ACROSS
1 - Karma described in church by religious leader to Ford, for instance (8) - CARMAKER {C{ARMAK*}E}{R}
5 - Female's not straight about aerial navigation (6) - FLYING {F}{LYING}
9 - Right! Bring out Pinter in another edition (7) - REPRINT {R}{EPRINT*}
10 - A wife's drunk at day's end to an extreme degree (7) - AWFULLY {A}{W}{FULL}{Y}
12 - Make a mistake by removing name of instrument (5) - BUGLE BUnGLE
13 - Might protest (4) - BEEF [DD]
14 - Cheat shoots last letter to the French (9) - BAMBOOZLE {BAMBOO}{Z}{LE}
19 - Bond not to begin at dark time (4) - NITE uNITE
23 - Had defeated no daughter (5) - OWNED dOWNED
24 - Problem for soldiers between high peaks (9) - TORMENTOR {TOR}{MEN}{TOR}
25 - Huge but short intimation about antic gone haywire (7) - TITANIC {TIp}{TANIC*}
26 - Stimulated keen beginner in valued environment (7) - PRICKED {PRIC{K}ED}
27 - Listless cleaner is to begin Hoovering (6) - MOPISH {MOP}{IS}{H}
DOWN
1 - Central leader wants Caribbean island to import North Arcot's palm (8) - CARNAUBA {C}{AR{NA}UBA}
2 - Grave letters, big, nearly ten, in comeback (7) - RIPOSTE {RIP}{OS}{TEn}
3 - Mixed in with friend from Paris in Darjeeling's first street (6) - AMIDST {AMI}{D}{ST}
4 - Exact tragical reproduction outside our galaxy (13) - EXTRAGALACTIC*
6 - Does it keep you afloat in the bathroom? No! It should keep you free from germs (4,4) - LIFE BUOY [CD]
7 - I, Red in India, have support that is within law (7) - ILLEGAL {I}{L{LEG}AL} 'Within' or 'Without'?
8 - Old man, said to be big shooter (6) - GEYSER(~geezer)
10 - Life story in the first person (13) - AUTOBIOGRAPHY [CD]
15 - Classy bunch boss sent away (8) - STUDENTS {STUD}{ENTS*}
16 - What an examiner does when 15 ask for fresh valuation (8) - REGRADES [CD] Had 'Retotal' first to confuse me!!
18 - No Poles head for Duronto? (3-4) - NON-STOP {NO}{N-S}{TOP}
21 - Low Shakespearean character (6) - BOTTOM [DD]
22 - Good-natured black junior officer without second (6) - BENIGN {B}{ENsIGN}
The def in 7dn is wrong. Error regretted.
ReplyDelete14 - Cheat shoots last letter to the French (9) - BAMBOOZLE {BAMBOO}{Z}{LE}
ReplyDeleteApropos the cartoon, in the local lingo, this is called 'bumboo'ing
1 a and d have a peculiar relation. Apart from both starting with car, carnauba wax can be used on a car.
ReplyDelete7 - I, Red in India, have support that is within law (7) - ILLEGAL {I}{L{LEG}AL} 'Within' or 'Without'?
ReplyDeleteIn-laws are out-laws.
Someone wrote to me that a recent crossword had two instances of LONG in the same grid.
ReplyDeleteToday's has two CARs.
What do solvers generally think of this? It may be deliberate or accidental or due to lack of an alternative string in the relevant slot after other entries.
What may be noted that one CAR bears no relation whatever to the other.
*... noted is that..."
ReplyDeleteNo problem at all.
ReplyDeleteFurther, since a number shared by a down clue and an across clue is bound to have the same first letter in the answer, there is a 100% probability for the first letter.
But sometimes, even without this, a particular letter dominates the pole position in a word. For eg. today B is at the beginning of 5 words out of 30 (which is itself a large statistic) but this happens without any word forming a NE elbow described in the previous sentence. Statistics is really a devil.
I did not notice two CARs. So it is fine.
ReplyDeleteDon't have a problem with repeated alphabet runs in the same grid if
ReplyDeletea) they are not > 3 letters
b) they are not > 3 in the 26 odd clues.
Lifebuoy brings back good old memories. It is one of the brands that has withstood the changes in time,style and what not. Nice to know its origins and how long it has been around.
ReplyDeleteLifebuoy has probably the record for the longest lasting jingle in the ad world
ReplyDeleteRemember it used to carry on the wrapper a challenge that if anyone proved it contained any impurity a reward would be offered?
ReplyDeleteYou mean "Lifebuoy hai jahan, thandrusti hai wahan" is still going strong?
ReplyDeleteHi Bhargav,
ReplyDeleteLong time no see?
Lifebuoy, Nirma, Modern Bread and Saridon.Why do they have to advertise? Household names
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget Dalda and its ubiquitous tin,when emptied, lent to the comedians inthe Hindi film industry, like Johny Walker for you know what? Is Dalda still being sold in India to the cholestrol conscious junta?
Today's crossword was very 4 down!! save a few errors 23 acrossed by its 17 across.