Wow!, what a relief after the error prone last few days, though not starred but there was a theme in Neyartha's CW today. I must confess that not being a lover of dance forms I had to look them up to get 1D where I was stuck, after I got that the rest just seemed to flow in
ACROSS
1 - Railway employees sees distance to winding stream and takes time out (10) - {YARD}{MASTER}
6 - Are these open in Munich during Oktoberfest (4) - TAPS [CD]
10 - Dance, boxer, dance! (9) - {KATHAK}{ALI} I liked this clue
11 - Show tension (5) - DRAMA [DD]
12 - Old African leader puts his allies at ease somehow by relieving volunteers (5,8) - HAILE SELASSIE*
14 - Smirks when model takes out the North American breakfast dish (5) - GRI(-n+t)TS
15 - Peter out to embrace the bitter revolutionary on the ground (9) - PRE(DICA<-)TE*
17 - The debate participant is not eating properly (9) - NEGOTIANT*
21 - Spice made from clipped trefoil (5) - CLOVE(-r)
22 - The dance at Amarnath Bay is outlandish (13) - BHARATANATAYAM*
24 - Article lamented reported covert comment (5) - {A}SIDE (~sighed)
25 - Change direction (5,4) - ABOUT TURN [CD]
26 - Some pursue training to get fat (4) - SUET [T]
27 - Frenchman surrounded at dangerous altitudes gets provoked (10) - STI{M}ULATED*
DOWN
1 - Dance with the oxen and the witch is in the anecdotes collection (10) - {YAKS}{HAG}ANA I would never have got this without cheating
2 - Stirring up the pot that contains brewed tea for selling (9) - R{ETA*}ILING
3 - The oarsmen turn into cybabies (7) - MOANERS* Cybabies typo for crybabies
4 - Disturbance results when you eat and digest fish (5-2) - S{HAKE} UP
5 - Radium found in Oriental clock sent back to Dubai (7) - EMI{RA}T<-{E}
7 - Swiftly announce raise for the champion (5) - AP<-ACE
8 - Flat block gets letters from Khosla Builders (4) - SLAB [T]
9 - Cricket team skirting the ship’s party turns up at the dance (6) - {OD<-}I{SS}I
13 - With a limited time in private, cook indeed has to be purposeful (10) - DE{TERM}INED*
16 - Newspaper columnist to torture relative (5,4) - AGONY AUNT [CD]
18 - Investigator climbs up farm vehicle with hesitation (6) - TRAC<-ER
19 - Old gem set (7) - ADAMANT [CD] Nice clue
20 - Discuss reversal notice inside small restaurant (7) - T{EAR}OOM<- Notice and ear? 21 - No iodine in the athletic doctor’s personal possession (7) - CHATTEL(-i) New word for me
22 - Outside tech graduate begins education in Greek with light coffee (5) - B{E}{I}{G}E
23 - Goes off course as power is usurped by unknown hands (4) - Y{A{W}S} I suppose thw W is from (-po)w(-er) usurped but why hands?
Discuss reversal notice inside small restaurant (7)
ReplyDeleteDiscuss - moot
reversal - gives TOOM
notice - EAR - ear or ear panel is either of those two small ads or notices at either side of a newspaper masthead such as The Hindu in the past: nowadays papers with phenomenal technical and marketing advancements have drastically changed layouts... where was I?
so T(EAR)OOM<-
Goes off course as power is usurped by unknown hands (4)
ReplyDeleteGoes off course - Direct segment
power is usurped by unknown - P is replaced by Y
hands - PAWS
{-p+Y}AWS
Thanks Chaturvasi and Ganesh,
ReplyDeleteHowever I feel that 23D would have been better surface reading wise if it was clued as ' Goes off course as power is usurped by unknown in hands'
I think you mean the wordplay in 23D would be better with that change, Colonel. 'in' is needed to indicate where the substitution has to happen. The surface however is nicer in the original clue.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't try this crossword today but on reading through your blog I'm impressed. My compliments to Neyartha.