1 - Make your own armed men go to the ship (7) - {POSSE}{SS}
5 - Impetuous chap who sits in the sun without a hat! (7) - HOTHEAD [DD]
10 - Honour change of course in return for a place with a view (6) - {GAZ<-}{EBO<-}
12 - He defends ball entering between designated posts (6) - GOALIE [E]
13 - Adore old novel featuring a fabulous city (8) - ELDORADO*
14 - After lunch, nap is a set requirement (6) - SIESTA*
18 - Complaint from a maths problem (6) - ASTHMA*
20 - Free oneself with possibly a quarter pace (6) - {ES}{CAPE*}
23 - Seize goods from Diana's retinue (8) - {DI'S}{TRAIN}
25 - Pointed article for the medical profession to read (6) - LANCET [DD]
26 - Nit-picking officer contracted debts (8) - {CAPT}{IOUS}
27 - A set of persons assembled for the French Pope (6) - {PEOP*}{LE}
28 - A tree so well set produces beautiful blossom (3,4) - TEA ROSE*
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2 - There are two alternatives about a time for the speaker (6) - {OR}{A}{T}{OR}
3 - Perhaps she will get cod — or even oysters! (9) - {SHE'LL}{FISH}
6 - Behind arrival time (7) - OVERDUE [E]
7 - Ride around with Henry, for a place of concealment (5) - {H}{IDER*}
8 - Counteract to prevent unwanted happenings (8) - ANTIDOTE [CD]
9 - A young shaver's impudence? (13) - BAREFACEDNESS [CD] Could have been clued in a much better way. Had to Google this one out.
16 - An instrument for the newly developed plane: a warning instrument (9) - {ALPEN*}{HORN}
19 - Legendary race of female South American warriors (7) - AMAZONS [E]
21 - In the house, plays dance music (7) - {C{ALYPS*}O}
22 - How the nun was describing the threats that had been made (6) - VEILED [DD]
24 - A master to coach (5) - TUTOR [E]
Hi all
ReplyDeleteHad 100% success today. Liked the anagrams. Many nice, interesting clues. POSSESS, HOTHEAD, GAZEBO, ANECDOTE, GOALIE, EL DORADO (should have been two words, right?), SIESTA, EXACTS, ASTHMA, ESCAPE, DISTRAIN, LANCET, CAPTIOUS, PEOPLE, TEA ROSE, TORNADO (really liked this, but remember having come across an almost similar one recently), ORATOR, SHELLFISH (nice one), SHOWERS (good play with 'show'), OVERDUE, HIDER, ANTIDOTE, BAREFACEDNESS (the pick of the day, from my point of view), ALPENHORN (a new word), ESTIMATE, AMAZONS, CALYPSO (CO=house? not clear. This was the sole 'guess' appearance), VEILED (neat!), TUTOR
Yesterday's 14D was CIRCULARS. Kishore, Suresh and I can celebrate.
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ReplyDeleteANTIDOTE and ANECDOTE * crossing each other. CW probably set during FIFA with GOALIE. CAPTIOUS was new, while SHE’LL-FISH, SHOWERS, TORN-A-DO, GAZ<-EBO<- , ES-CAPE, ASHTHMA*, VEILED , SIESTA*, EL-DORADO*, ALPEN*-HORN were a good mix of types of clues. The longest one noted for its BAREFACEDNESS. Of course, EL DORADO (the golden one) was initially referring to a person, which later got the meaning of a fabulous place. More than a dozen town in the US carry this name.
‘Railway loco pilots may steer Metro’ says a headline in the Bangalore edition. I thought trains/engines/locos were run/operated not steered as railways do not have a concept of steering, only switching. May be someone can clarify.
Richard: Open out the Champagne and let it 'Circulate'.
ReplyDeleteYup, I agree that EL DORADO is two words in Spanish; in English probably concatenated into one.
Both AMAZONS and EL DORADO have a SA connection.
And Richard, how did you like the bi-lingual pun in yesterday's 848 post.
ReplyDeleteDeepak, your cartoon for 6D is mind-blowing!
ReplyDeleteKishore 08:37 Referring to 'bath', it was clean fun!
ReplyDeleteLiked the ESCAPE and OVERDUE cartoons. The Escape reminded my of farcical sequences in 'Allo 'Allo, where German officers dig into a POW camp where RAF officers are being held.
ReplyDeleteLike Kishore said, this puzzle must have been set during FIFA. No wonder Manna's so hooked to South America that he didn't even wanna give Greece its due credit.
ReplyDeleteAre Amazons really from South America? If anyone knows please give me a link. All my searching leads to the Greek tribe of Amazon women.
ReplyDeleteThe way clue's been written, it has to be "Greek warriors." I think Amazon is just a river in South America. Nothing to do with their warriors. At least there's no indications of it in the pages I searched.
ReplyDeleteGood morning all, do check out today's feature in The Hindu Metro Plus about our daily obsession: http://www.hindu.com/mp/2010/08/05/stories/2010080551200200.htm
ReplyDeleteClue from today's Guardian xword/Brendan
ReplyDeleteEnglish lord crashed a party in affluent place (2,6)
Maddy, El Dorado right ?
ReplyDeleteAmazons were women warriors who lived in Asia Minor and fought alongside the Trojans.
ReplyDeleteWhen explorers in the Amazon rain forests found a band of women warriors there they also named them Amazons after the legendary warriors of Asia Minor.
Amazon is derived from some Greek words meaning literally 'breastless'.
From the World Book
ReplyDeleteFrancisco de Orellana, a Spaniard led an expeditin up the Amazon in 1541/42. Their group was attacked by a grop of what appeared to be female Indian warriors. The Spaniards called their attackers Amazons after the female warriors in Greek mythology.
‘Railway loco pilots may steer Metro’ says a headline in the Bangalore edition. I thought trains/engines/locos were run/operated not steered as railways do not have a concept of steering, only switching. May be someone can clarify.
ReplyDeleteLoco meaning crazy. God save the Bangaloreans
Suresh 10:36
ReplyDeleteIn that case, a wish from all of us should be 'Loco' sukhinoh bhavantu on the lines of Sarve janah sukhino bhavantu. :-)
Trivia:
ReplyDeleteFurther to my 10:56 post - A friend of mine works for the Survey department. I always greet him with 'Survey' janah sukhinoh bhavantu.
How HIDER represents the place of concelment?
ReplyDeleteVJ would have spotted this - somehow missed?
Pappu
ReplyDeleteAnother "master" to haunt us
The word hide also means 'a camouflaged shelter used to observe wildlife at close quarters' and hider is given as a derivative thereof. Does this help?
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ReplyDeleteSubramaniam, I had doubts on some of the other clues, but not on this particular one.
ReplyDeleteWell a "place of concealment" is also a "place" that's keeping something hidden. IOW, it's a hider (as its hiding something).
24 - A master to coach (5) - TUTOR [E]
ReplyDeleteWould not this be a DD?
Richard 1052,1102: Your bank's 'philosophy' peeping through !
ReplyDeleteThe pun was on Macbeth...
In Medical parlance absence of breasts is called AMAZIA. I believe it is due to the practice of Amazonian warrior women cutting off their breasts[usually the right one] to wield the bow and arrow.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for letting us know the medical term. Of course, I knew of the Amazonian women warriors' practice but not the term. Surprisingly it's not in Chambers.
If you had mentioned its variant 'amastia', I would have nodded my head and connected it with mastectomy.
Mastectomy is removal of the breast. Now I would like to ask you if there is any case of congenital absence of a breast or the breasts in any woman. If so, is the same term amazia used?
Sorry. I think I should not have used the word 'congenital' in the above post.
ReplyDeleteA lot of new info today. Keeping ourselves abreast of the times...
ReplyDeleteChaturvasi,
ReplyDeleteYou are right about Amastia which is synonymous with Amazia.Both terms are used for congenital absence of breast.This condition does occur though rare.
Mastectomy is the term used for surgical removal of breast
Let us masticate on it !
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