No hiccups today
ACROSS
1 - Begins after having convulsions and has only spasmodic bursts of activity (4,3,6) - FITS AND STARTS [CD]
8 - Take issue about heel getting the cheese (7) - S{TILT}ON
9 - Stirred painter up, having nothing to be employed (7) - AR<-{O}{USED}
11 - Bird sanctuary by railway beneath a Roman road (6) - A{VIA}{RY}
13 - What cooks would have used in preference to sails? (8) - STEAMERS [CD]
15 - Put down to mix with something inferior (5) - {IN}{LAY} (Correction - ALLOY [CD])
16 - Excuses for remission (7) - PARDONS [DD]
18 - The nerve of one, swimming from the ship! (7) - {GALL}{EON*}
19 - Al later takes to fashion according to key of a fugue (5) - {TO}{N}{AL}
21 - Drive into rickety carts, the old vehicles (8) - T{RAM}CARS*
23 - Proposal that creates a stir (6) - MOTION [DD]
25 - Ron said to arrange flat weapon pointed at both ends (7) - SADIRON*
26 - Displays that leave their mark (7) - TATTOOS [DD]
28 - Think about Samuel’s mentor perpetrating perjury (10,3) - DELIBERATE {LIE*}
DOWN
2 - Being first in, one always started without it (7) - {IN}{IT}{I}{AL} Without it or with it?
3 - Be a candidate to undergo an examination (3) - SIT [CD]
4 - Nun we hear, gives no quarter to anyone (4) - NONE(~nun)
5 - Affecting the ratings? That’s smashing! (10) - SHATTERING*
6 - Market place in ancient Greece! (5) - AGORA [CD]
7 - They conduct fitness trials for admission (7) - TESTERS [CD]
8 - They grow up only slowly underground (11) - STALAGMITES [CD] We have a famous one at Amarnath
10 - Supporters getting about in trains (11) - DISCIPL{IN}ES Nice clue
12 - Al goes with Roy in style befitting a king (5) - ROY{AL}
14 - One wrapping soft fruit with an air (10) - A{P}{PEAR}{AN}CE
17 - Go one better with the wrong party! (5) - OUT{DO}
18 - Madly endear to King George, he being of royal family (7) - {G}{RANDEE*}
20 - Wild boar in one African city (7) - NAIROB*{I}
22 - One going after fish bones (5) - {CARP}{I}
24 - Portico or covered colonnade so constructed at ancient Greece (4) - STOA*
27 - Make a knot, to fasten (3) - TIE [DD]
2 - Being first in, one always started without it (7) - {IN}{IT}{I}{AL} Without it or with it?
ReplyDelete'without' means 'outside of' here.
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ReplyDeleteAs in
ReplyDeleteThe country faces a dire threat from antisocial forces within and without.
The building may be a hundred years old but its structure is sturdy within and without.
Thanks Shuchi and Chaturvasi, I am enlightened
ReplyDeleteWas somewhat stumped by 'sadiron' because Wikipedia (which I usually use to verify clues) didn't have an article on it. Thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteI am a bit confused by 15a - 'alloy'. Initially I wrote 'allay' as this means 'put down'. However, if the answer is 'alloy' because of 'to mix with something inferior', what happens to 'put down'?
Hi Aash,
ReplyDeleteI too feel it is ALLAY is correct and not Alloy which I have entered