Its Sankalak from tomorrow
ACROSS
1 - Use tact and art to draw a crowd (7) - ATTRACT*
5 - Tom, an imitator (7) - COPYCAT [E]
9 - Has the English found a cover for a sword? (7) - SHEATH*{E}
10 - Design is inane and foolish (7) - ASININE*
11 - Henry may care to stretch out to succeed (5) - REAC*{H}
12 - The handing over of the parcel (9) - ALLOTMENT [CD]
13 - Soon many will be out jogging. Not me! (3,6) - ANY MOMENT*
15 - Will it turn coal into coal dust? (5) - GRATE [CD]
16 - Save Henry to escape with little margin (5) - S{H}AVE
18 - Exhausted, it is obvious, by the bumpy ride (9) - {OVERT}IRED*
21 - One contriving to be a craftsman (9) - ARTIFICER [E] An artificer is already a Craftsman
24 - A pair note scenic beauty of this island off Italy (5) - {C}APRI*
25 - Books sold in seedy places? (7) - ANNUALS [DD] ? Seedy places?
26 - Sweet German bread we heard was snatched (7) - STOLLEN(~stolen)
27 - Logically worked out by dandy German engineer (7) - {DEDU*}{CE}D Last D from? What's the German connection?
28 - Send out pro to recast (7) - RESPOND* Respond - Recast ?
DOWN
1 - A number leave one country for another (7) - AUSTR(-a-l)IA
2 - Treatment for blow they received (7) - THE{RAP}Y
3 - Would a cockney dog always drop it? (9) - (~h)AITCH{BONE} [CD] Unusual clue
4 - The thanks appear to be for the Greek letter (5) - THE{TA}
5 - Home help, a German girl that’s a dish (9) - CHAR{LOTTE}
6 - Take Pat in to apply colour with a brush (5) - PA{IN}T
7 - I’m to reach out for picture of a fabled monster (7) - CH{IM}ERA*
8 - Where scenes are created by article on rate review (7) - {THE}ATRE*
14 - Dispossessed! (9) - EXORCISED [E]
15 - Have them understand you’ll be given an award (3,6) - GET {A}{CROSS}
16 - Around Dover, prize appears off shore (7) - SE{AWARD} I suppose SE is the direction Dover is in with ref to the place Mr Manna intended!!
17 - Made to harmonize (7) - ATTUNED [E]
19 - Hit with everyone round the Italian resort (7) - RAP{ALL}{O}
20 - Thought fit to have a gin cocktail during the act (7) - DE{IGN*}ED
22 - Unmistakable to say it’s a French coin (5) - FRANC(~frank)
23 - Vertical pipe in a building (5) - RISER [E]
GRID
I will answer two queries.
ReplyDeleteOne: an annual is a plant and also a yearbook. The clue-writer would have us think that annuals are books sold in seedy places (where seeds for the plants are available).
In UK there is a county or a number of counties called SE, I think. Perhaps Dover is in it. Pl google.
Agreed annual is a plant, but seedy places has a totally different connotation and in no way can one construe that it means places where seeds are sold
ReplyDeleteAnswers.com gives a meaning of seedy to mean 'having many seeds'or 'resembling seeds or a seed'. Annual plants like peas,grains etc have lots of seeds.
ReplyDeleteSE stands for South East and Dover is inSouthe East England
ReplyDeleteEven if "seedy places" doesn't literally mean "places where seeds are available", I am OK with this kind of usage in cryptic wordplay. The "?" signals that something unusual is going on.
ReplyDeleteI notice Colonel, that we tend to disagree in such cases :) Remember the ALTIMETER clue?
Deepak,
ReplyDeleteMay I seek the hospitality of your much-followed blog to mention that I have posted a clue-by-clue comment on this crossword here:
http://dailydozen.blogspot.com/
Readers are welcome to visit and also enter their own comments, if any.
If any of you disagree with me, please say so!
Hi Shuchi,
ReplyDeleteGrowing old, as such don't remember the ALTIMETER clue. Anyway disagreement throws up interesting discussion, and in a way it is good to have something to discuss about ;-)