ACROSS
2 - Deliver a message to the President individually (6) - {PR}{EACH} PREACH
7 - Cover the round pool (4) - {LID}{O} LIDO
9 - One turns back to hold one granny (4) - {N{AN}A<-} NANA
10 - Somehow calling-off arrangements at the last minute (13) - CANCELLATIONS [E] Somehow?
12 - Wrong street I enter in an Italian seaport (7) - TRIESTE*
13 - Stipulate before hand (7) - PROVED ? (Addendum PROVIDE [E] - See comments)
15 - Quite a hit on the short track (4) - SWAT Anno pending (SWATh See comments)
17 - Remnant of something that has been cut off (5) - STUMP [E]
18 - Steno designates the characters in the focal point (4) - NODE [T]
19 - Austrian composer of waltzes (7) - STRAUSS [E]
21 - Bring up the bed out from the birdhouse so constructed (7) - N{OURISHbed*} NOURISH Where does the N come from?
23 - Heart-in-the-mouth zigzag ride (6,7) - ROLLER COASTER [CD]
28 - Electrical units installed in homes have no energy (4) - OHMSe* OHMS
29 - Same as widespread, general (6) - COMMON [DD}
DOWN
1 - Carpenter's hand tool (6) - PINCER [E]
3 - Leaders exercise and sit energetically in comfort (4) - {E}{A}{S}{E} EASE
4 - Auction off the modern phone on radio (4) - (~sell) CELL As per the surface of the clue this should be SELL
5 - Do follow an international word processing command (4) - {UN}{DO} UNDO
6 - Unfair, prejudiced (3-5) - ONE-SIDED [E]
11 - The father of Odysseus (7) - LAERTES [E]
13 - Vivid red kind of cheese (7) - PIMENTO Pimento by itself is not vivid red nor is it the color of Pimento cheese!!
14 - Strong emotion displayed by a native Senor outside (10) - VENERATIONs* VENERATION
16 - Heartless attendant will check in detail the famous battle (8) - {WAiTER}{LOOk} WATERLOO Heartless will delete 'IT' ?
20 - A tabloid? (5) - SHEET [CD]
22 - Economise the regular cost over margin of the first product (6) - {tSoC<-}{RIM}{P} SCRIMP
24 - Soup vegetable for the French geek regularly (4) - {LE}{gEeK] LEEK
13 - Stipulate before hand (7) - PROVED ?
ReplyDeletePROVIDE. The grid shows 6 slots, but the answer is 7 letters.
15 - Quite a hit on the short track (4) - SWAT Anno pending
SWAT(-h)
Swath : a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)
6 - Unfair, prejudiced (3-5) - ONE-SIDED [E]
ReplyDeleteThis is a Double Definition (DD).
10 - Somehow calling-off arrangements at the last minute (13) - CANCELLATIONS [E] Somehow?
ReplyDeleteI somehow completed the CW!
13 - Stipulate before hand (7) - PROVED ?
Was this meant to be PROVIDE with no blank for E.
16 - Heartless attendant will check in detail the famous battle (8) - {WAiTER}{LOOk} WATERLOO Heartless will delete 'IT' ?
Halfheartlessness?
15 - Quite a hit on the short track (4) - SWAT Anno pending
Reminded me of
Take a broom and swat a bee
(from The Mystery of the Screaming Clock, Robert Arthur)
I thought that the word 'swath' was in the following poem of Robert Frost but it seems it is elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteAnyway please read, if you like, the poem that is short but quite beautiful.
http://www.poemtree.com/poems/Mowing.htm
Bhavan is right on 13A. It is PROVIDE.
ReplyDeleteFor symmetry also, there should be a white cell at F15.
6 - Unfair, prejudiced (3-5) - ONE-SIDED [E]
ReplyDeleteThis is a Double Definition (DD).
I would not classify the above clue as a proper DD. I go with the Col's typification.
How many clues here are really cryptic?
13 - Vivid red // kind of cheese (7) - PIMENTO
ReplyDeleteThis is again, perhaps, intended as one of those attempted as DD like 6 dn.
1) A pimento is a variety of large, red, heart-shaped chili pepper.
2) Pimento cheese has sharp cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, pimentos, salt and pepper, blended to a smooth or chunky paste.
CV,
ReplyDelete14 dn:
'outside' should be read as 'out Side' (instruction to remove S)
Normally, in CWs, outside is used for indicating deletion of L(eft) or R(ight).
CV @ 9:05,
ReplyDeleteBy outside, NJ means out 'S' not 'R' or 'L'!!!
I think S for 'side' must be in that long list, a copy of which is with Suresh
ReplyDeleteOh, I see!
ReplyDeleteNeither Chambers nor XWD, a dictionary of crossword abbreviations, which I consulted only now, has s, side.
Is it in that notoriously long list? Yes, it is!
But we can accept it, for, in sums of equation we have LHS, RHS - where S is 'side'.
PS: I have deleted a comment of mine made earlier. That was in the light of some responses thereafter.
Kudos to the Col for biting the bullet and solving this on time. I am reminded of Blake's Tiger - did he who solved the others solve thee?
ReplyDeleteMeet you all again next time when Gridman will be back!
And I guess that would be next Monday? Seems an age to go!
ReplyDelete13A-
ReplyDeleteThough there are 7 slots in the grid (as pointed out earlier)it does not go with the crossing of 6D-one sided.If that is correct,it should end in D and not E.
16D-What is the indication for deletion of K from 'look'?
ReplyDeleteOn the whole,quite an exercise in looking uo Google.
ReplyDeletePadmanabhan @ 10:15
ReplyDelete'detail' is the indicator to delete the tail of 'look'
Beforehand (a single word) means before an action or event; in advance.
ReplyDeleteIn 13A, the setter has taken the liberty of breaking it as 'before' and 'hand'. This is questionable.
Venkatesh,
ReplyDeleteIf you go into NJ's clues in detail you will only have questions without answers at most times. Be happy that at least there is some kind of logic in detail!!
Deepak, Thanks for the expla
ReplyDelete(that is detailed explanation)
Kishore,
ReplyDeleteYou are wel
(that's a detailed welcome)
I overlooked to congratulate the Colonel for having become a grandpa.!! How silly of me. Even when I spoke to him on the phone, i was unaware whether I was speaking to the father or the son. not the latest addition , though.!! God bless the new born to carry the tradition of crossword solving, having inherited the genes.
ReplyDeleteYesterday's crossword was a bit of a dampener as there were too many anagrams. However, though i could not find DOG AND PONY SHOW in the Norman Pulsford book of phrases, I did get the answer and could add on to my list.
That book is no longer published. If there is to be a reprint after updating, one could give them so many new idioms and phrases, culled even since its last issue of 1983, if the Publishers are still there.
Raju Umamaheswar
Raju
ReplyDeleteThat phrase is not in The Crossword Phrase Dictionary (comp. by R. J. Edwards) either.
Nor is it in TEA software.
I too desire for an updated book that includes more modern phrases from recent works/cinema/plays/etc but that is a cry in the wilderness.
Was it you asked for an S&B in CBE?
If one were organised, I am ready to make a trip there. Apart from the Col, Dr Srinivasan from Salem and my brother CGB here might join.
Kishore 1209 and Deepak 1220
ReplyDeleteLiked your sense of hum
(That is detailed humour)
Each writer here has a good pen
ReplyDelete(That's a detailed .....)
Yes sir, I'd love to meet aall the fellow bloggers and bloggeresses-- my word-- to be gender specific. Once i know the number, I can organize the venue == preferably, my house andnhome in the balcony-- Sapna & I will be glad to host.
ReplyDeleteI haven't see Edward's Crossword Phrase Dictionary. What's TEA software? Neer heard of it? Anyway, one will always be on a discovery trip with each new crossword and one can compile one's own compendium. I eep jotting down new words and phrases in my books.
Why would our tribe not increase, given the fact that cryptic crosswords are are as versatile as a game of chess? Why would crosswords not get their rightful place, instead of being in the generic phrase of games and pastime? Can our Group do something to spread the word far and wide amongst the literati?
Raju Umamaheswar
Raju
ReplyDeletePlease read
http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2010/12/books-crossword-setters-used-in-days.html
Please visit, if you like, to read a poem written by my granddaughter:
ReplyDeletehttp://cgrishi.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/muse-at-work/
Thanks all, for your detailed disc
ReplyDeleteEspecially the ever naughty CV and his detailed pen
Sudalamani 959, you mean the Tyger ;-)
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