Happy VISHU (New Year) to all visitors to my blog. Nothing spectacular in todays CW other than a lot of CD/DD which is Gridman's style.
ACROSS
1 - Line turning with vessel in temple activity (7) - WOR<-SHIP
5 - Defeat a challenge at an airport ceremony? (3,3) - SEE OFF [DD]
9 - Minimum disposal of slate (5) - LEAST*
10 - Do run nimbly to find clever architectural feature (5,4) - ROUND* {ARCH}
11 - “Here lies….” statement (7) - EPITAPH [CD]
12 - Eccentric fellow features a politician in satire (7) - L{A}{MP}OON
13 - Wood spirit (5) - DRYAD [CD] Never heard this word, I must admit I googled this answer
14 - What you pay for rummaging (6,3) - SEARCH FEE [CD]
16 - Not a “morning person”? (4,5) - LATE RISER [CD]
19 - Revolutionary has one following the principal (5) - CHE{I}{F}
21 - Two scholars have one learner writing at last for a newspaper column (7) - {MA}{I}{L}{BA}{G}
23 - With Leonard, I got rash — “freckles”, actually (7) - {LEN}{TIGO*}
24 - One month after artist’s short handbook on mathematician (9) - {RA}{MANU}{JAN} Manu - short for Manuscript - handbook !!
25 - More frosty — To 500, more chancey (5) - ICIER Annotation anyone?
26 - Scour freshly one-sixth of the forest for explorer (6) - CRUSO*{E} I thought he was a castaway, not an explorer !!
27 - Marine colour (3,4) - SEA BLUE [CD]
DOWN
1 - English poet dismantles Delaware armlet (6,2,2,4) - WALTER DE LA MARE* Remember studying some of his poems in school cannot rememebr the names of any though
2 - Later I went round to the Yard for truth (7) - REALIT*{Y}
3 - Worker carrying twisted tab for ribbon in topper (7) - HA{TBA*}ND
4 - Buys up, crashes brutally (9) - PURCHASES*
5 - Head-covering (5) - SKULL [CD]
6 - Local to finish mice off (7) - END{EMIC*}
7 - Say rapidly: “Shoot” (4,3) - FIRE OFF [CD]
8 - What students may seek, what rowers may adopt (6,2,6) - CHANGE OF COURSE [DD] Rowers normally avoid adopting a change of course !
15 - Dismantle Air Nepal’s flying machines (9) - AIRPLANES* North American way of saying Aeroplane
17 - An excellent thing: what may be found in a hairdresser’s (7) - TRIMMER [DD] An Australian/New Zealand definition
18 - Strips Brand 1’s components (7) - RIBANDS* What I used to wear over my left pocket while in service 'Medal Ribands'
19 - Open with a Shavian play (7) - CANDID{A} Did not know Shavian stood for George Bernard Shaw's works
20 - Character starting to make a name (7) - INITIAL [CD]
22 - Toy soldier (2,3) - GI JOE [CD]
MANU falls short of manual.
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ReplyDeleteMore frosty: ICIER def
ReplyDeleteto 500 - if you add the above to D(500) you get
DICIER- more chancey
Thanks for your link to ribands. Interesting and educative.
ReplyDeleteChaturvasi,
ReplyDeleteThank you.
25 - More frosty //— To 500(Add D), more chancey (5) - ICIER // D ICIER
ReplyDeleteI thought that a couple of anagram clues (2D, 4D, 15D) had top-class surfaces. 15D is specially interesting because Air Nepal is now defunct.
ReplyDeleteSome of the CDs were a tad too easy weren't they, and almost like straight definitions.
George Bernard Shaw was one of the key members of The Fabian Society, often referred to as the intellectual vanguard of the left in UK.
ReplyDeleteSir, kudos to you for your interest and the army like perfection in uploading the answers with lightening speed!