ACROSS
1 - Elaborating on deporting ousted monarch (11) - EXPAT
9 - Spoke (multiple times) with the princess housed by Aishwarya (5) - {RA{DI}I} Neat
10 - Food for one taken out by the English supplier (9) - PROV(-i+en)ENDER
11 - Selection of ideas patented in a rush (5) - SPATE [T]
12 - Ace jester to develop a pilot's backup aid (7, 4) - EJECTOR SEAT*
13 - English chief shielded by political leaders from the east gets a fine fabric (6) - {SAT{E}EN<-}
14 - Remove and make separate place for a comb in error (4, 3) - WIPE OFF ?(Addendum {HIVE} {OFF} - See comments)
18 - Following remains the same despite the knight getting banished (7) -TRAC
20 - Courthouse providing box for silver (6) - {HOM{AG}E}
24 - Gem in passageway said to be from Ireland (7, 4) - {EMERALD} {ISLE}(~aisle)
26 - Angling gear found with the auditor's old Spanish coins (5) - REELS (~reals)
27 - Record after 8 onto this cassette (9) - {VIDEO}{TAPE}
28 - Perfume ingredient concealed in the Secret Service counter (5) - ESTER<-
29 - Pull a flower out for the totalitarian (3-8) - ALL POWERFUL*
DOWN
1 - A shot of this might perk you up! (8) - ESPRESSO [CD] Didn't like this
2 - Design alternative for this optical device (9) - {PROJECT}{OR}
3 - Rate the hopeless playground? (7) - THEATRE*
4 - Summer (5) - ADDER [CD]
5 - Goddess giving shelter to old king backed by some Asians (8) - {IS{RAEL<-}IS}
6 - Cut determined by ostler losing margins with inedible part of meat (7) - {GRI
7 - Perfect European fish for the gangster (5) - {IDE}{AL}
8 - Picture on Roman poet's love goes down south to entertain Elizabeth I (5) - {(-o)VID{E}(+o)O}
15 - Pole in Arizona town (9) - FLAGSTAFF [DD]
16 - Wait period (8) - INTERVAL [DD]
17 - Slovene realises he is hiding a type of disease (8) - VENEREAL [T]
19 - Interruption in a plan brought up for introduction in California (7) - {C{A}{ESUR<-}A}
21 - Colour which upset Dolores (3, 4) - OLD ROSE*
23 - Accommodates chairs (5) - SEATS [DD] Wasted a lot of time with HOLDS here
25 - Sound from a ball for the model under investigation (5) - AUDIO Anno pending (Addendum - AUDI(-t+o)O - See comments)
Hi
ReplyDeleteThe movies: AUDI-O, (-o)VID(E)+O, VIDEO TAPE, INTERVAL, PROJECT-OR, SEATS.
Liked RA(DI)I, remembered the first famous Aishwarya, the queen. Of course, the present celebrity’s surname was not pronounced traditionally (rhyming with pie) in the way it is now (ra-i , matching with Harivansh Rai). Also liked PRO-VENDOR, the victuals, A repeat of the ROSE motif, yesterday ROSE CUT, today OLD ROSE.
Incidentally, the clue for 6d GRI-STLE*(-or) (did not get the anno for GRI) also gives another answer it working gridless, but this is edible, not inedible: CUT-LETS*(-or), but then determined would be superfluous... Incidentally, had first hear of Ostler in the Highwayman poem cited yesterday.
Ravi’s prize car got nothing, I heard (5)
Account checker, not Rt. Rev., is sound (5)
25 - Sound from a ball for the model under investigation (5) - AUDIO Anno pending
ReplyDeleteAUDIT -t +O = AUDIO
14 HIVE OFF, ref to Honey comb :-)
ReplyDeleteCut determined by ostler losing margins with inedible part of meat (7) - {GRI}{oSTLEr} Anno pending for GRI
ReplyDeletecut determined = GRIM -m = GRI
25 - Sound from a ball for the model under investigation (5) - AUDIO Anno pending
ReplyDeleteAUDI= Car model, ball=o, sound=AUDIO
Bhavan,
ReplyDeleteI think it is GRI(-t)
Kishore,
ReplyDeleteBhavan's AUDIO sounds better !!
@Colonel:
ReplyDeleteI thought so too, but Grit would mean determination right ? Hence settled on Grim for determined.
Re: Illustration for 12a, looks more like an(e)JE(c)T project.
ReplyDeleteRemove and make separate place for a comb in error (4, 3) - WIPE OFF ?
ReplyDeleteI had this as WIPE OFF too, but Anish's answer in the orkut community looks better:
FILE, OFF
Does FILE mean COMB or search ?
Deepak, yes it does !
ReplyDeleteBhavan
ReplyDeleteCut - Curtail
dtermined - GRIT
Cut determined - GRI(-t)
Howzzat
Bhavan, you have shown the way:
ReplyDeleteDetermination=grit, cut it, ie. gri
I think we have been initially misled by NJ's use of determination as a indication of what to do.
ReplyDelete14 HIVE OFF is removing and making a separate place, as in hiving off a division of a company.
ReplyDelete@Colonel, @Kishore:
ReplyDeleteI understand that GRIT is determination(n).
But the clue says determined(adj) so was wondering if Grit fits.
Pinocchio requires de-termitation.
ReplyDelete@Kishore, HIVE OFF is probably the best fit for that clue. Now I get the COMB reference.
ReplyDelete@ Bhavan: Then how about Gritty (determined), duly docked.
ReplyDelete@Kishore, that Gritty much fits.
ReplyDeleteI also had GRI(-t)STLE, Grit as in small cuts (particles)of stone with determined as the deletion ind. Maybe Neyartha will step in to give the intended anno.
ReplyDeleteI had interpreted 18A as TRA(-n)CING. But your anno is obviously the right one.
Another enjoyable puzzle from Neyartha. Gita is definitely vindicated today for her nice comments.
ReplyDelete14 - Remove and make separate place for a comb in error (4, 3) - WIPE OFF ?
ReplyDeleteFILE OFF
Remove and make separate place - Defn
Comb in error - CD as in when the file(teeth) of a comb is in error ( has become skewed due to prolonged use), it's file is off
@Colonel:
ReplyDeleteA shot of this might perk you up! (8) - ESPRESSO [CD] Didn't like this
Is it because there was no way to assert EXPRESSO Vs ESPRESSO or was it simply not your cup of tea
@Col - A shot of this might perk you up! (8) - ESPRESSO [CD] Didn't like this
ReplyDeleteA shot of Espresso doesn't just perk me up...it gives a bloody kick comparable to that of any Patiala!
@Col - A shot of this might perk you up! (8) - ESPRESSO [CD] Didn't like this
ReplyDeleteYou have just espressed your opinion.
Neyartha seems to be in a mood to 'banish' people in this round of crosswords!
ReplyDeleteBhavan,
ReplyDeleteI didn't like it as I thought it is too vague. Yes definitely not my cup of tea!! Give me tea any day.
@Sandhya : lol. He was violent too with the tennis references of smashing, chopping etc yesterday.
ReplyDeleteOff topic
ReplyDeleteAs a former journalist I was interested in reading the following article by a newspaper chief.
Frankly, for several months I used to skip the column as I was annoyed by the chief's use of some word relating to a bodily function in an earlier column of his. (On that occasion I think I wrote a mail to the person. However, a four-letter word appeared in a headline the other day with the adjective 'holy' in the very same newspaper. It caused a revulsion in me.)
http://epaper.newindpress.com/NE/NE/2010/10/23/ArticleHtmls/23_10_2010_010_008.shtml?Mode=1
If what is stated correct, I can't understand how someone can allow a signed article attributed to him can delegate someone else to write it. This is unthinkable for me.
As for GRIT, I was stunned by the irony of it all when I saw a pic in the same paper today.
http://epaper.newindpress.com/NE/NE/2010/10/23/ArticleHtmls/23_10_2010_002_003.shtml?Mode=1
Please resize and try to see the entire pic.
This man has entered a manhole and is removing bucketfuls of dark, dirty grit. But look at what is written on the T-shirt that he is wearing.
Such contradictions I have often noted in T-shirts worn by ragpickers and other poor people to whom someone may have given or handed down the garments.
In the above please read "...someone allowing a..." instead of "someone can allow a"
ReplyDeleteTake off from yesterday.Colonel@1746. That was in the recent past - about 45 years ago.
ReplyDeleteNavneeth @1859. It has happened so many times. I had the whole house awakened by my uncontrollable loud shriking in the middle of the nignts while reading PGW.
My father was in railways. I picked up this taste from my Anglo Indian friends. I have to thank them for inculcating reading habit.
ReplyDeleteMuthaiah: Even in earlier days, I somehow did not get along with Bills and Moon.
ReplyDeleteBut at the same age, I did not like PGW too. The addiction came later, with better knowledge of the language.
Tharoor on PGW in The Hindu 8 years back:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/02/17/stories/2002021700150300.htm