Saturday 24 December 2016

No 11886, Saturday 24 Dec 2016, Gridman


ACROSS
1  Fouls in race by dishonest society scrubbers (5,6) FALSE STARTS {FALSE} {S}{TARTS} Scrubber/Tart ?
9   Asafoetida ruled out – it's goose egg (7) NOTHING {NOT}{HING}
10 Is inclined to be in church to purify (7) CLEANSE {C{LEANS}E}
11 Gosh! These dismissed the fliers (5) GEESE {GEE}{theSE}
12 Sing about each district magistrate being routine (9) TREADMILL {TR{EA}{DM}ILL}
13 Croat resettles in south Indian city (5) ARCOT*
15 Bygone Beatles classic (9) YESTERDAY [DD]

18 Inset: Huns in makeshift shelter (6,3) NISSEN HUT* Our first house after marriage was in one of these!
21 South African rodent, playing hard to get, turns up (5) COYPU {COY}{UP<=}
22 Protester to turn down relatives coming back (9) REFUSENIK {REFUSE}{KIN<=}
24 Regretful feeling over road crash (5) PRANG {P{R}ANG}
26 Create crop (7) PRODUCE [DD]
27 Fighter intended to announce suffering (7) ALIMENT {ALI}{MENT}(~ meant) I think Gridman has made a mistake in the definition
28 Items strewn about Parliament (11) WESTMINSTER*

DOWN
1  Excellent! Nearly excellent to have one quality that's desirable in a photograph (4-5) FINE-GRAIN {FINE}-{GRA{1}Nd}
2  Loiter around losing nothing out of liquid measure (5) LITRE LoITER*
3  Mostly spectacular, Union Government's focal point (9) EPICENTRE {EPIc}{CENTRE}
4  Drunk lay disheartened in a constricting way (7) TIGHTLY {TIGHT}{LaY}
5  Insects not originating affliction (7) RICKETS cRICKETS
6  Son and daughter besiege writer while away (5) SPEND {S}{PEN}{D}
7  Limitless puns please in a cruel manner (8) UNKINDLY {pUNs}{KINDLY}
8  Cad's command to dog (4) HEEL [DD]
14 Is this money always on the move, coming and going? (8) CASHFLOW [CD] Seems to have hit a roadblock in India nowadays!
16 Expect different leader coming up as special case (9) EXCEPTION {EXPECT}*{NO 1<=}
17 Solver, hoodlum's leaving Georgia as juvenile (9) YOUNGSTER {YOU}{gaNGSTER}*
19 Vandals remove top of fortifications and get hard (7) HUNKERS (-b+h)HUNKERS
20 Set one's sights and capture top-class military leader (4,3) TAKE AIM {TAKE} {A1}{Mi...y}
22 Revolutionary leader, on a target, is engrossed (4) RAPT {Re...y}{APT}
23 Native American wife's endless protest (5) SQUAW SQUAWk
25 Hail red Ford and Dodge (5) AVERT {AVE}{R}{T}

GRID

9 comments:

  1. Christmas special at 9:30 today.

    There will be no special tomorrow in view of the IXL Finals

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    1. Best wishes to Ramki,Srividya & Ramesh and all other participants..may the best one win.

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  2. +1for 27A..otherwise an entertaining puzzle this 11 letter grid from Gridman...
    Looking forward to Santa at 9.30

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  3. 1 Fouls in race by dishonest society scrubbers (5,6) FALSE STARTS {FALSE} {S}{TARTS}

    Scrubber/Tart? - British & Australian slang (TFD)

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  4. Apols to the goof-up. Escaped repeated checking.

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  5. Except 27A, things are fine.
    Didn't try 23DN.
    For 14DN, depends upon the type of money. If it is black, it is barraged. Otherwise, it flows.

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  6. Doubt about 19D-
    Hunkers link leads to the meaning as those who crouch, but vandal is one who destroys things. Am I missing something?
    Smooth going today, except this & squaw.

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  7. Should it have been vendors instead of vandals..Gridman can clarify
    For squaw..i have a crossword dictionary that is very useful..under the heading of native american is listed various items related to native american alphabetically..wife is listed too..

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  8. On line dic. or a book? If it is an on line one, I would be thankful for a link.

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