ACROSS
1 - Not allowing for offers being made (10) - {FOR}{BIDDING}
6 - Dust off a large headed nail (4) - STUD*
9 - Saul ran after her in the garden (7) - {ANN}{UALS*}
10 - Sister in quiet way, does persevere (7) - {P}{ERSIST*}
12 - Prophesy a warning order! (8) - {FORE}{TELL}
13 - Some flourish with finely ground meal of wheat (5) - FLOUR
15 - Monstrous characters Rex goes berserk about (5) - {OG{R}ES*}
17 - It's a crime disrupting a truce (9) - ARMISTICE*
19 - A step for the visitor to crossover? (9) - THRESHOLD
21 - For the present cut out unwonted old continental coins of value (5) - DUCAT* (ad+cut)
27 - Diana and Fred took time off and wandered aimlessly (7) - {DRIF{T}ED*} (di+fred)
28 - Ancient units of weight and money (7) - TALENTS
29 - In some ways as clever as monkeys at times (4) - ERAS [T] Does Era have a plural?
30 - Understanding what is needed in a good steak (10) - TENDERNESS [DD]
DOWN
1 - Tyre partly inflated — or not at all (4) - FLAT [T]
2 - Harboured bitterness from a private soldier, say (7) - RANCOUR(~ranker)
3 - Annie's get-up is really silly (5) - INANE*
4 - Maniacal road speed from a reckless guy (9) - DESPERADO*
5 - Plane crash in mountainous country (5) - NEPAL*
8 - Washing up aids do anything but encourage men folk (10) - {DETER}{GENTS}
11 - The short referee employed declined to renounce (7) - {REF}{USED}
14 - Superior type of pedestrian crossing (10) - FOOTBRIDGE [CD]
16 - Sets copper quietly on one he does not trust (7) - SUSPECT* (sets+cu+p)
18 - Thought broadcast item dated (9) - MEDITATED*
20 - Duplicated copy (7) - REPLICA [E]
22 - Can Lee make quarter pure? (7) - CLEANSE* (can+lee+s)
24 - Find some high pressure on the roof top (5) - RIDGE Anno pending (Addendum - [DD] - See comments)
25 - He wastes time being reluctant to work (5) - IDLER [CD]
26 - Puts to some purpose (4) - USES [E]
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ReplyDelete54 more and closing...myriad, if its Greek to you.
TALENTS and DUCAT rub shoulders with RUPEE. FORE-TELL was the best and FLOUR was the worst, IMO. Did not like RANCOUR,RIDGE, PERSIST and ERAS much.
DESPERADO reminded of a Ricky Martin Song.
Interesting... I found Saturday's offering to be vague, and today's was almost too easy. Hmm... Is it just me?
ReplyDeleteI would place 19A and 28A in the category of E,and not CD
ReplyDelete13 - Some flourish with finely ground meal of wheat (5) - FLOURish Why 'meal of '
ReplyDeleteHere, either 'of wheat' of 'meal of' is extra just like the monkey lurking in 29a. Meal itself can mean ground grain.
Agree with Suresh on 19A, though 28A could be a twin definition, not double definition.
ReplyDeleteLike Kishore I too thought initially that 'ground wheat' = meal.
ReplyDeleteHowever, when I looked up MEAL in Chambers it has the definition
grain (now usu not wheat) or pulses ground to powder; in Scotland and Ireland, specif oatmeal;
Now, where do we stand?
thanks to all the comments earlier, i got almost all of it - cannot understand why ridge. and eras??? 17a was fun.
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24 - Find some high pressure on the roof top (5) - RIDGE Anno pending
ReplyDeleteDD:1. A long, narrow upper section or crest.
2. An elongated zone of relatively high atmospheric pressure.(Free Dict)
Firmly on terra firma
ReplyDeleteSandhya strikes yet again!
ReplyDeleteWay to go, Sandy
ReplyDeleteA little poll.
ReplyDeleteShould E type clues (not CD clues) be there in cryptic crossword.
If yes what percentage is accepted?
Regular viewers of this blog probably know my views on this, but I will spell out a little later
No E in my viw!!
ReplyDeleteRidge is the line or edge formed where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top. --OED
ReplyDeleteI think ERA is a countable noun and we can have a plural form of the word.
ReplyDeleteIn the history of a country we can speak of the golden eras of X dynasty and Y dynasty.
9a: got it, but wasn't satisfying... can have lots of things in a garden... and conversely, annuals can exist anywhere.
ReplyDelete23a: how does record equate to PE or EP?
22d: how does quarter equate to S?
thx in adv! :)
Agree with CV on ERA. The dictionary does not indicate that the plural is the same.Hence a plural form of eras is correct.
ReplyDeleteAn EP is a 45 rpm record. It expands to Elongated play. An LP (LONG PLAYING)was a 33 1/3 rpm record.
ReplyDeleteHey, couldn't join y'all to solve the Sunday Times crossword. Was watching Nadal- Youzhny and Federer-Djokovic match till early Sunday morning. So woke up late and again went out to play. By the time I got here, the puzzle was done.
ReplyDeleteI made my own puzzle yesterday (for TP mostly). Did the grid, put the words on it and wrote the clues. I've posted it on my blog. This is my first post ever and my first attempt at making a crossword puzzle. Try it if you wanna.
http://hadescrosswords.blogspot.com/2010/09/hades-crossword-1_12.html
SE is normally used for quarter, probably referring to a London quarter (a London postal district). CAn S also be quarter by referring to the four directions or something?
ReplyDeleteI feel the same as Deepak. E clues should be zero in number in a cryptic crossword.
ReplyDelete@ Suresh: Thx for the clarification on EPs and LPs! :-)
ReplyDeleteCorrection EP stands for Extended play
ReplyDeleteHi folks
ReplyDeletePopping in late. Had completed the puzzle, barring ERAS and ANNUALS. I feel these two clues were slightly vague.
ARMISTICE was a nice clue and a neat anagram. Liked THRESHOLD, TENDERNESS, TRIPOLI and a few others.
Seeing Sandhya's appearance today, thought of repeating my late-night comment of yesterday.
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Come to think of it, how come comments from ladies have become very sparse here?
To borrow a two-wheeler promotion line: "Why should boys have all the fun?"
UNQUOTE
In case you'll haven't already seen it visit CROSSWORD UNCLUED (link available on the left hand side panel) and read Shuchi's limericks on Manna
ReplyDeleteThe cartoon for the Rupee symbol has been changed, kind courtesy Richard.
ReplyDeleteThe limericks on Manna and NJ are brilliant.
ReplyDeleteShuchi's limericks on MM are brilliant, as Suresh notes. Pardon my bad English, but her limericks on NJ are brillianter and the last one in that lot is brilliantest.
ReplyDeleteShuchi has given a link in her current post to the ones on NJ.
Kishore, we know u rite good english. so avoid the prefixes et al
ReplyDeleteKishore cannot rite rong English.
ReplyDeleteCol
ReplyDelete21 - For the present cut out unwonted old continental coins of value (5) - DUCAT* (ad+cut)
It should be AD (Anno Domini - for the present) instead of 'ad'
whats the difference between AD and ad !!!
ReplyDeleteu said it Richard:)
ReplyDeleteThanks for confidence advertised, I was planning to use brilliantine... and even I (megalomaniac id there rearing its ugly head) have the keyboard equivalent of the tongue of the slip..
ReplyDeleteAlso, regarding AD, at present AD is considered archaic and CE for Christian Era is preferred. Of course, Richard knows, that I have been travelling on BC Road earlier this year.
No begging pardons here, Kishore? (@15:02)
ReplyDeleteI ran out of my life time quota of pardons during the period I was deaf, that was probably my most used English word those days, Suresh.
ReplyDeleteYou will appreciate this, but I was an auditor with an auditory problem in those days.
Kishore (1502), if I'm not wrong, CE is common era. And I feel this is more secular.
ReplyDeleteVJ: Yes, you are correct, as usual.
ReplyDeleteI stopped doing the crosswords because I no longer have that hour free in the afternoons (when the morning edition hits the Net for us here in the East Coast of the US). But I love reading this blog. Shuchi's limericks are a treat too.
ReplyDeleteKishore, as usual? What a strange thing to say!
ReplyDeleteGentlemen have to be polite, VJ, as you will no doubt agree. Aunts don't have to do it.
ReplyDeleteKishore @19.06,
ReplyDeleteI can read the Plum there!
Venkatesh, waiting for your response to my yesterday's 1751, so that I can tighten the rack and ratchet a notch more...
ReplyDeleteHow do you like guarisms ?
Dr DS: I was begging the question from some possible b in the w, so that I can unleash all the aunts that BW and Haddock can muster.
ReplyDeleteSorry,V, read it as 1731 please
ReplyDeleteKishore (1906), you always talk in riddles. Don't know what it's supposed to mean.
ReplyDeleteGentlemen are overrated in my opinion.
That they are. Noblesse Oblige. Dr DS got my drift. He did not talk of the usual Avocado or Apricot, but of Plum.
ReplyDeleteBy the way today I got the Business Standard instead of The ET and tried the CW there. It was quite nice, but I wonder whether they should call it something other than The BS Crossword.