ACROSS
1 - Where one might dine and dance after dark (9) - NIGHTCLUB [E]
5 - Author of French Adversary (5) - {DE}{FOE}
8 - Material fit for a collection – of falsehoods, perhaps (6) - TISSUE [CD]
9 - Lower down socialist with some radiation (8) - {INFRA}{RED}
11 - The right greasy stuff to cloud water with sediment (4) - {R}{OIL}
12 - Operation to improve business delivers a small surprise (5,5) - {S}{A}{LES DRIVE*}
14 - The garment for a conservative festival (5) - {C}{HOLI} ke peeche kya hai!!
16 - Market trend influenced by 15? (7) - BULLISH [CD]
19 - He changes to suit those in power but is not doing a stretch! (10) - TIMESERVER [CD]
20 - Revolutionary writer begins to bite (4) - {CHE}{W}
22 - They buzz with activity, storing up some thing sweet (8) - APIARIES [CD]
24 - Do some adding if the child is out of bed (3,2) - {TOT} {UP}
25 - Such a grin would be ineffective: no bite in it (9) - TOOTHLESS [CD]
1 - Sodium – true variant of the physical world (6) - {NA}{TURE*}
3 - Reportedly trained to be showing anxiety (4) - (~taught) TAUT
4 - Device in chemistry lab gets errant runner snubbed endlessly (6,6) - BUNSEN BURNER(-d)*
6 - Money needed for barter abroad (7,8) - {FOREIGN} {EXCHANGE}
7 - Seemingly without objective or conclusion (7) - ENDLESS [CD] Why seemingly?
10 - The Vicar of Wakefield, for one (6,6) - PARISH PRIEST [CD]
13 - Would a wag undress for a newspaper feature? (5,5) - {COMIC} {STRIP}
16 - An ‘extra' role (3,4) - BIT PART &lit
18 - They may go with turns in unexpected developments (6) - TWISTS [CD]
21 - A shooting area, hot for the first lady's son (4) - {SET}{H}
Hi everybody
ReplyDeleteNIGHTCLUB, DEFOE, TISSUE, INFRARED, ROIL, CHOLI, TIMESERVER. APIARIES, TOOTHLESS, GOSSIP COLUMNIST, TAUT, DAREDEVILS, PARISH PRIEST, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, ENDLESS, BIT CAST -liked all these.
Took about 25 minutes to complete.
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ReplyDeleteOn the whole an enjoyable CW. ROIL was new. Long ones GOSSIP COLUMIST, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, COMIC STRIP, DAREDEVIL, BUNSEN BURNER and PARISH PRIEST were all well clued. Link between BOVINES and BULLISH was clear. As the Col. said a couple of days back it was time to 17a. CHOLI was surprising. Use of Stretch in 19a was refreshing. SALES in SALES DRIVE was the last to fall. 20 min
@ Richard: You star (in more ways than one)in ET 4657 14a Choose Dick? Not difficult but possibly shocking (8)
Re 14a: Kilt ke neeche kya hai.
ReplyDeleteWonderful illustration for 2d. One persons out-put is another person's input. They are almost seated like the pilot-copilot mentioned in the clue !
I also put in BIT PART, Richard, for 16d as against your BIT CAST.
ReplyDelete7D also reminded about the endless Chinese queue: If the population of China was made to form a queue and pass a point, the queue would never end, given the rate of reproduction. I never understood how they could reproduce in a queue !
2D, 4D, 5D, 6D were nice
ReplyDeleteKishore 08:37
ReplyDelete16D - Yes, I erred there. BIT PART perfectly suits there in the idiomatic context. 'Bit cast' also fits in but there is no idiom of that kind.
Seemingly without objective or conclusion (7)
ReplyDeleteENDLESS is without cnclusion. ENDLESS is not equal to 'without objective' unless you, Deepak, read it as END LESS.
Hence the careful clue-writer uses 'seemingly' -and that's aptly near 'without objective'.
There must be reasons if we like the work of one setter and dislike that of another.
I too put in BIT PART in our Orkut Community: The Hindu Crossword Solutions
ReplyDeletePerhaps the clue must have had wordplay leading indubitably to BIT CAST.
In any case, as Kishore notes above, BIT CAST may not mean 'minor role'.
Is it from the steel industry to mean bit (of iron that has been) CAST?
Please delete the second para/sentence in the above message as it was put under a misunderstanding - thinking that the gridfill was BIT CAST rather than BIT PART.
ReplyDeleteI don't think much dining goes on at a night club, did the setter mean drink and dance?
ReplyDelete@ CV 852: In fact I had put AIMLESS first in view of 'wihout objective' for 7d, before DEFOE pushed his tail in.
ReplyDeleteIn my 834, please read as 'Kilt ke neeche kya hai? '
I think dining does take place in a night club.
ReplyDeleteThere used to be a famous night club near Mount Road roundtana - probably one of a very few in Madras - with a four-lettered name beginning with P and ending with S and having the name of a young boy in between and the whole of which which is a synonym of 'friends'. (I trust this circumlocution will not fetch any Google ads if the place still exists.)
In the Sixties young students were curious as to the striptease going on there: well, nothing like what we might see nowadays in pucca nightclubs or even right on our desktops but then we did not want to be killed by curiosity.
I am not sure if drinks were there (remember Tamil nadu may have had prohibition or drinking with licence) but certainly we did dine - going back home very late we could tell Mother we have had our food; why did she have to wait for us?
This nightclub was on first floor with its facade visible from a distance. The windows will be bright. When the floor show began, curtains would be drawn and passersby can only see colours playing behind the flimsy drapery. If I missed a step on the footpath it was because my mind was momentarily distracted to that sole night I went there with my cousin.
I forgot to tell you about an old waiter there.
ReplyDeleteThis moment he will be serving food.
Next moment when the lights are dimmed, he would place himself behind a light stand and turn the colour disc in front of the lamp and let it play on the dancer. Now green, now red!
Giridhar, wonder what kinda nightclubs you go to :)
ReplyDeleteWell, I think "dining" could include drinking too. So it's all right.
25A: Curious pic selection.
ReplyDeleteVJ,
ReplyDeleteWhat did you find curious in it? That picture depicts a toothless grin if I may add.
Just for fun - for Soccer fans:
ReplyDeleteMore the merrier: Now a crocodile predicts Spain win in the World Cup.
Read here: CROC-TALK
Deepak, Well I thought it was a funny selection and I know I shouldn't be saying that. It made be LOL.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightclub
ReplyDeleteI guess there are variations all over and India has its own version significantly different from the mostly western norm, and of course the 'filmi' version too.
Richard 1455: It may be a lot of bull ! Just like many other creatures (including octopuses- Wiki says this is the most common form in both the US and the UK; octopodes is rare, and octopi is often objectionable) it might just be reacting to the bright colour of the Spanish flag.(though bulls themselves are said to be colour blind and hence not susceptible to this, I am sure any zoologist around here might be able to shed light, enlighten and delight us with this tidbit. )
ReplyDeleteOf course, I should exempt the Singaporean parakeet, he/she picks up from cards which have the country ref on the reverse.
ReplyDeleteIt was not football yesterday, it was water polo, what with the fairly heavy rain most of the time.
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