Head accoutrements day today plus some new languages. Reasonably okay CW today.
ACROSS
ACROSS
1 - Reprimand the jamboree participant without note in the borders of Leningrad (5) - SCOLD {SCOut}{L)(D}
4 - Mostly turn up at the stronghold with ease (7) - COMFORT {COMe}{FORT}
10 - I get or cure this disease (6) - GOITRE*
11 - Feathered head ornament (8) - AIGRETTE [E]
14 - Scrub the Spanish container (6) - BUSHEL {BUSH}{EL}
16 - Deity in the capsule (4) - APSU [T]
17 - Small Halloween broom-rider has recovered from a complete change around (10) - SWITCHOVER {S}{WITCH}{OVER}
20 - One who may maintain a deliberately modest standard of living (3,7) - LOW PROFILE [E]
21 - Twisted headband of a lass (4) - AGAL {A}{GAL}
26 - Hair clasp (8) - BARRETTE [E]
29 - Farm horse is the same for two bishops at home (6) - DOBBIN {DO}{BB}{IN}
30 - Hand in the tool in this mess of things (7) - CLUTTER {C{L}UTTER}
31 - Pushes the surge of excitement (5) - URGES*
DOWN
2 - Very smart Kansas leaders grasped the language (9) - CHICKASAW {CHIC}{KA}{SAW}
3 - You are eating fish that is tempting (6) - LURING {L{UR}ING} Who is eating who?
5 - Overlook an order for one head teacher (4) - OMIT {OM}{I}{T}
7 - Start off the scribbly writing on the mechanical device (5) - RATCH scRATCH
9 - A place for wine merchant, overheard (6) - CELLAR (~seller)
12 - Maybe very angry to lose one's temper (4,3) - BLOW OFF [CD]
15 - Outstanding set of characters for a couple of students beforehand (7) - STELLAR {STE*}{LL}{A}{R}
18 - Edible plant (9) - VEGETABLE [E]
22 - An ornamental vaulting rib (6) - LIERNE [E]
25 - Uranian moon (5) - ARIEL [E] I never knew that the moons of Uranus are all named after characters from the works of Shakespeare.
Our setters are going places.
ReplyDeleteMsg from Scintillator posted late last night
Quote
Scintillator said...
Hi all
Just dropped by to tell you about a crossword of mine that Alberich has kindly published in his site.
PUZZLE LINK
Would greatly appreciate if solvers could solve it in their spare time and give their comments.
25 - Uranian moon (5) - ARIEL [E] I never knew that the moons of Uranus are all named after characters from the works of Shakespeare.
ReplyDeleteExcept 3.
We had discussed this here last Saturday.
ReplyDeleteYup, we discuss it even before NJ clues it in ;-)
ReplyDeleteCould not get LIERNE even after trying to cheat. How did you figure it out Deepak?
ReplyDeleteI got lierne after ploughing through several wiki articles on vaulted ceilings. So at least I have learned lots of new, if not immediately relevant, stuff.
ReplyDeleteCouple of memories aroused today - at school everybody used to call me Dobbin! And the one poem I had successfully banished from my consciousness - Pope's Rape of the Lock. I had to study it for A level English and after two years of dissection and analysis, I am afraid I hated it with a passion!
ReplyDeleteDave
ReplyDeleteI believe Aug 25 was GCSE results day?
Suresh @ 9:55,
ReplyDeleteI did the same as DD did in his 10:27
It was. My youngest did 3 GCSE's a year early - he will do the rest next year when he is 16. He got 3 A's and a B (biology). I just wish they had given him the extra year on the science, as 15 year old boys are not the best at revising! My elder boy got his AS results ( they are half an A level) and got 3 A's.
ReplyDeletePope's Rape of the Lock
ReplyDeleteIt is not what it looks like. ;-)
Another similar usage, I found outside All Saints Church in Bangalore, mentioning the presbyter's qualification as
Dip in Miss
(the first and last words had no period to indicate they were abbreviations)
Did I write once here that abetment to suicide is a crime in India and NJ can be alleged to be a party to this,if any one of us choose to put an end to our frustrations by jumping to 'conclusions'?
ReplyDeleteI'm still sorting out the answers for yesterday's clues and my co-pilot is still gathering all the stuffings out of the pillows that I've been throwing at the ceiling fan !! No Jokes-once you get the answers right, isn't there a rationale or method in her madness?
Once in a month, she does manage to set the cat amongst the pigeons.
NJ compiles,DG blogs, CV covers up,SD gets sewed up , DJD jolts his disc, MK asks 'emkay'? in Gujerati, Pd asks appidiya? MYS gets mystified. Still time for all others.
RU with all of you in your agonies.CIO
I thought i had a fairly good vocabulary! Today NJ made me feel very low like a heel and very humble!
ReplyDeleteanumohan,
ReplyDeleteNo need to feel humble or low as it's not difficult to pull out words from the dictionary to fit the Grid, the art lies in forming the wordplay that points to the answer.
One should feel humble or low only when the clueing is unambigous and you still can't find the answer, even if it is an everyday word.
CV Sir, From Yesterday - Probably, in the lyrics, the words - Times are changing, so are fashions, sleeveless blouses & what next, blouseless sleeves - would not have been given as they are treated as dialogs.
ReplyDeleteOh, I see. Thank you, Ram.
ReplyDeleteI am vindicated as those first few words of the song were ringing in my mind all the while before you came up with them.
Thank you very much for your clarification and for getting it out of my fevered head.