A tough one today at places, have not been able to unravel 24A and 23D
ACROSS
1 - Newspaper publisher tries to initially (6) - {HEARS}{T}
4 - Deputy at university is behaving badly (6,2) - {ACTING} {U}{P} P from ?
9 - Millions close to boundary cross Indian city (6) - {M}{Y}{SORE} Read about the Mysore palace at the link. abeautiful sight when lit up in the evenings
10 - Got on a bidet, nervously (8) - OBTAINED*
12 - A batsman may to get away quickly (3,3,3) - CUT AND RUN [CD]
13 - Caught fish on river - put them in this (5) - CREEL [CD]
14 - The way in which Eden served? (7,6) - DOWNING STREET [CD]
18 - Inferior batsman's guard (13) - NIGHTWATCHMAN [DD]
20 - Famous group in watering hole (5) - OASIS [DD]
22 - Require, on stage, a French firearm (6-3) - {NEED}LE GUN Anno not clear
24 - Play about leaving for work (8) - (-re)CREATION ? Must be the name of some famous play in England
25 - I ordered a Brie in part of Europe (6) - {I}BERIA*
26 - Take part in a sport and risk a wet undoing? (8) - WATERSKI*
27 - Civilised ancient city, source of evil (6) - {UR}{BANE}
DOWN
1 - Murder in dwelling - bring in one branch to investigate? (8) - HOM{I}{CID}E
2 - Holding dog with no lead? (5) - (-b)ASSET
3 - Son running off, running quickly (9) - {S}{PRINTING}
5 - Joiner - one living in 14? (12) - CABINETMAKER [DD]
6 - Sarah's son uses savings scheme account (5) - I{SA}{AC} I from ?
7 - Got upset about reportedly lame male cat (6,3) - GINGER {TOM} Got this thro google Anno not clear
8 - Boat heading for Plymouth, badly loaded, docked (6) - {P}{EDALO*}(-d)
11 - Film city in Colorado, Boulder? (8,4) - {BRIGHTON} {ROCK}
15 - Cried after snakes exposed (9) - {WINDS}{WEPT}
16 - Sword found in former burial ground around start of century (9) - {EX}{C}{ALIBUR*}
17 - Overwhelm one sister on tryst (8) - {I}{NUN}{DATE}
19 - Doctor on barge in capital city (6) - {MO}{SCOW}
21 - One entering name of musical instrument (5) - S{I}TAR
23 - Turned up to search a lake (5) - G?R?A
Turned up to search a lake (5) GARDA
ReplyDeleteGARD (rev. of 'drag') + A(a)
I learn that it's the largest lake in Italy
Visit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Garda
To search = DRAG, is that right?
ReplyDeletePlay -> recreation
ReplyDeleteabout leaving -> -re
creation -> work
drag - search, explore with a dragnet
ReplyDelete22. NEEDLE GUN = NEED LEG UN
ReplyDeleteLeg is stage as in first leg
Un is French for one or a
7. GINGER TOM sounds like INJURED TOM
I think Anokha's anno was apparent to you even when posting the solution. What didn't strike you (nor me, till now) is the word 'play' is not used in the dramatic sense but in a sporting way.
ReplyDeleteI didn't solve this crossword as I am doing an advance one from the original site; let me warn you that some seven weeks later THC(Sun) xwd will be much tougher than this.
I managed it, though one half of just one clue is yet to be cracked.
Thanks for all the comments
ReplyDeleteIn 4d U doesn't yield U. "at university" yield UP. The word 'up' means 'at university' (Chambers). I believe this component has appeared before in the Sunday THC.
ReplyDeleteRe 6dn
ReplyDeleteIn UK there is a savings scheme known as individual savings account with abbr. ISA.
So I think it is ISA, a/c.
I am not sure about Anon's anno for GINGER ALE. The thinking cap is still on.
ReplyDeleteGot upset about reportedly lame male cat (6,3)
ReplyDeleteGot upset = GTO
about = c/c indicator
reportedly lame = INGER {~injure}, read as verb
male = M
cat = GINGER TOM, from G{INGER(~injure)}TO* M
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ReplyDeleteThanks, Shuchi, for saving me from further misery!
ReplyDeleteWas busy with my solve for next week's blog on fifteensquared.
This Sunday THC is an interregnum between my stopping solving it and taking up Everyman.
Read: This Sunday THC appears in an interregnum between my stopping solving it and taking up Everyman in the original site.
ReplyDeleteChaturvasi
ReplyDeleteI hope the interregnum in the Indian political scene does not get prolonged further after 16 May
Shuchi
Tell me frankly how long did it take to parse GINGER TOM ? or was it a sudden flash of brilliance like EUREKA!!!
:) Somehow GINGER TOM didn't trouble me. I'd come across the word in another crossword this week itself. Only paused over 'reportedly lame' but it was just a matter of linking it with INGER.
ReplyDeleteIt must be granted that Anon had given a partial indication.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw it, I only knew it was not quite exact. But as I had other things on hand and did not pursue the idea.
But those distractions apart, the synapses in my brain did not occur all too quickly!
Sometimes in the 15sqd blogs when ace solvers seek help on anno, I give it straightaway - because the connections happened.
They too might see the parsing after some time.