ACROSS
1 - Sword copper forged lasts (7) - {CU}{TLASS*}
5 - I am retreating in the pink — scrubber's here! (6) - {PU{M'I<-}CE} My dictionary says 'Puce' is Dark Red or Purple Brown!
9 - State group is disturbed (5) - {UP}{SET}
10 - In which one goes to the doctor (3,6) - ILL HEALTH [CD]
11 - Frequenter with dress for regular uses (7) - {HABIT}{UsEs}
12 - Bridge bid — hundred backing at rear end (2-5) - {NO-T<-}{RUMP}
13 - Column type (5) - IONIC [DD]
14 - Criminal who has no wife to lean on (9) - UXORICIDE [CD]
16 - Follow an old coin — church item (9) - {TAIL}{PIE}{CE}
19 - Attempts to bring back core of Essex cricketers (5) - {STAB}{S}<-
21 - Evasive and fishy (3-4) - EEL-LIKE [CD]
23 - No hard hour in France as one goes to a landmass (7) - {hEUR}{AS}{I}{A}
24 - No hen is involved in this scrap (9) - COCKFIGHT [CD]
25 - Cheer western band (5) - {W}{HOOP}
26 - Purloined vestment worn finally (6) - {STOLE}{N}
27 - Dare Ken in more disrobed form (7) - NAKEDER*
DOWN
1 - Arrested while doing something wrong — the acct. apparently (6,2,3,3) - CAUGHT IN THE ACT (c in act)
2 - What an examinee might desire — not exactly! (4,3) - TEST BAN [CD]
3 - A good man with a nervous twitch is unstable (7) - {A}{ST}{A}{TIC}
4 - Let slip control over old calculating device (5,4) - {SLIDE} {RULE} How I slogged using this while doing my engineering!
5 - Political leader stunned only supporter (5) - {P}{YLON*}
6 - Scholar tires replacing eminent conductors (7) - {MA}{ESTRI*}
7 - Ring one about copper having dental deposits (7) - {CAL{CU}L}{I}
8 - Photographer goes after lion tamer — a presumptuous person (14) - {WHIPPER}{SNAPPER}
15 - More than satisfied about each number (9) - {OVER}{EA}{TEN}
17 - Wrong — if one learner were to leave, it's allowable (7) - {I}{L}{LICIT}
18 - Saint hides some information that's not pleasant (7) - {PA{INF}UL}
19 - Girl with a keen beginner in part of Borneo (7) - {SARA}{W}{A}{K}
20 - Escape in cabs don summoned (7) - ABSCOND*
22 - Urge, say, almost disappeared (3,2) - {EG}{G ONe}
1 - Sword copper forged lasts (7) - {CU}{TLASS*}
5 - I am retreating in the pink — scrubber's here! (6) - {PU{M'I<-}CE} My dictionary says 'Puce' is Dark Red or Purple Brown!
10 - In which one goes to the doctor (3,6) - ILL HEALTH [CD]
11 - Frequenter with dress for regular uses (7) - {HABIT}{U
12 - Bridge bid — hundred backing at rear end (2-5) - {NO-T<-}{RUMP}
13 - Column type (5) - IONIC [DD]
14 - Criminal who has no wife to lean on (9) - UXORICIDE [CD]
16 - Follow an old coin — church item (9) - {TAIL}{PIE}{CE}
19 - Attempts to bring back core of Essex cricketers (5) - {STAB}{S}<-
21 - Evasive and fishy (3-4) - EEL-LIKE [CD]
23 - No hard hour in France as one goes to a landmass (7) - {
24 - No hen is involved in this scrap (9) - COCKFIGHT [CD]
25 - Cheer western band (5) - {W}{HOOP}
26 - Purloined vestment worn finally (6) - {STOLE}{N}
27 - Dare Ken in more disrobed form (7) - NAKEDER*
DOWN
1 - Arrested while doing something wrong — the acct. apparently (6,2,3,3) - CAUGHT IN THE ACT (c in act)
2 - What an examinee might desire — not exactly! (4,3) - TEST BAN [CD]
3 - A good man with a nervous twitch is unstable (7) - {A}{ST}{A}{TIC}
4 - Let slip control over old calculating device (5,4) - {SLIDE} {RULE} How I slogged using this while doing my engineering!
6 - Scholar tires replacing eminent conductors (7) - {MA}{ESTRI*}
7 - Ring one about copper having dental deposits (7) - {CAL{CU}L}{I}
8 - Photographer goes after lion tamer — a presumptuous person (14) - {WHIPPER}{SNAPPER}
15 - More than satisfied about each number (9) - {OVER}{EA}{TEN}
17 - Wrong — if one learner were to leave, it's allowable (7) - {I}{L}{LICIT}
18 - Saint hides some information that's not pleasant (7) - {PA{INF}UL}
19 - Girl with a keen beginner in part of Borneo (7) - {SARA}{W}{A}{K}
20 - Escape in cabs don summoned (7) - ABSCOND*
22 - Urge, say, almost disappeared (3,2) - {EG}{G ON
14a Criminal who has no wife to lean on. Well this clue reminded me of a joke with an alternative interpretation of the word ‘lean’.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ebaumsworld.com/jokes/read/80327/
And 5a clue read with the answers for 27a and 1d prompted some mental pictures. Not universal.
@Kishore it was 17 of you to put such thoughts and images into our heads : )
ReplyDelete20 - Escape in cabs don summoned (7)
In what sense is the word 'summoned' to be taken as an AInd? Summoned as in 'ordered' (by a court may be) ? Why not use 'ordered' itself?
Where is CV when you need him ...
Images are in the minds of the thinkers ;-)
ReplyDeleteBhavan 842, last line, is CV's 10a still troubling him?
ReplyDeleteRe-remembered what I should do on someone else's laptop to be able to post Comments here.
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And 5a clue read with the answers for 27a and 1d prompted some mental pictures.
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I wish I held some high post such as the chief of IMF.
re: 'summoned'
ReplyDeleteYes, it could have been 'ordered' - a legitimate AInd. But this composer doesn't consult a list to see what hackneyed anag ind can be used.
He always tries to use correct, grammatical and idiomatic use of the language - which comes naturally to him without any "moolai kasakkal".
From a taxi rank, you summon a vehicle. You don't order.
@CV while you are at it, could you throw some light on:
ReplyDelete24 Swiss cheese for fellows in remote hamlet (9)
Navneeth said...
Remote is an anagram indicator?!
'remote' is a legit. AInd.
ReplyDeleteUsing a little liberty with words here:
ReplyDeletePrompted by CV's re-remember, re-mote detailed is re-mot, and mot being word in Frech, re-mot would be re-word, i.e. Anagram indicator.
Could the clue have been:
24 Swiss cheese for fellows in remodelled hamlet (9)
Like my confusion with summon, remote as an adjective meaning 'strange' would fit the AInd bill.
ReplyDeleteFor lack of another word, indirect anagram indicators is how I'm beginning to think of them.
Kishore's revised clue is OK though I am a small mind and so can't be part of great men thinking alike!
ReplyDeleteTo my mind, an AInd should be clear to the solver that it is indeed one. It cannot depend on the vagaries of the setter.
ReplyDeleteCV, how did you guess I had schizophenia and megalomania and dog knows what ;-)
ReplyDeleteI can only quote Newton:If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Coleridge had it perfectly when he put the Latin nanos gigantium humeris insidentes as:
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.
Thanks for giving this dwarf the privilege of riding on your shoulders, CV.
Hi friends
ReplyDeleteCan someone set an interesting clue to get
{IDIO{MA}TIC}?
Richard@12.34
ReplyDeletescholar caught in stupid set up can have a distinctive style
I could not kick myself enough for the delay in solving 4d- in spite of using it over a long period and still having it!! Thank you CV,for taking me back to good old days.
ReplyDeleteSilly! Holding mother for expressing it naturally! (9)
ReplyDeleteAs I don't have access to my machine, I can't say now if Gridman has clued this word before.
Re: 1D, I've often seen "ct" for caught in THC, this is the first time I've seen "c".
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I sometimes go back to puzzles in the archive, and though there are no bylines, there are some in the 9020's that feel like they were set by Gridman! (And they're some fine ones too.)
Re: cabs, we do order them Stateside. Maybe an Americanism.
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ReplyDeleteGridman has been using the same six grids since 2001 when he began contributing xwds to TH. Once you have a set of those grids (those in the present series) with you, any puzzle from anonymous years that uses one of these grids will be his.
I was talking about summoning a cab from the taxi rank. In Chennai, taxi ranks have disappeared. We telephone a taxi service company and they send a cab to your home. This is called 'call taxi'. In this instance it would be correct to say that we order a taxi.
Actually 'c' is a more common abbreviation for 'caught' than 'ct'.
ReplyDeleteIn cricket score cards,
X c Y b Z 101
means X was caught by Y to a ball bowled by Z.
c & b Z would mean the bowler (Z) himself caught.
CV, thanks for that! I should have looked at a cricket scorecard, I now realize the origins of both "c" and "ct"!
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