What a way to start a Monday! with Nita Jaggi's CW. So we are in for some days of wondering how this or that came about....
ACROSS
2 - Breaks open into heavy showers of rain (6) - BURSTS [DD]
7 - Initially, please excuse leaving entrant football player (4) - {P}{E}{L}{E}
9 - After the first increase of a strong desire (4) - (-s)URGE
10 - Make contact as a writer (3,3,2,5) - PUT PEN TO PAPER [CD]
12 - Young actress later is upset in the street (7) - S{TARLE*}T
13 Alien caught by Albert turned back in Italy with difficulty in a studio (7) - {A{TE<-}L}{I}{ER}
15 - A festive celebration found in a regal ambience (4) - GALA [T]
17 - Design a rough sketch of a piece of drawing (5) - DRAFT [DD]
18 - Slight indication of a ball of thread, overheard (4) - CLEW (~clue)
19 - University in Florida to appoint someone to execute a plan (7) - F{U}L{FILL}
21 - Heard the false news of the lodgers (7) - ROOMERS (~rumours)
23 - Manager of an organisation, strictly minds a traitor (13) - ADMINISTRATOR*
27 - Support an underground part of a plant (4) - ROOT [D]
28 - Cereal grass for the disciple is returned on Saturday (4) - OAT<-{S}
29 - Nothing for each about the set of genes (6) - {O}{PER}ON On for about?
DOWN
1 - Powerful ruler has space in the warehouse (6) - DE{S}POT
2 - Spouse is a superior equal part (6,4) - BETTER HALF [CD]
3 - Strong line found in property (4) - ROPE [T]
4 - Rodent comes up on the half dry pastry (4) - TAR<-T(-t)
5 - Young dog swallows the length of the mass (4) - PU{L}P
6 - Feel bad to answer the girl guide in Rhode Island with Adam’s wife (8) - A{GG}{RI}{EVE} Again grammatically incorrect
8 - Odd champ must have a head (5) - {C}{A}{P}{U}{T}
11 - Colour of the winning combination (7) - NATURAL ?
13 - Initially fits art characters (2,5) - AT FIRST*
14 - Breaking the cool movement of a proposal put forward (10) - {LOCO*}{MOTION}
16 - Excessive flattery for a mature person around one in the operating room (8) - {ADUL{A}T}{OR} Grammatically incorrect and I would prefer OT for operation room
20 - Inner covering of the passenger ship (5) - LINER [DD]
22 - Very unusual for an artist to try out around a straight line (6) - {RA}{R{I}TY*}
24 - Small amount of physical strength, overheard (4) - MITE (~might)
25 - Small jump over to a retail establishment (4) - {S}{HOP}
26 - Right sense organ at the back! (4) - {R}{EAR}
29 - Nothing for each about the set of genes (6) - {O}{PER}ON On for about?Could be, when they both mean "concerning". e.g. "An article about blogging", "An article on blogging"
ReplyDeleteAgree about the incorrect definitions in 6D, 16F. I'm confused about 11D too. Is it something to do with lotto/jackpot?
Lotto and Jackpot do not have any colours they are played with numbers
ReplyDeleteIn COD I find:
ReplyDeleteNatural: hand making 21 as first dealt in vingt-et-un; throw of 7 or 11 at craps.
Winning combination must be a reference to this.
Col. Do you play Rummy? I used to long back.
Every now and then we used to say "Whose turn?"(to deal). What do we say when we get all sets in the deal itself??
Yes, I do play rummy whenever I get an opportunity with friends and you are right a proper set without any jokers is called a Natural. Now that you mentioned rummy I think Natural is more commonly used in the card game Canasta
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