ACROSS
1 - Rudely replies a trainer (8) - ESPALIER*
6 - U.S. newspaper high in backing strip (4) - LATH {LAT}{H}
9 - Pairs British champions (6) - BRACES {BR}{ACES}
10 - Technique superior for the French infant's food (7) - FORMULA {FORM}{U}{LA}
13 - Puzzled printer gets employment trainee to understand (9) - INTERPRET {PRINTER*}{E}{T} ET stands for 'employment trainee'?
14 - Artist is at end of patience for pay hike (5) - RAISE {RA}{IS}{E}
15 - Russian leader in drink to beam (4) - GRIN {G{R}IN}
16 - Take exception to dance on the snooker table? (6,4) - OBJECT BALL {OBJECT} {BALL}
19 - A gambler ventured – one with a higher prospect of winning? (1,6,3) - A BETTER BET {A} {BETTER} {BET}
21 - Girl's bra's slipped? Dress up! (4) - GARB {G}{BRA*}
24 - Doctor's tea or choice coffee (5) - MOCHA {MO}{CHA}
25 - Revealed to be charged with having hidden leading assassin (9) - INDICATED {INDIC{A}TED}
26 - Touch rest falling in shreds (7) - TATTERS {TAT}{REST*}
27 - Article south Indian scholar begins for dissertation (6) - THESIS {THE}{S}{I}{S}
28 - Commander's lines in set of standards (4) - CODE {C}{ODE}
29 - Matching outfit for model seen with the doctor almost allowed (8) - ENSEMBLE {SEEN*}{MB}{LEt}
DOWN
2 - Titters about fugue parts (7) - STRETTI*
3 - A couple of hundred old royal delegates begin to make peace (6) - ACCORD {A}{CC}{O}{R}{D}
4 - Bin crier's contact: one who writes is here! (9) - INSCRIBER*
5 - Equip again a disconcerted fighter without force and horse (5) - REFIT FIghTER*
8 - Star – or what a female lead star possesses (8,4) - HEAVENLY BODY [DD]
11 - Quality prized by antique collectors (6) - RARITY [CD]
12 - Figured help comes back to Indian village scholar and jerk (12) - DIAGRAMMATIC {DIA<-}{GRAM}{MA}{TIC}
17 - Corrects measures on assignations (9) - EMENDATES {EM}{EN}{DATES}
18 - Hit with bullets faster – in utter confusion (6) - STRAFE*
20 - In a tizzy former wife gave an example (7) - EXCITED {EX}{CITED}
22 - An eminence of workers? (7) - ANTHILL [CD]
23 - Son's best choice is to yell (6) - SCREAM {S}{CREAM}
25 - Crucial point in copy of The Hindu ? (5) - ISSUE [DD]
13 - Puzzled printer gets employment trainee to understand (9) - INTERPRET {PRINTER*}{E}{T} ET stands for 'employment trainee'?
ReplyDeleteET was alien to me ;-)
Setter's fondness for 'support' evident (yesterday and today 21Ac). He must have been sorely tempted for 9Ac too!
ReplyDeletePerhaps - Pairs support with leading consumer electronic show 2012.
Delete17A- 'em & 'en' measures?
ReplyDelete1A & 6 A were new to me. When you don't get the top 2, the going gets tough!
ReplyDeleteWhat is eminent about an ANTHILL?
ReplyDeleteIf we take eminence to mean 'hill', there is an extra 'T'.
Something I am missing here.
Worker = ANT
Deleteeminence = HILL
And the definition?
DeleteAlso workers would be ants not ant. 'of workers' can mean anthill
DeleteThank you, Suresh, for raising such questions. But I don't think there is any problem there.
DeleteAn eminence of workers?
First interpret the clue: an eminence (a hill) comprising 'workers' (ants).
What could be a word that might fit in with the description that has been derived? ANTHILL
Thanks CV. I should have got it in the first place.
DeleteWhy the plural?
ReplyDeleteIf you are referring to ANTHILL, this would mean a hill of ants or workers. Hence the plural
DeleteET stands for 'employment trainee'?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/ET
That link says it stands for Employment training. And I can't find that abbreviation in my Chambers or OED
ET for 'employment trainee' is found in Chambers: XWD A Dictionary of Crossword Abbreviations.
DeleteGridman usually has something to fall back upon - sometimes it may be a bed of roses and sometimes a bed of nails.
Jaane woh kaise log they jinke pyar ko pyar mila,
DeleteHam ne to jab kaliyan maangi, kaanTo ka haar mila.