ACROSS
8 - Safe plan for an officer to promote debt collection (6,8) - {CO}P{PER BOTTOMED*} This should have been shown as (6-8) and where did the P come from?
9 - Foreigner has a queen bird (6) - {SCOT}{ER}
10 - Employing eight in front of a nagging character (8) - {E}{NGAGING} E from eight?
11 - Misfortunes for a group of cabs covering the initial kilometres (8) - {SET}{BAC{K}S*}
13 - They may be the clues solved from left to right (6) - ACROSS [CD]
14 - Hostility in the country to capture its borders (6) - {MALI}{CE} its borders is I and S and not C and E
16 - Request the worker to hold the tap on the street (6) - {BE{H}E}{ST} Tap and H ?
19 - Fish part is cut with a bit of oil in Norway (6) - {TARP*}{O}{N}
11 - Misfortunes for a group of cabs covering the initial kilometres (8) - {SET}{BAC{K}S*}
13 - They may be the clues solved from left to right (6) - ACROSS [CD]
14 - Hostility in the country to capture its borders (6) - {MALI}{CE} its borders is I and S and not C and E
16 - Request the worker to hold the tap on the street (6) - {BE{H}E}{ST} Tap and H ?
19 - Fish part is cut with a bit of oil in Norway (6) - {TARP*}{O}{N}
21 - Beat signifying the rhythm of life (4-4) - L?B?-D??? (Addendum - LUBB-DUPP [CD] Se comments of Dayquest in comments section- This is a new word for me)
23 - One in an ethnic community in Italy has a disease (8) - BER{I}BER{I}
24 - Scared to be alone in the beginning in the French capital at four (6) - A{F}RAID Anno eludes me
26 - Abandoned side favoured the sudden movement (4,2,3,5) - {LEFT} {IN} {THE} {LURCH}
DOWN
1 - I yell aloud that it is cold (8) - ICECREAM (~i scream) Should be (3-5) or (3,5)
2 - Mark the location (4) - SPOT [DD]
3 - This system has a point (6) - METRIC [E]
4 - Leaderless mob, severely injured out in the city on the opposite side (7) - (-m){OB}{VERSE(-ely)}
5 - Do nothing in an administration covering the regular agendas (8) - STA{G}{N}{A}TE
6 - Left George in a position holding the hard, half head of the turtle (10) - {L}{OGGER{H}E}{(-he)AD}
23 - One in an ethnic community in Italy has a disease (8) - BER{I}BER{I}
24 - Scared to be alone in the beginning in the French capital at four (6) - A{F}RAID Anno eludes me
26 - Abandoned side favoured the sudden movement (4,2,3,5) - {LEFT} {IN} {THE} {LURCH}
DOWN
1 - I yell aloud that it is cold (8) - ICECREAM (~i scream) Should be (3-5) or (3,5)
2 - Mark the location (4) - SPOT [DD]
3 - This system has a point (6) - METRIC [E]
4 - Leaderless mob, severely injured out in the city on the opposite side (7) - (-m){OB}{VERSE(-ely)}
5 - Do nothing in an administration covering the regular agendas (8) - STA{G}{N}{A}TE
6 - Left George in a position holding the hard, half head of the turtle (10) - {L}{OGGER{H}E}{(-he)AD}
7 - Finest kind of mock actions (6) - FEINTS*
12 - Scholar and a couple of learners aim to scribble in the beginning with pens (10) - {BA}{LL}{POINT}{S}
15 - Refers to the companies (8) - CONCERNS [DD]
17 - Gas absent in the first-rate lantern (3,5) - T?? LIGHT (Addendum - {TOP} LIGHT Don't know how though) (Correction thanks to Maddy - TOP (-f)LIGHT)
18 - Cardamom is good in Chile for its variety (7) - EL{AI}CHI* No indication about language
20 - Apes are at the Spanish borders of the eateries (6) - {AT}{EL}{ES}
12 - Scholar and a couple of learners aim to scribble in the beginning with pens (10) - {BA}{LL}{POINT}{S}
15 - Refers to the companies (8) - CONCERNS [DD]
17 - Gas absent in the first-rate lantern (3,5) - T?? LIGHT (Addendum - {TOP} LIGHT Don't know how though) (Correction thanks to Maddy - TOP (-f)LIGHT)
18 - Cardamom is good in Chile for its variety (7) - EL{AI}CHI* No indication about language
20 - Apes are at the Spanish borders of the eateries (6) - {AT}{EL}{ES}
22 - Church official has a rosary mostly for the French (6) - {BEAD}{LE}
25 - Uncommon part of an umbra region (4) - RARE [T]
25 - Uncommon part of an umbra region (4) - RARE [T]
Very few of today's clues make any sense. Yet, you managed to solve almost all of them. Amazing !
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21. LUBB-DUPP he he he :):):)
ReplyDelete17A - TOP LIGHT? It should be TOP-LIGHT (3-5) in the clue. TOP for first-class. TOP-LIGHT is a lantern on the top of a vessel.
ReplyDelete16A - Tap can be either C or H from the cryptic crossword abbreviations link I sent earlier.
ReplyDelete@Dayquest,
ReplyDeleteWell done, but why the laugh?. By the way are you a doctor to have managed to decipher the answer? For the rest see LUBB-DUPP
@ Sembhayya,
ReplyDeleteBut why does the top-light not have Gas??
24Across Anno is as follows
ReplyDeleteAlone in the beginning - A
French - FR
Capital - AI
Four - D
Now, I have no idea how AI and capital are related. I again found AI for capital in the cryptic crossword abbreviation link I shared earlier...
Colonel, Good question. I don't know about the gas part:-) I can only explain how TOP is related from the clue. After all, it is NJ again :-)
ReplyDeleteHere we go again...
ReplyDeleteGas absent in the first-rate lantern (3,5) - T?? LIGHT
My take - First rate - Top Flight
Gas absent - delete 'F' which is chemical symbol for Flourine, a gas
So, we get Top (-f)Light - Lantern
I actually thought its a good clue
Sembhayya,
ReplyDeleteDon't trust that c/w abbn link, it has many dubious entries, though AI for capital is a valid one.
Here Capital means first rate or excellent ie A1 =>AI when 1 is written in roman numerals, at least thts how i interpreted it...
BTW todays Guardian also had 'Scoter' as one of the clues-
Cortes prepared duck
Regarding the Tap = H/C conundrum -
ReplyDeleteTaps as in water faucets are labelled 'H' or 'C' to indicate hot and cold water resp and that is how tap = H or C
Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think they are universally accepted as cryptic abbns.
@Maddy,
ReplyDeleteNow that you have annotated TOP LIGHT it definitely looks a good one
@Sembhayya,
ReplyDeleteA1 is there in 18D as well for good, A1 appears quite frequently in CW's for excellent, top, good etc
@Madyy,
ReplyDeleteFor NJ anything goes whether universally accepted or not, she has H from a tap her and H from Hard in 6D this one I presume from classification of pencils
Colonel Sir,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the cluster map note..
Given that there are so many countries represented I wanted to share an iPhone app that downloads the daily Hindu crossword into the iPhone in editable form. It is free In the App store and created by fundoo research. I discovered it recently and is useful if one does not have access to the paper or not near a printer. Please delete comment if inappropriate to today's cwd discussion.
Veer
8AC I guess Officer = COP
ReplyDelete4D would have been a very good clue for DECIMAL (This system has a point). I felt it was weak for METRIC
OBVERSE is supposed to be the side facing the observer not the opposite side.
How do we get -ely from out in the city?
I liked this clue
15 - Refers to the companies (8) - CONCERNS [DD]
@sriks7
ReplyDeleteELY is the name of a city in the UK see ELY
Too many questions today, another example being,'Rosary mostly' becoming 'BEAD'?
ReplyDeleteSomebody correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think they are universally accepted as cryptic abbns.
ReplyDeleteI've seen taps = H and C used before in other crosswords, but they've always occurred as a pair.
e.g. In a clue for HANDCRAFT. Or "hot and cold" is in the clue somewhere and the answer has "TAPS" in it.
I wonder who or what is the deciding authority for valid abbreviations. I guess any abbreviation recognized by a standard dictionary like Chambers should be valid?
Rosary is 'beads' or a set of them. so mostly rosary could be bead. That is how I answered the clue. By first looking up the meaning of rosary
ReplyDeleteAs Suresh said, Rosary is a set of beads for Christians for keeping a count on prayers - something like a Rudraksh for Hindus and 'Misbah' for Muslims - and a bead is therefore a part of it('mostly').
ReplyDeleteRichard
I can only say that it has been observed by a Commenter (maddy?) here or in the Orkut Community THC Solutions that it is not an "in" thing to pluralise a word (X) and then say mostly of X.
ReplyDeleteRest is silence.
maddy wrote something about it, a comment on Crossword Unclued:
ReplyDeleteWhy BENGALI = BENGAL + I doesn't fly
If BEAD is acceptable for 'Rosary mostly' then the possibilities of other similarities are innumerable to name a few 'Books mostly = Paper', 'Shirt mostly = cloth' so on and so forth
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