Sunday, 11 April 2010

No 2580, Sunday 11 Apr 10

ACROSS
1 - Puzzle made up by married American during social gathering (6) - {BE{M}{US}E}
4 - Ring embassy revealing oversight (8) - {O}{MISSION}
9 - Pistol produced by the German impostor(9) - {DER}{RINGER}

11 - Former partner leaving model more than enough (5) - (-ex)AMPLE Nice clue
12 - Minor tremors, nothing to write home about (2,5,6) - NO GREAT SHAKES [DD]
14 - Popped into a church in a cradle of Christianity (7) - {ANTIO*}{CH}
16 - Continuing in the same way too, after a short time (3,2,2) - {AND} {SO ON}
17 - Cover of old record bearing novel novel (7) - E{NVELO*}P
19 - One gorgeous girl hooking male in charge (7) - {I}{M}{PEACH}
21 - Take a risk in seance with monarch appearing spookily (6,4,3) - CHANCE ONES ARM*
24 - Cheap wine from place operating close to landmark (5) - {PL}{ON}{K} Google searched for this
25 - Submerged launch subjected to enemy attack (5,4) - {UNDER} {FIRE}
26 - Kept private (8) - RESERVED [DD]
27 - Soldiers' former tax break (6) - {RE}{CESS}
DOWN
1 - Book a quiet room once more in German spa town (5-5) - {B}{A}{DEN}-{B}{A}{DEN}
2 - Bishop in power, her ideal man?(2,5) - M{R R}IGHT
3 - Clip tail of frigate bird (5) - {SNIP}{E}

5 - Injure quiet girl in plant (5,8) - {MAR}{SH} {MARIGOLD}

6 - Pallets may be compared with something else (7,2) - STACKED UP [CD]
7 - I'm finished with old painting technique(7) - {IM}{PAST}{O}

8 - Born and died in poverty(4) - {NEE}{D} Another good one
10 - Cotton on to what a paparazzo wants to do (3,3,7) - GET THE PICTURE [DD]
13 - Referring to private discussions with a judge (Brahmin caste upset at being excluded) (2,8) - IN CHAMBERS(-at)*
15 - Badly lit Korean vessel (3,6) - OIL TANKER*


18 - Carriers of disease - five seen by worried escort (7) - {V}{ECTORS}
20 - Greed shown by girl with diamonds round front of robe (7) - {AVA}{R}{ICE}
22 - Strangely frightening in middle of Great Lake(5) - {E}ERIE
23 - Box blows up(4) - SPAR <- )


16 comments:

  1. @ Col:Got all except 1a, 3d, 19a and 24a today. Was busy writing a short story send to you separately. Will be out of circulation tomorrow.

    Loved Antioch, Derringer, Marsh Marigold, Baden Baden. 11a was the first one to fall,but probably most elegant.

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  2. Kishore,
    Where do you stay in Bangalore?

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  3. A shamless plug.

    Link to the post in the Usenet group rec.puzzles.crosswords where I have announced the results of a clue-writing competition for MEANDERING by virtue of the fact that I was the word-setter and moderator:

    http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.puzzles.crosswords/browse_thread/thread/b8fd86aaedc82eea?hl=en#

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  4. @ Col: Half way between the beasts in the BNP and the animals in Vidhana Soudha, near the 11 km on BGRoad, near IIM. And you sir?

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  5. @Kishore,
    I stay on Old Madras Road close to the suspension bridge and KR Puram Rly Stn. The reason I asked is because Suresh is coming to Banglore and may come over tonight if so I wanted to request you and your wife to join us at home for drinks and later we could go to RSI for dinner. You could contact me at 9449826044

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  6. @ Chaturvasi: My take: Paes loses his head in Chinese pottery. M(LEANDER-L)ING

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  7. @ Chaturvasi: Sorry, missed one word. Dithering, Paes loses his head in Chinese pottery.

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  8. @ Col: It would have been my pleasure, but along with the flea and fly, I fly out of Bangalore today afternoon and will rendezvous with Richard tomorrow.

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  9. dr.r.pankajam said...
    @ C.V.Sir,
    philandering without love following me is wandering.[b]ME{-phil{ANDERING][/b]
    or
    average german article calls endlessly in roaming
    [b]{MEAN}{DE}{RING}[/b]

    April 11, 2010 12:38 PM

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  10. Col Sir,

    I liked the font you have used for your post today, looks neater and more concise.Maybe you cold enable the same for the comments section also.

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  11. Slowly the comments section turns into a short blog of Mr Kishore - anybody noticed?

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  12. Hi, good evening all.

    Was away for a few hours since morning. But had checked the crossword on the Internet edition around 5 am. Only the grid appears, without the list of clues.

    Please check this link:

    http://www.thehindu.com/2010/04/11/stories/2010041199951001.htm

    Hope someone from The Hindu notices this.

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  13. Hi Richard,
    I didn't find any problem in the morning and I had copy pasted the clues from there. The link that you have given above points to the solution grid of last Sunday's CW without the solutions. I think the grid is also wrong as it is showing the same grid as for today's CW

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  15. Thanks, Deepak. The problem is solved.

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  16. Re 3D, interestingly there's also a bird named frigatebird

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