ACROSS
7 - Cover-up the muddy old hat (8) - BLACKOUT ?
9 - Avenge the sabotage in Switzerland (6) - GENEVA*
11 - Nervous pa is distraught over the star (9) - SUPERNOVA*
13 - Scared of Farida in temper (6) - AFRAID*
14 - Listen to the modest individual (8) - (~discreet) DISCRETE Nice one
17 - Circuit through one device (9) - {PER}{I}{METER}
22 - Disheartened to say that the man is on the way at last to the mortuary to gain solace (8) - {S(
23 - Kind of a film with a lot of fights! (6) - ACTION [CD]
25 - Sad poem for the Spanish for example is at the end of the day (5) - {EL}{EG}{Y}
27 - Tongue point (9) - PENINSULA [CD]
28 - Student in shape (6) - {IN}TERN What shape is TERN ?
29 - A member of a North American Indian people (8) - MENOMINI [CD] Result of a Google search.
DOWN
1 - Disgraceful sailor in an asylum is generally missing you (7) - {AB}{YSMAL(
2 - They may be used in case of bed-wetting! (7) - PAMPERS [CD]
3 - Four somehow initially resort to a lot of screaming and shouting (5) - {FURO*}{R}
4 - Millions consume the food (4) - {M}{EAT}
5 - Instructor has a brief qualification drawn in of every individual (7) - T{EACH}ER Anno pending
6 - Hard at first for the master to handle an animal (7) - {H}{AMSTER*}
10 - Instrument for a religious leader is shortly in front of an engineer going up (7) - {CALIP(
15 - Peak of intensity again in seconds is developed (9) - C{RE}SCENDO*
16 - Father taken up to the entrance of the hospital in regret due to unfortunate incidents (7) - MIS{H}{AP<-}S
18 - Wise man being caught with an alien, I see (7) - {AS}{C}{ET}{IC}
19 - Release the man set unfortunately in the capital of erstwhile Yugoslavia (7) - {AMN*}{EST*}{Y}
20 - Every small detail of an enthusiast in IIM set up finally in India (7) - {MI{NUT}I*}{A}
21 - Counteractive basic salt (7) - ANTACID [CD]
24 - Mock at the wise man around the capital of Nagaland (5) - S{N}EER
26 - You are not in thy king's royal house (4) - {YO(
Hi
ReplyDelete2d could be DIAPERS ? If so, 7a BLACKOUT may change??? 28a Tern??? 15d Where did the second s from seconds disappear ?
Hi all
ReplyDelete8D - I had a clear hunch that it was an Indian name, but could not figure out KARTIKEYA.
Deepak, can you have a relook at this?
15D - Peak of intensity again in seconds is developed (9) - C{RE}SCENDO* - there are 2 S's in 'seconds' and 2 C's in CRESCENDO.
@Richard,
ReplyDeleterelook at what? Nothing else will fit there. There is nothing that cannot happen in an NJ CW. I suppose she feels that SECONDS can be spelt CECONDS or do you have a better answer?
2d should be 'pampers', a brand of diapers. Then 'blackout' won't change. Is 'discreet' same as 'modest'?
ReplyDeleteisn't it spelt 'furore' in India? The dictionary calls this spelling especially British. Does that mean 'furor' is also used in Britain and therefore in India too?
ReplyDelete@LNS,
ReplyDeleteIf I am not wrong FURORE is a variant of FUROR
Also, at 29 AC the Indian tribal name should be spelt 'Menominee'. Gita Iyer pointed this out to me.
ReplyDelete7 A What has muddy old hat got to do with Blackout??
ReplyDelete@ Deepak, sorry, what I wanted to convey was that there was a goof-up, and not that the answer you gave was incorrect. I should have worded it another way.
ReplyDeleteRompers for bed-wetting, and Blockout for 1A?
ReplyDeleteYes, where is the C from for Crescendo?
Menomini should be MenominEE.
When Gridman??!
The UK spelling is FURORE.
ReplyDeleteThe N Am sp. is FUROR.
In India, we always have FURORE.
If this compiler uses US spellings and gives no indication for that variation, it only means the composer doesn't care and the editors too have no control over what is happening.
One can only feel sorry for the solvers.
I meant 7A - Blockout?
ReplyDelete@CV - that's what I meant. Check this from the Compact Oxford Dictionary
ReplyDeletehttp://www.askoxford.com:80/concise_oed/furore?view=uk
If PAMPERS is indeed the solution, its use along with PULSAR the other day raises a disturbing question.
ReplyDelete@Giridhar: Nothing. What's an muddy old hat anyway?
ReplyDeleteUsage of a brand name may make sense in cases like photocopy - xerox or even perhaps web search - google, but expecting one to pick an arbitrary brand name, I am not sure.
ReplyDeleteI meant 'a muddy old hat'
ReplyDelete@LNS - If I knew that, I would perhaps have the link between the clue and the answer:-)
ReplyDelete2D - Diapers, Pampers, Rompers - all this has raised a stink. ;)
ReplyDelete@Richard - that was a good one !
ReplyDeleteSince I am in Kolkatta till the 14th, I have been enjoying the crossword from 'The Daily Telegraph' which is reproduced in 'The Telegraph' here.
ReplyDelete@ Deepak, I won't be surprised if you learn Bengali in the meantime. :)
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, Bangla, apart from being the name of the language, also stands for a variety of local liquor....
ReplyDelete.....2D - Diapers, Pampers, Rompers - all this has raised a stink. ;)....
ReplyDeletethat and Furor a lot of furore.