1 - Having time on your side means more (6,7) - {SECOND} {HELPING}
8 - His house-mole, the cat was keeping an eye on! (7) - SPOONER [CD] Nice clue
9 - Pat, takes part in the riot but is devoted to his country (7) - {PAT}{RIOT} What a terrible clue
11 - Ring the resident — a man (6) - {O}{LIVER}
13 - Plane prepared to see off the foreigner (8) - {NEPAL*}{ESE*}
15 - After Los Angeles, Kevin in New York becomes limp and thin (5) - {LA}{N{K}Y}
16 - So be exercising the dog in the dark (7) - {OBS{CUR}E*}
18 - The mop has been shaken round by the cleaner (7) - {SHAMPO*}{O}
19 - She may have keen resentment with quarter (5) - {IRE}{NE}
21 - Assert it's quite different for entertainers (8) - AR{TI*}STES*
23 - I have eleven to take care of in this country (6) - {ME}{XI}{CO}
26 - They relate to atmospheric disturbances affecting radio reception (7) - STATICS [CD]
28 - Be ruthless and go through all the red lights? (4,2,7) - STOP AT NOTHING [DD]
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2 - Observe return with male member of the privileged classes (7) - {ETON<-}{IAN} Why privileged class ?
3 - Confess to have won follishly (3) - OWN*
4 - Rat makes daughter move out rapidly (4) - {D}{ART*}
5 - Clearly brings one out with feeling in music performance (10) - EXPRESSION
6 - A capital of a north Indian state (5) - PATNA [E] Can Bihar be considered as part of North India?
7 - Speaking French is simplicity itself (7) - NAIVETE [CD]
8 - The Himalayan ounce (4,7) - SNOW LEOPARD [CD]
12 - Young team assembled to learn origin of words (5) - ET{Y}MA*
14 - There's no time like now to be missing (3,7) - {NO}{T} {PRESENT}
17 - Join one at half term (5) - {UNI}{TE(
18 - It's a woven mesh fabric (7) - {SATI*}{NET}
20 - Ed got into an arrangement to publish book in number of copies (7) - {ED}{I}{TION*} Where does I come from
22 - A wooden leg puts Frenchman in a disturbed state (5) - {STU{M}P*}
24 - Amos lost himself in some part of a European capital (4) - OSLO [T]
27 - A known timber tree (3) - ASH ? Why ASH why not OAK ?
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteThere was a bit of a challenge today.
Liked 1A - SECOND HELPING, 11A - OLIVER, 23A - MEXICO, 28A - STOP AT NOTHING.
13A - I feel NEPALI is the national. NEPALESE describes anything related to Nepal.
18A - While working out SHAMPOO, was looking for the source of the second 'O'. Then realized 'round' represented it.
19A - Remembered the song to sign off a bash - 'Irene, good night, Irene'. Imagine remembering it early in the morning ! ;-)
9A PATRIOT and 15A LANKY were too straight-forward.
21A ARTISTES and 10D TREACHEROUS - nice anagrams.
6D - Why 'a' capital of a north Indian state? Just 'capital' would have sufficed. Maybe a trap.
17D - Perhaps the clue should have read: 'Join the French one at a half term'.
Liked combo of Second Helping with Oliver (Twist). Clearly Patriot was the most terrible clue. 2d. Mebbe Only the elite go to Eton? Not the hoi polloi?
ReplyDelete27d or elm?. Hence could not fill up till crossing alphabet revealed.
ReplyDeleteThere are a very few three-letter names for trees.
ReplyDeleteBesides ash, oak and elm, there are fig, fir, gum nut, sap, yew etc. With the crossings available, ASH fits like a T.
ETON is students of ETON college that has produced largest number of English statesmen. That could be the reason for it being privileged.
ReplyDeleteGood morning. To me today's CW looked like a cobbled patchwork of very bad and few good clues.
ReplyDeleteGood morning
ReplyDeleteWhile i was literally comfortable in second helping, stop at nothing, treacherous, i got stumped in stump and himalayan ounce and the three letter tree. Even for beginner like me todays cw is easy picking. i have the same doubt as u for edition, nepalese.
good day
mathu
A known timber tree (3) - ASH ? Why ASH why not OAK ?
ReplyDeleteWhy "known"?
Because the model-actress is world famous!
ReplyDeleteThere is an old Tamil film song where the poet while describing a woman's features one by one says "thekku maram udalai thandadhu" - which means that the body was hewn out of teakwood.
ReplyDeleteWhat qualities of timber he had in mind - smoothness? strength? - I don't know!
The next line is "chinna yanai nadaiai thandathu" - which means the small elephant gave the gait.
You may think this is not poetry but let me say this lyricist's songs from the Sixties are remembered, respected, sung and wowed even today while I can't recall a line from the gibberish that is Tamil film song is today.
@CV: Orai oru oorilai orai oru raaja, orai oru raajavikka orai oru raaNi (good alliteration)
ReplyDelete@ Chaturvasi
ReplyDeleteI was not ASHtonished by your point on ASH. It was just appropriate.
While on your subject of features and timber, you may be interested in knowing that accomplished actress Rohini Hattangady's maiden name - before she got married to Jayadev Hattangady - was Rohini Oak.
Do I hear a repartee coming?
The heroine sings the said line describing the strength of the hero (MGR). Thekku maram udalai thanthathu - it is not describing a woman's features -The poet was right there I suppose.
ReplyDeleteMore than todays CW,I enjoyed you people discussing on oak ....ash.I couldnt place 8A,How did u arrive at spooner?can anyone help?
ReplyDelete@ Mangala
ReplyDeleteIf you pick Col's link, you will have a generous dose of Spoonerisms, attributed to Rev Spooner, who was given to transposing the first syllables of the words from his statements with each other, with a shatteringly ludicrous effect.
8A - His house-mole, the cat was keeping an eye on! (7) - SPOONER
Here, he meant it to be a 'mouse-hole' the cat was keeping an eye on !