ACROSS
1 - Desperate foe complicates total debacle (8,6) - COMPLETE FIASCO*
10 - Sheepish, after an ox or a cow is beheaded (5) - OVINE bOVINE
11 - Map redone, perhaps, for a walk in the park (9) - PROMENADE*
12 - Muscle provided by muddy pictures without Union leader (7) - TRICEPS PICTuRES*
13 - Students not commencing become breadwinners (7) - EARNERS lEARNERS
14 - Rita holds a rope (5) - RIATA {RI{A}TA}
16 - Blanche loses capital and pursues Ava for another fall (9) - AVALANCHE {AVA}{bLANCHE}
19 - Possibly pale actor is Antony's lover (9) - CLEOPATRA*
20 - Minced oath upsets Degas (5) - EGADS*
22 - Meandering road ran between Spain and France (7) - ANDORRA* Population only 84,802!!
25 - Glassworker more idle after hearing's end (7) - GLAZIER {G}{LAZIER}
27 - Ma hangs around and pretends to be ill (9) - MALINGERS {MA}{LINGERS}
28 - One wizard gives the picture (5) - IMAGE {I}{MAGE}
29 - Ohm part of the Polish Home Army? (10,4) - RESISTANCE UNIT [DD]
DOWN
2 - Found airing toe funny (9) - ORIGINATE*
3 - Reportedly share tranquillity (5) - PIECE (~peace)
4 - The casual manner in which a pawn gets killed (2,7) - EN PASSANT [GK]
5 - Run off to marry in Israel, openly (5) - ELOPE [T]
6 - Intoxicate Irene who gets a bit tipsy (9) - INEBRIATE {IRENE+A+BIT}*
7 - Takes away fish (5) - SKATE*
8 - Manage poem in Old English (7) - OVERSEE {O{VERSE}E}
9 - Treat cod going uphill (6) - DOCTOR {DOC<-}{TOR}
15 - Dismayed partisans desire advancement (9) - ASPIRANTS*
17 - Pain killer from fresh angelicas (9) - ANALGESIC*
18 - Mock serenade agitated archival losing money and I provide (9) - CHARIVARI {ARCHIVAl+I}* Seems to be a typo for 'archrival'
19 - Sweet talker has queen under a spell (7) - CHARMER {CHARM}{ER}
21 - Blind observed taking credit (6) - SCREEN {S{CR}EEN}
23 - Residents in Ibsen's creation (5) - DOLLS [GK]
24 - Near a ruined stadium (5) - ARENA*
26 - Die covered by gold? Goodbye (5) - ADIEU {A{DIE}U}
3 - Reportedly share tranquillity (5) - PIECE (~peace)
ReplyDeleteshare is PIECE
reportedly is Homonym of this
It would lead to PEACE for transquility.
A mix-up by Mover?
4 - The casual manner in which a pawn gets killed (2,7) - EN PASSANT [GK]
ReplyDeleteThis could be a DD
1) in passing; incidentally; by the way; casual
2) manner in which a pawn gets killed (in chess)
Did the same as Venkatesh- filled in 'peace' and got stuck for ovine. Otherwise an easy ride-too easy?
ReplyDelete9 Letter Word Riddle
ReplyDeleteWhat nine letter word in the English language is still a word when each of the nine letters is removed one by one, not necessarily in sequence?
Take a few minutes to try and come up with a nine letter word that fits the bill,
CAN'T?
Then watch this video of 1' 04 "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx8LyeEzut4
Nice one, Deepak. In fact, after seeing the word, startlingly, I saw two possible starting points, one by going to starting and another by going to starling.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, the ribbon puzzle I put up the other day was one of my stuff which had seen the light of the day and dark of the print when Mukul Sharma had put it in his Mindsport column. MS, as he is better known in the bheja fry circles, is probably better known today as Konkona Sen Sharma's father.
ReplyDelete19 - Possibly pale actor is Antony's lover (9) - CLEOPATRA*
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, yesterday's ET (Bang ed) had something like this:
She was needled in London (9)
Shuchi, how about the baguette, if you like that sort of thing?
ReplyDeleteYes Kishore. I remember the Mind Sport column. That was being published by Hindu?
ReplyDeleteNope, TOI
Delete9d Where from we get TOR?
ReplyDeleteHill = Tor
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