Saturday 17 October 2009

No 9664, Saturday, 17 Oct 09, M.Manna

ACROSS
 1 - Refusal by you to enter also caused irritation (7) - AN{NO}YED Anno pending (Addendum - AN{NO}{YE}D - Thanks to Jotter, see comments)
 5 - Complains often weeping like a child (7) - {CRY}{BABY}
10 - Swear to having visited Lord’s (6) - {AT}{TEST}
11 - Not all returns to do with gold are for opening (4,4) - {TRAP<-} {DO}{OR}
12 - Succeeded by a narrow margin — so capers about (6) - SCRAPE*
13 - Ravel’s specialist point of view? (8) - {ENT}{ANGLE}
14 - Possibly those over 50 will get basic accommodation (6) - HOSTE*{L}
15 - Rid the ash around the plant (6) - RADISH*
18 - Initially, please turn over sister, from the act of falling (6) - {P}{T}{O}{SIS}
20 - Great gorge could be seen over there (6) - {CAN}{YON}
23 - Canons’ religious observance in car I overturned (8) - C{RITE}RIA*
25 - Incarnation in human form (6) - AVATAR [CD]
26 - A lot of people after assistance back verbal attack (8) - {DIA<-}{TRIBE}
27 - Stay over with the French in order to eat (6) - {EDIB<-}{LE}
28 - Averse to getting in a pious man (7) - {A}{GAIN}{ST}
29 - No point made that is about God, since he does not believe in Him (7) - ATH{E}IST*
DOWN
 2 - Observe the overweight get really cold (6) - {NOT<-}{ICE}
 3 - Workers in the theatre? (9) - OPERATORS [CD]
 4 - Plead for net rate to be reviewed (7) - ENTREAT*
 6 - A clergyman outside the nuclear device (7) - RE{A}CTOR
 7 - Continue to offer a price (3,2) - BID ON [CD]
 8 - Punt shorter and ineffective (8) - {BOOT}{LESS}
 9 - Jumper replaces these, surprisingly (13) - STEEPLECHASER*
16 - Write briefly on how to commence angling (4,1,4) - {DROP} A {LINE}
17 - Making a beginning may be disturbing (8) - STARTING [DD]
19 - Music writing families (7) - S?R{KINS} Answer eludes me (Addendum - STRAINS [DD] Thanks to Jotter & Suresh, the word writing could hav been avaoided in the clue)
21 - Exceptionally earnest characters, close as can be (7) - NEAREST*
22 - Everybody in sad disarray in an American city (6) - D{ALL}AS*
24 - All instruments performing together on direction (5) - TUTTI [CD] New word for me, got this from a google search

GRID

9 comments:

  1. For 1 A, best I could come up with was:

    Refusal = No
    You = Ye
    Also = And

    The "to enter" is to indicate that No and Ye are in between.

    Weak, but I eagerly await enlightenment.

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  2. Hi Jotter,
    Your Anno looks perfect

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  3. Also, for 19-D, could it be Strains? Found 3 meanings for it as follows:

    1) any of the different lines of ancestry united in a family or an individual.

    2) Music. a section of a piece of music, more or less complete in itself.

    3) the tone, style, or spirit of an utterance, writing, etc.: a humorous strain.

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  4. 19D is strains.
    Jotter, Your anno is right

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  5. Jotter's and my comments crossed each other

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  6. Thanks, gentlemen. It is a joy, and a learning experience, to visit this blog circa 8.30 AM (8.00 PM where I live) everyday.

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  7. Maybe manna is doing a triple definition not merely a double definition

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  8. One of the setters did a triple definition earlier also, maybe it was Manna

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  9. I wish everybody a very Happy Deepawali

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