Thursday 12 November 2009

No 9686, Thursday 12 Nov 09, Nita Jaggi

ACROSS
1 - Graduate in North Korea has the right to be around in court without any money (8) - {BA}{NK}{R{UP}T}
5 - Machinery for clothes and accessories (4) - GEAR [DD]
9 - Permission for father to return to briefly test the gangster (8) - {AP<-}{PROV(-e)}{AL}
10 - Small tree has small thorns (6) - {S}{PINE}{S}
12 - Calm the bull when trainee takes the place of a boy (4) - (-b+l)LULL
13 - To avoid damage it may be marked on the pitch! (6,4) - DANGER AREA [CD]
15 - There should be no more huge housing, one has to develop (6,2,6) - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH*
17 - Despite opposition, a reward is on the way in the kiosk circle by demand draft on Saturday (7,3,4) - {A}{GAIN}{ST ALL} {O}{DD}{S}
21 - Caught the worker by the tousled hair around midnight in the city (10) - {C}{HAND}{I{G}ARH*}
22 - Asian gardener is in the country (4) - MALI [DD]
25 - Work out with the woman holding mostly old values initially (6) - EV{OL(-d)}{V}E
26 - The French notice the mate cutting the carcass (4,4) - {DE}{AD} MEAT*
27 - Container of known weight is in the star enclosure (4) - TARE [T]
28 - Murderer is on a ship to help out the saint at home (8) - {A}{SS}{ASSI(-st+in}{IN} Didn't catch the extra I till Chaturvasi threatened to eat his HAT at the Orkut group ;-)
DOWN
1 - Airline spreads gel on the dog (6) - {BEA}{GLE*}
2 - No friend will take the prickly plant (5) - {NO}{PAL}
3 - Origin of the attachment of a body part (4) - ROOT [E]
4 - Tutankhamun was one (7) - PHARAOH [E]
6 - Our phonies disguise the painter (10) - EUPHRONIOS*
7 - Misleading tactics to smuggle at the boundary, somehow is limitless (9) - {RUN}{AROUND(-by)*}
8 - Iraq’s lone port (5) - BASRA [E]
11 - A girl has alternately less time periods (4) - {A}{G}{E}{S}
14 - Pigeon in a furnace is badly damaged by fire (6,4) - BURNE{D OVE}R
16 - Almost a small measure taken up by an artist in a short time (4,5) - {NE<-}{A{RA}BOUT}
18 - Take abstract green symbols first on the labels (4) - {T}{A}{G}{S}
19 - Food supplies in Libya are for the Germans (7) - {L}{AR}{DERS} Where has the E gone?
20 - Pay close attention to a silent character (6) - LISTEN*
21 - Religious belief of workers cut short by Edward (5) - CR{ED}O(-p) (Correction - {CRE(-w)}{ED} Thanks to Suresh, see comments)
23 - Encourages a sailor with an alien in front of the ship (5) - {AB}{ET}{S}
24 - Thought of one on the French areas initially (4) - {I}{DE}{A}

Black squares - 69 (30%)
White squares - 156

GRID

10 comments:

  1. Could solve most clues pretty fast today.

    21 across - Chandigarh was clever, since one always thinks of longish foreign city names.

    6 down - Euphronios totally evaded me despite the anagram.

    19 down- Food supplies in Libya are for the Germans (7) - {L}{AR}{DERS}

    Your query: Where has the E gone?

    Could it be La for Lybia and 'are' for the phonetic description of the letter 'R'? Imagination running riot, perhaps.

    Richard

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  2. I agree 21ac clue for CHANDIGARH is handled very well and that the surface reading is also quite smooth.
    I wish that the same care is bestowed on all clues.

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  3. I had got 21D as CRE (-W)ED.

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  4. Hi Suresh,
    I think ou are right it is CREED and not CREDO, though both of them fit the bill, definition wise

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  5. Re CREDO/CREED

    I looked up the slot and, as I suspected, it has "double unches" - something which standard crossword grids avoid. Because of that, there is this confusion.
    If it had not been double unches, this kind of dual answers may not crop up.

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  6. Why does NJ seem to think that DE is "the" in french? It is "OF". He did it in 2 clues today and it is rather confusing to us francophiles!

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  7. David

    The compiler is a 'she'.


    Richard

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  8. 19 Down - I think LAR (Libyan Arab Republic) is used for Libya and "are" has nothing to do.

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  9. That seems to be a plausible explanation for LAR (19 down). Thanks.

    Richard

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  10. Sembhaya,
    You are right
    David,
    My sympathies are with you, anyhow no more NJ for a month after Friday

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