Thursday 9 June 2011

No 10176, Thursday 09 Jun 11, Sankalak

Not one of Sankalak's best.
Guessing games from tomorrow.
ACROSS
1   - Disrupts the bulletin but brings hot tidings (6,3,4) - {BREAKS} {THE NEWS}
9   - Passed along a song in a clarinet part (7) - {RE{LAY}ED}
10 - The nearest construction is towards the orient (7) - EASTERN*
11 - Good-looking girl, one on the way, is unscrupulous (9) - {DISH}{ONE}{ST}
12 - Fruit, Adam has it in the throat (5) - APPLE [DD]
13 - Wounded military engineer escorted by servant (6) - {MAI{ME}D} Is ME standard for Military Engineer?
14 - Permits that get half the Centre caught in untruths (8) - {LI{CENtre}{C}ES}
17 - Verbal exchange common in court (8) - ARGUMENT [CD]
19 - Eating out is something easily done (6) - PICNIC [CD]
23 - It makes for more friction when playing the violin (5) - ROSIN [E]
25 - First of sons, treated protectively, was suffocated (9) - {S}{MOTHERED}
26 - Would Air India flirt frivolously with such transport (7) - {AI}{RLIFT*}
27 - Part to be played in Pennsylvania East by one on conditional release (7) - {P{A}{ROLE}E}


28 - Colourations that turn men into pigs at random (13) - PIGMENTATIONS*
DOWN
1   - Feeling of a revolutionary in a time of economic upsurge (7) - {BO{RED}OM}
2   - Getting support from two directions on stock quotation (9) - {E}{N}{LISTING}
3   - Opening for an eavesdropper (7) - KEYHOLE [CD]


4   - Cleaned up, it had a reverse, expired (6) - {TI<-}{DIED}
5   - Shocking kind of seat (8) - ELECTRIC [DD]
6   - Do a sting operation perhaps and get Sen near breakdown (7) - ENSNARE*
7   - Animal, female on extended play (5) - {SHE}{EP}
8   - Masculine and feminine (7) - GENDERS [E]
15 - Student-actor not trained as a singer (9) - CONTRA(L)TO*
16 - Liqueur in teaset? Bad (8) - ANISETTE*
17 - Side by side, a creature goes across river (7) - {A}{B{R}EAST}
18 - People understand taking in a bit of news and setting things right (7) - {MEN}{DI{N}G}
20 - Get what is left? (7) - INHERIT [CD]
21 - They can be taken up to fight one(7) - CUDGELS [CD]
22 - Char's tool, dear child (6) - {MOP}{PET}
24 - Get ready for bare entertainment! (5) - STRIP [CD]



5 comments:

  1. PCJ doffs his hat to the missus in 1a.

    Yesterday only 4 comments as we approach visitor number 444444 ?!

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  2. Has been a strange run from Sankalak. Definitely easy puzzles as is his wont. I noticed the presence of so many CDs only this time. May be they were there always?

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  3. 19 - Eating out is something easily done (6) - PICNIC [CD]

    DD: 1. Any informal meal eaten outside
    2. Any undertaking that is easy to do(wordweb)

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  4. Easy, but good too. Not as many straight anagrams as yesterday.
    Put POPPET instead of MOPPET for 22D! Fits the definition too, but not the full clue evidently

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  5. @Ram(yesterday)-

    I was just mentioning when we start getting NJ CW's from tomorrow,our comments column will be full & overflowing.But All is peace & quiet now!

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