1 - Ponder about one's ill-treatment (6) – {M{I’S}USE}
4 - Girl boxing star in US gambling centre (3,5) – {LAS {VEGA}S}
9 - Gen we translated involving a cultural movement (3,3) – {NEW {A}GE*}
10 - Corset found on street - now there's a surprise! (6,2) – {ST}{ROLL ON} ?
11 - An hors d'oeuvre, perhaps a favourite, is brought in for each (9) – {A}{P{PET}{IS}ER}
13 - Expert in a reduced department (5) – {A}{DEPT}
14 - Like a shot, moves swiftly across the City, in a straight line (2,3,4,5) – {AS} {TH{E C}ROW} {FLIES}
18 - English actor in western with odd name, thriller about cattle, primarily (6,8) – {W}{ARREN MIT{C}HELL*}
20 - A wide, perhaps, in over (5) – EXTRA [CD]
22 - Undertaking surgery (9) – OPERATION [DD]
24 - A bad-tempered moment reportedly caused by a puzzle (8) – {A}{CROS(~cross)}{TIC}
25 - Plagiarist could make head of publishing very angry (6) – {P}{IRATE}
27 - Holiday in bay (6) – RECESS [DD]
DOWN
1 - US artist captures head of turbot, a fish (5,3) – MAN{T}A RAY Anno pending (Addendum - {MAN{T}{A} RAY} - See comments)
3 - Tourist with sense, wise man (9) – {SIGHT}{SEER}
5 - What a relief, getting changed, some time later (5,1,5) – AFTER A WHILE*
6 - Twelfth Night character's fiddle (5) – VIOLA [DD]
12 - First of shots with new 'Ping' iron's on one of the greens (6,5) – {S}{PRING ONI}*{ON}
16 - Vital cure, repackaged, becomes profitable (9) – LUCRATIVE*
17 - Battle scene force before heavy blows (8) – {F}{LANDERS} Not convinced with Landers and Heavy blows
19 - Meal's about finished (6) – {RE}{PAST}
21 - Fire-raising clergyman beheaded (5) –
23 - Temima Gezari's sculpture (5) – IMAGE [T]
I think the anno for 1D is...
ReplyDelete{MAN {T} {A} RAY}
Man Ray is an American artist. T from head of turbot and A from "a" fish
VJ,
ReplyDeleteA google search for Man Ray confirms your anno. Thanks.
See MAN RAY
ReplyDeleteDeepak, on 10A... From the dictionary link you've posted, we can say that Corset could be "ROLL ON." And we can get ST from "...street."
ReplyDeleteAny link between STROLL ON and surprise? My online search has not yielded any results
That's why I have a question mark after Stroll on, I too could not find any connection with surprise
ReplyDelete10A: Seems like it's a British slang...
ReplyDeleteHere's the definition.
http://www.slang-dictionary.com/definition/stroll-on.html
VJ has got it.
ReplyDelete"stroll on!" is a general exclamation of disbelief.
<http://www.londonslang.com/db/s/
While on the subject of slang, we had an informative discussion on 'rhyming slang' in one of the forums recently.
Rhyming slang is a cant used by Cockneys in which a word or phrase is replaced by a rhyming word or phrase, this word or phrase then often being abbreviated to its first syllable or syllables, or its first word. The word chosen as the rhyme often shares attributes of the word that it replaces. The idea is that the message would not be understood by outsiders not familiar with the slang.
ReplyDeleteA typical example is the replacement of "stairs" with the rhyming "apples and pears" and now used only as "apples". Thus, the phrase "I'm going up stairs" turns in to "I'm going up the apples".
Salmon and trout is rhyming Slang for 'snout', meaning tobacco.
Scooby-Do is modern Rhyming Slang for 'clue' in the sentence "I 'avn't a Scooby mate".
Adam and Eve is rhyming Slang for 'believe', as in the sentence, "Would you Adam and Eve it mate!".
Ace of Spades is rhyming slang for AIDS as in "You've been dealt the Ace of Spades"
The prevalence of this form of phrase construction in the English language in dialectal British English from the East End of London gives it the name Cockney rhyming slang.
The construction involves replacing the common word with a phrase of two or three words. In almost all cases, the original rhyming word is then omitted. Thus, the origin of the phase is made elusive to unfamiliar listeners.
For more information, pl refer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang
I got 22A as OPERATING and 17D as FLOGGERS
ReplyDeleteRichard, 24a remember ICHTHYS ?
ReplyDeleteSuresh, I also put in OPERATING as it matches the tone of 'undertaking' in the clue.
ReplyDeleteTalking of undertaking and operating in the same breath reminds me of an undertaker's brother who claims that his brother follows the medical profession.
ReplyDelete24A Once we ignore the TISA, it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteA flogger is also a name for the MIG aircraft.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I was late today.
ReplyDeleteUnderstand it is a Sunday.
No, this is not an excuse.
Do you understand me ?
Any one could.
You should too.
Come, try again.
Read this properly.
Oh, it is not that tough.
Should you need help.
Say it aloud.
We are here to help you.
Only, refer the first letter.
Read it verticallly down
Do you get it now?
I too went in for OPERATING. So FLANDERS went unsolved. That and WARREN MITCHELL. No clue who the guy is.
ReplyDeleteYup, Suresh, and other MIG variants go by NATO names like Fishbed, Foxtrot, Fulcrum etc.
ReplyDeleteOk Kishore, we get it. It's a SUNDAY CROSSWORD after all.
ReplyDeleteNice one BTW
ReplyDelete17a Landers 'LAND' the person, i.e. make him flat on the ground, in a KO ?
ReplyDelete24a ACROSTIC. Alice Liddel is supposed to have inspired Charles Lutwidge Dodgson to write Alice in Wonderland and in his poem "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky" there is an acrostic hiding her name.
The poem can be seen at:
Alice
Deepak, the Pirate cartoon is terrific
ReplyDeleteMy take on LANDERS... we say "landed heavy blows on something/ somebody." From recipient's perspective, heavy blows are LANDERS.
ReplyDeleteTo land a blow is to strike someone (e.g., to land a blow to the midsection). So, heavy blows has been used as clue for 'LANDERS'. This together with F from force makes FLANDERS.
ReplyDeleteDefn: battle scene - FLANDERS which figures prominently in WORLD WARS I & II.
Flanders (and Belgium as a whole) saw some of the greatest loss of life on the Western Front of WW-I, in particular from the three battles of Ypres. There were hundreds of thousands of casualties at Ypres. The poppies that sprang up from the battlefield afterwards, became a symbol for lives lost in war and were immortalised in the Canadian poem "In Flanders Fields", written by John McCrae.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders
VJ:1052: Mine is easy. Get Deepak's illustration. Suresh too has got it, I see.
ReplyDeleteIn case you don't, follow my instruction at 1045.
I just opened the link. I think I get it.
ReplyDeleteLooks like TI and SA need not be ignored.
ReplyDeletetotally LOVE the plagiarist pirate toon! hilarious! :)
ReplyDeleteVJ: TISA need not be ignored if you read it as salutation and close respectively. But if you read the entire verticle, it is better to ignore it, hence I mentioned.
ReplyDeleteKishore, I see what you mean. It's a very clever comeback from Arnie.
ReplyDelete10A
ReplyDeleteCORSET flashes in my mind another old clue from IE (Bombay):
The common aim of corsettes and preachers(6)
A clever attempt at phonetics. ACROSTIC cross to mean bad-tempered and tick to mean moment and finally to give one Acrostic -- a puzzle. I loved doing that.
ReplyDeleteAgain,it is so unfair on international solvers to bring in proper names of American artists and English actors. Thanks to Google and Wikipedia. However, one gets so impatient when one has reached near-completion to be stuck with such terms. It takes the punch and high of having solved the grid without any reference books or other devices.
Roll 0n, A corset? I didn't find any where a connection.
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