ACROSS
1 - Old bouncer somehow becomes a distinguished chef (6,4) - CORDON BLEU*
6/10 - Very quickly take a shine to private (4,7,8) - {LIKE} {NOBODY'S BUSINESS}
11 - One tucking in atop refurbished terrace (5) - {PAT{I}O*}
12 - Punch shared in overpriced nightclub (4,5) - {CLIP} {JOINT}
13 - Go with Rhoda nervously, a menace behind the wheel (4,3) - ROAD HOG*
15 - For pain, see expert going round hospital (4) - {AC{H}E}
18 - Said hourly, when husband's not there (4) -hORAL
19 - Fix cut (7) - ENGRAVE [DD]
22 - Fruit for each boy around end of term (9) - {PER}{SIM{M}ON}
24 - Sense changes in a city in the Ruhr valley (5) - ESSEN*
25 - Treacherous person - one shouldn't meet with one on the Emerald Isle? (5,2,3,5) - SNAKE IN THE GRASS [CD]
26 - Favourite's backed for pace (4) - STEP <-
27 - Scale drawing of stadium works, for the most part (6,4) - {GROUND} {PLANt}
DOWN
1 - Plan to study steeple (8) - {CON}{SPIRE}
2 - Victim in genuine denial (8) - {RE{BUTT}AL}
3 - Music hall act seen from circle, thrilled more when broadcast (unknown number) (3,6,5) - {O}{LDMOTHER RILE*}{Y}
4 - Simple when described by writer (5) - {B{AS}IC}
5 - Explain cryptic clue, one on fruit (9) - {ELUC*}{I}{DATE}
7 - Peninsula in part of Russia, top hidden from view (6) -sIBERIA
8 - Mock some footballers at Zagreb (6) - ERSATZ [T]
9 - Actor judging his role critically (3,4,7) - SIR JOHN GIELGUD*
14 - Prospector's mongrel I shot across entrance to diggings (9) - {GOL{D}MINER*}
16 - Scottish sculptor spoils vestibule (8) - {MARS}{HALL}
17 - Poet, one free from stress around New York (8) - {TEN{NY}SiON}
20 - Sergeant major undermines rising attacks (6) - {SPAS}{MS} <-
21 - Mysterious artist set up murderer, reportedly (6) - {AR}{CANE}(~cain)
23 - Indian leader, he raised game after noon (5) - {N}{EH<-}{RU}
1 - Old bouncer somehow becomes a distinguished chef (6,4) - CORDON BLEU*
6/10 - Very quickly take a shine to private (4,7,8) - {LIKE} {NOBODY'S BUSINESS}
11 - One tucking in atop refurbished terrace (5) - {PAT{I}O*}
12 - Punch shared in overpriced nightclub (4,5) - {CLIP} {JOINT}
13 - Go with Rhoda nervously, a menace behind the wheel (4,3) - ROAD HOG*
15 - For pain, see expert going round hospital (4) - {AC{H}E}
18 - Said hourly, when husband's not there (4) -
19 - Fix cut (7) - ENGRAVE [DD]
22 - Fruit for each boy around end of term (9) - {PER}{SIM{M}ON}
25 - Treacherous person - one shouldn't meet with one on the Emerald Isle? (5,2,3,5) - SNAKE IN THE GRASS [CD]
26 - Favourite's backed for pace (4) - STEP <-
27 - Scale drawing of stadium works, for the most part (6,4) - {GROUND} {PLAN
DOWN
1 - Plan to study steeple (8) - {CON}{SPIRE}
2 - Victim in genuine denial (8) - {RE{BUTT}AL}
3 - Music hall act seen from circle, thrilled more when broadcast (unknown number) (3,6,5) - {O}{LDMOTHER RILE*}{Y}
4 - Simple when described by writer (5) - {B{AS}IC}
5 - Explain cryptic clue, one on fruit (9) - {ELUC*}{I}{DATE}
7 - Peninsula in part of Russia, top hidden from view (6) -
8 - Mock some footballers at Zagreb (6) - ERSATZ [T]
9 - Actor judging his role critically (3,4,7) - SIR JOHN GIELGUD*
14 - Prospector's mongrel I shot across entrance to diggings (9) - {GOL{D}MINER*}
16 - Scottish sculptor spoils vestibule (8) - {MARS}{HALL}
17 - Poet, one free from stress around New York (8) - {TEN{NY}S
20 - Sergeant major undermines rising attacks (6) - {SPAS}{MS} <-
21 - Mysterious artist set up murderer, reportedly (6) - {AR}{CANE}(~cain)
23 - Indian leader, he raised game after noon (5) - {N}{EH<-}{RU}
Nice one. Except Gielgud had to be Googled.
ReplyDeleteAn S&B meeting is announced in Chennai as Bhavan Kumar (ace solver and budding compiler of Bombay who now lives and works in Australia) is on a visit to the town and would like to meet me and other fellow-solvers who can make it on that day.
ReplyDeleteDate: Wed, Feb 23
Time: 6-30 p.m. onwards
Venue: Hotel New Woodlands, next to Savera, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore, Chennai 600004
Assembly point could be my home before we adjourn to the restaurant.
As I don't know Bhavan's programme during his visit he has to confirm the above date and time. Please await a firm announcement.
A similar notice is given in the Orkut community: The Hindu Crossword Solutions.
I shall take care of updating from both places.
After that confirmation of the date by Bhavan, intending attendees may indicate their intention here.
25 - Treacherous person - one shouldn't meet with one on the Emerald Isle? (5,2,3,5) - SNAKE IN THE GRASS [CD]
ReplyDeleteJust curious, why Emerald Isle? I am guessing Emerald isle is a reference to Ireland famed for its grassy meadows..But knowing Everyman's clues, there must be more to the phrase, "one shouldn't meet with one"..after all, this is the same setter that had scritti politti..
Ireland is reputed to have no snakes.
ReplyDeleteThere is a famous short story "No snakes in Ireland" (or a very similar title) based on the myth by Frederick Forsyth.
Island of Corfu is also known as 'Emerald Isle' and 'The Garden of Eden' by the way Sri Lanka is also known as the 'Emerald Isle'
ReplyDeleteThanks CV, unfortunately 23rd is the day of the wedding + reception.Can we make it either 21 or 24? Venue and time are fine with me.
ReplyDeleteMy COD is 6/10.Agree with Veer's comment at the Orkut community. Brief but lucid.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, I feel like Spiffytrix's clues have the same playful nature as Everyman's. And also roughly follows the same cluing style as far as cryptic grammar and conventions regarding what the setter allows and what is a no-no etc., go.
ReplyDeleteAn S&B meeting is announced in Chennai as Bhavan Kumar (of Bombay who now lives and works in Australia) is on a visit to the town and would like to meet me and other fellow-solvers who can make it on that day.
ReplyDeleteDate: Mon, Feb 21 (confirmed by Bhavan)
Time: 6-30 p.m. onwards
Venue: Hotel New Woodlands, next to Savera, Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore, Chennai 600004
If participants wish, assembly (from 5-30 p.m.) could be at my home before we adjourn to the restaurant.
Participants
Myself
Bhavan
Bhargav
Others please add names in this thread or better still send email to
chaturvasi(at)yahoo(dot) com
Sir John Gielgud acted as Lord Irwin in Attenborough's "Gandhi"
ReplyDeleteVijay, who visits here rarely, has said he will attend S&B III.
ReplyDeleteSo the list now is: Myself, Bhavan, Bhargav and Vijay.
Don't have anything worthwhile to add here.
ReplyDelete1. Remember reading many years ago somewhere a quote attributed to Sir John Gielgud - something like 'Gielgud no feel good'. Can anyone recall the exact quote and context?
2. For all pun-dits and pun-job-is in this forum: Got this in mail. Thought of sharing with you all.
Puns for Educated Minds
1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.
'
13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
17. A backward poet writes inverse.
18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you'd be in Seine.
21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'
22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!'
:-)
ReplyDelete02.02.11 MManna: 19a - Some claim a gin enables one to carry on — fancy! (7)
ReplyDelete02.02.11 MManna: 20a - Not everyone is upset by gin (4)
3.11.10 Sankalak :30a - Fish, one homeless, swallows gin cocktail (8)
15.10.10 MManna: 2d - One gin follows gold to its source (6)
After all those gins, I can only quote:
You may talk o' gin and beer ...
@Richard & Kishore :)
ReplyDeleteSorry, the first one is 09.02.11, but that doesn't change the spirit of the thing, nor does it mean I was Kipling.
ReplyDeleteKishore 17:46 Though I don't remember having come across them in the respective grids, I got all the four fairly easily.
ReplyDeleteHeard this one? Oxy-gin is pure gin. Hydro-gin is diluted gin.