Wednesday, 8 July 2009

No 9579, Wednesday, 08 Jul 09, Sankalak

Zipped through the CW today
ACROSS
1 - Part of the paper carrying adverts from individuals may, however, pall on consumer (8,6) - PERSONAL COLUMN*
8 - Good man in demand built a cosy home (6) - NE{ST}ED
9 - Ancient Italian who subdued centaurs (8) - ETRUSCAN*
11 - Burmese Inland Revenue, challenged, will pay back costs incurred (9) - REIMBURSE*
12 - Manifold evil revealed in a pithy dramatic work (5) - HYDRA [T]
13 - Wild horse in frenzied state, a no-good (7) - MUST{A}{NG}
15 - Proteins like pepsin, renin etc (7) - ENZYMES [CD]
17 - Send a rogue to the gallows with this kind of downcast look (7) - HANG{DOG}
19 - Gas consumed a newborn child (7) - NEON{ATE}
21 - Wads of currency needed for a posh car (5) - ROLLS [DD]
23 - Sailors swindle the German escaper (9) - ABS{CON}{DER}
25 - Former journalist, accepting fee, is praised (8) - EX{TOLL}{ED}
26 - Cheap decoration from cans, Spanish article (6) - {TINS}{EL}
27 - What a fiancĂ©e may get — a “busy” tone on phone? (10,4) - ENGAGEMENT RING [DD]
DOWN
1 - The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog (7) - PANGRAM [CD]
2 - Indian sage of Irish extraction (5) - RISHI*
3 - Where to go if too enthusiastic? Into the water! (9) - OVERBOARD [CD]
4 - Precious stone that makes a gossip audibly suspire (4,3) - {CAT}{S EYE}(~sigh)
5 - Sound happy (5) - LAUGH [CD]
6 - Evergreen material for road-making I begin applying (9) - MACADAM{I}{A}
7 - Old coins, about 50, in recorded history (6) - ANNA{L}S
10 - Daughter with a worn garment, what a transvestite may wear (4) - {D}{RAG} Never knew this, had heard of drag-queen etc
14 - Solitary person who made just one century (9) - SINGLE{TON}
16 - He studies animals in Kalamazoo logistically (9) - ZOOLOGIST [T]
17 - Hothead, sporting a gun, caused injury (6) - {H}ARMED
18 - Good boy, I say, gets an amorous look (4,3) - {G}{LAD} EYE(~i)
19 - Frontal feature, very big in one direction (4) - NO{S}E*
20 - Individual sound filter (7) - EARPLUG [CD]
22 - Student in comfortable seat can sing to musical syllables (3-2) - SO{L} FA
24 - Old statesman with novel ideas (5) - DESAI*

5 comments:

  1. Easy yes, but one where the clue-writer is in absolute control over his work.
    I hope to write an appreciation of this crossword and post it in my blog later today.

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  2. When the clue writer is clear and precise in his cluing it makes solving the CW's a pleasure and obviously will appear to be easy to the solver.

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  3. The promised comments on this xwd are here:
    http://cgrishikesh.wordpress.com/

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  4. Col,

    19 - Frontal feature, {very big} in {one direction} (4) - NO{S}E*

    The anno should have been:

    N{OS}E

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  5. Raghunath,
    Thanks for the correction

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