Sunday 9 January 2011

No 2617, Sunday 09 Jan 11

ACROSS
1   - Long for high praise (6) - ASPIRE*
4   - In a state, vicious hook having caught the Parisienne mother (8) - {OK{LA}HO}{MA}
9   - Is to go ashore in Tasmania, perhaps (6) - {IS}{LAND}
10 - Hit man when given cheek at home (8) - {AS}{SASS}{IN}
11 - First to test new footwear in musical (3,3,3) - {T}{EA FOR TWO*}
13 - Live with wife in small wooded hollow (5) - {D{W}ELL}
14 - Fascinating period knitting together (12) - {SPELL}{BINDING}
18 - City in Maine has poster showing lighthouse location (8,4) - {PORTLAND} {BILL} Had to cheat on this
21 - Titled lady losing first two in game of skill (5) - duCHESS
22 - Bananas in a hot pie for an African national (9) - ETHIOPIAN*
24 - Culinary herb used in Spanish province, mostly (8) - TARRAGONa Had to google search this.
25 - Figure of speech making one inside grin (6) - {S{I}MILE}
26 - Tentative, male model visiting social worker (8) - {HE}{SIT}{ANT}
27 - At which one may have served before returning? (6) - TENNIS [CD]

DOWN
1   - A rigorous appraisal dictates changes (4,4) - ACID TEST*
2   - Greatly shocked, European given the sack (8) - {POLE}{AXED}
3   - Call round for drummer (5) - {RING}{O}
5   - Sign of betrayal with fatal consequences? (4,2,5) - KISS OF DEATH [CD]
6   - Left group, one used in commercial (9) - {A{BAND}{ONE}D}
7   - Involved story about eastern native (6) - {OYST{E}R}
8   - A service provided by elderly poet (6) - {A}{RN}{OLD}
12 - A mass of feathery seeds, lots the wind scattered (11) - THISTLEDOWN*
15 - Be quick to appear intelligent (4,5) - LOOK SMART [DD]
16 - Discord in military unit (8) - DIVISION [DD]
17 - Battlefield - force touches down without hesitation (8) - {F}{LAND{ER}S}
19 - A short stop (6) - SCOTCH [CD]
20 - Bride's lost in wreckage (6) - DEBRIS*
23 - Express an opinion in shop in Ely (5) - OPINE [T]

8 comments:

  1. Remembered a ditty:

    Tea for two and two for tea,
    Me for you and you for me.

    Or was it:

    Two for tea and tea for two,
    You for me and me for you.

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  2. Got stuck in the SW corner because I put down CARDAMOM for 24 across. Was unable to get 7 down too - native - OYSTER.

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  3. @Kishore: There is a song too:

    'Oh honey
    Picture me upon your knee,
    With tea for two and two for tea,
    Just me for you and you for me, alone!
    Nobody near us, to see us or hear us,
    No friends or relations
    on weekend vacations
    We won't have it known, dear,
    That we own a telephone, dear...'

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  4. The first two stanzas of the song TEA FOR TWO are:

    I'm discontented with homes that I've rented
    So I have invented my own.
    Darling, this place is lovely oasis
    Where life's weary taste is unknown

    Far from the crowded city
    Where flowers pretty caress the stream
    Cozy to hide in, to live side by side in,
    Don't let it apart in my dream


    And it goes on...

    Day will break, you'll wake
    And start to bake a sugar cake
    For you to take for all the boys to see

    We will raise a family
    A boy for you
    And a girl for me
    Can't you see how happy we would be

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  5. It fits to a T.

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  6. Sundays are quiet as usual. Does it mean that we have all the time in the world on weekdays and very busy on Sundays?

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  7. Suresh,
    We have all the time on weekdays and are very lazy on Sundays, at least that's true in my case!

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  8. a posteriori, yes. (sounds like we are talking of a stern, doesn't it :-) )

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