1 - Kind enough to study desi's alternative tax (11) - {CON}{SIDE*}{RATE}
9 - Take care of small charges? (7) - BABYSIT [E]
10 - Rough smooches, with one ring thrown away, for dunderheads (7) - SCHMOES
11 - Jewish teacher to chatter endlessly (5) - RABBI
12 - Branches of such trees will no doubt sway (9) - WINDSWEPT [CD]
13 - A foreign capital's smell (5) - {A}{ROMA}
15 - Buff to shout at round-eyed learner leaving (9) - {YELL}{OW
18 - Tab Stella provided for what may be in a cellar (5,4) - TABLE SALT*
21 - Editor accepts honour to place a journalist with troops (5) - {E{MBE}D}
22 - Disney forte brought into a main combine (9) - ANIMATION*
24 - Dance with strange beat regularly (5) - {RUM}{B}{A}
26 - Pay no heed to omission (7) - NEGLECT [DD]
27 - Good tidings from some level, kind person (7) - {
28 - Traveller in precipitate movement (11) - PERIPATETIC New word for me
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1 - One who is on a virtual trip? (9) - CYBERNAUT [CD]
3 - Start to look into removing initiators of venal efforts (9) - IN
4 - Tea spills on a road in Erode (3,4) - {EAT*} {A}{WAY}
5 - Magazine of Indian army in a real hollow (7) - {A}{R
6 - Spirit the last of those summoned up (5) - (+e)ETHOS(-e)
7 - Wing, a number heard, doesn't begin to move up (8) - (~four){FORE}{
8 - ''Money — everything” (4) - IS'NT [E]
14 - Zero vote to connect with universities (8) - {O}{X}{BRIDGE}
16 - Lose temper about ill-organised race in public case (9) - {OVER{REAC*}T}
17 - Chair duly operated by a sort of mechanical means? (9) - HYDRAULIC*
19 - Pilot used a Roman road before decay set back in (7) - {A}{VIA}{TOR<-}
20 - Pre-University teens, agitating, become nervous (5,2) - TENSE UP*
22 - Aggravating condition needing emollient initially (4) - {A}{C}{N}{E}
23 - Devoured completely (3,2) - ATE UP [E]
25 - Pronouncedly little creature's great power (5) - (~mite)MIGHT
Hi
ReplyDelete“Esteemed fellows, the gemfulness of this crossword was terrific”: A-R(SENA)(-ea)L, EAT* A-WAY, +E-THOS(-e), ~4(-c)LIMB, TABLE SALT*, YELL-OW(-l)ISH. SHCMOES(-o)* might be happy to have a RABBI following just at 11a followed 10a. Though both are Jewish usages, the first one has roots from Yiddish, while the second one (hold your breath) is from the Arabic root, rab, which is oft used as rabba in our Hindi songs .
The instruction EAT AWAY was followed with the response ATE UP. Erode starred again. The hyphen in 8d masquerading as a blank is a good subterfuge, ISNT it ? Both NABOB and round eyed reference from 15a brought memories of Hurree Jamset Ram Singh the Nabob of Bhanipur (those familiar with his English would have recognised the line above in quotes) and his owlish spectacled friend Billy Bunter, the Owl of the Remove. The MIGHT of the mite and BABYSIT brought a smile each.
Solutions to Sunday’s posers: 1. AVE (NAVEM-n-m) , just like HI (SHIP-s-p) in English
2. The best answer is a lady who has lost a foetus. She is a tomb which does not have the body. And she is a body who is not in a tomb.
3. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck..... (Groundhog Day was the hint)
Needed a bit of googling today, what with words I had not heard of like CYBERNAUT and university names. Got totally lost on SCHMOES. Did not think of looking up a word starting with four consonants. I enjoyed the meal at Erode.
ReplyDeleteMany E and CD clues today.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I have seen a fill-in-the-blank clue in a cryptic crossword ! (8D)
With regards to the fill-in-the-blank clue, I'm sure Gridman must have wanted an underscore in between the words, while TH ended up rendering a hyphen, instead - a small aggravating condition needing proper punctuation.
ReplyDeleteRumba romba nanna irukku, eppaDi ?
ReplyDeleteThe blank has appeared like a hyphen in the online version. I was just beginning to feel bad about Erode's non-appearance in recent times, and Gridman did not disappoint me today!
ReplyDeleteAlso I remember having solved quite a few Nabob clues, mostly Gridman's, I suppose.
And number heard = FORE is fast becoming trite in THC these days...
ReplyDeleteSatya, Bhavan: In my first post I had assumed Gridman is using a subterfuge, but I think you are right, it is probably a TH printo. Maybe Gridman can clarify.
ReplyDeleteFOREthought :
ReplyDeleteAll setters live with this. Having to write a different clue for the same word repeatedly. In that sense they are similar to music composers required to create tunes for the same hackneyed situations.
Fore being a 4 letter word probably doesn't offer too much flexibility.
For + e
F + ore
~Four
{Fo(r)e}
What else ?
Golfer's shout
ReplyDeleteForward deck without the rook
Bhavan
ReplyDeleteI think your post at 8:51 covers far few options. The options increase manifold with the suffix word. Consider FOR{E TA ST}E or FO{RE THO}UGHT, for example.
I agree there are words for which cluing options are limited, maybe NABOB is one such, but definitely not for prefixed words :)
By the way, what does the surface intend to mean?
ReplyDeleteWing, a number heard, doesn't begin to move up
What about gold in Iron :)
ReplyDeleteFORE(-st)
ReplyDeleteShyam, I was talking about FORE as a 4 lettered word(adj,n,adv). In a combining form it naturally has a much wider scope for clueing.
ReplyDeleteThe surface reading wasn't very satisfactory for me too. Wing ... doesn't begin to move up probably indicates a broken arm, but the whole thing I'm not sure.
Copy was perfect. But, alas, standards in journalism are declining, with subs not knowing the difference between a blank and a dash, between a hyphen and a dash, between an em dash and en dash and much else.
ReplyDeleteThe proof reading department, which was a check in earlier days, is non-existent in newspaper offices now.
If you use the phrase 'needs must', it's most likely to be mauled.
Wing [of a bird perhaps] doesn't move up.
ReplyDeleteA number [of persons] heard.
Not great surface, anyway.
I think it'd make better sense if Wing is a name of Chinese guy or something. Wing, on hearing a number, stops to climb. Number could mean anything depending on the situation.
ReplyDeleteGridman in all of his 600 crosswords has had NABOB(S) only three times:
ReplyDeleteRich persons walk off with old balance sheet (6)
Catch senior citizen - a wealthy individual (5)
Catch old boy, a rich man (5)
For NABOB this time, G has used a different tack.
ReplyDeleteTry writing a clue for NABOB using a completely different wordplay.
Initially, not a big or bold prince
ReplyDeleteRich man reportedly denied Robert (5)
ReplyDeleteCVasi Sir, Actually I very recently saw one of these clues in Shuchi's site. Perhaps I had the hangover!
ReplyDeleteRich man earning new hot wealth could be at a low ebb
ReplyDelete((AT A LOW EBB) - (H+N+ WEALTH))* = NABOB
Hi,
ReplyDelete1) 21D - Editor accepts honour to place a journalist with troops (5) - {E{MBE}D} --- can you help decipher this?
2) Does Senior map to "OB"? What is the expansion for "OB"?
Governor Noah oddly takes a short cut (5)
ReplyDeleteHi AVK
ReplyDelete1) MBE=Member of (the Order of) the British Empire
EMBED=A journalist who is given an official placement within a military unit (also embedded reporter)
2) OB=Old boy+Alumnus
thanks Shyam
ReplyDeleteIdle rich from Hyderabad refusing a London cop
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ReplyDeleteRich man has a ball launched in good French retreat (5)
ReplyDeleteSlighty cheeky:
ReplyDeleteRich man with a property of 6.023 X 10^(23) shilling (5) :D
I had a doubt as to the definition part in 21A-"Editor accepts....".Looked up for Col.'s clarification,but could not find it.Now I take it that it is "place a journalist with troops".Am I right?
ReplyDelete4D-Erode with a capital D misled me for a while.I am wondering if it was meant that way.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed 28A & 17D.Also,Kishore's opening round.
Fore-alternative contained in Iron
ReplyDeletePadmanabhan. You will find this meaning of EMBED in any standard dictionary.
ReplyDeleteKabaabs is to kebabs as nawaabs is to ______ (6)
ReplyDeleteCompletion exclamation makes this man your uncle, after not available rich man (5)
North American President leaves mother while returning from Britain and becomes Governor (5)
ReplyDeleteThe return of Toms cartoon character as a rich man (5)
ReplyDeleteNon Keralites please excuse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toms_(cartoonist)
I am a fan of Bobanum Molliyum :)
Paddy
ReplyDeleteYou're right. EMBED in this crossword is a verb.
Indian satrap catches body odour smell out (5)
ReplyDeleteCatches on double duty.
Governor of North Asia expelled lean explorer(who visited Calicut in 1498)from a place which is unknown (5)
ReplyDelete1) How do we get con in Considerate?
ReplyDelete2) Why is vote X in Oxbridge?
Ben,
ReplyDeleteStudy=con
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/con
(second meaning)
x is what you mark when you vote.
NABOB:
ReplyDeleteA boy not unknown in New Brunswick - someone rich (5)
Rich man's article about Black River (5)
Name of a duck (rich guy's) (5)
What Navneeth wrote down as NAWAB (5)
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