ACROSS
1 - No taped material — it's for writing by hand (7) - NOTEPAD*
5 - He has doubts about entering poisonous surroundings (7) - SCEPTIC {S{C}EPTIC}
11 - Lawrence to run out with note on occupation time (6) - TENURE {TE}{NUR*}{E}
12 - Keep your hair on if you want to stop sweating (4,4) - COOL DOWN [DD]
14 - March past (5) - APRIL [CD]
15 - Use the car too often in high gear (9) - OVERDRIVE [DD]
18 - George offers gold to sanctimonious group (9) - AUTOPILOT {AU}{TO}{PI}{LOT}
20 - Record no music at the club party (5) - DISCO {DISC}{O}
22 - Piece of cloth, chaps found in the fort (8) - FRAGMENT {F{RAG}{MEN}T}
26 - Thought about what the mirror did (9) - REFLECTED [DD]
27 - Country becomes popular by reciprocating help (5) - INDIA {IN}{DIA<-}
28 - Old cues from daughter freed him from blame (7) - EXCUSED {EX}{CUSE*}{D}
29 - Men loco to prefer single eyepiece (7) - MONOCLE*
2 - I ran badly three times outside — coach needed (7) - TRAINER {T{RAIN*}ER}
3 - Press cutting — or what links some of them together (9) - PAPERCLIP [DD]
4 - Drug placed in copper cup for English (4) - DOPE {DOP}{E} Anno for DOP not clear (See comments below)
5 - Drawn outline of hotel suite refurbishment (10) - SILHOUETTE*
6 - Renewed lease for an art supporter (5) - EASEL*
7 - Organised tour to rehabilitated oil port in Libya (7) - TRIPOLI {TRIP}{OLI*}
8 - Completely free from dirt (5) - CLEAN [E]
13 - Vote in a man who worked like a busy bee! (10) - POLLINATED {POLL}{IN}{A}{TED}
17 - Clear one troublesome pest found in the river (9) - EXONERATE {EX{ONE}{RAT}E}
19 - Trade vehicles (7) - TRAFFIC [DD]
21 - Nature of an ecclesiastical council (7) - SYNODIC [E]
22 - From a distance, engineer has to perform a meaningless display (5) - FARCE {FAR}{CE}
25 - First man to be present early morning (4) - ADAM {AD}{AM}
4 - Drug placed in copper cup for English (4) - DOPE DOP{E} Anno for DOP not clear
ReplyDeletehttp://dictionary.babylon.com/dop/
Dop - A copper cup for holding a diamond while cutting it (Your Dict)
ReplyDeleteDeepak, I don't believe you selected that cartoon for5a.
ReplyDeleteIn the above 'believe' may be read with reference to:
ReplyDeletea. you
b. selected
c. that
d. cartoon
Kishore @ 8:35,
ReplyDeleteI don't believe, that you don't believe that I could believe that.
The clue 19D has been published first by Rover in 2000.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/21965
And Manna (hopefully) has published it for the first time in 2002. And repeated it in 2007 and 2010. BTW it is also a Guardian quick clue!
For 26A see this Glasgow Herald Link .
ReplyDeleteWhile now it's pretty much clear where most clues are coming from, I have difficulty in tracking the exact location. It's from all over UK - the clues are mostly from Guardian, but there are exceptions.
14 - March past (5) - APRIL [CD]
ReplyDeleteThis also appears familiar. Though I do not have any database to say if it is repeated from MM's past clues or otherwise.
On an aside, the monocle and April reminds me of a gag from Plum:
In 'The Small Bachelor', the hero George Finch was called April Showers by his girl's brother, because he brought her, May, flowers.
I have also seen 7D and 15A recently (probably Everyman)
ReplyDeleteSudalamani (926), OMG, a crossword that was published way back in 1981? How on earth did you dig this one out? I think this is somethin' even Scotland yard would be proud of. And seeing that it's from The Glasgow Herald, wondering if you got any connections up there.
ReplyDeleteAnywayz, I think it could just be another case of two different people thinking up the same idea.
LOL VJ. Very likely you are not keeping a tab on the latest article on crosswordunclued and the comments thereunder.
ReplyDeleteMM has been regularly lifting clues from whatever sources he could muster. That explains the 'master' version of his clues.
Further to earlier swallows, I think that this more than what many of us can swallow.
ReplyDeleteKipling:
ReplyDeleteWords are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
But borrowed drugs can be dangerous.
Manna's crosswords are turning into double the work. Not only do you have to solve the clue, but then you get to track down where it originally came from ;-)
ReplyDeleteIn the last two days, much muck flak has been hurled against Manna. Be that as it may, it does bring back to me many such clues from the crosswords of the UK, and I feel not much strongly against that. Not all have the access to the UK xwords and if Manna culls and introduces a few clues here and there, so be it. Leave him be. We get a wider exposure. Agreed, it should be more of a creative effort, but as I said before, Who invented what? Everybody discovers.
ReplyDeleteSo long as we get our daily quota of shots, let the compiler find peace with his own conscience and try and be a bit more creative. QED.
Not often that you get a completely satisfactory crop from Manna, but this could be one of those days, so willing to turn a blind eye to the 'lifts'. 18A struck me as being a particularly cleverly crafted clue!
ReplyDeletew00t for Sir Patrick!
ReplyDelete(from yesterday)
ReplyDeleteRe that Times/Times in HT clue for which the answer was AVOID.
See the discussion here:
http://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?action=read&id=1315926455&user=dharrison
My Chambers 12th Edition has arrived , hot off the press, all the way from the UK. Bought it from Amazon books when the free shipping offer was on
ReplyDeleteIt's still on, Colonel. It lasts until the 30th. :-)
ReplyDeleteOkay.
ReplyDelete