1 - Typical example: apparently when cheese forms from milk (4,2,5) - CASE IN POINT [CD]
9 - Gets a tan: it's of a sort (7) - ATTAINS*
10 - Rock ‘n' roll? (7) - STAGGER [CD] Put in Swinger and was lost for some time
11 - Last of the Commandments (5) - TENTH [CD]
12 - Without hesitation made trim and set off (9) - {TRIGG{ER}ED}
13 - At college, group is disconcerted (5) - {UP}{SET}
15 - Most showy, I stressed out (9) - DRESSIEST*
18 - Heels were transported to another place (9) - ELSEWHERE*
21 - Place for a peck? (5) - CHEEK [CD]
22 - Rate restructured by more certain bursar (9) - {TREA*}{SURER}
24 - As used for cleaning toilet with regular application of foam (5) - {LOO}{F}{A}
27 - Unusual art to smother pain in windpipe (7) - {TR{ACHE}A*}
28 - Unskilled in discourse, second maiden gives way for favourite (11) - {IN}{COM(-m+pet)PETENT} Can a comment be considered a discourse?
1 - Each tune's different for the nightclub singer (9) - CHANTEUSE*
2 - Nita's woven fabric (5) - SATIN*
3 - Rishi, moving one to top, soaks up dish (5,4) - {(+i)IRISH(-i)} {STEW<-}
4 - Assumed Pilot Officer diets regulatedly (7) - {PO}{SITED*}
5 - Stir in part of church (7) - {IN}{SPIRE}
6 - Pluck of woman in dynasty (5) - {T{W}ANG}
7 - A good soldier nursing king and woman in distress (8) - {A}{G}{G{R}I}{EVE}
8 - Reminder to one heartless guy abandoning wonder child (4) - PROD
14 - Do nurses have such feelings between them? (8) - SISTERLY [CD]
16 - One isn't well applying for this permission (4,5) - SICK LEAVE [CD]
17 - Accept a role and distinguish (4,5) - {TAKE} {A}{PART}
19 - Having no certain course, the man goes around animal (7) - {ER{RAT}IC}
20 - Slip on paper? (7) - ERRATUM [CD]
22 - Sailor on northern lake (4) - {TAR}{N}
23 - With friends he was a novel character (5) - SWAMI [CD]
25 - More millions spent to cover church in paint (5) - {
Hi
ReplyDeleteERR+ (1)AND (2)TUM. SWAMI was true Indian flavour. Reminded of Vaishali who passed away recently who had played his mother in the TV serial. IN COM(-m+PET)ENT is the DRESSIEST*. Hope it is not the TREA*-SURER. A backward idiot in 24a. CV mentioning ‘necking’ ELSEWHERE goes with Gridman’s SISTERLY peck on the CHEEK in this crossword. Sometimes I don’t get annos clearly. TRIGGERED is a CASE IN POINT.
btw RISHI in 3d is tete a tete with NITA in 2d
ReplyDelete1 - Typical example: apparently when cheese forms from milk (4,2,5) - CASE IN POINT [CD]
ReplyDelete(CASE IN) (POINT)
1a should be DD and not CD
ReplyDeleteDid you guys notice 2D. Awww, Gridman's got a soft corner for Ms. Nita, after all.
ReplyDeleteWhat next? A reciprocation by her, as in,
Assemble damn rig and find the favorite setter (7)
:-)
@ Satya: AWESOME! lol! That's one of the best clues I've seen in a while! hahahaha
ReplyDeleteThanks Hari.
ReplyDeleteI had SWAGGER for 10A. I wonder which is better.
ReplyDeleteToday was eerie... For the most part (about 70%), it felt like I was the one who set the clues! They just flowed! It was awesome! I just read the clue and without even knowing the number of letters, I'd know the answer! In a handful of clues, I had the answer as I was reading the clue!
ReplyDeleteAnd no... it wasn't because they were easy. Like I said, it was eerie... I just HAD it! haha! Now I know what you experts feel like!
Anyway, back to solving and getting the remaining 5-10 clues. :)
No, Satya, excellent that the clue is, it would be too tame an offering from her. This would be more like her:
ReplyDeleteFrying pan without the French loses tail and makes many without a pleat for the pseudonym of an ashram dweller[(7)
STAGGER would be right
ReplyDelete@ Kishore: LoL! I still can't figure out how that becomes gridman!!! Typical NJ! haha
ReplyDeleteKishore @9:26,
ReplyDeleteYup, you're right. I'm sorry, I can not elevate myself to her elevated level.
GRIDd(-le, without the French)=GRIDD, GRID(-d loses tail)=GRID
ReplyDeletemany= MANIFOLD (-1 fold, without a pleat)=MAN
Pseudonym of Rishi, an ashram dweller=GRIDMAN.
Satya, 933, what do you call an elevator which goes down: Down-going elevator, demoter? Well I seem to have caught the demoter, as Hari notes in 929. As CV says, it is a setter's clue,not a solver's one; one may get the answer, but not the anno easily, not without twisting one's brain into a pretzel.
ReplyDeleteAgree with Kishore that 1A would be a DD
ReplyDeleteGood Morning..
ReplyDeleteCase in point...is when some one attains the tenth clue he would not be upset as the treasurer in the setter might make him upset elsewhere and take a part in the dressiest way to get a peck on the cheek and obtain sick leave to see chanteuse do a stagger inspired with the irish stew with its erratic taste. Swami save me from the erratum and be "in" competent enough for Sisterly Nita and not be aggrieved.
yesterday it is masseuse today it is chanteuse...on monday ?
Good day
Mathu
INCOMPETENT:
ReplyDeleteInteresting that even this fits:
IN COM(-m){+PET}ENT(-ary) ( maiden = mary!)
particularly so, if you agree that commentary is closer to discourse than comment.
Prasanna,
ReplyDeleteInteresting anno, but I don't think that is what Gridman intended because ot the usage of 'second maiden' by which I presume, the second 'M' is to be deleted from COMMENT
Hi all
ReplyDeleteHad gone out after completing the puzzle and logging in late.
Mathu 10:28 We can have DANSEUSE, COIFFEUSE, CHAFFEUSE, RACONTEUSE etc. (useful info for setters-in-the-making.)
Talking of the elevators, was reminded of an old joke.
Frenchmen are reputed to be extremely polite and courteous while talking to others.
A French visitor at a London high-rise, when told that the elevator was to go to the penthouse, tells the attendant: 'Can you please take me to the fifth floor, if it is not out of your way?'
Filled 17d as "tell apart" thinking it is closer to distinguish.But could not get 21A.Comments?
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed 3D.More so,the comments connecting 2 & 3D.
ReplyDeleteApropos 28a: Uncertain whether to comment on discourse or discourse on comment, I quote Bill from the only 'pair' of names to make it to the NATO phonetic alphabet:
ReplyDeleteHer eye discourses; I will answer it.
Richard, your elevator joke was uplifting.
ReplyDeletePadmanabhan,
ReplyDeleteIn 17D you cannot get 'TELL' from 'ACCEPT' it has to be TAKE.
Gridman clue, I mean Gridman in clue by Kishore is enjoyable after his solution.
ReplyDeleteMissed out on 24A and 25D (OCHRE did cross my mind, though).
ReplyDeleteTrying to find the meaning of bursar, I found the answer to the clue. Had to check validity of TARN, CASEIN, TANG, TRIG(GED) and CHANTEUSE to fill in the corresponding clues. And like Suresh, I too had SWAGGER instead of STAGGER.
Didn't notice the 2D-3D connection. :D
I came across this nice one in our maths group:
ReplyDeleteWhat is the extreme right ( at unit place ) digit of the the multidigit number equivalent to the following expression ?
- 1! + 2! - 3! + 4! - ...... - 1997! + 1998!
Quite simple actually. Any one hazard a guess ?
Is it 9? Every number after 5! will end with a zero only...
ReplyDeleteThat was quick and perfectly right, Shyam. Just echoing this number will get you Monday's CW number.
ReplyDeleteThere is, however, one bit of logic necessary to ensure that it is not 1, keeping in view the alternating polarity of each member of the series.
ReplyDeleteTalking of polarity, I had mentioned yesterday that:
"For the RECORD, wrong enu 5 instead of 6 for 21a was ABER*-RANT had me deducted. " and sought how does one interpret the last word.
Well, deducted is non-plussed.
And to nit pick, in your 2213, 5! should be replaced by 4! or after should be replaced with from. :-)
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