ACROSS
1 - Move Pluto's quarters? (8) - DISPLACE {DIS}{PLACE}
5 - Treat with two big cups — rather worn out (6) - EFFETE {E}{F}{FETE} I wonder whose cups these are!!
9 - US city stylish in the past (7) - CHICAGO {CHIC}{AGO}
10 - Caught by supple plant (7) - CLIMBER {C}{LIMBER}
11 - Hastily constructed? Owner Hugh is responsible (5-4) - ROUGH-HEWN*
12 - Exotic sunrise — one's out in harbour (5) - NURSE SUNRi'sE*
13 - John, alien, leaves for hard work (4) - TOIL TOILet
14 - Facial feature to which copper dips awfully with genuflection (6,3) - CUPIDS BOW {CU}{DIPS*} {BOW}
17 - Gal leader molested — none dissented (3,6) - ALL AGREED*
23 - Excel with a celebration abroad? (5) - OUTDO {OUT}{DO}
24 - When the former law was promulgated? Not really! (5,4) - EXACT TIME {EX}{ACT TIME}
25 - Confesses to narrow escapes (7) - SQUEAKS [DD]
26 - The kind of help an organisation has without looking beyond itself (2-5) - IN-HOUSE [CD]
27 - Notices a raw edge to playing equipment (6) - SEESAW {SEES}{rAW}
28 - A couple of kings involved in redrawn lesson on breathing equipments (8) - SNORKELS {SNO{R}{K}ELS*}
DOWN
1 - City men in court embellish (8) - DECORATE Anno pending (Addendum - {D{EC}{OR}ATE} - See comments)
2 - Slut I'm offering to one for excitements (7) - STIMULI {STI'MUL*}{I}
3 - See — hate begets hate (6) - LOATHE {LO}{HATE*}
4 - Strangely, Carol requests cramped place (5,8) - CLOSE QUARTERS*
6 - Impartiality of bazaar Sen's set up (8) - FAIRNESS {FAIR}{SENS*}
7 - Measure lawyers try to ban (7) - EMBARGO {EM}{BAR}{GO}
8 - He gets — he may well have deserved it (6) - EARNER [CD]
10 - Thought of payment (13) - CONSIDERATION [DD]
15 - Prospect of gold in Isthmus land (8) - PANORAMA {PAN{OR}AMA}
16 - Bush's shoes? (8) - CREEPERS [DD]
18 - Allow cute arrangement of salad bar item (7) - LETTUCE {LET}{CUTE*}
20 - At which one's without haste (7) - LEISURE [CD]
21 - Including shift-head in revised rotas for cooks (6) - ROASTS {ROA{S}TS*}
22 - He gives a short account: empty sack's given up for engraver (6) - ETCHER (sack)ETCHER
Gridman seems to like his cups, jugs, and all sorts of milk containers !
ReplyDeleteHey Paddy, apropos yesterday’s ref to Jan Smut-s, today we have Dyer in the SE corner of the Quick CW. Also, canard is a synonym of both 12a and 23a, though both of them are not synonyms of each other.
CV, Orkut seems to have reverted to old format. SR and Raghu are doing a good job of carrying on your old flame at the Mint site. I get to look at it only in the evening, by when most of the gridless possible are taken, and since I don’t do the whole crossie, only gridless clues, I abstain.
1 - City men in court embellish (8) - DECORATE Anno pending
ReplyDeleteCity=EC
men=OR
court=DATE
D(EC OR)ATE
EC is postal code for London
ReplyDeleteThanks Kishore
ReplyDeleteDeepak
ReplyDeleteRe your query at 5a:
I have no idea! I may add that as theya re of different sizes, perhaps two owners are involved.
Kishore
Thanks for the info. on the new forum for TT/HT crossword.
Gen.Dyer is of Jalianwalabaug fame (or infame) isn't it?
ReplyDeleteReg.12A- 23A, I do agree with what you say though I concede it would not have occurred to me ( I did the CW after reading your remark)
men= OR, is it a standard abbreviation?
OR stands for Other Ranks
DeleteCol: Cupid's bows looked luscious, lusty and lovely and picture perfect. Whose face could that have been? Vanity, thy name is woman ! How many ways ways and wiles will you adopt to look gorgeous?
ReplyDeleteLooks like our very own Ash!!
DeleteDefinitely not Ogden N....Ash.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea! I may add that as theya re of different sizes, perhaps two owners are involved.
ReplyDeleteWell, human asymmetry and mammomegaly could go together, my dear mammophile ;-)