Wednesday 25 January 2012

No 10369, Wednesday 25 Jan 12, M Manna

ACROSS
1   - Good to hear of how to make light show (7) - GLISTEN {G}{LISTEN}
5   - Right to information maybe vital, but presently is of little importance (7) - TRIVIAL {R+I+VITAL}* Right to Information is actually RTI.
10 - Nuts to the District Attorney who discourages you (6) - DAUNTS {NUTS+DA}*
11 - Take care not to slip out with duplicates (8) - REPLICAS {CARE+SLIP}*
12 - Detectives on the river have to make up their minds (6) - DECIDE {DE{CID}E}
13 - Killing a lot of people on the ground (8) - MASSACRE {MASS}{ACRE}
14 - Write to refuse French flag (6) - PENNON {PEN}{NON}
15 - Performs with quarter cast (6) - ENACTS {EN}{CAST*}
18 - Moor with a girl (6) - BERTHA {BERTH}{A}
20 - Loathe employment department's exam (6) - DETEST {DE}{TEST}
23 - Managed to change gear and set out on road (8) - ARRANGED {GEAR+AND+R}*
25 - See, commanding officer expressed his displeasure (6) - VOICED {VIDE+CO}*
26 - Obscure coteries may be formed (8) - ESOTERIC*
27 - A smoker's jacket? (6) - REEFER [DD]
28 - Alas! Heard he can be from a USA State (7) - ALASKAN {ALAS}{KAN}(~can)
29 - Music of tin soldiers at the double (7) - CANTATA {CAN}{TA}{TA}
DOWN
2   - Listed by spare journalist (6) - LEANED {LEAN}{ED}
3   - Told to go within it showing feeling (9) - SENTIMENT {SENT}{I{MEN}T} MEN from ?
4   - Nearest resort in the orient (7) - EASTERN*
6   - Return ceremony to include RAF men (7) - RIPOSTE {RI{POS}TE}
7   - Behold Viola! There you are! (5) - VOILA*
8   - Accommodation made in city rail with promptness (8) - ALACRITY*
9   - Cards following a walk for voyagers taking the air (9,4) - PROMENADE DECK {PROMENADE} {DECK}
16 - Not taking much money when going around elsewhere (9) - ABSTINENT {ABS{TIN}ENT}
17 - Rips off in true vengeance (8) - REPRISAL {RE{RIPS*}AL}
19 - Country with unusual lager — first class to knock back! (7) - ALGERIA {LAGER*}{IA<-}
21 - Wild rant about short way to find somewhere to eat (7) - TAVERNA {T{AVE}RNA*}
22 - Concerned with foreign money being up-to-date (6) - RECENT {RE}{CENT}
24 - Short religious dramas (5) - AUTOS [E]



14 comments:

  1. 3 - Told to go within it showing feeling (9) - SENTIMENT {SENT}{I{MEN}T} MEN from ?

    Mars ;-)

    BTW, a photo caption about solar electromagnetic radiation in today's paper refers to the "northeastern hemisphere" of the sun. 4 hs.s make for two suns...

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  2. There seem to be 'men' all over the place. From NAVAL UNIT yesterday to RAF men and soldiers etc today.

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  3. Manna has no belief in anagram indicators and believes in E & OE(xpected)

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  4. I put in Blazer for 27A and got chewed up for the south east corner

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  5. Autos was another googly. Clean bowled by that.

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    1. Click on the link and read the paragraph that appears in detail and you will find the word autos. I did not do a detailed reading so I do not know more than that.

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    2. See the link over the word 'autos' in the main post.

      The gist is as under

      In the Middle Ages sacred dramas were also called by other names, in Italy funzione, in Spain misterios or autos (acts).

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  7. Thank you Col. My doubt was after reading the link. The Spanish part stated by you clears it.

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  8. Same with me Suresh. But I missed the word !

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  9. My comments on yesterday's crossword that could have gone unnoticed !!! Any comments?

    First time, I'm seeing MUESLI in plural? OK,is it?

    I'm not quite with the annotation of RESILIENCE

    NAVAL KNOT or NAVAL UNIT reminded me of the good old RMDC crosswords where the clues could be: He stared at the ?ALL -- HALL or WALL!! We'll have to wait to see what Manna meant.
    One of the worst crosswords I have come across ever!! UGH
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    SURESH:

    It can't be CONVICTIVE but CONVICTION is right although how NATIONS is correct as opposed to NATIVES beats me.
    We'll live through this for yet another day.
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  10. I am a newbie to CC, I was just wondering if 12 Across could be DERIVE

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    1. DEE is the name of a river and CID is detectives. So DECIDE fits. DERIVE does not fit for this reason

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  11. Another wishy-washy compilation !!

    Manna mood me nahi hai kya? Ther3 is no Josh in this crossword. No need to wrack our brains.
    Expect better ones as we go along.

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