ACROSS
1 - For hair dressing, am involved in dope smuggling (6) - POMADE {AM+DOPE}*
4 - Army ends kept concealed? (6) - GLOVED Anno pending (See comments)
9 - Adhere to Goldfinger nemesis (4) - BOND [DD]
10 - Alert grandfather, maybe, to wake you up! (5,5) - ALARM CLOCK {ALARM} {CLOCK}
11 - Lit up a fire (6) - ABLAZE {A}{BLAZE}
12 - Cup-bearer many edge out (8) - GANYMEDE*
13 - Will woman somehow excite ten in ancient city? (9) - EXECUTRIX {EXCITE+X+UR}*
15 - Poker variant for a virile man (4) - STUD [DD]
16 - Blackleg emerges out of wrecked cabs (4) - SCAB*
22 - Drink follows pin for head (6) - NOGGIN {NOG}{GIN}
24 - Somehow cope with wretched egoist and disintegrate (2,2,6) - GO TO PIECES {COPE+EGOIST}*
25 - Military subdivision partly continues retreating (4) - UNIT [T<-]
26 - One behind another, confused dean sits in transcendental meditation (6) - TANDEM {T{ANDE*}M}
27 - Nocturnal mammal is doubly agreeable (3-3) - AYE-AYE {AYE}-{AYE}
DOWN
1 - Not a good case for soliciting charity? (4,3) - POOR BOX {POOR} {BOX}
2 - Programme dialogue includes means of communication (5) - MEDIA [T]
5 - Bemoan one of Jeremiah's outcries? (6) - LAMENT [DD]
6 - If one is booked and bound, is it to be followed by this? (6,3) - VOLUME TWO [CD]
7 - Resolute detectives indeed! (7) - DECIDED {DE{CID}ED}
8 - Object of ridicule for amused cows? (8,5) - LAUGHING STOCK {LAUGHING} {STOCK}
14 - Burglar depressed by regulatory attention (9) - CRACKDOWN {CRACK}{DOWN}
16 - Proteas playing in Cape Town, for example (7) - SEAPORT*
18 - Pardon Amy going round home (7) - AMNESTY {AM{NEST}Y}
19 - Maddened, I twice force an opening (7) - ORIFICE {I+I+FORCE}*
20 - Romantic city where I came speaking Latin to the Church of England (6) - VENICE {VENI}{CE}
23 - Two return in Georgia for cheese (5) - GOUDA {G{OUD<-}A}
4 - Army ends kept concealed? (6) - GLOVED Anno pending
ReplyDeletePun definition. Army as in belonging to arms. So Army ends are hands which are concealed when they are gloved.
12a reminded me of Jeeves’ club and its infamous book:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Ganymede_Club
Yesterday’s results will be leaked out tomorrow. Incomplete entries also welcome.
4 - Army ends kept concealed? (6) - GLOVED Anno pending
ReplyDeleteArmy ends (akin to leggy ends) refer to hands, kept concealed=gloved
Very smooth today. No issues at all. Loved the "army" pun
ReplyDeleteKishore@08.32-
ReplyDeleteJust read (re-read?)"Much obliged Jeeves" and so I was also immediately connected and naturally expected a comment from you.
Bowled by executrix-but enjoyed after reading the anno.Nice pun on 'will'.
ReplyDeleteRe the great cartoon for 2d, only the mathematically challenged would restrict the count for the hoarding horde at 40.
ReplyDeleteDeepak:
ReplyDeleteI really love the pictures of obscure flowers and creatures and other articles that are featured regularly in the crosswords. They add a lot of value in terms of visual perceptions for memory recalls in the future solvings. Keep it up.
Kishore: Your verbal rhyming game is interesting but you ought to elaborate as to what you expect us to do. There was no confusion in the et game. Here, I'm at a loss since you are very enigmatic in your expectation. Can you please clarify a bit? thanks.
I thought LAUGHINGSTOCK was one word!
ReplyDeleteMen who MS--behave, surely make history!!
ReplyDeleteRaju,
ReplyDeleteYou have to get phrases like the one given in the title: Late at the gate. The phrases should have at least two rhyming words as illustrated and should convey the same meaning as the clue.
To give you one solution as a pointer:
ReplyDeleteNo.1 is 'ants in the pants'.
Thanks now its clear.
ReplyDeleteDon't be so cryptic!!
I meant nastric!!
ReplyDeleteVijay @ 12:24,
ReplyDelete'Laughing Stock' is two words and not one.
Neat offering. Would never have unscrambled anno for 4A by myself.
ReplyDeleteLiked 7D, comes up for special mention b'coz just this morning had seen the mail from Shuchi on use of Elision in clues
I remembered the term 'laughing stock' from a favourite poem of mine. If you haven't read it, you must - it's very hilarious.
ReplyDelete"Mister Brown! Mister Brown!
Do take that bird down,
Or you'll soon be the laughingstock all over town!"
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8564617-The_Owl-Critic-by-James_Thomas_Fields
I would write it as two words but it is also used as a hyphenated word and also as a single word but the Internet is either dependable or undependable.
Note that in the poem it's a single word.