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ACROSS
ACROSS
1 - Instruct a local in a zone with determination (8) - {CIVIL}{I}{ZE}
5 - Injure the French out of an establishment (4) - STAB [T] (Correction STABle - Thanks to Bhavan)
10 - Calls off a sailor, you miss in an orkut site primarily (6) - {AB}{ORkuT}{S} How does K get deleted
12 - Bird of Tennyson (4) - LARK [CD]
15 - Sign language on tips lead to popular gizmos on top (6,8) - {FINGER} {SPELL}{IN}{G}
17 - Opening word of praise (14) - CONGRATULATION [CD]
21 - Pull a couple of learners inside an outhouse that is dried up (10) - {SH{RIVE}{LL}ED}
22 - Review the real task oddly for a famous person (4) - {S}{T}{A}{R}<-
25 - Girl in will fast at the beginning of the holidays at a stretch (6) - {LEN{G}T}{H}
26 - Rude to prevent the lawyers in charge (8) - {BAR}{BAR}{IC}
27 - Start off to annoy the guide (4) - tEASE
28 - Warns an accountant in the Unit Trust of India on the schemes finally (8) - {CA}{UTI}{ON}{S}
DOWN
1 - Plant in the church pot (6) - {CH}{OLLA}
2 - A treacherous person (5) - VIPER [CD]
3 - An excuse that may not be convincing enough (4) - LAME [CD]
4 - Wizard place is set up in front of the lunar craft — a belt shaped structure (7) - {ZO<-}{NULAR*}
6 - Covering an incomplete surface in Sri Lanka to put back on the house (10) - {TABLEt}{CL}{OT<-}{H}
7 - Wine for the poet is first out on the floor (9) - {BARD}{O}{LINO}
8 - French guitarist and composer (5) - COSTE [E]
11 - Dam built on spot (4) - STOP*
14 - Annoys a girl in the gravest kind of a midway situation (10) - {A}{G}{GRAV{A}TES*}
16 - Unawareness at night (9) - IGNORANCE [CD] Why at night?
20 - Initially purchase the grain in small amounts (6) - {P}{RICE}{S}
21 - Parlour renovated in Laos is new (5) - {SALO*}{N}
23 - To rise every second on top of the body (5) - {TO}{R}{S}{O}
24 - Countenance wrongdoing (4) - ABET [E]
Hi
ReplyDeleteBAR-BAR-IC was nice with the repetition of the bar, illustrating (albeit unintentionally) the math concept that half of infinity or double of infinity is still infinity: Lawyers being collectively BAR, two groups of lawyers forming a subset of the above group are BAR-BAR. In a sense, Bar Bar dekho, hazar Bar dekho.
BLITHESOME reminded of a hilarious classic David Lean movie from 1945 called ‘Blithe Spirit’ starring Rex Harrison, the title of which is based on Shelly’s "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert" in the poem "To a Skylark".
11d Stop/Dam reminded of the dam burst at Lake Delhi, reported in today’s paper.
Good morning (Did I hear some voices in unison - 'What's so good about it?'
ReplyDeleteA way to settle scores for flak, apparently. A few clues led me nowhere. Only about 60% success today.
BLITHESOME, CONGRATULATION, SHRIVELLED, LENGTH, SALON etc were manageable.
IGNORANCE kept me in the dark for some time. Did not check if 'to aggravate' can mean 'to annoy' when it essentially means 'to worsen'.
5 - Injure the French out of an establishment (4) STAB [T]
ReplyDeleteI thought this was STAB(-le)
Bhavan,
ReplyDeleteYou thought right, thanks.
Missed several: Bardolino, Cholla, Orpiment, Liepaja.
ReplyDeleteWhy large in 19d.
Agree with Bhavan's 5 anno, though by some quirk the word is also hidden in establishment, it accounts for the French out.
I agree with STAB[-le]
ReplyDeleteThe French (LE) out of an establishment (STABLE) gives STAB (injure)
Kishore,
ReplyDeleteLarge is NJ's favourite Anagram Indicator, add it to your list of NJisms
Did you know that Delhi is a city in Iowa? I read a news item about a dam burst there in today's papers. During my first visit to the USA several years ago, I had stayed for a month in Cedar Rapids, IA, but had not heard about the place. Why, many people in the USA had not known even about Cedar Rapids.
ReplyDelete16d: I am ignorant in the day too, since NJ thinks you miss in 10a represents ku
ReplyDeleteLarge is a pretty strange anagram indicator.
ReplyDeleteCol: Thanks. Mebbe, night is an ignorance indicator, when NJ is at large.
ReplyDeleteFurther to my 08:32 post, I checked and found out:
ReplyDeleteAGGRAVATE can also mean 'to exasperate; to provoke; to irritate'
Continuing on the collective noun for crossword solvers: a cruci-fix of cruciverbalists, cruci for being cross and fix for getting into a fix, two things most of do when confronted with NJ.(Richard, pardon my mis-appropriation of the word, please)
ReplyDeleteNJ's grids are designed in a way that you get absolutely no help from the crossings. And most times you get no help from the clues either. It's all amazing!!!
ReplyDeleteDelhi, Iowa.... well, just googled.... Looks it's a very small city with a population of less than 500. We got more people living in a single home here.
ReplyDelete@Venkatesh, 25 July 17.48
ReplyDelete1st part: Thanks for the pat (Not an MAS).Such a memory is boon or bane is debateable.
2nd Part: Yes
Crossword clues should give us the pleasure of deriving words and thereby learning GK rather than a test of GK on obscure town(ancient or existing) or bird or animal(living or extinct) name as I often see in NJ's.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Thanks Chaturvasi, Dr Srinivasan and Venkatesh for your replies in response to my comment on Jug Suraiya. It was interesting and very informative.
ReplyDeleteDid anynoe do the sunday TOI crossword? The clues and the grid are totally different .
ReplyDeleteTPA,
ReplyDeleteWhich edition of the Sunday TOI are you talking about?
The Mumbai Edition yesterday (Bombay Times)..Even ePaper version carries the same problem.
ReplyDeleteKishore @ 08:49
ReplyDeleteI had commented here some months ago wondering if the word cruciverbalists had not come into circulation because some of them have this habit of verbally crucifying the solvers. ;-)
By the way, our 'collective' clutter yesterday may have prompted the Colonel to suggest 'a clog of bloggers' as a collective noun.
ReplyDelete@CV: Delhi, IA is pronounced 'dell-hye' to rhyme with 'bye' . There are also a Madras and many Salem's in the US.
ReplyDeletetpa, I did the Bangalore edition and it was fine and fully ok till the very last drop.
ReplyDeleteDitto... I did the Chennai edition...
ReplyDeleteTPA,
ReplyDeleteBy totally different I thought you meant it was a special type of grid! I didn't realise you meant the Grid does not match the clues