ACROSS
1 - No hope with cards dealt in game (6-5) – SANCHO-PEDRO*
7 - The sort of wedding the bride must be expecting to have (7) - SHOTGUN [CD] Lovely clue
8 - An indefinite number on street work around the clock (7) - {N}{ON}{ST}{OP}
10 - Have a leisurely conversation with that chef we trained (4,3,3) - CHEW THE FAT*
11 - English TV channel (4) - FIVE [E]
13 - Nick, bridge player, disheartened holding clubs (5) – NO(-r)T{C}H
14 - Cheers up, in a way, absorbing Latin in vault (9) - SEPU{L}CHRE*
15 - The thumbs up for demolition (9) – CLEARANCE [DD]
17 - A myth? Awful nonsense! (2,3) - MY HAT*
19 - A continuous pain? One must ring hospital (4) - AC{H}E
20 - Shooting star and new moon observed by extremely eager scientist (10) - {ASTR*}{ONOM*}{ER}
23 - A helping hand given by gullible type, we hear (7) – SUCCOUR(~sucker)
24 - Boat people perhaps see grim changes (7) - EMIGRES*
25 - Reprieved, second eleven released pent-up emotions (3,3,5) – {LET OFF} {S}{TEAM}
DOWN
1 - Habitual drinker holding nose in need of treatment urgently (7) – SO{ONES*}T
2 - A garment for a man, horrible thing Trish put out (10) – NIGHTSHIRT*
3 - For this reason, strengthen ceiling, in part (5) – HENCE [T]
4 - A fruit pie - pen pal, out of shape, tucked in (9) - PI{NEAPPL*}E
5 - Accomplished daughter, single (4) - {D}{ONE}
6 - Bird, variegated sort, one on top of church (7) - {OSTR*}{I}{CH}
7 - Inferior type of stamp (6-5) - SECOND-CLASS [CD]
9 - Salute current members (7,4) - {PRESENT} {ARMS}
12 - Citrus fruit, kind that is found around the North (10) – {CLEMENT}{I{N}E}
14 - Secretary’s initial answer’s to get rid of raised typeface (4,5) – {S}{ANS} {SERIF<-} )
16 - Decent chalet, I suspect (7) – ETHICAL*
18 - To be busily active on house is commonplace (7) – {HUM}{DRUM}
21 - Reportedly studies marsh plants (5) – REEDS(~reads)
22 - Money from an Orton play (4) – LOOT [DD]
GRID
Good morning everybody
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly, the only answer I could not get is one of the shortest, 11A - FIVE.
Some nice anagrams today. esp., 10A, 24A, 4D etc.
Other clues I liked - 1A, 17A, 2D etc.
Richard
@Richard: I found myself in the same situation with 11A causing a problem. However Observer's Everyman says the answer is 'Side'. Colonel's solution (FIVE) makes more sense to me, though.
ReplyDeleteCheck the Observer link here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/everyman/3301
Oh the bliss of the sunday crossword after a week of NJ! Think "side" is probably the best option as you would generally ask "whats on the other side?" when changing channels
ReplyDeleteRichard. 11A side was not easy to get, so no surprise here.
ReplyDeleteI took a long time with 23A, Succour,because of bad handwriting, where my s from 7D looked like a c
Deepak
ReplyDeleteI know that you solve the crossword on paper.
I am sure you will appreciate the following that I wrote to the Editors this morning:
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Friends,
As a regular solver of the crossword in your paper, I would like to make the following observation on the layout of the crossword in the Magazine section of the Sunday edition of The Hindu:
While I do not suggest that the crossword must be published on top of the page, I would certainly say that at its current position, it will be more appealing to the eye and also very useful to the solver if the fill-in grid is printed not at the very bottom of the page (as in today's paper) but below the headline within the layout box.
When solvers tackle the puz, they fold the paper so it is to, say, A4 size and also they get a certain wad for writing firmly on. Now, when the grid is so far, far below, what happens is: the hand is outside of the paper and it's very uncomfortable.
Another thing: On certain Sundays the clue numbers are in bold: very, very helpful. On other Sundays not only the clue numbers but even the Across and Down headers are all in ordinary type (without any bold) and sometimes the whole text is in one block without any spacing in between the lines.
I do understand the constraints that crop up in layout of a page, but I would expect certain norms (whether laid by Mr. Garcia or not!) to be followed uniformly and diligently in the printing of a popular feature.
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11-A : SIDE
ReplyDeleteCryptic Clue
1. Billiards. English (def. 8). [dictionary.com]
2. [C] (old-fashioned, BrE, informal) a television channel: What’s on the other side?
[oup.com]
11ac caused problem to UK solvers themselves including the blogger team on fifteensquared.
ReplyDeleteEveryman himself came to explain it.
What he wrote there is:
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11 Across
SIDE – two mngs
a) American usage of English, meaning spin (side) imparted on a snooker/pool ball
b) TV channel, as in “what side are you watching?”
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For English Chambers has
to impart side to (N Am. Snooker, etc.)
Well as far as I am concerned Channel 5 is an English TV Channel, see the link I have given, and it fits the bill much better than the other two explanations given, by Everyman himself as brought out by Chaturvasi.
ReplyDeleteHow can the sentence 'What side are you watching, mean TV Channel?
So I shall leave it at that.
@Chaturvasi,
ReplyDeleteRegarding your letter to The HINDU regarding the positioning of the Sunday CW I second your views, I do not know though, how the powers that be at The HINDU will react to your suggestion.
This reminds me of the letter I wrote to The Times of India, regarding the half page (vertically) they have as the first sheet sometimes, which makes it impossible to sit on a chair and hold up the paper to read. There was no response from them and they still publish the paper with that half front page at times.
Hi David,
ReplyDeleteWelcom back after an extended vacation
can anyone explain 13 across, NOTCH for me?
ReplyDelete@kk_nagar,
ReplyDeleteNick = Definition = NOTCH
bridge player = NORTH
disheartened = Indicator for removal of heart (center)
so bridge player disheartened = NO(-r)TH
holding = Inclusion indictor
clubs = C
NO(-r)T(+c)CH
ACHE - whats the anno colonelji?
ReplyDelete@vck
ReplyDeleteA continuous pain? = Definition = ACHE
One = ACE
must = connector
ring = indicator for encircling
hospital = H
one must ring hospital = AC{H}E
I play Billiards regularly, but I never knew that when we 'gave side' we were giving english. We learn new words all the time
ReplyDeletethank you Col.Gopinath.
ReplyDeleteDeepak
ReplyDeleteIt might interest you to know that the blogger on the earlier Everyman janma of this puzzle gave only the answer FIVE and corrected it to SIDE following Comments.
Sometimes Outlook and other magazines have an extra cover which opens from left.
ReplyDeleteWe lift the mag and this flap opens out and lands on us.
Highly irritating.