Sunday 18 September 2011

No 2652, Sunday 18 Sep 11

ACROSS
1   - Two wind instruments producing piece of music for dance (8) - HORNPIPE {HORN}{PIPE}
5   - Afternoon nap in cosiest armchair (6) - SIESTA [T]
9   - Soldiers using minor railway (8) - {INFANT}{RY} INFANTRY
10 - Trounce in throwing event (6) - HAMMER [DD]
11 - Part of NI city right for bishop (5) - DERRY londonDERRY (Addendum - DER(-b+r)RY - See comments)
12 - Officer in U-boat to adjust to North (9) - {SUB}{ALTER}{N} SUBALTERN
14 - Supreme commander's vague mission cut short at sea (13) - {GENERAL}{ISSIMOn*} GENERALISSIMO
17 - Prince rather confused about absent queen (9,4) - {CATHERINE P{A}RR*} CATHERINE PARR
19 - Controversially ban niterie mostly responsible for causing drunkenness (9) - INEBRIANTe* INEBRIANT
21 - Duck in game - I'd erred (5) - EIDER [T]
23 - Incapacitated boy receiving one at college (4,2) - {LA{I}D} {UP} LAID UP
24 - Country holding alternative view (8) - {PAN{OR}AMA} PANORAMA
25 - Small seal gets in wreckage (6) - SIGNET*
26 - National song about a leader in Africa is something one loathes (8) - {AN{A}THEM}{A} ANATHEMA
DOWN
1   - Musical act is cut (6) - {HAIR}{DO} HAIRDO
2   - Either way, consult (5) - REFER <->
3   - Girl, possibly ten, describing a game of poker (5,4) - {PENNY} {A}{NTE*} PENNY ANTE
4   - Special peers, triumvirate reforming economic policy (11) - {PERES*}{TROIKA} PERESTROIKA
6   - Completely at home with everyone (2,3) - {IN} {ALL} IN ALL
7   - Edited memoirs about the Spanish butler (9) - {SOMM{EL}IER*} SOMMELIER
8   - By chance, matador injured around noon (2,6) - {AT RA{N}DOM*} AT RANDOM
13 - Speedy traveller, slug on path! (6,5) - {BULLET} {TRAIN} BULLET TRAIN
14 - Swelling crowd (9) - GATHERING [DD]
15 - First to spot head assault whipping boy (9) - {S}{CAPE}{GO}{AT} SCAPEGOAT


16 - Greek hero getting cold in the Aegean, say, capsized (8) - {A{CHILL}ES*} ACHILLES
18 - Navy girl giving support to member (6) - {ARM}{ADA} ARMADA
20 - Way to comprehensively defeat Spain (5) - {ROUT}{E} ROUTE
22 - Seaman, one at home on the water (5) - DRAKE [DD]

11 comments:

  1. 11 - Part of NI city right for bishop (5) - DERRY londonDERRY

    DER(-b){+R}Y
    Derby - city
    Derry - borough of Northern Ireland

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  2. Part of NI city right for bishop (5)

    I thought this was:

    Part of NI = Derry (def)
    city = Derby with R(right) for Bishop(B)

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  3. 9 - Soldiers using minor railway (8) - {INFANT}{RY} INFANTRY

    Reminds me, if infants live on infantry road, where to the adults live?

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  4. Yup, both aqueous and vitreous !

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  5. Yup an aqueous diet can lead to a vitreous ceramic.

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  6. A lot of puns & rhymes around! Enjoyable Sunday fare- I mean both the pun & CW

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  7. Nice, Suresh, but my ref was to the humor in the eye of the beholder, as any doctor would certify.

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  8. I know what you were talking about, Kishore. I was only changing the subject

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  9. Sandhya: You're right on dot. LONDONDERRY- delete London as part of NI city and B replaced by R but why DERBY, Bhavan??

    Did any one notice a vein of Maritime thread in today's clues?

    Poor Gorbachev: PERISTROIKA coined by him was tossed him out!!

    A very nice crossword to look forward to each Sunday.

    Now on to Monday blues to all of you in the rat race. Sure? Kishore ?No PARR for the course?

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