ACROSS
1 - Spanish dancer could perhaps give this advice to the fisherman? (8) - CASTANET {CAST}{A}{NET} This is an instrument played by singers or dancers in Spain. Also used by some mendicants on Indian trains.
5 - Plant, for example, coming back after wild boar (6) - BORAGE {BORA*}{GE<-}
9 - Confused Ed and Senora used logic (8) - REASONED*
10 - Gather notes Mussolini kept aside (6) - DEDUCE {D}{E}{DUCE}
12 - Choose and perform a display flight behind conductor (9) - ELECTRODE {ELECT}{RODE}
13 - Apportion summer's first rabbit (5) - SHARE {S}{HARE}
14 - Nod off when jury quorum cannot reach a conclusion (4) - DOZE DOZEn
16 - High point where the first lady gets to relax (7) - EVEREST {EVE}{REST}
19 - See not much, like Samson in Gaza (7) - EYELESS {EYE}{LESS}
21 - Band worn when in quiet surroundings (4) - SASH {S{AS}H}
24 - Reportedly bends legal rights (5) -(Addendum - LIENS (~leans) - Forgot to enter)
25 - Signal following brief broadcast frequency (9) - SHORTWAVE {SHORT}{WAVE}
27 - Debase roiling ocean bottom (6) - SEABED*
28 - I met Dean about mental impairment (8) - DEMENTIA*
29 - Goes back headless and turns inside out (6) - EVERTS rEVERTS
30 - Prepare about funeral vehicle (8) - REHEARSE {RE}{HEARSE}
DOWN
1 - Rush job (6) -CAREEN [CD] (Addendum - CAREER [DD] - See comments)
2 - Scattered cadres are frightened (6) - SCARED*
3 - Rising note also ascending in progress (5) - AFOOT {AF<-}{OOT<-}
4 - Blemish mistreated Eeyore spotted first (7) - EYESORE {EEYORE+S}*
6 - Cry of delight over flowers; ornamental shrubs (9) - OLEASTERS {OLE}{ASTERS}
7 - Flattered a duet lad composed (8) - ADULATED*
8 - Heater parts for the weather (8) - ELEMENTS [DD]
11 - Pure lake (4) - MERE [DD]
15 - Excited pet lovers stayed in bed too long (9) - OVERSLEPT*
17 - Lowered social status of French girl in church (8) - DECLASSE {DE}{C{LASS}E}
18 - Gave out awful beer as a drink (8) - BEVERAGE {GAVE+BEER}*
20 - Help! Nothing is quite indifferent (2-2) - SO-SO {SO-S}{O}
21 - East European inside, finds love nearby (7) - SLOVENE [T]
22 - Festival where queen follows direction (6) - EASTER {EAST}{ER}
23 - Conduct oneself, live and hold (6) - BEHAVE {BE}{HAVE}
26 - The men point out an idea (5) - THEME {THE}{MEn} or [T]
1 - Spanish dancer could perhaps give this advice to the fisherman? (8) - CASTANET {CAST}{A}{NET} This is an instrument played by singers or dancers in Spain. Also used by some mendicants on Indian trains.
10 - Gather notes Mussolini kept aside (6) - DEDUCE {D}{E}{DUCE}
12 - Choose and perform a display flight behind conductor (9) - ELECTRODE {ELECT}{RODE}
13 - Apportion summer's first rabbit (5) - SHARE {S}{HARE}
14 - Nod off when jury quorum cannot reach a conclusion (4) - DOZE DOZE
16 - High point where the first lady gets to relax (7) - EVEREST {EVE}{REST}
19 - See not much, like Samson in Gaza (7) - EYELESS {EYE}{LESS}
21 - Band worn when in quiet surroundings (4) - SASH {S{AS}H}
24 - Reportedly bends legal rights (5) -(Addendum - LIENS (~leans) - Forgot to enter)
25 - Signal following brief broadcast frequency (9) - SHORTWAVE {SHORT}{WAVE}
27 - Debase roiling ocean bottom (6) - SEABED*
28 - I met Dean about mental impairment (8) - DEMENTIA*
30 - Prepare about funeral vehicle (8) - REHEARSE {RE}{HEARSE}
DOWN
1 - Rush job (6) -
2 - Scattered cadres are frightened (6) - SCARED*
3 - Rising note also ascending in progress (5) - AFOOT {AF<-}{OOT<-}
4 - Blemish mistreated Eeyore spotted first (7) - EYESORE {EEYORE+S}*
6 - Cry of delight over flowers; ornamental shrubs (9) - OLEASTERS {OLE}{ASTERS}
8 - Heater parts for the weather (8) - ELEMENTS [DD]
11 - Pure lake (4) - MERE [DD]
15 - Excited pet lovers stayed in bed too long (9) - OVERSLEPT*
17 - Lowered social status of French girl in church (8) - DECLASSE {DE}{C{LASS}E}
18 - Gave out awful beer as a drink (8) - BEVERAGE {GAVE+BEER}*
20 - Help! Nothing is quite indifferent (2-2) - SO-SO {SO-S}{O}
21 - East European inside, finds love nearby (7) - SLOVENE [T]
22 - Festival where queen follows direction (6) - EASTER {EAST}{ER}
23 - Conduct oneself, live and hold (6) - BEHAVE {BE}{HAVE}
24 - Reportedly bends legal rights (5) -
ReplyDeleteLIENS (~leans)
1 - Rush job (6) - CAREEN [CD]
CAREER DD
Lots of anagrams again, but also some nicely formed clues (doze). Would rather have a surfeit of 1 clue than an assorted mess of badly mangled attempts at cleverness. My only real issue was castanet - it's usually in the plural and is the instrument not the dancer.
ReplyDelete16A As against the currently popular pronunciation as EVER EST, the man after whom the mount was named pronounced his name as EVE REST.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cartoon for 15d. Reminds me of the time I used to go to office.
DD, agree that it is an instrument.
ReplyDeleteThe clue when parsed as
1.Spanish dancer could perhaps give this
2. advice to the fisherman?
Becomes a DD (pun unintended)
DD, today's quick crossie has a few memorable places for you.
ReplyDeletecastanet - it's usually in the plural
ReplyDeleteI agree one hand cannot clap. But suppose the cord broke when I was playing castanets (on Deepak's train) and one of the clappers fell out. Can I say that I have lost a castanet? Or should I say I have lost half a pair of castanets? (of course, I am avoiding using the word clapper here)
As Mover had done a good job and nothing more may move (at least in Karnataka, where it is a public holiday), here is one of my old ones:
ReplyDeleteLate at the gate
Two words (three in one of the cases) which rhyme but with some other words in between, as in the subject line of this mail, described in a cryptic way:
1. Eager, to have formicidae in the trousers
2. Elite, rather than hoi polloi
3. Small thing, beginning of something larger
4. Any means possible
5. AWAC
6. Actual meaning of something
7. Unrealistic promise of rewards
8. SOB, more politely
9. Warm and comfortable
10. Extremely favourable offer
11. Safe, reliable and sure
12. Go on a buying spree
13. Keep your parking ticket visible
Have fun
Kishore
Kindly mail to kishoremrao@hotmail.com
Thanks K
ReplyDeleteYour parsing makes sense - I had tried several times to achieve the same meaning, but somehow missed the blatantly obvious!
I quite like the idea of a mystical castanet - as in 1 hand clapping
How can one embrace when BRA interferes?
ReplyDelete@kishore
ReplyDeleteStill one short of the dream team (no. 3)
Will email (rather than snail mail) when inspiration finally strikes.
MOVER,s setting resembles SANKALAK's.
ReplyDeleteI think we noticed on earlier occasion too that there were lot of anagrams, in keeping with setter's moniker.
ReplyDeleteGood compilation though, no red herrings and jarring notes
Men who MS --behave, surely make history!!
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