1 - An eccentric person gets a bill for heart problem (7) - {CARD}{I}{AC}
5 - I camp out going into a resort in Mexico (7) - T{AMPIC*}O
10 - Motor-machine carrying road surface material (6) - TARMAC How did O become A ?
11 - Says, as before, on balance it's a setback (8) - {REST}{A}{TES<-} )
12 - Stains spoil holy men's appearance (6) - SAINTS*
13 - Keeps up with us in marks (8) - S{US}TAINS
14 - Suffer from extreme hunger (6) - STARVE [CD]
15 - Get hold of and make it fast (6) - SECURE [DD]
18 - Feels for the marbles (6) - SENSES [DD]
20 - Move softly to take it up with a poet (6) - {TI<-}{PTOE*}) No anagram indicator
23 - Tow behind when there's something wrong (8) - {DRAW}{BACK}
25 - Rogue artists find invitation endless (6) - {RAS}{CAL(
26 - Only later is prepared to come out with disproof (8) - RE{BUT}TAL*
27 - Make a point of being provocative (6) - NEEDLE [DD]
28 - They take the front position in a team (7) - LEADERS [E]
29 - Tie an apt assembly round a mineral (7) - AP{A}TITE*
2 - Jack, a painter, mounting a mount (6) - {A}{RA}{RAT} (Addendum - {A}{RA}{RAT<-} - Thanks to Sandhya)
3 - Contributes about a thousand and one according to rules (9) - DO{M}{I}NATES
4 - He charges an account customer (7) - {ACC}{USER}
6 - Surprisingly a fool sits around to help (7) - AS{SIST*}S
7 - Found friend in Zambia public square (5) - {PLA*}{ZA} No anagram indicator again
8 - Back again among the free-lancers in the dailies (8) - CL{E}ANERS* Anno for E not clear
9 - Wearing a coat of arms? (7,2,4) - DRESSED TO KILL [CD]
16 - Eye-liners (5,4) - CROWS FEET [CD] I liked this one
19 - Splash the rower (7) - SPATTER [DD]
21 - Standard cut of vegetable (7) - {PAR}{SNIP}
24 - Hurt a person's feelings (5) - WOUND [CD]
Hello / Namaskar / Aadaab / Vanakkam / Namaskaram / Sat Sri Akal everybody
ReplyDelete(No, not a pale imitation of Big B - KBC-ishtyle !)
Today's puzzle looked tough initially. But enjoyed completing the soon after.
10A - Could be a typo. 'Mortar-machine carrying road-surface material' sounds more sensible.
13A - liked the play with the word 'fast'.
Liked 18A, 20A and 23A as well.
8D - 'free' LANCERS and pun with 'dailies', 9D - play with 'arms' and 'kill' - nice ones.
But the best was 16D - Eye-liners CROW'S FEET.
Aaj to inke khilaaf bolna MANNA hai ! (Objections overruled.)
Yet, Deepak, I fully agree with you on the point of absence of anagram indicators.
16d Crows feet was a nice one. So was 7d Plaza.
ReplyDeleteIn 10a, how does the tarmac come from tormac? Richard’s take on it sounds plausible.
17d is 8 letters not 10
5a Tampico had to be Googled for confirmation.
19D - Will SCATTER also fit in?
ReplyDelete@Richard,
ReplyDeleteScatter will fit but it will not gel with the second part of the clue 'Rower'
Yes, boss. You are right.
ReplyDelete@ Col: in 8d, Back again may signify er (re in reverse), but then we end up with a extra r from lancers to cleans, which is unexplainable (unless intention was to have free-lances and not free-lancers). The beautiful illustration of crow's feet put up by you seems to have too many digits to belong to one foot, hence more than one foot (may be even more than one crow) is involved. 3d definition is rules=dominates
ReplyDelete19d: Rower = one who rows, row=spat, i.e. one who rows is a spatter=splash
ReplyDelete2 - Jack, a painter, mounting a mount (6) - {A}{RA}{RAT}
ReplyDelete{A}{RA}{RAT<-}
@ Sandhya, yes, mounting (going up) is used here for reverse just like back is used for reverse in 11a. Novel usages
ReplyDelete3 - Contributes about a thousand and one according to rules (9) - DO{M}{I}NATES Is the definition correct?
ReplyDeleteThe def is probably only RULES. According to is only a connector?
Kishore & Suresh thanks for correcting my incorrect definition of 3D
ReplyDeleteSandhya thanks for correcting the anno of 2D
BTW Col: I have given yesterday anno for 1d Eastwood.
ReplyDelete@Kishore,
ReplyDeleteYes I saw that
Surprisingly a fool sits around// to help (7) - AS{SIST*}S
ReplyDeletehelp will equate to assist, I thought. It could have been: and helps.