1 - Supporters stand uneasily around this place (9) - {AD{HERE}NTS*}
5 - Boxes welcomed by lawyers (5) - CASES [DD]
8 - Dingy place in good Latin land, in retrospect (6) - {G}{ARRET<-}
9 - Roman public hall built of black sand around capital of Argentina (8) - {B}{A}{SILICA}
11 - Vegetable that may not hold water, say (4) - LEEK(~leak)
14 - Form ideas for unfinished article, trendy, first in Kashmiri (5) - {TH
15 - A path (National Highway) destroyed by flammable stuff (7) - (N)APHT(H)A*
16 - One new in college, changing in the end, to get tidied up (7) - FRESHE(-r+n)N
17 - The harsh light — of publicity, for example (5) - GLARE [CD]
19 - Expect a playful prank, that is about appropriate (10) - {ANTIC}{I{PAT}E}
20 - Look, with energy, for an emblem (4) - {LO}{GO}
22 - Provide a method for letting out secrets (4,4) - {GIVE} {A}{WAY}
23 - The witch is about to swallow good food made from offal (6) - {HA{G}G}{IS}
24 - Look for information in a model velodrome (5) - DELVE [T]
25 - The paraphernalia of unusually quiet men escorting Penny (9) - {EQUI{P}MENT*}
DOWN
1 - State with a new goal perhaps (6) - {A}{N}{GOLA*}
4 - At which racers are raring to go (8,4) - STARTING GATE [CD]
5 - Very easy stuff, like Ludo (6,4) - CHILD'S PLAY [DD]
6 - A well-boiled icicle, for one (4,2,3,6) - SLIP OF THE TONGUE &lit
7 - News as a fresh spell here in Wales (7) - SWANSEA*
10 - A driver's nightmare! (7,5) - PARKING PLACE [CD]
16 - Leader of force moved slowly and grew tired (7) - {F}{LAGGED}
18 - The garment for a shapely figure from a part of France close to Niort (6) - {CORSE}{T}
21 - Angels make notes on it (4) - HARP [CD]
The photo in the CW page in the Bang Ed, seems to indicate a leek :-)
ReplyDeleteAnother smooth puzzle from Sankalak
ReplyDeleteSomething is up with the blogger ...
ReplyDeleteThrice did I post it and thrice did it appear and then disappear.
"I thrice presented him [Caesar] a kingly crown which he did thrice refuse."
Loved the cartoon on Parking Place
ReplyDeleteBlogger is up to tricks today. I had scheduled the post to appear at 8:30, didn't find it at 8:37, had to click on publish once again to make it appear.
ReplyDeleteThank you Sankalak! That's 2 days of nice CWing in a row! :) I was feeling quite disappointed w/ Spiffytrix's and Cryptonyte's fare... which is usually very good. Maybe they were trying too hard.. or maybe they've just set too good a standard w/ past CWs. :) I still maintain that the previous offering from Spiffytrix last month was one of the, if not THE best CW I've done in a long time.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, back to today, and like Bhavan said, smooth. :)
Kishore@08.50-
ReplyDeleteDid this in Kishore seem ambitious?!
I give up !
ReplyDeleteGood morning
ReplyDelete12 A it is "a fuss idiot"..i think the highlighting is different.
Good one.
@ Hari - welcome back after a long gap.
Mathu
Could you explain 18 Across please
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Navneeth for responding to my question in yesterday's post. Can you tell me the stall where you got Chamber's Thesaurus ?
ReplyDeleteHi Col
ReplyDelete6D is just a [E}, there being no wordplay at all.
Shyam, I think 6D would be a CD with the def. being a definition by example (well oiled bicycle to well boiled icicle, also a Spoonerism, is it not?)..Regardless, it is a nice clue.
ReplyDelete(From yesterday and also wrt Krishnan 1037)
ReplyDeleteThe Chambers thesaurus is/will be a good buy as it is based on the Chambers (20th c, not 21st c) Dictionary. In the absence of the (20th c)dict itself, it will be a useful ref work for solving advanced/UK crosswords.
Krishnan
Once when I was browsing the shelves of the Giri Trading Agency bookshop near the Mylapore temple, I chanced upon this thes. among books of different ilk. It was old, yellowed, shop-soiled copy and I was not inclined to buy it at the marked price.
As I have the Chamber dict sw, thes. is part of it.
I have the Chambers Crossword Dictonary - which is really a collection of synonyms - but I have not checked how close to/different from the thes.
Mathu @ 10:12,
ReplyDeleteThanks, I have corrected it.
...it is. (ends)
ReplyDeleteChaturvasi sir, thanks a lot, will get hold of The Chambers thesaurus.
ReplyDeletedagarshali,
ReplyDeleteThe garment for a shapely figure = Defintion = {CORSE}{T}
from
a part of France = CORSE (See the link in the main post)
(close to = Indicator to take the last letter)
close to Niort = T
Are KISHORE @ 8:43 and kishoremrao @ 10:11 the same ?
ReplyDeleteI think so. They are two different sides of the same coin that is a numismatist's quest.
ReplyDeleteKishore here's your 8:50 post which you gave up trying to post
ReplyDeleteHi
A well oiled puzzle from Sankalak, though in my personal opinion, not that very enjoyable. Possibly because I did some very enjoyable puzzles in the last few days. GIVE A-WAY and CHILDS PLAY were most enjoyed.
A well oiled bicycle, courtesy Spooner, whose obituary says that most Spoonerisms attributed to him were not really his inventions or slips of tongue, but contrived and unauthentic.
I wonder how costermongers cajole their customers to buy leeks. Do they say : Take a leak :-)
and here's your response to Padmanabhan's 10:05 post
Aah, Paddy, so you did see the flash in the pan at 850 which went awol later.
Trying posting it again:(without the quote from JC )
Deepak, on top of the blogger misfiring, my account too malfunctioned. Hence, created a counterfeit coin, as CV may call it.
ReplyDeleteYou must have had a Herculean task cleaning the Augean stables of the detritus of my multiple posts. Thanks for the effort and for finally posting the unposted.
Mathu: Thanks. :)
ReplyDeleteThe link to Archie's Obit which got missed when Deepak posted my post:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/sep/01/archive-obituary-dr-wa-spooner
Paddy 1105: Was Taxiles Ambi-tious ?
ReplyDeleteVeer 1143
ReplyDeleteYes Veer. You are right. I just learnt that I have been pronouncing 'bicycle' wrong all along :D
This news may be of importance to some of you:
ReplyDeletePadma Shri A Sivasailam (76), CMD of Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd (TAFE), Chennai, passed away in a hospital in Manipal, Karnataka on Wednesday, January 12.
He had earlier arrived in Sringeri on a pilgrimage with his daughter, son-in-law and other family members. While being there, he suffered a heart attack.
He was airlifted to Manipal by a special helicopter. In spite of best efforts by doctors to revive him, he breathed his last. Later during the day, his mortal remains were flown to Chennai via Mangalore airport.
Krishnan@10:37,
ReplyDeleteThe bill says Book World Library (stall F-23, if I'm not mistaken). This one has a red cover, with words written across it.
And to add to my post from yesterday: although the thesaurus is as big as a dictionary, it's not as densely printed; there is a lot of "whitespace."
Richard, I heard the news yesterday. He was a next-door neighbour and a family friend.
ReplyDeleteNavneeth, thanks a lot. I will check it out when I visit the book fair yet again this weekend.
ReplyDeletePaddy 1105: Was Taxiles Ambi-tious ? Kishore, I did not quite follow this.
ReplyDeletePaddy, Taxiles was the Greek name for the King Ambi of Takshashila who invited Alexander..
ReplyDeleteBtw Shyam, if indeed it is the same avatar as the one on anax's ukpuzzle diycow site, very nice discussion you brought up there with anax on punctuation on a clue of a couple of days ago from THC (Short film's conclusion is unnatural(7) - soln. PLASTIC). I thought anax made some great points that were very educational to me, for sure. - veer
ReplyDeleteMy Internet is on the blink so I may not be able to post the CW tomorrow unless BSNL is kind enough to restore it tonight, which looks most unlikely
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, veer. It's always great to hear from veterans :)
ReplyDeleteIs parking place a driver's nightmare because it's so hard to come by these days? Or am I missing something else?
ReplyDeleteIs parking place a driver's nightmare because it's so hard to come by these days?
ReplyDeleteDepending upon who the driver is, it could either be the availability of parking spots (its lack, rather) or the nightmare of making sure one puts it in the spot without damaging one's own and the neighbouring car(s). ;)
Ah. Thank you very much!
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