Posted at 9 AM
ACROSS
1 - No way out for a politician on rough seas (7) - {I}{MP}{ASSE*}
5 - Red mark allowed (7) - {SCAR}{LET}
9 - Turn around for best arts in this country (7) - AUSTRIA*(u+ai+arts)
10 - Vehicles carrying a heavyweight in containers (7) - {CAR{TON}S}
11 - Energy needed to work up to being a poet (5) - {E}{LIOT<-}
12 - Drat! Their reconstruction of the exterior isn't good (5,4) - THIRD RATE*
13 - Dull colour for sink, say, never backed (4,5) - {SAG}{E G}{REEN<-}
15 - The city dandies holidaying in the American West (5) - DUDES [CD]
16 - Many dare to have a distant ideal, probably unattainable (5) - DREA(M)*
18 - It's no real solution for the family (9) - RELATIONS*
21 - Now apt, foolishly, to take it amiss (2,7) - {AT P*}{RESENT}
24 - On course ever, as chief district magistrate (5) - REEV(E)*
25 - Even so Tim's first letter requires consideration (7) - {THOUGH}{T}
26 - Three-headed muscle - (7) TRICEPS [CD]
27 - To cut properly, rely on eating irons (7) - CUTLERY*
28 - Men rose up to listen to this American poet and essayist (7) - EMERSON*
DOWN
1 - Favourable self-representation created by public figures (7) - IMAGERS ? [CD]
2 - Enterprising pertinacity (7) - PUSHING [CD]
3 - After a bad start, the game runs according to plan (9) - {STRAT*}{AGEM*}
4 - Lawrence can be ordered to perform (5) - ENACT* (te+can)
5 - Coastline irregular in parts (5) - SECTIONAL*
6 - A raid turned out to be painful (5) - ACRID ? Anno pending
7 - On sign dart around like an acrobat wearing skin tight garment (7) - {LEO}{TARD*}
8 - Trying men upset betters in halves (7) - TESTERS* (
14 - One of the first to protect the home seriously (9) - {EAR{NEST}LY}
15 - Decide I need, however, to call in (9) - {DE{TERM}INE*}
16 - When doctor has spasm it appears quite severe (7) - {DR}{AS}{TIC}
17 - A heroic achievement of an old pilot properly presented (7) - {EX}{PLOIT*}
19 - Allowed to bring in home cooked food (7) - OME{LET}S
20 - Having relation with a boy but not one's own (7) - {STEP}{SON}
22 - Flier able to provide a spread (5) - EAGLE [CD]
23 - It may be the tax for church (5) - {TI*}{THE}
19 - Allowed to bring in home cooked food (7) - OME{LET}S Anno pending
ReplyDeleteSimple! 'home' is a misprint for 'some'.
6 - A raid turned out to be painful (5) - ACRID ? Anno pending
ReplyDeleteAnd A is a misprint for C ?!!
I thought 1d was a slip between IMAGERY and IMAGES, both of which fit the def, but not the crossing or grid, respectively.
ReplyDeleteReading 'Pilot' in 17d with Omelets in 19d evoked memories of Air Marshal Dhatigara, who passed away in Jan.2011, who was famed for his Bhujia and Omelet.
I'm im-press-ed by the misprints in the press!!!
ReplyDeleteApropos AM Dhatigara, he passed away last year. Sorry for error.
ReplyDeleteThanks Colonel for your patience.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if today was a known holiday in India/TN or there was an unexpected bandh yesterday ...
Of course newspapers will have power generators but I might say that in Chennai there was large-scale power outage over a wide area for most part of yesterday.
ReplyDeleteThe price of NIE has gone up by 50 paise.
It is rumoured that the price of the 'national newspaper' too might go up.
My newspaper agent refused to accept my renewal for ToI at a reduced (invitational) price as there is a dispute between the co. and the vendors.
Kudos to Deepak for his 'enterprise' and 'pertinacity' ( I have changed the 2d clue words) as the answer PUSHING would be wrong description of him.
ReplyDeleteCV, All newspaper prices might go up because of a peculiar phenomenon in the recent past. As a past member of the newspaper community, you would be interested and understand:
ReplyDeleteABC changed its practice for determination of Net Paid Sales a couple of years back and ruled that where net realisation (cover price - agent commission) was less than scrap price, such sale would not count for NPS. ABC's last prescribed price for raddi was Rs.9. At this some papers which had predatory pricing were below the Plimsol line. With ban on plastic coming into force in many places, demand of old newspapers has risen and gone up from about Rs.5 last year to Rs. 9 now and is expected to shoot up further. Hence, newspapers will probably hike up cover prices to be still eligible to be included for NPS.
Bhavan,
ReplyDeleteI have sent you an e-mail, please check and reply.
The reason the online paper was delayed must be due to a server problem. If it was a power outage and the generators were also on the blink then the print edition also would have got delayed.
ReplyDeleteKishore
ReplyDeleteThanks for the note.
This explains something I never really understood till now.
There is a famous raddi shop in my neighbourhood where every day at 8-30 a.m. I would notice mounds and mounds of the morning paper just opposite newspaper kiosks trying to sell the same day's paper.
Kishore @ 9:35,
ReplyDeleteDidn't know about this Plimsol line for newspapers.
Col@9.56 : done.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if today was a known holiday in India/TN or there was an unexpected bandh yesterday ...
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a bandh here in Chennai :(
The HINDU is available at www.hindu.com as well as www.thehindu.com the second site being the newer avatar. In today's case while the first site does not have today's edition, the second site uploaded the paper at around 7:30 AM, which if I had noticed would have saved me the trouble of typing out the clues!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Bhavan
ReplyDeleteFor 6 days starting tomorrow we will not have to tear our hair out in frustration at meaningless surfaces or indecipherable wordplays.
ReplyDelete10 days Bhavan
ReplyDeleteCV:10.00:
ReplyDeleteYes, some newspapers seem to be content to sell their own product as waste; probably they realise its true worth !
Suresh @10.37 : Yes of course. With due apologies to Sankalak, I thought it was someone else's turn after 6 days.
ReplyDeleteBhavan. Wrong again. without Sankalak it is 4 days
ReplyDelete2-Neyartha, 1-Everyman, 2-Spiffy, 1-Cryptonyte and then 6 Sankalak. Isn't that the run for the next few days?
ReplyDeleteOops. Then it should read 13 days in my post of 10:37. I forgot Neyartha.That would be 2 Neyartha, 2 Everyman, 2 Spiffy. 1 Cryptonite and 6 Sankalak
ReplyDeleteSuresh,
ReplyDeleteYou've got your maths right finally!
Yes, Deepak. Fitzy would be appalled
ReplyDelete& Victoria would be Cross !
ReplyDeleteAn aside;
ReplyDeleteThe urge to discover secrets is deeply ingrained in human nature; even the least curious mind is roused by the promise of sharing knowledge withheld from others. Some are fortunate enough to find a job which consists in the solution of mysteriers, but most of us are driven to sublimate this urge by the solving of artificial puzzles devised for our entertainment. Detective stories and crossword puzzles cater for the majority; the solution of secret codes may be the pursuit of a few.
John Chadwick, The Decipherment of Linear B, quoted by Simon Singh, the Code Book.
Re. my 11:51. For other users. Fitzy, was our Princi in school an used to teach Maths.
ReplyDeleteLH giving problems again
ReplyDeleteThough I have been qualifying in most months, I finally won the June month Aha Puzzle challenge. Special thanks to Sandhya for her good wishes some time back.
ReplyDeleteAha congrats Kishore.
ReplyDeleteCongrats Kishore
ReplyDeleteThanks, Deepak and Suresh.
ReplyDeleteDeepak, next time you will not see the T-Red.;-)
19 - Allowed to bring in some cooked food (7) - OME{LET}S
ReplyDeleteIt should be LET in SOME* (cooked is AnagrInd)
Defn: food {OME(LET)S*}
Congrats Kishore
ReplyDeleteThanks Bhavan
ReplyDelete