ACROSS
1 - Acted as a referee for judo: candidate's son excluded from work out (11) - ADJUDICATED {JUDo+CAnDIDATEs}*
9 - Medicine for worker — LSD! (7) - ANTACID {ANT}{ACID}
10 - It finds the exact position of unfinished neighbourhood block of rock (7) - LOCATOR {LOCAl}{TOR}
11 - Born master traverses old city in country as once known (5) - BURMA {B}{UR}{MA}
12 - What a landlocked country misses (9) - COASTLINE [CD]
13 - They partner bolts in practical details (4) - NUTS [CD]
15 - The recipe daughter prepared touched the heart (7) - PIERCED {RECIPE+D}*
19 - A Greek god, not quite old, finds dispenser (7) - AEROSOL {A}{EROS}{OLd}
20 - German, abstainer wearing spectacles (4) - OTTO {O{TT}O}
24 - Devastating news of missiles: misery follows (9) - BOMBSHELL {BOMBS}{HELL}
25 - Intended to be included in a tame anthology (5) - MEANT [T]
27 - Country knight starting to appreciate state of America (7) - INDIANA {INDIA}{N}{A}
28 - Very cool observers, reportedly; unfriendly (3-4) - ICE-COLD (~eyes){ICE}-{COLD}
29 - Chemical change — yes, around river, favouring reversion to an earlier state (11) - REACTIONARY {REACTION}{A{R}Y}
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2 - Sailor, a bit lost, one doing another's dirty work (6) - JACKAL {JACK}{A}{L} Didn't know this meaning.
3 - Take out journalist caught in tube (6) - DEDUCT {D{ED}UCT}
4 - U.S. state song containing key to Tadcaster of old (8) - CALCARIA {CAL}{C}{ARIA}
5 - Tight-lipped Tom upset by one change (8) - TACITURN {TAC<-}{I}{TURN}
6 - Harm caused by impression about eastern haircut (9) - DETRIMENT {D{E}{TRIM}ENT}
7 - Playfully light essayist on hospital department (7) - LAMBENT {LAMB}{ENT}
8 - Callous leaders of class going over Parisian street (5) - CRUEL {C{RUE}Lass}
14 - Dirt Homer stirred up in eleventh month of the French Revolutionary calendar (9) - THERMIDOR*
16 - Bechuanaland, now (8) - BOTSWANA [GK]
17 - Prediction and a warning by players (8) - FORECAST {FORE}{CAST}
18 - When the water level is at the minimum (3,4) - LOW TIDE [E]
21 - Sailor, sitting on petroleum, gets excited (5) - ABOIL {AB}{OIL}
22 - But a white elephant is not one necessarily! (6) - ALBINO [CD]
23 - Lowly organism seen on a beam, moving, consuming oxygen (6) - AMOEBA {A}{M{O}EBA*}
I probably sound like a broken gramophone record, but Sankalak completes another smooth round of puzzles with some minor hiccups (mainly mixed up enumerations).
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to Gridman.
Col's comment on 2D
ReplyDeleteThere is always so much to learn new things here.
KatRadhu Kai maNNaLavu..
That's what makes this blog so endearing.
Thanks Col for a lot of interesting links you had given today
DS
When lions kill a prey, they dont eat it completely. They generally walk off when they feel full not bothering to complete.
ReplyDeleteJackals are said to complete the leftovers and clean up. Hence that meaning.
Calcaria- the 'c' comes form?
Padmanabhan
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Value Addition to 2D
DS
Padmanabhan,
ReplyDelete'C' from Key
essayist Charles Lamb ?
ReplyDeleteRepeating theme ..
ReplyDeleteLiving-Jackal, Amoeba, Lamb*
Places-Indiana,Burma,Botswana,Calcaria, Tadcaster
Never new thermidor was related to calendar. Knew the culinary term lobster thermidor. Turns out it is still related to Calendar!!
Missing k
ReplyDeleteDS@09:57
ReplyDeleteYou'd better be careful, for Padmanabhan may now demand from you the payment of a tax.
Ways to become rich?!
ReplyDeleteAnd I am here to fight your service tax cases:)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the offer. Now I can feel safe!
ReplyDeleteNo power, inverter down, alas no Net. Life gets boring.
ReplyDeleteGood one again today, and dare I say that Sankalak has made it just a wee bit more difficult this time. Was happy to be able to solve a few from the clues without knowing the words!