Not happy with so many E's/CD's today
ACROSS
1 - Votive offering (9) - SACRIFICE [E]
5 - A bender close to club in the outskirts of Glendale (5) - {B}{IN}{G)(E}
8 - Swift creation – land of small people (8) - LILLIPUT [CD]
9 - Two-wheeler loses a ring to a duck (6) - SCOoTER
11 - Yogic posture (5) - ASANA [E]
12 - Very big English canal, repaired and without a trace of congestion, is fit for sailing (9) - NAVIGABLEc*
13 - An inducement to bring up what has been taken in (6) - EMETIC [E]
14 - Disinclined to work at home, with money given by state, TN, returned (8) - {IN}{DOLE}{NT<-} TN is now planning to give out Laptops as dole!!
16 - Attraction of one in a Tiffany fabrication (8) - {AFF{I}NITY*}
18 - Put in place and make ready for use by a trendy shop, say (6) - INSTAL(~in stall)
22 - He comes after one in occupation (9) - SUCCESSOR [CD]
23 - The bird to make master sound like a bird (5) - {MA}{CAW} My COD
24 - Willows, outsize, rise randomly (6) - {OS}{IERS*}
25 - A flier, say could be a defector (8) - {A}PO{STATE}Anno for PO pending (See comments)
26 - Vikings, a new inclusion amongst the French (5) - {D{A}{N}ES}
27 - A seat I can reach deviously (4, 5) - CANE CHAIR*
DOWN
1 - Include vanadium and silver in disposal, save from loss (7) - {SAL{V}{AG}E}
2 - Mix-up of pictures (7) - COLLAGE [E]
3 - A ministerial pot churns out ersatz adornments (9, 6) - IMITATION PEARLS*
4 - Lizard found in Antiguan areas (6) - IGUANA [T]
5 - Non-intrusive accompaniment from Euterpe? (10, 5) - BACKGROUND MUSIC [CD] What's the Euterpe connection?
6 - Eminent person but unfit (7) - {NOT}{ABLE}
7 - Sincere set near collapse (7) - EARNEST*
10 - Where do breads come from? From a proven source (5) - OVENS [T]
15 - Supply of drugs that a good man has destroyed (5) - {ST}{ASH*}
16 - Go missing, as do some fearing apprehension (7) - ABSCOND [E]
17 - Group within a group (7) - FACTION [E]
19 - One cat and another danced with love to this music (7) - {T(O)CCATA*}
20 - On which to begin driving (3, 4) - LOW GEAR [CD]
21 - Call without notice! (4, 2) - DROP IN [CD]
ACROSS
1 - Votive offering (9) - SACRIFICE [E]
5 - A bender close to club in the outskirts of Glendale (5) - {B}{IN}{G)(E}
8 - Swift creation – land of small people (8) - LILLIPUT [CD]
9 - Two-wheeler loses a ring to a duck (6) - SCO
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13 - An inducement to bring up what has been taken in (6) - EMETIC [E]
14 - Disinclined to work at home, with money given by state, TN, returned (8) - {IN}{DOLE}{NT<-} TN is now planning to give out Laptops as dole!!
16 - Attraction of one in a Tiffany fabrication (8) - {AFF{I}NITY*}
18 - Put in place and make ready for use by a trendy shop, say (6) - INSTAL(~in stall)
22 - He comes after one in occupation (9) - SUCCESSOR [CD]
23 - The bird to make master sound like a bird (5) - {MA}{CAW} My COD
24 - Willows, outsize, rise randomly (6) - {OS}{IERS*}
25 - A flier, say could be a defector (8) - {A}PO{STATE}
26 - Vikings, a new inclusion amongst the French (5) - {D{A}{N}ES}
27 - A seat I can reach deviously (4, 5) - CANE CHAIR*
DOWN
1 - Include vanadium and silver in disposal, save from loss (7) - {SAL{V}{AG}E}
2 - Mix-up of pictures (7) - COLLAGE [E]
3 - A ministerial pot churns out ersatz adornments (9, 6) - IMITATION PEARLS*
4 - Lizard found in Antiguan areas (6) - IGUANA [T]
6 - Eminent person but unfit (7) - {NOT}{ABLE}
7 - Sincere set near collapse (7) - EARNEST*
10 - Where do breads come from? From a proven source (5) - OVENS [T]
15 - Supply of drugs that a good man has destroyed (5) - {ST}{ASH*}
16 - Go missing, as do some fearing apprehension (7) - ABSCOND [E]
17 - Group within a group (7) - FACTION [E]
19 - One cat and another danced with love to this music (7) - {T(O)CCATA*}
20 - On which to begin driving (3, 4) - LOW GEAR [CD]
21 - Call without notice! (4, 2) - DROP IN [CD]
Before Kishore paradrops -
ReplyDeleteflier - pilot officer - PO
Deepak
ReplyDeleteRe your comment against 14ac.
The laptops are likely to allow/accept only semmozhi script.
How dumb of me to not latch on to PO :-(
ReplyDeleteCV,
ReplyDeleteWhat's the Euterpe connection in 5D ?
Euterpe was the muse of music and often depicted holding a flute. So it sort of fits into the idea of background music, I think
ReplyDelete19 - One cat and another danced with love to this music (7) - {T(O)CCATA*}
ReplyDeleteI feel kind of let down a little bit with this clue.. S'lak seems to becoming bolder with his use of indirect anagrams. Usually indirects are deemed barely acceptable if the number of choices for substituting a word for fodder in the clue is one and only one. That leaves very little leeway. Here, I can interpret it multiple ways:
One cat with another can mean CAT and TOM dancing with O or CAT and CAT dancing with O or TOM and TOM dancing with O.
Ideally, it could have been better if defined as a c/c clue but is more clunky,I think:
One cat dancing with love around another to this music (7)TOC{CAT}A*
No idea on Euterpe and shades of NJ on des = the French..
As stated above, Euterpe is one of the Muses and this one is of Poetry and Music.
ReplyDeleteThe link in the clue is rather tenuous, if you ask me.
In 'one cat' there is no ambiguity about the animal. 'Another' has to give only 'cat' and not a mouse! So I don't think there's any insuperable difficulty about the wordplay.
ReplyDeleteAgree with CV on 19D. One cat with another is simply 'One cat with another cat'
ReplyDeleteAsana pictures changed kind courtesy Suresh !!
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, Pilot Officer has suffered the same fate as 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian armed forces. Both ranks do not exist any more. Commissioned officers start at Flying Officer and Lieutenant respectively. I am not sure if the navy has got rid of Sub-Lieutenant in a similar fashion.
ReplyDeleteCV, my days of paradrops are over, literally and figuratively.
ReplyDeleteI use jet packs now. ;-)
Sub-lt is also non-existent
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