ACROSS
1 - Ali ended composition in due time (8) - DEADLINE*
5 - Dash with sign of stress that is digestion-related (6) - PEPTIC {PEP}{TIC}
10 - Who in France has oxen paraded about in a twice-yearly event? (7) - EQUINOX {E{QUI}NOX*}
11 - The one who got away (7) - ESCAPEE [E]
12 - Sully Railway official — dirty rich (6) - SMIRCH {SM}{IRCH*}
13 - One politician to almost beat it — not expressly stated (8) - IMPLICIT {I}{MP}{LICk}{IT}
15 - In proximity of dear companion? (4) - NEAR [DD]
16 - At once roll off part of a school suit (4,6) - ETON COLLAR*
18 - Where a tie may be in place (5-5) - SHIRT-FRONT [CD]
20 - Bullets for a large number beginning military operations (4) - AMMO {A}{M}{M}{O}
23 - Thumbs up is a sign of this (8) - APPROVAL [CD]
24 - Back up hard administration of seclusion (6) - PURDAH {PU<-}{RDAH*}
26 - Hook up in kiosk (7) - INSTALL {IN}{STALL}
27 - I'm back in refurbished cabin for vehicle (7) - MINICAB {MI}{NICAB*}
28 - News Editor — journalist after journalist in demand (6) - NEEDED {NE}{ED}{ED}
29 - I get mali to beat restriction for buying cigarettes (3,5) - AGE LIMIT*
DOWN
1 - First-aid post in war zone — not one for dandies (8,7) - DRESSING STATION [CD]
2 - Earthy substance in possession of a Satara luminary (7) - ALUMINA [T]
3 - Burmese leader up in networked absurdity (6) - LUNACY {L{UN<-}ACY}
4 - Thereafter, clear around ten (4) - NEXT {NE{X}T}
6 - Close pal cooked oyster dish (8) - ESCALLOP*
7 - Current headgear for college head and boy (7) - TOPICAL {TOPI}{C}{AL}
8 - Dressy person? Not exactly! (8,2,5) - CREATURE OF HABIT [CD]
9 - Established each fellow's net is cast off (9) - PERMANENT {PER}{MAN}{ENT*}
14 - Really, ten changed forever (9) - ETERNALLY*
17 - Alien girl behind time and pale (8) - ETIOLATE {ET}{IO}{LATE}
19 - I am out . (7) - IMPASSE [DD] (Note: I had mail from Gridman that there should be a 'period' after out, the same is not there in the print or online edition) (Addendum - {I'M}{PASSE} - See comments)
21 - A little quiet about one-day international getting cold (7) - MODICUM {M{ODI}{C}UM}
22 - Dig for a kind of vision (6) - TUNNEL [DD]
25 - Self-starter simpleton is complacent (4) - SMUG {S}{MUG}
Delay regretted. Clicked on the 'Save as draft' button instead of 'Publish' !!
ReplyDeleteAnd so, 1 across missed!!
ReplyDeleteI was wondering why the blog wasn't up at its usual hour.
ReplyDelete19D now with the missing "." begins to make sense. I haven't seen one like that before though. Full stop (.) for impasse is a great visual definition, but does the wordplay tie in with it?
The way I see it is , I+M+PASSE = synonym of (.) An acceptable step of one level indirection?
Lovely clue this 19. As Bhavan says, there is a slight indirection, but that is fine for me. Given the sentence ends in a full stop, it would not have been possible for G to use ? as the 'unusual' indicator.
ReplyDeleteFor the clue I am out.
ReplyDeletethe intended anno is
IM (I'm) PASSÉ (out) "That fashion is passé" (That fashion is out)
The full stop is the visual def for word reqd. "The project has reached an impasse" (That is a full stop for the project)
Within three months of my joining the panel some ten years ago, a clue required to be printed in all caps. I took every care to ensure that it is printed in that manner going so far as to check the proof after alerting subs concerned. The next day the print edition had the clue in u/ and l/c. Some gremlin had worked at night overzealously!
ReplyDeleteThere must be a way to idiot-proof it, if the pers took interest in it.
ReplyDeleteRead papers for pers
ReplyDeleteProbably the person who deleted the full stop thought that since none of the other clues seemed to have any full stops at the end, this one didn't need one either, in the interest of standardisation
ReplyDeleteSome gremlin had worked at night overzealously!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there any gremlins in the Kremlin.
Apart from a dressy commonality in some answers (Eton COLLAR, Creature of HABIT, PURDAH, SHIRT front, DRESSING station), quite a few answers have a doubled letter (DRESSING, COLLAR, AMMO, TUNNEL, IMPASSE, ESCAPEE, APPROVAL, INSTALL, NEEDED, ESCALLOP, ETERNALLY).
ReplyDeleteSMUGly yours,
Kishore
ReplyDeleteThe first was intended; the second is incidental!
Kishore
ReplyDeleteI am not saying we have MINI and CAP, if you get what I mean !
Anno for 4 Dn is not clear. Request clarification.
ReplyDeleteInteresting comments here. Speaking of typos and overzealous proofreaders, was wondering if 29A suffered: 'mali' vs'mail' in the clue. Both work fine though.
ReplyDeleteConsidering a lot of the Indian context, I suppose all OK as is
Muthaiah
ReplyDeleteThereafter = Definition = NEXT
clear = NET
around = Indicator
ten = X
{NE{X}T}
Bhala,
ReplyDeleteNow that you mention it, I think it should be mail, because 'mali' is gardener, so why should one get the gardener to beat a restriction?
CV Sir, Thanks for your comments. Yes indeed, I do not take access to this blog to give my comments the same day as I do the crosswords late nights and post then and there or by next noon, latest. I did ask Col if there is a possibility of a carry forward of an earlier comment on to the next day and he regretted that it is not. My main intention was that I should get equal opportunity to participate in the comments that follow each day, which are witty and educative in the techniques of cluing and solving. I was advised by Col to mark my comments parenthetically as for the previous day and in my hurrying up slowly to complete, due to beckoning of Lethe, I forget. Now I shall make it a point.
ReplyDeleteTo me, the Hindu crosswords are a new experience as I am wont to the London papers in Kenya. I find our compilers clues ahead of others I have done before, in their content and style. So I might have erred on the right side when I used plural for error(s) in the crossword commented upon.Who is exempt from errors? We must thank our compilers for doing such an invigorating job to keep us busy.Above all, as newcomer to CNCV Sir, Thanks for your comments. Yes oindeed, I do not take access to this blog to give my comments each day as I do the crosswords late nights and post then and there or by next noon, latest. I did ask Col if there is a possibility of a carry forward of an earlier comment on to the next day and he regretted that it is not. My main intention was that I should get equal opportunity to participate in the comments that follow each day, which are witty and educative in the techniques of cluing and solving. I was advised by Col to mark my comments parenthetically as for the previous day and in my hurrying up slowly to complete, due to beckoning of Lethe, I forget. Now I shall make it a point.
To me, the Hindu crosswords are a new experience as I am wont to the London papers in Kenya. I find our compilers clues ahead of others I have done before, in their content and style. So I might have erred on the right side when I used plural for error(s) in the crossword commented upon.Who is exempt from errors? We must thank our compilers for doing such an invigorating job to keep us busy. As a newcomer to CBE, I find this blog socially and intellectually uplifting to me and I'm eternally grateful to all of you out there.
Thanks again, SIR.
Thanks again, SIR.
why should one get the gardener to beat a restriction?
ReplyDeleteTo grow grass or pot*.
So that you can smoke them instead of cigarettes.
* please see
http://parentingteens.about.com/cs/marijuana/l/bldicmarijuana.htm
for quite a few synonyms.
Col-ji: Sorry, I had no option but to answer CV-sir thru' the blog as i do not have his email ID. It was a bit longish but I reckon, once in a while it is ok to transgress from mere short and pithy comments
ReplyDeleteCV, that is cute! Though MINI is a part of one answer, CAP appears as part of two answers:
ReplyDeleteESCAPEE
MINICAB !
Raju, In addition to Gridman using double letters, your post too had quite a bit of doubling; that is why it is longish...
ReplyDeleteOne more to add to Gridman's dress materials:
ReplyDelete19a Two ways to get a fix on the personal front (6)
(From CW4778 in today's ET, Bang ed)
Referring to an answer in today's CW which can refer to a bodily output from an Indian politician, sports organiser or deceased sportsman, and the alternate Latin usage of such output as a part of accolades for qualifying with maximal praise, one realises that the Latin phrase 'maxima cum laude' gives quite an alternative meaning in Hinglish.
ReplyDeleteI meant 'mali'.
ReplyDeleteThe speaker in the clue is a boy not yet old enough to buy cigs himself and so he gets the adult gardener to fetch them. Convincing?
Kishore 15:53
ReplyDeleteYou're wicked.
It takes one to recognise another !
ReplyDeleteRU
ReplyDeleteWe needn't go to Kenya.
I might tell you that those of us who are solving crosswords from the Sixties must have been doing only UK crosswords reproduced in Indian newspapers and magazines.
Even readers of Hindustan Times, Statesman, Telegraph, Pioneer, Deccan Herald, economic Times, Financial Express and others will be doing only UK crosswords after a time-lag.
I don't know about Mumbai eveningers but only The Hindu offers a week-day home-grown crossword.
I'm aware that almost all the Indian newspapers are syndicaated for the crosswords from the UK papers. Is any replicating the Herald crosswords from Scotland? I am happy that the only redeeming factor to buy the Hindu is the crosswords that are homegrown.
ReplyDeleteKishore : I don't believe " Brevity is the soul of wit" So there! double trouble or whatever.
I'm aware that almost all the Indian newspapers are syndicaated for the crosswords from the UK papers. Is any replicating the Herald crosswords from Scotland? I am happy that the only redeeming factor to buy the Hindu is the crosswords that are homegrown.
ReplyDeleteKishore : I don't believe " Brevity is the soul of wit" So there! double trouble or whatever.
Today's crossword was a beautiful and elegant bracelet or necklace strung by Gridman, studded with all gems of words conceivable. This will go into my memoraboilia as one of the jewels in its treasure chest.
ReplyDeleteFANTASTIC is the only word that comes to mind. What say,Kishore?
Lets all raise a toast to Gridman-- PROSIT ! GESUNDHEIT ! cHEERS ! BOTTOMS UP !! * Kishore: No smart-alec repartee on the last,OK?
I second the motion !
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