Monday 5 March 2018

No 12256, Monday 05 Mar 2018, Anon


Answer and anno for 22D left for a first time commenter till 10 AM.

ACROSS
1   Food first woman learner presided over was messy (11) DISHEVELLED {DISH}{EVE}{L}{LED}
9   Conspicuous foreigner in Surat’s outskirts (7) SALIENT {Sur{ALIEN}aT}
10 Attempt to trap one pound in hat (6) TRILBY {TR{1}{LB}Y}
11 Distress increases for alien (5) UPSET {UPS}{ET}
12 Bed at emergency room in ship for ducks (7) SCOTERS {S{COT}{ER}S}
15 Apes destroyed projection (4) APSE*
16 Weird nerd owning evening clothing (6,4) DINNER GOWN*
18 Mean criminal’s bad attitude loses odd aide (10) CONSTITUTE {CONS}{aTTITUdE}*
20 Fox-like animal behind last stone (4) ASSE {ASS}{s..nE}
Vulpes chama (Etosha).jpg

23 Decorative object in torn bible, Old Testament (7) BIBELOT {BIBLE+OT}*
24 Demarcation of vault (5) BOUND [DD]
26 Mexican herbs found in tacos, meatloaf (6) COSMEA [T]
Cosmos bipinnatus pink, Burdwan, West Bengal, India 10 01 2013.jpg

By Joydeep, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
27 Babble on son’s question (7) SMATTER {S}{MATTER} I've heard of 'What's the matter?' But is just 'matter' acceptable for question? See comments
28 Payment from Spanish battle, of men at Thames border (11) DEFRAYMENTS {DE}{FRAY}{MEN}{Th..eS}

DOWN
2   Imagine one Asian overwhelmed by boyfriend (6) IDEATE {1}{D{E}ATE}
3   Alleviate royal leader from injuries in shacks (4) HUTS HUrTS
4   Foretell the future wrongly, invite a cat (10) VATICINATE*
5   Spears from English county missing half lace handles at last (8) LEISTERS {LEIceSTER}{h...eS}
6   Ban half of them who go beyond tavern (7) EMBARGO {thEM}{BAR}{GO}
7   Security of wild sanctuaries losing it (9) ASSURANCE SANCtUARiES*
8   Embraces son in strikes (6) CLASPS {CLA{S}PS}
13 Spill tonic in journal’s glossary (10) DICTIONARY {DI{TONIC*}ARY}
14 Provokes English male, for one, to start singing (9) ENGENDERS {EN}{GENDER}{Si...g}
17 Banner, initially raunchy, aboard ship (8) STREAMER {ST{Ra...y}EAMER}
19 Offensive din envelopes chant (7) NOISOME {NOIS{OM}E}
21 Arrests returning maniacs on back alley (6) STUNTS {NUTS<=}{ST<=}
22 Administrative region with love of sound (6) ?B?A?T (Addendum - OBLAST {O}{BLAST} - See comments)
25 Starts inspecting some light elephants on landmass (4) ISLE Acrostic

GRID

20 comments:

  1. 22D) {(O)(BLAST)} = OBLAST; O from love and BLAST from sound;
    OBLAST is an administrative division in Slavic countries and Soviet Union

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  2. Question, n:matter (to be resolved or discussed)

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  3. 3 a subject or topic; a concern, affair or question ... http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/NMWdZ/PpdMZ/LmPbK/NeoaZ/MhMaZ/KfjpZ/OlfTK/search

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    1. Hurt can be verb, adj and noun.

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    2. Best is to check a dic, say http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/NMWdZ/PpdMZ/LmPbK/NeoaZ/MhMaZ/KfjpZ/OlfTK/search

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  5. 22d: oblast - o+blast(sound)

    My comment sent at 8.45 was deleted, but why?

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  6. The 2 long ones at the top & bottom are properly worded, though in many parts. Took a while to parse.

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  7. My previous comments, Stalin, nicotine and hitech, were also deleted immediately.

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    1. Dr Krishnamoorthy, Your comments are not being deleted, for some reason most of your comments go into my spam folder in the comments section, I don't know why. I restore those comments whenever I check the comments

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  8. Tough one. Learnt some new words. Vaticinate, Bibelot, Cosmea. Enjoyed it, all the same.

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  9. 20A-The link to Asse leads to Cape fox found mainly in SA, with no mention of the name Asse. But Free dic. mentions Asse a fox.

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  10. Nice puzzle! 4D, 22D, 23A were new words for me.

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