No major gaffe from Mr Manna for the first of this series, I can't get the anno for 2D though.
ACROSS
1 - Where little Jack sat up against the wall (2,1,6) - IN A CORNER [CD]
6 - Has the neck to ask for credit during a slump (5) - S{CR}AG
9 - Grown up to be present last month (5) - {AD}{ULT}
10 - Change title for a product? (5,4) - TRADE NAME [DD]
11 - Put in a difficult position when a tip gave offence (10) - {END}{ANGERED}
12 - Talk easily later at church (4) - {CH}{AT}
14 - Female goats look after the children! (7) - NANNIES [DD]
15 - Dad, “Geese caused the water to leak” (7) - SEE{PA}GE*
17 - Mild men let many running wild (7) - {C}LEMENT*
19 - Girl takes loss as relating to her tongue (7) - G{LOSS}AL
20 - Take up position behind (4) - REAR [DD]
22 - Without exception, life imprisonment (3,3,4) - FOR ALL TIME [CD]
25 - The Italian patriot takes the biscuit! (9) - GARIBALDI [DD] Never ate one of these biscuits
26 - Feeling of horror go slowly (5) - CREEP [DD] The feeling should have been creepy
27 - Be wide awake at warning of danger (5) - ALERT [DD]
28 - Represented as a priest’s hangers on (9) - PARASITES*
DOWN
1 - I’m at a duration of life, an idol (5) - {IM}AGE
2 - More than enough for a bid at cards (9) - ABUNDANCE [DD] ? Anno eludes me. A google search threw up Abundance as the name of a game of cards, other than that I can't see the connection and the use of the word bid in the clue.
3 - Frequently about half a score of instances (10) - {OF}{TEN}{TIMES}
4 - Sent rat away — chatters! (7) - NATTERS*
5 - University lecturers (7) - READERS [CD]
6 - It’s in poor taste to let it stand (4) - STET [T]
7 - Succeed in communicating (5) - REACH [CD]
8 - A very large amount — and at a bargain price! (5,4) - GREAT DEAL [CD]
13 - Recalls dilemma of 150 electors (10) - RE{C}O{L}LECTS*
14 - Again a cur is removed from the country (9) - NICARAGUA*
16 - Sober seamen can get net in a tangle (9) - {ABS}{TIN}{ENT*}
18 - Untidy woman gets to roll over top (7) - T{ROLL}OP Roll over top or top over roll
19 - GI gets clear around a mass of ice (7) - GLACIER*
21 - Eager to make up the quarrel (5) - AGREE*
23 - Exhibitions along old river course (5) - {EX}{POS}
24 - Jack takes Lawrence back to incite with encouragement (4) - {AB}{ET<-} )
PS - The HINDU seems to be getting raunchy, the ad next to the CW Grid in the online edition appears to give me this feeling, is it the image of a Trollop!!?
Good morning Colonel, I'm puzzled by ABUNDANCE too. Also AGREE - is "make up" both the anagrind and part of the definition?
ReplyDeleteThat ad isn't The Hindu's fault, by the way. The Evony game advertising is doing sneaky things to flood the internet, all website owners are hassled. I saw the same ad on The Guardian's site.
Yes, I too have seen the same ad elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, some of these ads have ROLL OVER.
I never tried to find out what that meant.
A repeat of the same ad?
Or a chance to see the back of the woman in this particular ad?
In solo whist a call of nine bids is ABUNDANCE. Or so I learn from Chambers.
ReplyDeleteNow that Chaturvasi mentioned it, I looked it up in my dict. and the same def is there as well, so that settles the annotation issue. Wonder why the google search didn't throw it up.
ReplyDeleteRoll over means when the mouse is rolled over the ad it drops down (like in drop down menu's) and more details of the ad appear
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