Wednesday 8 April 2009

No 9501, Wednesday, 08 Apr 09, Nita Jaggi

I am lost today and left with some unsolved, todays clues are not very good from the point of surface reading and as usual I feel there are a lot of inconsistencies, don't know if I am right or whether the clues were too good for me. Addendum based on comments below
ACROSS
1 - Decorative object is at the end part of the surface on the east most borders (7) - TRINKET ?? (Addendum - {T}{RINK}{E(-as)T})
5 - Adopt Kate by the order in court (4,2) - TAKE UP What is court doing in this clue?
10 - Reformer pursuing a political cause (8) - ACTIVIST [CD]
11 - Invasive growth found in the pelican cerebrum (6) - CANCER [T]
13 - Attempts to boil dish oddly (4) - {B}IDS Annotation for IDS eludes me, is it a Dish? (Addendum - {B}{I}{D}{S}
14 - Putting right the wrong bandage again (10) - REDRESSING [2]
16 - Sound of a musical instrument for ever in the book (6) - READER ?? (Addendum - READ(~reed)ER)
18 - Street made in the style to cover the gym for group action (8) - {ST}{AM{PE}DE*} Strange explanation for group action!!
21 - Strange to greet sir in an official list (8) - REGISTER* Is a Register a List? (Addendum - Yes it is)
22 - Grain on each part of an eye (6) - {CORN}{EA}
25 - Officials for the participants hold the hand of the leader of the dynasty (10) - (Addendum - COM{MAN}{D}ERS)
27 - Repeat of a sound from the speech overheard (4) - ECHO [T]
30 - Girl is at the University with Albert once a year (6) - {ANN}{U}{AL}
31 - Destroyed your band at the border line (8) - BOUNDARY*
32 - Tough tissue (6) - MUSCLE [2]
33 - Turn back the animals to the French in the farm buildings (7) - STAB<-LES
DOWN
2 - Judged the Republican side of Edward (5) - {R}AT{ED} ??
3 - Peculiar van covering a round star (4) - N{O}VA*
4 - Weekend festival in spring (6) - EASTER [CD]
6 - Natives take up a drinking place within half of Asia (5) - A{RAB<-}S (asia - ia)
7 - Uncle aide sets geometry with similar axioms (9) - EUCLIDEAN*
8 - Religious, naughty child is in a canoe (7) - (Addendum - PI{ROGUE})
9 - Head boy to shear the bear on the side by the hairdresser (6) - {B}{ARBE*}{R}
12 - Make forth the small bubbles (5) - FROTH*
15 - Dining room in a state of disorderliness (4) - MESS [2]
17 - Developed a doubt in the strange discussions (9) - ARG{UM}ENTS*
19 - Nomadic person in a wild area (4) - MOOR [2]
20 - Large dew holding a layer of seven plants (5) - ( Addendum - W{E}ED*{S})
21 - Recipe left with an intention to extract useful substances (7) - {REC}{L}{AIM}
23 - Unnamed author is new on the track in America (6) - A{N}ONYM Annotation eludes me
24 - You are in a fix inside the court to shout loudly (3,3) - CR{Y} OUT*
26 - Make use of the road for five in trouble (5) - {A{V}{A}IL} How does A stand for road?
28 - Machine bird (5) - CRANE [2]
29 - Arrogant son is upset by the bishop (4) - SNO*{B}

2 comments:

  1. Hi Colonel, The annos as I can see based on your answers. Haven't attempted the crossword myself...

    1A: end part = T
    surface = RINK
    east most borders = ET (borders of EasT). Not a very nice way of clueing ET.

    13A The definition is "attempts". Take odd letters from BoIl DiSh for the solution.

    21A Register could be an official list or record. e.g. Strike the brat's name off the school register.

    2D It is possibly R AT ED. Not sure of the connection between side and AT.

    8D PI ROGUE seems to fit, but defining "rogue" as "naughty child" is not OK.

    20D Going by this compiler's style, my hunch is that "large" is an anagram indicator for DEW...and layer of "seven" gives SE. So the answer could be WEEDS*. I hope this answer is not correct though, because if it is then the clue is pretty awful :)

    26D Maybe A = Avenue?

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  2. Thanks Shuchi,
    The lesser said the better about the clues

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