ACROSS
1 - Disturbances as Puss runs around swallowing fish (5-3) - SHAKE-UPS {S{HAKE}-UPS*}
5 - It gives you an out (6) - EGRESS [CD]
9 - Restraint against half of them undertaking gobar conversion (7) - EMBARGO {thEM}{BARGO*}
10 - Kind of lamp providing aura to officer (7) - HALOGEN {HALO}{GEN}
11 - Tell the truth — how would one emerge after a bath? (4,5) - COME CLEAN [DD]
12 - Subject to falsehood retracting, for instance (5) - LIEGE {LIE}{GE<-}
13 - Rational — it belongs to me! MI not needed! (4) - SANE {SA}{miNE}
14 - Won't be foolish — sure about each issue (3,6) - USE REASON {USE R*}{EA}{SON}
17 - No crooks in this business (4,5) - FAIR TRADE [CD]
19 - Remnant of press document you grab finally (4) - STUB {S}{T}{U}{B}
23 - Short advertising in favour of medical officer (5) - PROMO {PRO}{MO}
24 - Public uproar about handy cure that's adulterated (3,3,3) - HUE AND CRY*
25 - Note: in smashed Pulsar, there's a tangle (5-2) - SNARL-UP {S{N}ARL-UP*}
26 - Sort of urn Keats addressed (7) - GRECIAN [GK]
27 - Breaking the ice — maybe in Gujarat's capital (6) - SAYING {SAY}{IN}{G}
28 - Unusual to get to grips with girl's last gag (8) - STRANGLE {STRANG{L}E}
DOWN
1 - Observe cads breaking key pod (8) - SEEDCASE {SEE}{DCAS*}{E}
2 - It's no yolk for a labour leader to take transport workers without a shred of support (7) - ALBUMEN {A}{L}{BUsMEN}
3 - Make money for revolutionary leader in bustling niche (6) - ENRICH {EN{R}ICH*}
4 - In a devious way press PO for his college appointment (13) - PROFESSORSHIP*
6 - Good old lush locale for fine decorative foil (4,4) - GOLD LEAF {G}{OLD} {LEA}{F}
8 - Issue said to be decided upon in final phase (6) - SUNSET (~son){SUN}{SET}
10 - Importance given to many a unit of mass (13) - HUNDREDWEIGHT {HUNDRED}{WEIGHT}
16 - Church losing core by cane-wielding in temporary inactivity (8) - ABEYANCE {ABbEY}{ANCE*}
18 - Violent moan by a disheartened woman: it's not the norm (7) - ANOMALY {ANOM*}{A}{LadY}
20 - Townsman looks up to Raja making a mark (7) - TICKING {TIC<-}{KING}
21 - Bursts from health resort's surgeon (6) - SPASMS {SPA'S}{MS}
22 - Different angle presented by a woman (6) - ANGELA {ANGEL*}{A}
13 - Rational — it belongs to me! MI not needed! (4) - SANE {SA}{miNE}
ReplyDeleteHow do we get SA in the above clue?
Another nice one - the only issue was my stupidity - I put 26A in 25A, and was wondering why I couldn't get the bottom half of the crossword, until realisation finally dawned.
ReplyDelete@Rengaswamy, IT = SA. Both are synonyms for sex-appeal.
ReplyDeleteSo:
Rational // it // belongs to me, MI not needed = SANE / SA / (mi-)NE
14 - Won't be foolish — sure about each issue (3,6) - USE REASON {USE R*}{EA}{SON}
ReplyDeleteIs EA used for each? I put it as RE A SON. But was not satisfied with my anno.
@Bhavan.
ReplyDeleteThank you Bhavan. Now it is sane.
Some nice clues here - fair trade, strangle, sunset, brooklyn etc.
ReplyDelete18 - Violent moan by a disheartened woman: it's not the norm (7) - ANOMALY {ANOM*}{LadY}
ReplyDeletesmall correction in Anno. (ANOM*)A (LadY)
Nice enjoyable CW to begin the week with.
ReplyDelete1D-How do we get the final 'e'? Is it pod of K'E'Y?
Padmanabahn @ 9:50,
ReplyDeleteObserve = SEE
cads = Anagram fodder
breaking = AInd
key = E
pod = Definition = {SEE}{DCAS*}{E}
Rengaswamy,
ReplyDeleteYes EA is for Each.
Thanks for pointing out the slip in 18D which I have since corrected
Thank you,Col.
ReplyDelete*** how would one emerge after a bath?
ReplyDeleteThe answer to the above question should be CLEAN and not COME CLEAN. Thoughts?
5 - It gives you an out (6) - EGRESS [CD]
ReplyDeletePlease read 3rd para under 'Attractions':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum%27s_American_Museum
They probably thought it was a headless Negress.
Sumitra@ 11.24-
ReplyDeleteI would rather say 'come out clean'!
Sumit
ReplyDeleteYou've a point! But -
The def for phrase reqd is
Tell the truth — COME CLEAN, make a confession, admit your mistake, etc.
Hence the subsidiary indication: how would one emerge after a bath?
So CLEAN alone won't provide the answer. If you say the SD should have been rewritten, maybe.
Kishore
ReplyDeleteI don't know how you track down these fascinating details or - should I say - head-offs, but that wordplay was deliberately avoided as the word before the decapitation is considered to be politically incorrect.
Nice one today! 'Breaking the ice' in 27A is more of an idiom than a saying?
ReplyDeletePadmanabhan @ 11:37,
ReplyDeleteYou have changed Sumit's gender!!
My apologies!!
ReplyDeleteCV, 1145: That was just a tidbit stored away in memory. Had to locate it on the web. But, yes, today the word is, as you say, pi.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have found it strange that, after denouncing the word negro which essentially means black and which was used by MLK Jr., the word super-ceding it is black, which again refers to exactly the same thing. I understand the form was used in a derogatory form during the slavery periods, but the new word does not mean anything different and was once considered more offensive. I, personally, though found African more comfortable to use, but I have been corrected to use black instead, by the very same people, with the simple statement 'We're black'.
DD, your friend rides again:
ReplyDeleteIn today's HT:
22 Lady carried bare encouragement for singer? (6)
Another beaut:
2 Bit of lung from bodies of calves, solid (7)