Monday 28 August 2017

No 12097, Monday 28 Aug 2017, Arden


ACROSS
1   Pain goes away after winner gets the cake (8,6) VICTORIA SPONGE {VICTOR}{PAIN+GOES}*
10 Ship's engine part (5) LINER [DD]
11 Resolve to become a President (9) ROOSEVELT*
12 Give it up, offer it in other words (7) FORFEIT*
13 Additional measure taken to reach the farthest points (7) EXTREMA {EXTR{EM}A}
14 Composed hymn about poise of a young woman (5) NYMPH {NYM{P}H*}
16 Born on the day one goes for full replacement necessarily (9) NEEDFULLY {NEE}{D(-a+full)FULLY}
19 Breaking a bond and drinking wine — it’s torture (9) BASTINADO {ASTI} in {A+BOND}*
20 Stick to the law always (5) LEVER {L}{EVER}
22 Players have one in and one out of the game (7) CANASTA {C{AN}AST}{A}
25 Criminal goes outside to bug secret police (7) GESTAPO {GOES}* over {TAP}
27 Cow's wet, one goes to rock bottom (9) LOWERMOST {LOWER}{MOiST}
28 Colour touch — horse has it regularly (5) OCHRE {tOuCh+hOrSe}
29 Spooner’s happy, looking at cheating at the polls (14) GERRYMANDERING {(-m+g)GERRY}{(-g+m)MANDERING}

DOWN
2   It maybe amusing to have a choice, but he doesn't know (9) IGNORAMUS {AMUSING}* over {OR}
3   Brief stay in Battersea (5) TERSE [T]
4   Indian businessman takes train, travels to a mythical place (9) RURITANIA {RUIA} over {TRAIN}*
5   Repent when you have lunch (5) ATONE {AT}{ONE}
6   Fill up ten fragments, they're more than enough (9) PLENTIFUL*
7   She’s relatively fine, taking drug (5) NIECE {NI{E}CE}
8   A true story about missing a peak for a creek (7) ESTUARY {A+TRUE+StorY}*
9   Organic compound busy protecting life forms (6) OLEFIN {ON} over {LIFE}*
15 Heard beneficiaries' appeal to keep the locks in place (4,5) HAIR SPRAY (~ heirs){HAIRS}{PRAY}
17 Happy to hold on, good when stretched (9) ELONGATED {EL{ON}{G}ATED}
18 Large built, have it with an even larger monstrosity (9) LEVIATHAN {L}{HAVE+IT}*{AN}
19 Support Indian people, work pending (7) BACKLOG {BACK}{LOG}
21 Ways to be heard in Greece (6) RHODES (~roads)
23 Post changed hands, it's relatively recent (5) NEWER NEWE(-l+r)R
24 Possibly no-go-area, one avoided the old market (5) AGORA {no-GO-AReA}*
26 Look minutely for Carbon in an acidic environment (5) SCOUR {S{C}OUR}

GRID

7 comments:

  1. Lovely and entertaining. Bifd most. Came here to see the anno in particular Newer, Leviathan, Needfully. Thanks Arden and Col.

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    1. Construction was so straight forward. Following the blog also made some easy like needfully. DfullY fell in place by construction and remembered the born(name)>nee discussion on the blog. So much so mind said newel must be post once the hands were understood. Thanks Arden for reminding "Kuch tho log kahenge". And the blog and col for the training.

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    2. What about the Doordarshan serial of the old days: HUM LOG?

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    3. Indeed in either case this came as a whiff of fresh air instead of the customary: record or entry

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  2. Needfully done thoughtfully. Nee was elusive.
    Enjoyed, thanks to the blog- otherwise question marks would have remained.

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