ACROSS
1 - Good, large combine of the culinary art (11) - {G}{ASTRONOMIC}
9 - Shark badly rouses a railway official (9) - {ROUSSE*}{TTE}
10 - Kind of wave in Dalit movement (5) - TIDAL*
11 - A winning indication (1-4) - V-SIGN [CD]
12 - Adding details on tipsy angler spilling gin (9) - {ENLARG*}{ING*}
13 - Bores doctor with primarily idle afterthought (5) - {DR}{I}{PS}
15 - Manoeuvre changes terms involving a name (9) - STR{A}{TAG}EM*
18 - Previously mentioned team lands somehow (4-5) - LAST NAMED*
21 - Artistic fra’s saucy speech on borders of Puri (5) - {LIP}{PI} Something missing in the clue here
22 - Hostel inmates gather in these places for meals (4,5) - MESS HALLS [CD]
24 - Don’t take the first of wedding women’s fair attractions (5) - (-b)RIDES
26 - Hundred dance with fish basket (5) - {C}{REEL}
27 - What an object presents when you stand before it (5,4) - FRONT VIEW [CD]
28 - One steps on it for speed (11) - ACCELERATOR [CD]
DOWN
1 - Author finds blood-spilling valid (4,5) - GORE {VIDAL*}
2 - Dais crashes about Uttaranchal’s top foreigner (5) - SA{U}DI*
3 - Political party’s symbol seen in the morning (6,3) - RISING SUN [DD]
4 - Crazy persons to speak in new series (7) - N{UTTER}S
5 - Max? (7) - MUELLER [CD]
6 - To provide Tom, there’s hesitation (5) - {CAT}{ER}
7 - Putting two and two together, perhaps (6,2) - ADDING UP [CD]
8 - Standard fire-fighter’s starting to be with jailbird (4) - {F}{LAG}
14 - Maintained one’s entering instead without first letter (8) - INS{I'S}TE(-a)D
16 - One forbears (9) - TOLERATOR [CD]
17 - Principal seamstress? Not exactly! (4,5) - MAIN SEWER [CD]
19 - Evil scholar (the Parisian) joins female-in-charge (7) - {MA}{LE}{F}{IC}
20 - Insidiously dopes one with a large number to plunder (7) - DESPO*{I}{L}
22 - Jeer, medical officer and cook (4) - {MO}{CK}
23 - Fish has swum around one lake (5) - H{I}{L}SA*
25 - The meaning is married couples shouldn’t … (5) - DRIFT [DD]
According to Dictionary.com, [b]Fra Filippo Lippi [/b] was an Italian painter who completed Masaccio's frescoes.
ReplyDelete@Satya,
ReplyDeleteFor more details on Lippi see the link I have provided.
I was pointing to something missing in the clue.
16 - One forbears (9) - TOLERATOR [CD]
ReplyDeleteRight ans would have been TOLERATES. Probably the clue required 'who' before forebears.
Sir
ReplyDeleteDidnt understand //The meaning is married couple shouldn`t..(5)//as DD .Will u mind explaining
@Anon,
ReplyDeleteIf you click on the link I have provided with the word DRIFt you will get the meanings.
If still in doubt come back and I shall explain