Wednesday 6 April 2011

No 10121, Wednesday 06 Apr 11, Nita Jaggi

ACROSS
1   - Noticed that I have ignored the police officer and the journalist (8) - {DETECTive}{ED}
5   - I see after the cash limit for fashionable people (4) - {CasH}{IC}
9   - Worker will easily begin a long striding gait towards kudu, for one (8) - {ANT}{E}{LOPE}
10 - I will live to show the review in Spain's peninsula (6) - {I}{BE}{RIA<-}
12 - Long story hidden in the picture (4) - EPIC [T]
13 - Officially announce the spring event for a University student at the entrance (10) - {PROM}{U}{L}{GATE}
15 - Distinguished work presented in the newspaper (7,7) - FEATURE ARTICLE [CD]
17 - Therapy centre to bring back the normal state of mind (14) - REHABILITATION [CD]
21 - Confine son so strictly on disclosing his sins (10) - CONFE(S)SION*
22 - Long for Pa, leaving an army helicopter (4) - ApaCHE
25 - Cleaner is in a new open space (6) - {MAID}{A}{N}
26 - Desire to eat before a meal, maybe (8) - APPETITE [CD]
27 - Shade the odd parts of the garden yard in front (4) - {G}{R}{E}{Y}
28 - Turn game into a heated discussion (8) - ARGUMENT*
DOWN
1   - Put up the cash raised for her topless piece of cloth (6) - {DIAP<-}{hER}
2   - First try to stitch the suit for the people of Rwanda (5) - {T}{UTSI*}
3   - Common ailment in the Arctic (4) - COLD [DD]
4   - Missing French performer assaulted in front of the king (7) - EMPERORfr*
6   - To make fit a upright bath tile that is broken (10) - HAB(I)LITATE*
7   - Fish dish (9) - CARPACCIO [E]
8   - Informed about the effect of the goods (5) - {A}{WARE}
11 - Initially elderly men may be against the Austen novel (4) - {E}{M}{M}{A} 'A' from Against = Anti ?
14 - Small kind of pad for an English companion (10) - {S}{TABLEMAT}{E}
16 - Change inn structure thereby making it more attractive (9) - ENHANCING*
18 - Miss the shortened rope (4) - LASSo
19 - Veteran actor is on a horse, overheard (7) - TROUPER(~trooper)
20 - Vote for the religious group introducing the language with determination (6) - {SE{L)(E}CT}
21 - Small part of an engraved gem (5) - CAMEO [DD]
23 - Caught that guy heartily fidgeting with the doorbell (5) - {C}{HIM}{E}
24 - Escape rules within this country (4) - PERU [T]


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21 comments:

  1. Bhavan6 April 2011 at 08:39

    Slightly less bewildering clues today? Or I've gotten used to this. Either way it wasn't as bad as it was so far.

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  2. Deepak Gopinath6 April 2011 at 08:40

    Yes, not too bad today

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  3. Deepak Gopinath6 April 2011 at 08:43

    ICW for today. Write a better clue for 7D with some wordplay

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  4. Venkatesh6 April 2011 at 09:03

    Find fault with things done endlessly changing a century for a model dish (9) {CARP}{AC[-t](+C)IO[-n]}

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  5. Venkatesh6 April 2011 at 09:55

    Some improvement on earlier clue:

    Find fault with things done endlessly replacing a model with a cute dish (9) {CARP}{AC[-t](+C)IO[-n]}

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  6. Deepak Gopinath6 April 2011 at 09:56

    Fancy dish in vehicle with secretary's addled back of head put out (9) {CAR}{PA}{CCIO(-put)*}

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  7. Bhavan6 April 2011 at 11:28

    This dish is a par meal between centuries hundred and ten (9)

    C(ARPA*)C CIO

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  8. Vikram6 April 2011 at 11:54

    I guess 11 was supposed to be an acrostic,with the first letters of the four words (elderly men may and against) but then she had to insert 'be' to make the sentence grammatically correct. It would have been much better to have thought of a better phrase for the acrostic, but was it plain laziness maybe, to have left it the way it appeared?

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  9. Shyam6 April 2011 at 11:58

    Put a couple of hundred on fish - I love fish! (9)

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  10. Smitha6 April 2011 at 11:59

    For the first time, cracked NJ's clues completely! Unbelievable!

    Smitha

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  11. Deepak Gopinath6 April 2011 at 12:14

    Well done Smitha

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  12. SandhyaP6 April 2011 at 14:10

    @Shyam: Nice clue. Perhaps you should write 'fish dish!' instead of just 'fish!'

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  13. Navneeth6 April 2011 at 15:42

    Fairly clean cluing, relatively speaking. 21D and 25A were wrong. But I must say, some of the old NJ seems to have rubbed on to the ICW participants. ;)

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  14. Shyam6 April 2011 at 15:55

    Thanks Sandhya. I didn't check the meaning properly and assumed it was a fish!

    Col, an indirect anagram in your clue! :(

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  15. Suresh6 April 2011 at 16:49

    The Dennis the Menace cartoon in the Telegraph is interesting. Dennis telling Joey 'Mr. Wilson is good at crosswords because he knows so many cross words'

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  16. SandhyaP6 April 2011 at 17:02

    @Suresh: Thanks for sharing the joke :D

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  17. jaggu6 April 2011 at 17:47

    Missed out on MAIDAN and CAMEO. Too good for an NJ crossword.

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  18. Padmanabhan6 April 2011 at 18:07

    Suresh,

    I Am a big fan of Dennis the menace and needless to say I enjoyed it so much. Thank you.

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  19. Padmanabhan6 April 2011 at 18:09

    A good offering today-the no. & nature of comments speaks volumes.Worth it for non NJ'ers to take a look.
    Very good clue by Shyam.

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  20. Venkatesh6 April 2011 at 19:15

    Visitor's counter shows the number of visits is fast approaching the 4 lakh mark. Well done, Col.

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  21. HarveyBirdman7 April 2011 at 00:09

    I'm one of those opting to skip NJ... but enjoying the comments. Shyam's clue the winner of the 7D contest for me as well.

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