ACROSS
7 - Constrict one stranger confused outside (8) – {ASTR{I}NGEr*}
9 - Birds are on the rocks in lowa (6) – {SIAL}{IA}
11 - Want a furry friend for niece settled out in the capital of India (9) – {A}P{PET}{ENCEi*} Don’t know where the extra ‘P’ comes from
12 - Cause for pause in a sentence (5) – COMMA [CD]
13 - Force one old boy to first leave the police officer in England (6) – {OB}{L}{IG}{E}
14 - Bring out the bill in front of the queen, a popular actor at heart (8) – {AC}{QU}{A}{IN}{T}
17 - A follower will allow in around ninety playing this game (9) – {B}{ADMI{N}T}{ON}
22 - Watch over the fellow, an English boy (8) – {CHAP}{E}{RON}
23 - Regulate the speed of an engine (6) – GOVERN [E]
25 - Shade of white bone (5) – IVORY [DD]
27 - Conceiving of a mini gang I have organised (9) – IMAGINING*
28 - Free from work Vatican relaxes out at lunchtime (6) – VACANTi*
29 - Kind of wood essential for the high class bachelor (8) – {MUST}{AI}{BA}
DOWN
1 - Left the ball for the last student playing in the lake (7) – {BALl}{A}{T}{ON}
2 - Small tip of plugs (7) – {S}{TOPPLE}
3 - Associate of the French ignores the calm representative (5) – AGENT Anno pending ({A}{GENTle} See comments)
4 - Kind of jockey on record (4) – DISC [CD]
5 - Be calm, I repaired an old container (7) – ALEMBIC*
6 - Caught out the male animal in a trap mostly put up in a capital city (7) – {JAcK}{pART}{Ap<-}
8 - Join the mesh (9) – INTEGRATE [DD]
10 - Fall of the French cavalry leader at the border (7) – {DES}{C}{END}
15 - A specialist will examine our little girl so in an outlet (9) – {URO*}LO{G}IST Anno pending ( {URO*}{LOGISTlet*} See comments)
16 - Poisonous gas cleanser (7) – AMMONIA [DD]
18 - Pull off Jughead's pal outside verandah entrances (7) – {ArCHIE}{V}{E} (Addendum - {ArCHIE}{VE} See comments)
19 - Big-time accountant is on a Spanish island (7) – {MAJOR}{CA}
20 - Sum of money that may fall short in the treasury (7) – DEFICIT [CD]
21 - I am right in suspending the grammarian solving the word game (7) – ANAGRAM(i’mr)*
24 - Dark valley in front has a regular gauge (5) – {V}{A}{G}{U}{E}
26 - Pull out the Tibetan beast around Norway (4) – {YA{N}K}
Just about managed to publish todays' blog as Blogger was playing tricks. No links and pictures due to the same.
ReplyDeleteAnother day, another puzzle. Two more can't come any sooner.
ReplyDeleteDeepak, please ignore my suggestion in Orkut, as you seem to have overcome the blogger's tricks.
ReplyDelete3 - Associate of the French ignores the calm representative (5) – AGENT Anno pending
A GENT(-le)
18 - Pull off Jughead's pal outside verandah entrances (7) – {ArCHIE}{V}{E}
I think VE comes from verandah, entrances being the first two alphabets of the word
Thanks Kishore,
ReplyDeleteYou could delete your post at Orkut.
Talking of lake Bala in Balalaika yesterday and Balaton in 1d today, I hope NJ does not pick up the map of Finland, the land of a thousand lakes and start on them.
ReplyDelete15 - A specialist will examine our little girl so in an outlet (9) – {URO*}LO{G}IST Anno pending
(our little g so - let (out-let))=ourlitgso*
Since deleted, Deepak.
ReplyDeleteKishore @ 8:49,
ReplyDeleteThanks again
Its once again guess work, but :
ReplyDeleteWant a furry friend for niece settled out in the capital of India (9) – {A}P{PET}{ENCEi*} Don’t know where the extra ‘P’ comes from
Furry = soft = P ?
Is there one coherent sentence for a plausible surface reading in today's puzzle ?
ReplyDeleteBingo, Bhavan. Reminds me of the line from The Shadow
ReplyDelete"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men (or women)? The Shadow knows!"
BTW liked a couple of things today":
Reference to Forsythe P Jones in 18d
Use of A follower in 17a to clue in B
Bhavan 858, I remember statistics being defined as a blind man looking in a dark room for a black cat which is not there. You've got cool shades, dude, might as well close your eyes to emulate the above blind man, as any complaints anywhere are bound to fall on deaf ears.
ReplyDeleteKishore@09.05 : I've decided to become one senseless person for the next two days.
ReplyDeleteBhavan, Kal, Aaj aur Kal:
ReplyDeleteBhavati, Bhavataha, Bhavanti :-)
2 Small tip of plugs (7) – {S}{TOPPLE}
ReplyDeleteIt should have been 'plug' in the clue as the solution STOPPLE (That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel, a stopper) is in the singular.
Kudos to Gopinaths who seem to be saying 'bring it on guys'.
ReplyDeleteLooking at answers to 11,14,15 I feel like saying 'really nita jaggi?'
@Deepak - presume the 'on' in 1 (Balaton) is from 'playing' in the word play. Any idea where the second 'a' comes from?
ReplyDeleteYes Kishore.All of us lok like blind men looking for a black cat....But the cat seems to be somewhere around since Col.,Bhavan & yourself seems to have located some parts of it.Maybe you can look for other parts in the next 2 days!! Good luck! I am totally lost.
ReplyDeleteVikram @ 15:04,
ReplyDeleteYour guess is as good as mine.