Tuesday 19 April 2011

No 10132, Tuesday 19 Apr 11, M Manna

Overdose of CD/DD/E's
ACROSS
1   - Medical tip could be so involved (10) - IMPLICATED*
6   - Come round and give the cold to everybody (4) - {C}{ALL}
9   - One of a pair of metal stands having rough ride in the mist (7) - {F{IRED*}OG}
10 - Refill a drink when empty (7) - FRESHEN [CD]
12 - Score just one more (8) - NINETEEN [CD]
13 - Water course for navigation (5) - CANAL [E]
15 - Temporary stoppage of breathing (5) - APNEA [E]
17 - Touching and yielding in decline (9) - RECESSION Anno pending
19 - Where substitutes wait for subsidiary jobs (9) - {SIDE}{LINES}
21 - Epic stories about silver on board a ship (5) - {S{AG}{A}S}
23 - Wants to have the daughter seen out and about (5) - {NEE{D}S*}
24 - Sauce for the wounded soldier? (8) - DRESSING [DD]
27 - I ran badly around tee, as a student (7) - {T{RAIN*}EE}
28 - Provoked by many points (7) - NEEDLED [CD]
29 - He moves around like a whirlwind (4) - EDDY [DD]
30 - School subject, thematic with variations, includes religious instruction (10) - {A{RI}THMETIC*}
DOWN
1   - Knowledge in brief (4) - INFO [E]
2   - Amount of food served to one person (7) - PORTION [E]
3   - Tolerate for a change to dine in turn (5) - {IND{U}E*} Is the definition correct?
4   - A club for fishermen? (5,4) - ANGLE IRON [CD]

5   - Fine student for being mischievous (5) - E(L)FIN*
7   - Where in Ghana is heard a sailors' song? (7) - ASHANTI (A Shanty)
8   - Left with poetry in one's solitude (10) - {L}{ONE{LINES}'S}
11 - Cuts trains without hesitation (7) - EXerCISES
14 - Making use of one's time at home (10) - MAISONETTE*
16 - Everybody has a boy — but not her (7) - {ALL}{I}{SON}
18 - Money we exchanged for fruit with a dope (6,3) - {CASH}{EW*} {NUT}
20 - Lingering farewell from an obstinate politician perhaps? (3,4) - DIE HARD [CD]
22 - A stretch of overlapping rail road track (7) - GANTLET [E]
24 - Read about Germany being dull and gloomy (5) - {DREA*}{R} 'R' for Germany?
25 - Old technology used to generate power (5) - STEAM [CD]
26 - Elaborate lyric addressed to somebody, possibly a doc! (4) - OD(I)C*



11 comments:

  1. R is for reich used to designate an empire, realm, or nation.
    Die Hard is a DD

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  2. 18 - Money we exchanged for fruit with a dope (6,3) - {CASH}{EW*} {NUT}

    Colonel, you will agree the cashew nut is a kernel, not a fruit. So initially MM appears to be on the wrong foot.

    But botanically what we know as the cashew apple is just the accessory fruit and the drupe is the real fruit and botanically a nut is just an one seeded fruit. So all is well.

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  3. 1) A diehard is a person who strongly opposes change or who continues to support something in spite of opposition - an obstinate politician
    2) To die hard is to have a lingering farewell (CD)

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  4. 18D What is missing is the definition. Apple(fruit) replaced by NUT ( dope) is fine if there was a def.

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  5. Did not enjoy today's CW for the reasons mentioned by Deepak in the header.

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  6. To my mind more than one E type of clue in a Cryptic crossword indicates a slightly lazy mindset of the setter in terms of clueing.

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  7. Agree with you Vikram, except that I do not even give a concession of one E clue

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  8. Touching and yielding in decline (9) - RECESSION Anno pending

    RE + CESSION
    Touching = Concerning =Regarding= RE
    Yielding = Cession = Surrender

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  9. Would like to inform fellow solvers of this delightful puzzle today in the FT by Anax.

    April 19 2011: Puzzle 13,672

    in http://www.ft.com/arts/crossword

    I took my time but in the end was extremely satisfied with some ingenious cluing!

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