Saturday, 28 April 2012

No 10449, Saturday 28 Apr 12, Gridman

ACROSS
1   - What one detective in villa is expected to solve? (8) - HOMICIDE {HOM{I}{CID}E}
5   - "History repeats __" (6) - ITSELF [GK]
10 - All I noticed in container rolling back is a metallic element (7) - GALLIUM {G{ALL}{I}UM<-}
11 - A couple of learners' spring is completely fit (3,4) - ALL WELL {A}{LL} {WELL}
12 - Make a mistake in roll (6) - MUFFIN {MUFF}{IN}
13 - Greedy American's enraged at Head of Facilitators going away (8) - USURIOUS {US}{fURIOUS}
15 - Make a small move in the outer limits of church (4) - INCH {IN}{ChurcH}
16 - What note-takers would appreciate in a Bible or a Gita (4,6) - SIDE MARGIN [DD]
18 - Your old unknown head of clan to draw on a flimsy defence (4,6) - THIN EXCUSE {THIN E}{X}{C}{USE}
20 - Confounded mother with a bit of nuisance (4) - DAMN {DAM}{N}
23 - Rao gone hesitantly to a place that's off-limits (2-2,4) - NO-GO AREA {NO-GO ARE*}{A}
24 - Small hips? Dang! (6) - SHOCKS {S}{HOCKS} 'Hocks' are not exactly the 'hips' are they?
26 - Straightens up Sen grovelling following neta's thundering (7) - NEATENS {NETA*}{SEN*}
27 - Girl's comfort or affliction (7) - DISEASE {DI'S}{EASE}
28 - Puts up Crete's sections (6) - ERECTS*
29 - Send coach I abandoned to station master and appeal (8) - TRANSMIT {TRAiN}{SM}{IT}
DOWN
1   - An old machine or a rich divorcee may demand this (4,11) - HIGH MAINTENANCE [DD]
2   - Bad man's story not one dismissed wildly (7) - MALEFIC {MALE}{FICtion}
3   - Credit is doubly causing a big problem (6) - CRISIS {CR}{IS}{IS}
4   - " __ __ a favour; get a feature of the Taj Mahal" (4) - DOME {DO}{ME}
6   - Not a course for a free ride (4,4) - TOLL ROAD [CD]
7   - For example, somehow loner intrudes soon (3,4) - ERE LONG {E{RE LON*}G}
8   - Emerges well from a difficult situation — as a cat does physically (5,2,4,4) - FALLS ON ONES FEET [CD]
9   - Indian tip for graduate and the first of kids? “I can't believe it!” (9) - BAKSHEESH {BA}{K}{SHEESH}
14 - VIP's spread that is considerable? (3,6) - BIG CHEESE {BIG} {CHEESE}
17 - Drat! Leer curiously and you may be slapped with a grave warning (3,5) - RED ALERT*
19 - One unlikely to appreciate charge made by popular Gandhian leader (7) - INGRATE {IN}{G}{RATE}
21 - Enthusiastically welcome a small volume Mali put out (7) - ACCLAIM {A}{CC}{MALI*}
22 - The select picked out (6) - CHOSEN [DD]
25 - Now a start to revelling month in Israel (4) - ADAR {AD}{A}{R}




10 comments:

  1. Not clear on anno for SIDE MARGIN

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    1. normally speakers note , the points on side of paper, is it not??

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    3. Ambiguity is regretted.

      Elsewhere LINE MARGIN was suggested. Any book, I suppose, will have a SIDE MARGIN or rather 'side margins'. What note-takers will appreciate is a side-margin that is -ide.

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    4. So the answer is WIDE MARGIN. with the margins being W ND E ?

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    5. That should read W and E

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  2. i thought it was huge maintenance , for 1D, he he he its high maintenance cost

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  3. "adar" reminded me of my evangelical missionary school where our copies of the Bible had, for some reason, references to all the months of the Jewish calendar.

    Haven't seen too many references to "fall on one's feet", and most places say "land on one's feet". On the other hand, "fall at one's feet" is a direction persons under 25 receive all the time...

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  4. 24A is, I think, SHUCKS. I found a reference to huckle, a diminutive of huck, meaning hip, in my copy of Reader's Digest Universal Dictionary. Perhaps Gridman could clarify?

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  5. Oh wait. There's an entry in The Free Dictionary.

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/huckle

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