ACROSS
1 - Getting sympathetic (13) - UNDERSTANDING [DD]
8 - Game in which the cat takes over, we hear (7) - TOMBOLA {TOM}{BOLA}(~bowler)
9 - White faced clown seen on jetty that's become weak (7) - PIERROT {PIER}{ROT}
13 - Brother Ben is possibly going round a city in Australia (8) - BRISBANE {BR}{ISB{A}NE*}
15 - Subject for those accepting direction (5) - THEME {THEM}{E}
16 - Elevate Ben to Noel status (7) - ENNOBLE*
18 - Architect has to redesign the graphic representation (7) - REMODEL [CD]
19 - A lady can make up her own name (5) - LYDIA {LYD{I}A*}
21 - Having a lean ruler in mind (8) - THINKING {THIN}{KING}
23 - Stars with a sparkler in one (6) - GEMINI {GEM}{IN}{I}
28 - Not right from the start (4,2,3,4) - LEFT IN THE PAST Where is t he definition?
DOWN
2 - A man who's proposed? (7) - NOMINEE [CD]
3 - One's own personality (3) - EGO [CD]
4 - A token to confirm a bargain (4) - SEAL [DD]
5 - Sort of play gripping Mum or Dad, so it seems (10) - APPARENTLY {AP{PARENT}LY*}
6 - Documentary evidence of legal transactions (5) - DEEDS [E]
7 - Hurried up over class report (7) - NARRATE {NAR<-}{RATE}
8 - He'll let us know when health giving drinks should be taken (5,6) - TOAST MASTER [CD]
10 - Train depot I contrived to alarm (11) - TREPIDATION*
12 - A smile on the side in the main (5) - ABEAM {A}{BEAM}
14 - Actor showing the way to others (7,3) - LEADING MAN [DD]
17 - Give a call to the English lady (5) - BELLE {BELL}{E}
18 - Resupply of items to the recruits (7) - REISSUE [E] What are the recruits doing here?
20 - Platform that is provided with the first of summer flowers (7) - DAISIES {DAIS}{IE}{S}
24 - The boy the girl turns to (4) - BETH {THE+B}*
27 - Venomous snake of Cleopatra? (3) - ASP [GK]
Order of Precedence?
ReplyDeleteAn Indian commie goes before the Queen.
18 - Resupply of items to the recruits (7) - REISSUE [E] What are the recruits doing here?
ReplyDeleteProbably harking back to times left in the past where recruits used to get reissued uniforms instead of new ones.
Cleo's snake followed by unknown Engineer (4)
ReplyDeleteHats off to you folks patiently unscrambling some really weird stuff. I am finding this run of MM rather insipid
ReplyDeleteKishore @ 12:02
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Bhala @ 12:54: Was thinking exactly the same thing. Trying to do some of the Gridman's puzzles I missed last week to keep the joy going ...
ReplyDeleteDG, 1349. Perfect.
ReplyDeleteAnd 832 was about Prakash 22d and Eliza-24d today.
To all fans of Plum who would have been 130 today. What ho, chaps !. Time to remember ghastly aunts, God's daisy chains, and gentlemen's gentlemen. Toodle-oo
ReplyDeleteCrossword of 14th October, 2011
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of a cryptic puzzle is this?
Mindless Manna. Was he under any spell by 1Across? He has asked alll of us to play Russian 26 across. Got us all in an 11 across rage. Our minds have 9 down.
Lets ask that Hindu to 17 down Manna and be given to the 28 across.
UGH UGH UGH many times over. Such an Yucky compilation.
Kishore: Thanks for reminding that today good ol' Plum would have been 130. What ho. Immortal in his writing and characters.Not a dull moment. I still remember chuckling to myself reading PGW in the local train in Bombay when others would wonder whether I was not quite there. Same as in the modern day, when I tell my wife, as to why this guy is talking to himself only to be told that he's on the Blue TOOTH on his EARS and hence his TONGUE is wagging or when someone starts talking in the back seat whilst you are driving and starts a convo' on his cell and you start answering only to feel like a poop. That reminds me of that Pimply faced pop-eyed poop.
ReplyDeleteI'll always remember UKRIDGE in which there was this business plan to breed rats and cats and make a killing. Pronob Da can take a page out of this for the Indian inflation. What say?
These classics of PGW can never be matched and can always be read when one is feeling blue to be revived and make you feel that God is there in His heaven and everything will be alright in this best of all possible worlds.
Raju:
ReplyDeleteI endeavour to give satisfaction, as the Master would say.
And can you forget the excruciatingly long names likes Fotheringay-Phipps pronounced Fungy-fips.