Today onwards have started adding some links to interesting sites related to the answers plus also few comments from my side. Please feel free to agree-disagree and comment.
ACROSS
1 - Cargo vessels that put certain shops in disarray (9,5) CONTAINER SHIPS
8 - Ceremonies said to give privileges (6) RIGHTS
9 - Some footballers are singular cry-babies (8) SWEEPERS
11 - Group of people going around ol’ university for a wild flower (9) COLUMBINE [What a lovely flower]
12 - Notice Lee dancing for a girl (5) ADELE
13 - A letter from the Book (7) EPISTLE
15 - Dead artist left at the side (7) LATERAL
17 - Wrong-doer’s record prison term cut all around (7) CULPRIT
19 - Kitchen appliance puts students in a drinking binge (7) BLENDER
21 - A chewy roll for a member and sailor in retreat (5) BAGEL
23 - The business end of an archer’s missile (9) ARROWHEAD
25 - Willful destruction of wooden shoe takes a long time (8) SABOTAGE
26 - Girl cited in a Hindi rapid reader (6) INDIRA
27 - Lawyer appointed by the church — to plead Satan’s cause? (6,8) DEVILS ADVOCATE
DOWN
1 - Craft of the conservative prophesier (7) CORACLE [never knew Coracle was of welsh origin, I always thought it was typically Indian]
2 - Name of group leader included in Nile cruise (5) NIGEL
3 - Navigational aid, an item later modified (9) ALTIMETER
4 - Unfair treatment of unseasoned wood (3,4) RAW DEAL
5 - Creative with a yearning to enter the borders of Havana (5) HYENA [Though I have written this I do nut understand the link between creative in the clue and Hyena which I have got as the answer]
6 - Kind of stock with a priority claim on dividends (9) PREFERRED
7 - A spring initially, in good shape in addition (2,4) AS WELL
10 - Weak eastern money, ten cents worth (4) DIME
14 - Difficult to read, sick member with bile trouble (9) ILLEGIBLE
16 - Martial art used to break new teak wood (9) TAEKWONDO
17 - Artist who was a junior scout first (6) CUBIST [Pablo Picasso comes to mind]
18 - What might make rioters weep (4,3) TEAR GAS
19 - Where drinks may be served, starting now, in farm building (4) BARN
20 - Colourful record symbolising unnecessary official rules and procedures (3,4) RED TAPE
22 - Its use may precede that of 18 (5) LATHI [A lathi charge is popularly used by Police in India to chase protesters]
24 - List of notables of Argentina inevitably includes her (5) EVITA [aka Eva Peron]
5D is clarified, I copied the clues from the online paper where creature has been typed as creative, hence the confusion and my comments in the blog
ReplyDelete20 Down is RED TAPE..
ReplyDeleteThank you for reminding me, I had forgotten to make the entry
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteJust a follower, and have started Hindu's CW since six months. Pl tell me how LU stands for Ol' university in 11 A?
Actually there is a mistake here.
ReplyDelete- Group of people going around ol’ university for a wild flower (9)
Group of people is COMBINE
This goes round OL (ol') U (university)
But there is already an extra O in combine.
Thus arises the mistake.