Did not go out for my walk today so the early post. No Monday morning blues and a quick CW
ACROSS
1 - Master artist has crossed the capital of Hungary for almost one long race (8) – M{AR}AT{H}ON(one-e)
5 - Georgia is no good for the workers (4) – GA{NG}
9 - Account nothing to America for it to turn around producing sound (8) – AC{O}US{TI<-}C Origin of the last C in the answer not specified in the clue, unless the setter has taken ACC as the abvn for account
10 - Respect shown, husband gives an award over a period of time (6) – H{OM}{AGE}
12 - Large city has an alien back in the small hours (4) – {LA}TE<- 13 - An expert seeker following the way of life (10) – PATHFINDER [2]
15 - Code word for the man left in for a knighted comedian (7,7) – CHARLIE {CHAP}{L}IN
17 - Come-on, spurn all around in the section of a newspaper (8,6) – PERSONAL COLUMN*
21 - Dispensary has a single collection of practitioners (10) – CLINIC{I}ANS
22 - Immobilise the saint to behead the nun (4) – ST{(n-)UN}
25 - Almost tie the grand sir going back to the river (6) – TI(-e){G}RIS<- 26 - Note within the blue sound of a magician having a snack food (8) – SAND{D}WICH ?? Annotation not clear
27 - Right to practice a trick (4) – R{USE}
28 - Pose a threat to disturb the range end (8) – ENDANGER*
DOWN
1 - Small amount of the same design left at the end of the day (6) – MEAS*{L}{Y}
2 - Perch eighty duck’s eggs on the street (5) – R{OO}{ST} Nailed the Roman Numeral R for eighty this time around
3 - Flip the coin carelessly (4) – TOSS [2]
4 - Paper folding around the gear in the morning on a straight line (7) – ORI{G}{AM}I Origin of ORI from the clue not clear
6 - An awful thirty seconds inside a large snake covered by an expert (10) – A{BO{MIN}A}BLE This should have been sixty seconds
7 - Winning of all tricks in a single championship game (5,4) - GRAND SLAM [2]
8 - Sound of nothing except the tool (5) – {SH}EAR ?? What I have got does not appear to be correct (Update - SHEAR (~sheer))
11 - Elegant church in charge (4) – CH{IC}
14 - Quiet port on Rhode Island is a different site for preferential ratings (10) – {P}RIO{RI}{TIES*}
16 - Forerunner will laugh to eat too much in a car (9) – {HAR}{BINGE}R (Update {HA}R{BINGE}R)
18 - Odd acre is dry land without rainfall (4) – ARID Annotation not clear
19 - Abel’s brother holding almost one cross to have within (7) – C{ON(-e)}{T}AIN
20 - Main announcer has a heavy device (6) – ANCHOR [2]
21 - Grasp the feline chief (5) – CAT{CH}
23 - Fastening a bandage on the Chinese character (5) – T{YING}
24 - Identification of each thought (4) – ID{EA}
Col,
ReplyDelete21 - Dispensary has a single collection of practitioners (10) – CLINIC{I}ANS. What is the anno for ANS?
25 A. Blue sound should be Blues Music = SAD. Cannot figure out WICH, unless the magician in WITCH made T disappear!
DOWN:
14 - Quiet port on Rhode Island is a different site for preferential ratings (10) – {P}RIO{RI}{TIES*}. {P}= Quiet? Something to do with musical term I think?
16 - Forerunner will laugh to eat too much in a car (9) – {HAR}{BINGE}R. Should it have ben like this:
{HA}{R}{BINGE}{R}, where RR= Rolls Royce, or is there another explanation?
21A - ANS should have been the abvn for answer, maybe the typesetter left out the word answer by mistake!!
ReplyDelete26A - SA{N}D sounds logical, the rest will have to be deciphered by the magician herself
14D - Yes I too think it is a musical term or notation though i could not find it.
16D - Yes your annotation is correct as compared to what I had written, I took HAR as the term for laughter as you find HAR-HAR written in comics
Our 'Professor of Cruciverbals' seems to be incommunicado else he would have given us the answers
In the absence of the prof, let me fill in :)
ReplyDelete21A: ANS is a box set of musical recordings created on an ANS synthesizer. So, "collection" as in a musical collection.
25A: SA{N}D WICH{~witch}
The 1st half is as you say. The 2nd half of the word is a homophone.
"sound of a magician" => a word that sounds like "witch" = WICH
14D: I had talked about p=silent in the comments here: http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2008/11/charades.html
16D: Raghunath has it right, though I'd annotate it as: HA R{BINGE}R
Thanks Col, Shuchi.
ReplyDeleteSilly of me not to think of WICH as a homophone, after having gone through so many of Shuchi's tutorials, although there is no Homophone indicator, unless sound is the one.
Of course, "sound" is the indicator. Have a look here for words that could possibly be used as homophone indicators.
ReplyDelete4D: How about O = around, RIG = gear?
ReplyDelete6D: MIN = 30 seconds is half of a minute, MIN is half of the word "minute"
18D: It's the first odd letters (1, 3, 5, 7) in AcRe Is Dry