Second time someone's missing, is it official now? Or is it a sabbatical?
5 - Well-known female's lovers forfeit right (6) - FAMOUS {F}{AMOUrS}
19 - Single out the single not spoilt (8) - UNMARRED UNMARRiED
28 - Places for making soaps? (4) - SETS [CD]
ACROSS
1 - One that won't ring in the gym? (4-4) - DUMB-BELL [CD]
9 - Something to lie on as you tangle the hair? (8) - MATTRESS {MAT}{TRESS}
10 - Give a shot for one new Central leader in aircraft (6) - INJECT {I}{N}{JE{C}T}
12 - Fool around with long boat (4) - LARK {L}{ARK}
13 - Swinger badly restricted by great censor with ultimate rigour (10) - OSCILLATOR {OS}{C{ILL}ATO}{R}
15 - Revolutionary Oriental in Kentucky is brazen (6) - CHEEKY {CHE}{E}{KentuckY}
17 - They are often in fine print (5) - TERMS [CD]
20 - Rustic crook — one of our country (5) - HINDU ? Anno pending (Addendum - {HIND}{U} - See comments)
21 - Moved coal up to the dome (6) - CUPOLA*
24 - Proverbially useless locking it after a certain bolt (6,4) - STABLE DOOR [CD]
27 - Title announced for ceremony (4) - RITE(~right)
29 - Not all sane note for “Psycho” sicko Bates (6) - NORMAN {NORMAl}{N}
30 - Force — with aide quite likely to be straightened (8) - STRENGTH {STRaiGHTENed}*
31 - Note a little flaw in a bit of news (6) - TIDING {TI}{DING}
32 - Media take on sovereign's laundry employees (8) - PRESSERS {PRESS}{ER'S}
DOWN
1 - Daughter, plain, without single endearing facial feature (6) - DIMPLE {D}{sIMPLE}
2 - Little time to sort out engines (6) - MOTORS {MO}{TORS*}
3 - Wounding remark by hair stylist, turning about to go (4) - BARB BARBer
4 - Tips in catalogues? (5) - LISTS [DD]
6 - Girl, extremely uncivil, to reduce to nothing (5) - ANNUL {AN{UnciviL}
7 - Frank's not starting certain musical composition (8) - OVERTURE {OVERT}{sURE}
8 - Day I created stir about an ironic writer (8) - SATIRIST {SAT}{I}{RIST*}
11 - Clear the clutter? In time, I should agree! (4,2) - TIDY UP {T}{I'D}{Y UP}
14 - A great number have no grit for you (4) - THOU THOUsand
16 - In conclusion, company has note put in cipher (6) - ENCODE {EN{CO}D}{E}
17 - Yet school head missed the cash-box (4) - TILL sTILL
18 - Horse that has often been laughed at (8) - CHESTNUT [DD]
22 - Mix Chinese dynasty with the French (6) - MINGLE {MING}{LE}
23 - Blends for the man in dining place (6) - MESHES {MES{HE}S}
25 - Get to know king's new (5) - LEARN {LEAR}{N}
Always a good sign when the first answer to the first clue makes you smile!
ReplyDeleteCannot get anywhere with the anno for Hindu though - someone please put me out of my misery
Kishore
ReplyDeleteRe 1d
Were you, in the Orkut community: The Hindu Crossword Solutions, talking about 'dimple' in bottles holding hard drinks? I didn't know that you were a dipsomaniac - hitting the bottle the first thing in the morning.
Take care.
CV
20A HIND U. Hind for rustic and U for crook or bend
ReplyDeleteThanks Suresh
ReplyDeleteCV, I was talking of PEEDLUK <-
ReplyDeleteYesterday's answers:
ReplyDelete1. Kikuyu, Embu and Meru vs the British Empire: Mau Mau (uprising which took place in Kenya)
2. Georges Remi’s adventurer: Tin Tin
3. Sen-sational actress in Bow Barracks Forever: Moon Moon
4. Stage name of vocalist in Chandralekha and later a heavy weight in Indian cinema: Tun Tun
5. Smallest antelope of eastern and southern Africa: Dik dik
6. Thiamine shortage can cause this: Beri beri
7. First born island (?) with Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu :Bora Bora (means first born in local lingo)
8. Movie meaning ‘Tiger, tiger, tiger’ in Japanese or short for ‘totsugeki raigeki’: Tora Tora Tora
9. Sweets which sound doubly good in French: Bon bon
10. QF 2 pounder gun or cheerleaders ball of fluff: Pom pom
11. Archie of the old now replaced by SAMs: Ack ack (Anti aircraft fire)
12. Ten passengers could ride this now almost extinct north Indian motorcycle variant: Phatphat or Fatfat or fatfatia
13. Max sec prison in NY: Sing sing
14. Seeds of papaver somniferum used in food: Khuskhus (poppy seeds)
15. BBC comedy serial on the French resistance: ‘Allo ‘Allo (you can watch it on You Tube, it is really hilarious)
16. Hindi Actor GA Ahuja’s nickname; Chi chi (Govinda)
17. Sister in Kiswahili became the last name of the Last King of Scotland: Dada (Idi Amin Dada, look up how he got the sobriquet of elder sister)
18. World's largest unbroken, unflooded volcanic caldera: Ngorongoro (in Tanzania, look up details of Olduvai gorge)
19. The first line of a call and answer type of joke, usually punny: Knock knock
20. Where train meets plane in Kolkata: Dum Dum
21. Spherical granules of semolina and wheat popular among Arabs and Jews: Couscous (Also a dessert of same name in Iraq, and call name of Iraqi pilot in movie Hotshots, which is a wonderful spoof of Top Gun)
22. An autorickshaw in parts of south east Asia: Tuktuk
Krishnan (all),Raju (16),VP (11),
KTR (8) Josie Faulkner(17) Ajit (21)
Oops, please ignore second row of respondents. They had answered in some other forum, so you folks may not know them. Tho' DD might have heard of Josie who is his compatriot and a fairly famous puzzle personality.
ReplyDeleteThe googley was no.8 with a triple barreled answer as against double for the others.
ReplyDelete3 - Wounding remark by hair stylist, turning about to go (4) - BARB BARB-er
ReplyDeleteA small tweak to the anno
BARB(-er<-)
a dipsomaniac
ReplyDeleteUnnecessary verbosity, using a dozen letters when the last six would suffice to describe yours truly.
Second time someone's missing, is it official now? Or is it a sabbatical?
ReplyDeleteAs Pepsi would say: There's nothing official about it
but the undried raisin creeper would endorse the intuitive feeling.
Chose "tangle" for 22D (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Dynasty) and got... er... tangled :p
ReplyDeleteSomeone please explain anno for 13 ac.
ReplyDeleteDave wrote: "Always a good sign when the first answer to the first clue makes you smile!"
ReplyDeleteThis is a good desideratum. Some UK setters may indeed follow this rule.
But let me be honest. When I fill the grid 1a may not be my first entry at all. And even if I put in a word in that slot before all others, I may not have had a ready-made or premeditated clue.
I am just giving a glimpse into my way of working.
I am not sure if any of my co-panellists follow this - a good word and an entertaining clue at 1ac that was well-thought-out and pre-written. (I would love to hear from any one of them.)
Moreover, this assumes that you read the clues in the order of their appearance. Not everyone may do so!
Recently when I was solving an FT crossword the first clue that I solved was
a25 State when 24 are off! (6)
(when I had not even solved 24)
Next was 24 which was
a24 They may come after bed, before
the press! (7)
The crossword is here:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/f7675f10-fb3a-11e0-8df6-00144feab49a.pdf
Muthaiah,
ReplyDeleteSwinger = Definition = {OS}{C{ILL}ATO}{R}
badly = ILL
restricted by = Encapsulation indicator
great censor = CATO
with
ultimate = Indicator to take last letter
ultimate rigour = R
CV@14.04,
ReplyDeleteFrom a solver's point of view, when you first look at a CW,it is 1 A that first strikes the eye and gives a kick start and if one gets it right- a BIG SMILE ! Also, you get the starting letter of at least 3/4 down clues which is a bonus. Of course if you don't get it in the first go, you start moving further.
Kishore,
ReplyDeleteTo give an example of verbosity- "the undried raisin creeper" for grapevine !!
Muthaiah & Ajeesh,
ReplyDeleteRefer my 1406 post, split 'great censor' as
great = OS
censor = CATO
Sorry about that
Paddy,
ReplyDeleteZabinga !