ACROSS
2 - Place another rate for the worker (6) - {PL}{ATER*}
7 - Counter false witness's return (4) - RAIL<- )
9 - A priest at no point is like a lunatic (4) - {A}{MO(
10 - Device can somehow check carts in court (4,9) - BA{CK {SCRAT*}CHE*}R
13 - Fix the soft feathers for one to identify (3,4) - {PIN} {DOWN}
15 - Lad leaves Rio with Hera (4) - JUNO or HUGO Anno pending
17 - Spot the holy man on Thursday instead of Sunday (5) - (
18 - Revolvers on the streets I left (4) - RO(
19 - Hard to find the Spanish I have followed in America (7) - {EL}{US}{IVE}
21 - Gangster escapes from the country to another country (7) - AUSTR(
27 - Fix the dog's dinner (4) - GETS ?
28 - Settle the king not keeping well (4) - {K}{ILL}
29 - Sailor does settle in the homes (6) - {AB}{ODES*}
DOWN
1 - Greek character is a priest around the borders of Baghdad (6) - LAM{BD}A
3 - Pals bemused by the mountain ranges (4) - ALPS*
5 - Premature eruption (4) - RASH [DD]
6 - Used the boy on the other hand to first enter in the leaderless mob (8) - {B}{OR}{(
8 - Gangster turns up to hit out with the stick (5) - {LA<-}{THI*}
11 - Weather is a bit cold in the city on Thursday evening initially (7) - {C}{LIMA}{T}{E}
13 - Pack a new English kind of spring-roll (7) - {P{A}{N}CAK*}{E} Is a pancake a spring-roll !?!? They may be used in spring rolls but cannot be a spring-roll.
14 - Kind of racing on off-road ways (4,6) - DIRT TRACKS [CD]
16 - Released the peacekeepers in prison (8) - {UN}{LOCKED}
20 - Good price (5) - VALUE [CD]
22 - Short poems I had finally, say for a couple of learners in Sweden (6) - {I'D}{Y}{LL}{S}
24 - It may be peeled off after a facial (4) - MASK [CD]
25 - Sailor follows the doctor in the kingdom (4) - {MO}{AB}
26 - Be obliged to tip-off one editor (4) - (
15a JUNO is the Roman name for Hera. Lad may be Junior,but still incomplete.
ReplyDelete12a I have heard of a bird called Martina in the tennis circuit, but I think one needs to have a martini before seeing this bird.
13d Readymade pancake material may be used to make spring rolls.But again not very satisfactory.
@ Suchi: Nice to meet you again, apropos 807pm 03/05/2010
27a MESS. Getting into a fix=getting into a mess. Making dog's dinner/breakfast of something idiomatically means messing it up.
ReplyDelete12a anno could be bird=MARTIN, one = I, train=anagram indicator, man name = MARTINI, Italian surname
ReplyDelete@Shuchi: Sorry for misspelling name earlier
ReplyDeleteGood morning all.
ReplyDeleteGot foxed by a few faulty clues.
22D - Some time ago, there was an exchange here on how a comma is used as a red herring. This is an example."finally, say".
15 ac: Jun(ior) - rio leaving; Juno = Hera. There's still no indication for an extra "O". I wasn't very satisfied
ReplyDeleteGood Morning all
ReplyDeleteI was totally penstruck with some of the clues and my grid was only half full.
Felt long way to go.
Good day
Mathu
@Maddy, I guess the difference between novices like us and experts like the Colonel, Richard, Kishore, etc., while dealing with Nita Jaggi's puzzles is that we start by being clueless about most of the clues and remain so until the end, while they also start by being clueless but somehow figure things out after much head-scratching and/or cussing. Am I right Colonel and others?
ReplyDelete@ Satya: Thanks for reminding me to clean the bits of dead scalp from under my fingernails. :-)
ReplyDeleteWe too remain clueless till the end sometimes....BTW, I am a no-vice too.....
@ LNS: I figured out the rio leaving part, but the extra zero I got had me stumped
ReplyDelete@ Satya, if you could solve this entire puzzle without much head scratching, you're most likely to be Nita Jaggi's avatar.
ReplyDeleteSpot on Satya, you hit the nail on the head. The only thing is that I too get up after a few days of NJ and she goes on like this for 10 days, sometimes I feel like taking a 10 day break when NJ comes
ReplyDeleteLuckily for me my fingernails are short, so no dry scalp collects there when NJ rules the roost
ReplyDeleteThat line should read 'I too get fed up' and not 'I too get up'
ReplyDelete@ Satya: Namaskara maraire (just to make you feel nostalgic about your days here at KREC, now NITK)
ReplyDeleteAap ne mujhe 'expert' kehkar sharminda kiya. I have not graduated to that level. Not as yet. A long way to go, having a lot to learn from the Col, CV and Shuchi.
Am just a xwd aficionado, who loves to exchange notes here in this forum, where the camaraderie is simply superb.
@ Deepak, did that 'get fed up' typo by chance occur because of short fingernails? ;)
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ReplyDeleteRather than break our heads on non-clues, shall we have another game, like the one we had the other day? That could be worthwhile, and more interesting as well.
Please submit a sentence each in English - which should make sense - with successive words beginning with letters in exact alphabetical order. E.g., the first word, obviously, would be 'A', the second to begin with 'b', the third with 'c' and so on. I am sure CGB, Shuchi, Kishore and others can contribute some rare gems. Maximum admissible number of words: 26. Not a word beyond !:)
I set the ball rolling:
A boy can definitely evoke female gratitude, helping in joint kitchen, lovingly monitoring nice, operating paraphernalia, quickly repairing simple technical utilities, viewing warring Xanthippe's youthful zest !
Phew! Does it make sense? It was merely meant to be a specimen.
Not forgetting p p ! She is always at her creative best when it comes to one-liners.
ReplyDeleteMartini Bird I think is a race car
ReplyDeleteBTW the dead scalp collection under fingernails was figurative !
ReplyDeleteMy contribution from A to Z
ReplyDeleteA big cruciverbalist driving exceedingly fast goes headlong into Jaggi knocking lethargic Ms Nita out, promising quick redemption she tries using verbs with Xhosa yet zealously.
Re JUNO of 15A, I suppose junior is pronounced JUNIORO by Japanese!! Remember the Japanese character in 'Mind your language'
ReplyDeleteAfter beautiful call-girl died, every fellow gathered here identified jogger, Kodungaiyur's lustful Mafiaman, nervous, obviously preventing questioners, rigorously SMSing team-mates unto visiting where 'Xecutors yelled zestfully...
ReplyDeleteI wrote the piece offhand, but two revisions were made after posting, one to change the last word as I found that Deepak had used it and I wanted to be different, and, two, to change the location to Kodungaiyur. A horrid name; I don't know where this locality is in Chennai but it often figures in crime stories in newspapers.
ReplyDeleteRichard: Here is your icosikaihexagram:
ReplyDeleteA bad cold does elicit five great hiccups instantly jerking kilometre long mucous noodles out (*); pullovers, quilts, rugs, sweaters, thermal underwear , vacuum, whiskey , x-ray yielding zilch.
*you don’t want to read this further, do you?
Now dont ask us to do both the numerical and alphabetical together, cos I cant think of a 26 letter word starting with Z. ;-)
With this request:-
ReplyDeleteA Bhargav cannot definitely ever faithfully go home in jocular kicking lovable mood; nevertheless, once patient, quietly,rewrites something to unite very wry XX youngsters' zeal!
Excuse all the violence and bad grammar.
ReplyDeleteA big convict, Dave, escaped from gaol hacking innocent jailers, killing lifers, maiming new-comers, over-whelming prison queers resourcefully, solely to urge Van Wilder x-out young Zara.
Mr Richard's game is more interesting than NJ's X-word
ReplyDeleteAlphabetically defining the Buddha:
ReplyDeleteA Buddha can deal emotions firmly, give hoi-polloi immaculate jocundity, kill
lifelessness, make neer-do-wells overcome predestination, quieten reckless souls, tranquilize unbridled violence, whiten xanthodontates' yellow zestfully.
@ Shyam: Buddha be pleased :-)
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