ACROSS
1 - Get together with cheat on the edge (8) - {CON}{VERGE}
5 - Monkey with a new colour (6) - {TITI}{A}{N} Nice clue, last to fall, was misled for some time
9 - Don’t do anything to show it! (7) - NEGLECT [CD]
10 - Asian leader, attacked harshly, is disconcerted (7) - {A}BASHED
11 - Having an appearance for Doordarshan? (9) - TELEGENIC [CD]
12 - Gridman is back having encountered insect (5) - {EM<-}{MET}
13 - Country in super utopian state (4) - PERU [T]
14 - Alas, saint turns attacker (9) - ASSAILANT*
17 - Start-up (9) - ACTIVATOR [CD]
19 - It leaves certain things to certain people (4) - WILL [E]
23 - Cut short graduate and boy (5) - {BA}{TED}
24 - Make inoffensive bad ode and act by wayward sire (9) - DEO*{DO}{RISE*}
25 - A lot of time to put footless Indian disciple in a step by step arrangement (7) - E{CHEL(-a)}ON
26 - It takes a lot of time to note to repeat (7) - {IT}{ERA}{TE}
27 - Dread making ultimately unpleasant mistake (6) - {T}ERROR
28 - Herein a spun-out tale, out of this world (8) - ET{HERE}AL*
DOWN
1 - Once path’s hacked, war memorial is seen (8) - CENOTAPH*
2 - Fuss-pot has leggin thrown at redhead (7) - NIGGLE*{R}
3 - Drive ne’er paved on the limits of Gooty (6) - ENER*{G(-oot)Y}
4 - Learn everything about the job by infiltrating a worker? (3,4,4,2) - GET ONES HAND IN [DD]
6 - ”Woman: shall we go for a buzzer or __ __ __ __ better option?” (2,1,4,1) - IS A BELL A [DD]
7 - One grandmother taking in murmur that is bestial (7) - {I}{N{HUM}AN}
8 - Untidy — untidy with nothing on (6) - NUDITY*
10 - One who goes for the digs (13) - ARCHAEOLOGIST [E]
15 - French wine, pulse, with two ducks for the meal (8) - {VIN}{DAL{OO}
16 - Flower girl, we hear, follows the conservative (8) - {BLUE}{BELL}(~belle)
18 - Fielder Tom dear in France (7) - {CAT}{CHER}
20 - One friend carries one ton to copy (7) - {I}{M{I}{T}ATE}
21 - Sailor despatched, showing a lack of attention (6) - {AB}{SENT}
22 - Stick together with company present (5) - {CO}{HERE}
GRID
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteI added a map to my blog after seeing it on another blog. This map indicates the locations of visitors to my blog. On the first day I have had the following visitors, 35 from India, 17 from USA, 1 each from UK, France, Portugal and one from the Asia/Pacific region which from the map looks like China!!
Hi Col
ReplyDeleteHad noticed the curtain-raiser about the map during the last two days and was eagerly waiting for it. Congrats and thanks.
Richard
The following clues also were nice ones.
ReplyDelete6 dn - ”Woman: shall we go for a buzzer or __ __ __ __ better option?” (2,1,4,1) - IS A BELL A [DD]
8 dn - Untidy — untidy with nothing on (6) - NUDITY*
10 dn - One who goes for the digs (13) - ARCHAEOLOGIST [E]
15 dn - French wine, pulse, with two ducks for the meal (8) - {VIN}{DAL{OO}
However, a couple of queries:
3 dn - Drive ne’er paved on the limits of Gooty (6) - ENER*{G(-oot)Y}
What is "Gooty"? Is it an Indian word or name?
21 dn - Sailor despatched, showing a lack of attention (6) - {AB}{SENT}
Showing a lack of attention could lead only to 'absent-minded', not just 'absent'.
Richard
Hi Richard,
ReplyDeleteGooty is the name of a place in Andhra, I think it falls on the Chennai - New Delhi railway route.
Correction it falls on the Chennai - Bombay route, somewhere near Guntakal
ReplyDelete21 dn - Sailor despatched, showing a lack of attention (6) - {AB}{SENT}
ReplyDeleteShowing a lack of attention could lead only to 'absent-minded', not just 'absent'.
A good question!
On the face of it, I too would have thought so!
But Gridman, from what I have observed of him, is a careful composer who must be doing a lot of dictionary work before he sends the crossword for publication.
His tool of reference must be Chambers which has "inattentive or dreamy" as one of the meanings of 'absent'.
That said, if you argue that it's wide usage that matters and not some obscure meaning in a dictionary, I won't have any response.
D16- I thought conservatives were RED, how come it refers to BLUE here?
ReplyDelete@sriks7
ReplyDeleteConservatives are Blue and Labour part Red in the UK. See this THE BLUE BLOG
You also would have heard of the term 'True Blue' see TRUE BLUE
My COD too has one of the meanings of absent as 'Showing a lack of attention' which is precisely the last five words in the clue, so we cannot call it an obscure meaning, whereas 'absent-minded' is defined as forgetful
ReplyDeleteAnd just to complete the rainbow of colours - Liberals are yellow!
ReplyDeleteIn current colloquial english you can definitely say someone is looking absent if they are not paying attention, especially in the phrase "you have an absent look about you"
Wow, a Pearl Harbour of clarifications aimed at the 'absent' me. Thanks, friends !
ReplyDeleteRichard
5A - i guessed it as 'SIMIAN' which means monkey and it happily fitted with other words however i couldn't find the anno working backwards...looking at the anno you gave, it is quite a tough one which i could never have guessed.
ReplyDeleteIn the US, Blue represents Democratic Party (liberal), and Red Republican Party (conservative).
ReplyDeleteI still did not get that answer right, but that is a different matter!