}{T}
19 - Greek letter holding the crossed part of a plant (6) - S{T}IGMA
21 - Cry of delight before showing anger returning the shrub (8) - {OLE}AN{DER<-} AN from?
23 - Pay money for the decline in the number of customers (8) - {FOOT}{FALL}
24 - Indian leader has a Rolls Royce in Uttar Pradesh almost to enter suddenly (6) - {I}{RR}{UP}{T(-o)}
26 - Batting on zero, start to score given an approximate estimate (2,5,7) - IN ROUND NUMBER{S}
DOWN
1 - Soft thing eaten after an extraction (8) - ICECREAM
2 - Not rich to order gold (4) - {PO}{OR}
3 - I caught you son playing with a relative (6) - {C}O{U}S{I}N*
4 - Princess has a firm coming up with ease surrounding the second Episcopal area (7) - {DI}{OC<-}{E(-a)SE} I suppose by surrounding the setter means cloaking it?
5 - Soul that has left the body (8) - DEPARTED [CD]
6 - Thoughtfulness for a negotiation to resolve differences covering Thailand (10) - MEDI{T}ATION
7 - French, mostly old I see in gay activity (6) - {FR}{OL(-d){I}{C}
12 - Mild banishment of the state representatives gets a king in place of a duke (10) - (-d+r)RELEGATION
15 - Take up the menu for the poet oddly near a plant (8) - {DRAC<-}{AE}{NA}
17 - Manage the rest to go across to enter in unlawfully (8) - {TRES*}PASS
18 - Opposite the stern, mark the fixed loop (7) - {BOW}{LINE}
20 - Eldest son of Odin is not specific about the spines (6) - {THOR}{NS}
22 - Wrong to imagine without one in problem (6) - ENIGMA(-i)*
25 - Feels sorry for the streets in Paris (4) - RUES [DD]

2 comments:

  1. I find some of the clues hard to digest and extraneous. May be more becoz of my discomifture.

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  2. Hi Gemini,
    No need to feel any discomfture! You are not alone in your sorrow, majority of the solvers of THC are of the same view, as regards this setter. In fact some of them have decided not to solve these clues.

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