ACROSS
1 - Commanding men to put engineer in terrible grind (8) - ORDERING {OR}{D{E}RING*}
6 - Look back on fellow's charges (4) - FEES {F}{EES}<-
9 - Super cool time of one-seventh of prisoners in enclosure
(3,3) - ICE AGE {1}{C{E} AGE}
10 - Wise guy goes around doctor with one lab equipment (7) - ALEMBIC {ALE{MB}{I}C}
13 - Well, one may not get this permission from work (4,5) - SICK LEAVE [CD]
14 - Broadcast again from a barer underground (5) - RERUN [T]
15 - Placid woman's head of nunnery (4) - EVEN {EVE}{N}
16 - "Like __ oaks, will stand immoveable” (Shakespeare) (5-5) - STIFF-GROWN [GK] Thanks to Google
19 - A stop-go authority on the road (7,3) - TRAFFIC COP [CD]
21 - Journalist with appeal to do some copy work (4) - EDIT {ED}{IT}
24 - The heartless with the undisciplined enforcing powers (5) - TEETH {ThE}{THE*}
25 - When it's on the prowl, law-breakers may run for cover (6,3) - PATROL CAR [CD]
26 - For material two unknowns go after newspaper (7) - ORGANZA {ORGAN}{Z}{A}
28 - Tide's alternative? Browse the Internet! (4) - SURF [DD]
29 - A sort of person to call not so much or a sort of person who
can't be called at all (8) - NAMELESS {NAME}{LESS}
DOWN
2 - On the outer limits of city, woman has nothing to use over again
(7) - RECYCLE RE{CitY}CLE Anno pending (Addendum - {RE}{CitY}{CLEo} - See comments)
3 - Make possible recall of ruin by the French (6) - ENABLE {ENAB<-}{LE}
4 - Rigid line expounded with a short staff (9) - INELASTIC {LINE*}{STICk}
5 - Blessing good people (5) - GRACE {G}{RACE}
7 - Ban England's top doctor on fabled ship (7) - EMBARGO {E}{MB}{ARGO}
8 - A US contender ran by force of habit (6,6) - SECOND NATURE*
11 - Incense gran distributed within the limits of Erode (6) - ENRAGE {Ero{GRAN*}dE}
12 - So OTT aunties tend to be showy (12) - OSTENTATIOUS*
17 - Where the main door of a house opens onto (5,4) - FRONT ROOM [CD]
18 - Foreign national to hang around with a female (6) - AFGHAN {A}{F}{HANG*}
20 - He gets even to hail new Government leader with hesitation
(7) - AVENGER {AVE}{N}{G}{ER}
22 - Dicta so propagated by Chambal Valley criminals (7) - DACOITS*
23 - Son in place to say — place to stay (6) - HOSTEL {HO{S}TEL}
28 - Tide's alternative? Browse the Internet! (4) - SURF [DD]
ReplyDeleteThis one got an extra chuckle. Surf and Tide being two detergent brand names...
Liked the FIB in 16a
ReplyDeleteSome more hidden corporate names:
ReplyDeleteAlembic- Glycodin
Afghan snow
2 - On the outer limits of city, woman has nothing to use over again (7) - RECYCLE RE{CitY}CLE Anno pending
On=RE
outer limits of city=CY
woman has nothing= CLEo
Kishore, while agree that this must be the intended annotation, how does :
Deletewoman has nothing tell us to delete O from CLEO ? Shouldn't it be woman has no nothing or woman lacks nothing?
Agreed and accepted.
DeleteDitto
Delete... woman has nothing
Delete... woman has no thing
woman has no object
woman has no O
CLEo
idhu eppadi irukku?
Suuuu...perru
Delete17D-
ReplyDelete".... opens onto" led me to think about outside the house and not inside. Could it have been "...opens into"? Or is it meant to mislead, the way I was?
Yes Kishore, I was a little hesitant in filling alembic since it was a brand name. That was a good one about surf & tide. Never connected !
ReplyDeleteSome really good clues and surfaces here.
ReplyDeleteLiked ICE AGE, SICK LEAVE, EVEN, GRACE, OSTENTATIOUS, AFGHAN, PRAWN.
Teeth was my CoD. Innocuous looking "the" used twice.
16A-
ReplyDeleteYes Col. I also googled for 'stiff' after "growing up".
For present day students who do not read Shakespeare in schools OUT would have been impossible. they may look at it as an order of Khan in Kahaani.
ReplyDeleteEven though I have read Shakespeare in School, OUT and STIFF were impossible for me
DeleteShakespeare makes you want to go OUT and have a STIFF drink.
DeleteThat was a LARGE one, Suresh. Cheers!
DeleteShakespeare has an 'Out' elsewhere too. Anyone recall?
ReplyDeleteCould someone offer a more explicit anno. for 26A?
ReplyDeletehttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/organ_3
DeleteThe above link will give the meaning of organ as newspaper.
Z and A are unknowns in algebra.
A is an algebraic unknown? Didn't know that.
DeleteI took it as A = anonymous = unknown.
Suresh, the convention in algebra is to use 'A' and 'a' to denote arbitrary constants.
DeleteThanks for the link to the 'organ'.
I trust your math better than mine
DeleteWhen you refer to someone but are not really sure of his identity or you have forgotten, don't you say "The book was released by a Raman". I would think that 'a' there is unknown!
DeleteOut out vile jelly!
ReplyDeleteFrom king Lear - during the blinding scene of Gloucester.
Wow!
DeletePut out the light, and then put out the light!
Delete- Othello.
First I remembered it as "Put out the light, and then put out thy light".
Othello first puts out the light in the bedroom and then smothers Desdemona. So I thought the second ref was 'thy light' .
However, on checking the quotation on the Web (all my hard copy Shakespeare works have been given away) I find it is as written above.
But my inference was not totally incorrect. "Put out thy light" does occur some two or three lines further down.
Anyway some lines from Shakespeare that I studied in 1965/66 are still lingering in my head.
Sir, pls clear my below doubts
ReplyDelete1A - how 'men' became OR
21A - how 'appeal' became IT
20D - how do you get ER in avengER
23D - place to SAY - hotel?
Biju
OR = Other Ranks
DeleteIT = Sex Appeal
ER = Hesitation
Say may be misprint for Stay. CV to cfm
thank you sir.
Deletebiju
Sir, can i ask how this IT is related to Sex appeal?
DeleteOf course it is!
ReplyDeleteMy 06:07 post is not in reply to BT 750 but to the last line in Suresh 05:16.
DeleteShakespeare wrote "put out the light, and then put out the light".
ReplyDeleteThe actor would probably look first at the candlelight in the bedchamber and then at the woman sleeping innocently in her bed.
This kind of repetition does achieve a sort of literary effect and the clue "Son in place to stay — place to stay" too strove towards that end but alas it fell flat in the paper's rendering.
A is a constant, how can it be unknown? For example, if you have an equation ax + b = 0, x will be solved in terms of a and b. As such, a and b have to be knowns. And the value of the unknown x is determined from the knowns, a and b.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the puzzle! 'Place to stay' fiasco was funny. Thanks to this blog, we know the story behind the scenes!
IT for sex appeal was new to me.. Never knew this side of my industry :)
A is a constant, how can it be unknown?
DeleteIf you choose it to denote the unknown and define it as such before using it. ;)
Gridman's unknown, Navneeth :)
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