8 - Dead letters not picked up (14) - CORRESPONDENCE
9 - Natural catalyst in the body (6) - ENZYME [E]
10 - Overheard of a great offer for an American man on a Tuesday in the vessel (8) - (~sale){SAIL}{BO}{A}{T}
11 - Picked up a busy advertiser out at six (8) - ARRESTED(-vi)*
13 - Undoubtedly left out the fool behind in East Africa (6) - {EA}{SIL(-l)Y}
14 - Poor kid has an alternative place in front of the dynasty (6) - {OR}{P}{HAN}
16 - Carnivores hath gripped the long one (6) - H{YEN}AS
21 - Wise journalist you see in Austria is disheartened at the end (8) - {ED}{U}{C}{AT}{E(-n)D}
23 - Man absently throws grenades over at noon in the battleground (8) - ARDEN{N}ES(-g)*
24 - Why I did not easily develop following the same principles (6) - I{D}EALS(-y)* ?(Addendum - {ID}(EALS(-i-y)} - See comments)
26 - Despair feeling for an extraordinarily eager man going in for a concession (14) - DISCOU{RAGE{M}E}NT
DOWN
1 - Situation in a storyline (8) - SCENARIO [E]
2 - Hunt for the regular porter at the end of the day (4) - {P}{R}{E}{Y}
3 - Overcome the mistake as I am in place of Charles (6) - DEFE(-c+a)AT
4 - It may be a part of a soap opera! (7) - EPISODE [E]
5 - Liner yet to be anchored fully (8) - ENTIRELY*
6 - By all means, welcome the right season for the herb (5,5) - YE{R}{BA SANT}A Never heard of this had to google search it out
7 - Write quickly in front of the label behind the small pouch (6) - SCRAWL ? Anno ?(Addendum - {S}{CRAW}{L} - See comments)
12 - Try for once to measure in another recipe (10) - {EX}{PERI{EN}CE*}
15 - Pilot is in an arena out of bounds (8) - AERONAUT*
17 - Alloy loaded in the steel mixture (8) - STEL{LIT}E* Didn't know loaded could mean LIT !
18 - Note that the ship is in the outskirts of India to initially honour the king of Jews (7) - {ME}{SS}{IA}{H}
20 - Insect is in the vertilinear wigwam(6) - EARWIG [T]
25 - Same woman is in Norway (4) - {EVE}{N}
HERE we have Bhargav and his family
Good morning
ReplyDelete7D - small pouch - S + CRAW + L (label)
Re SCRAW
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/CRAW
8.
Also called craw. Zoology.
a.
a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.
b.
a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.
@ Col: I missed out on Ardennes. I knew it was a mountain range, but battlefield? Then again, the entire west Europe was a battlefield.
ReplyDeleteAlso missed on the herb.
Re 7d Scrawl=write, s=small,craw=bird pouch, l=label
Was not very happy with 19a Bearer. Liked 18d Messiah on the heels of Easter.
ReplyDelete17d: A person loaded with alcohol is LIT :-)
ReplyDeleteExplanation for 8A please?
ReplyDelete24a= Y I not = minus y and i from easily=easl + same=identical=id, principles=ideals
ReplyDeleteFriends,
ReplyDeletePlease help me understand the following:
3d Overcome the mistake as I am in place of Charles (6) - DEFE(-c+a)AT
How is it that we need to replace C with an A, and not an I, since clearly the clue seems to say I am in place of Charles?
18d Note that the ship is in the outskirts of India to initially honour the king of Jews (7) - {ME}{SS}{IA}{H}
Isn't the note in the solfa MI and not ME?
Or do we chalk it up to NJ's utter ineptness?
7 - Write quickly in front of the label behind the small pouch (6) - SCRAWL ? Anno ?
ReplyDeletes=small
craw =pouch
l = front of label
What is the anno for 8A CORRESPONDENCE.I got he answer but could not figure out why
ReplyDelete@Giridhar & Suresh,
ReplyDeleteIf you ask me 8A is inexplicable to me too!!
@Satya
I = 1 = A
8A Other than the word letters the rest seem to come out of the setter's imagination
ReplyDeleteThank you Colonel.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, ends (final answers) justify the means (anno), especially in NJ's case, in others means justify the ends ! Hence, on instinct, we complete some words and then try to figure out why! Eg: 1a: Dead letters used to refer to undelivered letters (usually due to defective address) and there used to be a Dead Letter Office, where they used to end up. But correspondence, well it is letters, dead or alive.
ReplyDeleteI have a sense of deja vu with 8A. Has Nj used this clue earlier?
ReplyDeleteAll is fair in love and war AND NJ!!!!!
ReplyDelete3 - Overcome the mistake as I am in place of Charles (6) - DEFE(-c+a)AT..
ReplyDeletei have put it as defect.
i0 - Overheard of a great offer for an American man on a Tuesday in the vessel (8) - (~sale){SAIL}{BO}{A}{T]
is Bo American man?
@Dr RP,
ReplyDeleteDEFECT cannot be annotated as per the word play NJ has given.
Yes, BO is aan American man's name
thank you Col,but defeat also is not very convincing as Satya has said.
ReplyDelete3 - Overcome the mistake as I am in place of Charles (6) - DEFE(-c+a)AT
ReplyDeleteOvercome = Definition
the mistake = DEFECT
as
I = 1 = A
in place of = replacement indicator
Charles = C
Overcome = DEFE(-c+a)AT
thank you, now it makes sense to me.
ReplyDeleteJust two more days to endure before sanity returns in the most benevolent guise of Gridman...
ReplyDeletetodays n.j. was sovable. she is in punjabi mood. baisakhi is a festival and also crutches
ReplyDeletetodays n.j. was solvable for a hindi knowing person. baisakhi is a festival and also crutches
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