Wednesday 5 December 2012

No 10636, Wednesday 05 Dec 12, Gridman

 No mysteries other than in 20 & 21 A today ;-)

ACROSS
1   It constitutes the movement of one’s liquid assets (4,4) CASH FLOW [CD]
5   Frank, examinee, ate out (6) CANDID CANDIDate
9   Hesitant Goan, a writer, is a religious doubter (8) AGNOSTIC {GOAN*}{STIC}
10 Takes hold of good files (6) GRASPS {G}{RASPS}
12 Out of it, one might be staying in a hotel (4) TOWN [CD]
13 One politician’s direction about wire is faultless (10) IMPECCABLE {1}{MP}{E}{C}{CABLE}
15 Party from Sufi establishment (6) FIESTA [T]
17 Warning changed later (5) ALERT*
20 Author of mysteries destroys horse (5) MARSH {MARS}{H}
21 Wrongly blame royal author of thrillers (6) AMBLER {BLAME*}{R}
24 Such an event occurs only from time to time (10) OCCASIONAL [E]
27 Vehicle vending centre backed (4) TRAM <=
29 Foreman eats a bit of pilau for dinner (6) SUPPER {SU{P}PER}
30 Look about! A trap demolished! Set apart! (8) SEPARATE {SE{PARAT*}E}
31 Hate German-English exam (6) DETEST {D}{E}{TEST}
32 Good, Leo and Gary repairing medieval waterspout (8) GARGOYLE {G+LEO+GARY}*

DOWN
1   Artistically cunning and inventive? (6) CRAFTY [DD]
2   Is backing what The Hindu contains as source of strength (6) SINEWS {SI<=}{NEWS}
3   Endless merriment on ship causes commotion (4) FUSS {FUn}{SS}
4   Disapproval about top having blown off rostrum (5) ODIUM pODIUM
6   A union leader, wealthy for the most part, is relating to gold (5) AURIC {A}{U}{RICh}
7   Daughter is clever — daughter’s out of action (8) DISABLED {D}{IS}{ABLE}{D}
8   Floppy that has now become redundant (8) DISKETTE [CD]
11 Devious babu catches journalist in smear (6) BEDAUB {B{ED}AUB*}
14 His disposition follows wife’s desire (4) WISH {W}{HIS*} How true!
16 What a spy may do in stubble? (6) SHADOW [DD]
17 Culmination of some cheap exercises (4) APEX [T]
18 Some beds distributed in relief (8) EMBOSSED*
19 Couple of drugs for a crazy person (8) CRACKPOT {CRACK}{POT}
22 Yellowish-white sheets in city having no appeal (6) CREAMY {C{REAM}itY}
23 Get in the way of one male walker at the end of lane (6) IMPEDE {1}{M}{PED}{E}
25 Stats for visual aid, in short? (5) SPECS [DD]
26 Nearabout a battle site (5) ARENA {NEAR*}{A}
28 Road from Indian village winding back (4) MARG <=


10 comments:

  1. Liked the double dose of 19D. Filled in 'home' for town for 12A.Probably then it should have been away (as in home away from home)and not not 'out'.

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  2. 13a.

    6d reminded me of Goldfinder and Gert Froebe.

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  3. Good one from Gridman.
    ABCDE:
    A messenger in the sky which rises up with the temperature (7)

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  4. Gridman is always good! Get the grasp easily!

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  5. on my way to bombay.why only 7 comments? a mystery !

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    1. There was this theory discussed sometime back that good crosswords lead to fewer comments :)
      Nice start to this run from Gridman.

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  6. I thought I was finally going to complete the CW for once on my own.
    Alas, it was not to be. But it was fun. Especially 19D and 13A :)

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