Saturday 7 January 2012

No 10355, Saturday 07 Jan 12, Textrous

ACROSS
8   - Deposit essentially lent to be used in festival (6) - GALENA {GAL{lENt}A} 
9   - Pirate brewed one fine drink (8) - APERTIF APERITIF {PIRATE*}{I}{F}
10 - Violent tiff surrounding top student's makeover (4-4) - FACE-LIFT {F{ACE}-{L}IFT*}


11 - Germ devours sailor in the bottom of the ocean (6) - SEABED {SE{AB}ED}
12 - Caught one rascal with a bug (6) - CICADA {C}{I}{CAD}{A} They can really make a big racket.
13 - Some chronicler I called for bookkeeping (8) - CLERICAL [T]
14 - Many English passages censored one disease (7) - MEASLES {M}{E}{AiSLES}
16 - Objection for trial (7) - PROTEST {PRO}{TEST}
20 - Drink after fantastic space adventure (8) - ESCAPADE {SPACE*}{ADE}
23 - Tonsured sociopath's head at asylum (6) - SHAVEN {S}{HAVEN}
25 - Rush to provide food around noon (6) - CANTER {CA{N}TER} Can 'cantering' really be equated to 'rushing'
26 - Can dish get an anti-rust coating? (3,5) - TIN PLATE {TIN} {PLATE}
27 - Information: small quote backs study (8) - GENETICS {GEN}{ETIC<-}{S}
28 - One who stitches with the tip of knitting pin (6) - SKEWER {S{K}EWER}
DOWN
1   - Privileged to be fashionable in taste (8) - PALATINE {PALAT{IN}E} With some help from Google!!
2   - Officer did not finish class (6) - GENERA GENERAl
3   - Confirm tidal wave's swirling out west (8) - VALIDATE {TIDAL+wAVE}*
4   - Strategy time — do something with our bureaucracy! (7) - TACTICTS TACTICS {T}{ACT}{ICS} Isn't it IAS nowadays?
5   - The French diocese is the one paying the rent (6) - LESEE {LE}{SEE} LESSEE {LES}{SEE}
6   - Potential winner unfortunately fails to get home on time (8) - FINALIST {FAILS+IN+T}*
7   - Detectives captured folks turning up for the movies (6) - CINEMA {CI{NEM<-}A}
15 - One giving clues to describe a duck or a mammal (3-5) - SEA-OTTER {SE{A}-{O}TTER}
17 - Daring king remains head (8) - RASHNESS {R}{ASH}{NESS}
18 - Wild apes take very little time for climbing plant (5,3) - SWEET PEA {S{WEE}{T} PEA*}
19 - One who lives a hand-to-mouth existence? (7) - DENTIST [CD]
21 - Made sinuous movements from pole, without clothes (6) - SNAKED {S}{NAKED}
22 - Scared of a noisy assault (6) - AFRAID {A}{F}{RAID}
24 - Poisonous snake overwhelmed an old general unconscious (6) - ASLEEP {AS{LEE}P}


18 comments:

  1. 12 - Caught one rascal with a bug (6) - CICADA {C}{I}{CAD}{A} They can really make a big racket.

    Liked Deepak's comment. Only wonder whether it is a TT racket, tennis racket, snowshoe or a Indian politician's racket (arranged in order of size)

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  2. 9 - Pirate brewed one fine drink (8) - APERTIF {PIRATE*}{I}{F}
    APERITIF

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  3. 19 - One who lives a hand-to-mouth existence? (7) - DENTIST [CD]

    Liked this clue the best. Wonder how one clues in some other professions, say proctologist:

    One who lives by getting to the bottom of things?(12)

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  4. Or can we call him the butt of many jokes ;-)

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  5. A proctologist pulls out a thermometer from his shirt pocket. He looks at it
    and says, "*hit, some ******* has my pen."

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  6. Deepak. Lots of spelling mistakes today in your answers. 9A 4D 5D

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  7. Thanks Rengaswamy & Suresh,

    Haste makes waste!! Shall correct them

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  8. Agree with Col. on ICS/ IAS. could have introduced an 'ex' to make it technically correct.

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  9. Kishore,
    I did not know whoa 'proctologist'is,but(t) got a clue from you.

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  10. One who knocks you out literally (12)

    One who has means to see through you (11)

    One who can make you a visionary (15)

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  11. I was looking to something to do with eating w.r.to "hand to mouth existance",but finally got it thanks to crossings. It,sure,was enjoyable!

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  12. Anaesthetist (spell check is not agreeing!)

    Radiologist

    and trying to get the third one

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  13. Fantastic cartoon for 'face lift' Col. Most enjoyable one. I would say,the best for quite a while!

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  14. Padmanabhan: Ophthalmologist is the third one.

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  15. One who can make you a visionary (15) OPHTHALMOLOGIST

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  16. OPHTHALMOLOGIST is the third one.

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  17. Thank you for helping me out & thank you CV for the nice spot quiz.

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  18. Dextrous Textrous !! An excellent and impeccable compilation that invigorated my mind. Thanks. Though he had used the usual tricks, did find it a bit tricky and took a bit of time in solving.

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