ACROSS
1 - Supporter with suitable sizer for coal-burning vessels (8) - {BRA}{ZIERS*}
5 - By the way, duck, even with head cut, is heavy food (6) - {ST}{O}DGE Anno pending
9 - This isn’t hard to play (4,4) - EASY-GAME [E]
10 - Hound bird beyond the capital of Bihar (6) - {B}{EAGLE}
12 - Italian coins eerily retrieved outside the limits of Eravady (4) - LIRE(-ey)*
13 - Where one might be distressed (6,4) - BARBER SHOP [CD]
15 - Legend has it that this lady rode barely (6) - GODIVA [E]
17 - Kind of strip that might raise a laugh (5) - COMIC [E]
20 - Nothing to big watchmaker (5) - {O}{MEGA}
21 - Network with jaggery for monkey (6) - {LAN}{GUR}
24 - Pirate’s talkathon? (10) - FILIBUSTER [E]
27 - It breaks every day! (4) - DAWN [E]
29 - An egg I scrambled is becoming rather old (6) - AGEING*
30 - Short skirts go to the Cabinet (8) - {MINIS}{TRY}
31 - One thousand workers return to tea in makeshift (6) - {K}{UT<-}{CHA}
32 - I am involved in property valuation (8) - EST{IM}ATE
DOWN
1 - Insect insect let off (6) - {BEE}{TLE*}
2 - Silly sailor on top of dredger (6) - {AB}{SURD} Couldn't fathom the link between SURD and Dredger? (Addendum - {AB}{SUR}{D} - Thanks to Suresh - see comments below)
3 - I have a game with a villainous character (4) - {I}{A}{GO}
4 - In the shade leader of roisterers shifts position in dance (5) - RUMBA* (UMBRA to RUMBA)
6 - His or her gift at last went to successor (5) - {T}{HEIR}
7 - Kennel (4,4) - DOGS HOME [E]
8 - The kind of running that is advisable for you to achieve goal? (4-4) - EVEN-PACE [E]
11 - Get old boy to employ no engineer (6) - {OB}{(-re)TAIN}
14 - Yoga-trained painter (4) - GOYA*
16 - To maltreat, I have a couple of learners not launching trick (3-3) - {I}{LL}-(-r)USE
17 - Fifty in rookie set (4) - C{L}UB
18 - Luggage carrier puts up Krishna’s first vehicle for hauling over circle (4,4) - R{O}OF RAC{K} <- )
19 - Very determined, the man will overhaul TNEB (4-4) - {HE'LL}-{BENT*}
22 - Spell on fellow followed by retinue, not fashionable (6) - {MAN}{TRA(-in)}
23 - It causes a breakdown (6) - ENZYME ?[E]
25 - Protest prohibition on the boundaries of Daundh (5) - {BAN}{DH}
26 - Gates that are not for entrance (5) - EXITS [E]
28 - Incomplete note on kind of van (4) - MINI Anno pending (Addendum - MINI(-m) - Thanks to Suresh)
GRID
2D sur on top of and D for dredger
ReplyDeleteWhy D for dredger I don't know
ReplyDeleteMini is a van and incomplete note minim
ReplyDeleteThanks Suresh,
ReplyDeleteTop is doing double duty in 2D
on top = SUR
top of dredger = D
Thanks Colonel, I did not think of that.
ReplyDeleteIf there is any way even can mean edge we would have cracked 5A also
5 - By the way, duck, even with head cut, is heavy food (6) ST {-d}ODGE, with duck = DODGE. 'even' looks like a filler.
ReplyDeleteWe may look at 2d this way:
ReplyDeleteSilly - def
sailor - AB
on - SUR- as in 'surmount' 'surcharge'
top of dredger - D
5ac - By the
ReplyDeleteway, - ST
duck, - O
even - v. edge (as in printing)
with head cut, - (e)DGE
is
heavy food - def
dodge -d
ReplyDeleteShuchi, I think you got the Anno right
ReplyDeleteChaturvasi's explanation for STODGE looks more plausible
ReplyDeletewhat is a v.edge?
ReplyDeleteSomething I am not understanding on Chaturvasi's explanation even-v. edge ?!!
ReplyDeleteSee Chambers or any standard dictionary.
ReplyDeletev. is verb
even - (v.) to make even, to smooth
edge - (v.) to trim or smooth the edge of
Okay. I had not seen this particularly meaning of edge. I only saw a meaning of putting a border on.
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