12A had me stumped for quite a while. Gridman seems to have slipped up today at places
ACROSS
1 - Having a strong desire to act, good man takes time with singular vehicle (5-6) - {ST}{AGE S}{TRUCK}
9 - Having lost inflections, stranded at Pontiac (9) - ANAPTOTIC*
10 - Range of a maiden piece (5) - {A}{M}{BIT}
11 - Yale’s Yale (5) - ELIHU [CD]
12 - The state of persons with no work? (9) - LOAFERDOM [CD]
13 - Fiftyone extremely busy on a Saharan nation (5) - {LI}{B(-us)Y}{A}
15 - Shoddy primer by a new director receives censure (9) - {REPRIM*}{A}{N}{D}
18 - One with no self-respect in small group at Vellore exposed (9) - G{ROVELLE*}R
21 - Before the publicity men, I got nothing right (5) - {PR}{I}{O}{R}
22 - Bird found horribly broke in farm wagon (4-5) - WA{KE-ROB*}IN Seems to be a slip-up here by Gridman. Wake-Robin is a flower !!
24 - Heath returns at last to alley having ample space (5) - ROOM<-{Y}
26 - Reportedly push a foot-operated keyboard (5) - PEDAL (~peddle)
27 - We mix indiscriminately in once-touted “Land of Enchantment” (3,6) - NE{W MEXI*}CO*
28 - It holds a wicked lighter (11) - CANDLESTICK [CD]
DOWN
1 - Dance — you may have to do more than this, though! (5,1,3) - SHAKE A LEG [CD]
2 - Member of a Sikh political party also known as “Fiftyone” (5) - {AKA}{LI}
3 - Give hope to forgotten central leader taking time to gather attendants (9) - EN(-c+t){T}OURAGE
4 - Gossip takes time to rattle off (7) - {T}ATTLER*
5 - Disconnect with clans disturbed in Uttar Pradesh (7) - U{NCLAS*}P
6 - Jack heard a section of the church (5) - KNAVE (~nave)
7 - Emirate with a timeless custom accommodating youth (3,5) - ABU DHABI Anno pending (Addendum - {A}{BU D}{HABI(-t)})
8 - Article Time revised (4) - ITEM*
14 - Commanded that the seal be held in encirclement (8) - B{LOCK}ADE
16 - Foreign dealers (9) - IMPORTERS [CD]
17 - Can you affect a cleanup without this? (5,4) - DIRTY WORK [CD]
19 - Country boy rises with no new support (7) - LEBA<-{NO}{N}
20 - Owen, having lost his capital, comes up in true surroundings for one more round (7) - RE{NEW(-o)<-}AL
22 - Cried having scrubbed the head off (4) - (-s)WEPT
23 - Memento for Roman Catholic priest included (5) - R{ELI}C
25 - Old boy gets punishment for catching one antelope (5) - {O{RI}B}{I}
22a is admittedly a mistake, discovered by you.
ReplyDeleteNot that Gridman would not have looked up. He must have seen "cuckoo pint" at the beginning of a long def in an online dict and must have jumped to the conclusion that it was a small-sized cuckoo!
He owes an apology to you and all solvers.
A couple of months ago a blogger discovered a mistake in a published Guardian crossword; the compiler, the author of a well-touted book on crosswords, tendered his apology and also explained how that mistake happened: because of indistinguishment between i (where the space below the dot gets smudged in certain bold types) and l in the small font.
ReplyDeleteThe Guardian has a crossword editor, I believe. How the mistake escapesd him I don't know.
While browsing the net I also found that Wake-Robin is the name of a book by John Burroughs regarding birds
ReplyDeleteIt appears that the flower gets its name from the fact that it blooms at a time when migratory birds such as robins appear.
ReplyDeleteTwo fifty-ones in the same grid??
ReplyDelete"Yale’s Yale" looked exciting on the surface but the answer was underwhelming to me. That's like saying "Tata's Tata" = JRD. I'll
probably class 11A and 16D as your new type [E] rather than CD.
BLOCKADE, ENTOURAGE and little one ITEM made up for the not-so-great moments, thankfully.
Shuchi, you are right about 11A and 16D, I forgot about my E classification today.
ReplyDeleteGridman had scope for two more fifty-ones in 11A and 23D
17 A - Can you affect a cleanup without this? (5,4) - DIRTY WORK [CD]
ReplyDelete"Affect" is to have a negative effect. Here the clue should have been "effect', and not "affect", I guess.
Over to experts.
Sorry, please read it as 17 D and not 17 A.
ReplyDeleteThanks
Richard
Richard,
ReplyDeleteYou're right! That was a misprint for which the blame goes to the subeditors.