Thought it would be Anitya and woke up late and found Neyartha with a lot of Metal ...
ACROSS
1 - Paunch fastener? (5,6) - BELLY BUTTON [CD]
9 - Tailor-made arrangement to let out a series of pictures (7) - DIORAMA {tAIlOR+MADe}*
10 - Metal found in the country's forest trees reportedly (6) - SILVERAnno pending (Addendum - (~sylva) - See comments)
11 - Draw a kennel's part with the eyes open (5) - AWAKE [T]
12 - Ransack Helen's city after the disappearance of the Yankee with the colouring agents (7) - DESTROY {DyES}{TROY}
15 - American leader overcoming ego in a plot to fully appease.. (4) - SATE S(-i+a)ATE
16 - .. a citizen of the Internet with his tool of choice? (3,7) - WEB BROWSER [CD]
18 - Faithfully returned Adam's needle in a cover to the sailor going west with the Spanish (10) - ACCURATELY {ACCU{RAT<-}{EL<-}Y<-}
20 - Pine for pain (4) - ACHE [DD]
23 - Turn around to catch Jack in the recess (7) - ADJOURN {AD{J}OURN*}
24 - Release the sister with a Greek character's name at the wrong place (5) - UNPIN (-n)UN{PI}(+n)N
26 - Son went missing from the broken down limousine location (6) - MILIEU LIMoUsInE
27 - Control the core pressure to some extent (7) - REPRESS [T]
28 - Not rewarded for getting HD? (5-6) - EMPTY-HANDED EMPTY-{H-----D}
DOWN
2 - Mistake to include oarsmen oddly lacking a corrective tool (6) - ERASER {ER{oArSmEn}R}
3 - Track made of metal (4) - LEAD [DD]
4 - Hamper the auditor's cry at the game (10) - BASKETBALL {BASKET}{BALL}(~bawl)
5 - Number found outside a fancy hotel in a fundraising event on the TV (8) - TELETHON {TE{HOTEL*}N}
6 - Task of packing in the sent up mineral is demanding (7) - ONEROUS {ON{ERO<-}US}
7 - Excessively amuse Dana at sea (2,7) - AD NAUSEAM*
8 - Metal found in the small bed boxed in a revolutionary R&D site (7) - COBALT {CO{BAL<-}T}
13 - Blouse that may be frowned upon by the censors? (3-7) - SEE-THROUGH [CD]
14 - Transience BSE infers by accident (9) - BRIEFNESS*
17 - Head off with the croissant baked by the incendiary (8) - ARSONISTcROISSANT*
19 - Metal from the island harboured by the scoundrel's mother (7) - CADMIUM {CAD}{M{I}UM}
21 - Metal with power to remove iodine from a Xerox machine (6) - COPPER COP(-i+p)ER
22 - Yugoslavian parish priests on Ireland's materialistic urbanite (6) - YUPPIE {YU}{PP}{IE}
25 - Current on the gate driven up by the metal (4) - IRON {I}{RON<-}
ACROSS
1 - Paunch fastener? (5,6) - BELLY BUTTON [CD]
9 - Tailor-made arrangement to let out a series of pictures (7) - DIORAMA {
10 - Metal found in the country's forest trees reportedly (6) - SILVER
11 - Draw a kennel's part with the eyes open (5) - AWAKE [T]
12 - Ransack Helen's city after the disappearance of the Yankee with the colouring agents (7) - DESTROY {D
15 - American leader overcoming ego in a plot to fully appease.. (4) - SATE S(-i+a)ATE
16 - .. a citizen of the Internet with his tool of choice? (3,7) - WEB BROWSER [CD]
18 - Faithfully returned Adam's needle in a cover to the sailor going west with the Spanish (10) - ACCURATELY {ACCU{RAT<-}{EL<-}Y<-}
20 - Pine for pain (4) - ACHE [DD]
23 - Turn around to catch Jack in the recess (7) - ADJOURN {AD{J}OURN*}
24 - Release the sister with a Greek character's name at the wrong place (5) - UNPIN (-n)UN{PI}(+n)N
26 - Son went missing from the broken down limousine location (6) - MILIEU LIM
27 - Control the core pressure to some extent (7) - REPRESS [T]
28 - Not rewarded for getting HD? (5-6) - EMPTY-HANDED EMPTY-{H-----D}
DOWN
2 - Mistake to include oarsmen oddly lacking a corrective tool (6) - ERASER {ER{
3 - Track made of metal (4) - LEAD [DD]
4 - Hamper the auditor's cry at the game (10) - BASKETBALL {BASKET}{BALL}(~bawl)
5 - Number found outside a fancy hotel in a fundraising event on the TV (8) - TELETHON {TE{HOTEL*}N}
6 - Task of packing in the sent up mineral is demanding (7) - ONEROUS {ON{ERO<-}US}
7 - Excessively amuse Dana at sea (2,7) - AD NAUSEAM*
8 - Metal found in the small bed boxed in a revolutionary R&D site (7) - COBALT {CO{BAL<-}T}
13 - Blouse that may be frowned upon by the censors? (3-7) - SEE-THROUGH [CD]
14 - Transience BSE infers by accident (9) - BRIEFNESS*
17 - Head off with the croissant baked by the incendiary (8) - ARSONIST
19 - Metal from the island harboured by the scoundrel's mother (7) - CADMIUM {CAD}{M{I}UM}
21 - Metal with power to remove iodine from a Xerox machine (6) - COPPER COP(-i+p)ER
22 - Yugoslavian parish priests on Ireland's materialistic urbanite (6) - YUPPIE {YU}{PP}{IE}
25 - Current on the gate driven up by the metal (4) - IRON {I}{RON<-}
28a: Probably, if you "empty 'handed' " , you would get HD.
ReplyDeleteClarification: The above was written before the anno was added in the post.
DeleteThanks CV,
DeleteI hit the publish button and then the Anno dawned on me, but it appears all of you were quicker to the draw tha I was.
Neyartha in his 'elements'
ReplyDelete10A homophone of sylva
10 - Metal found in the country's forest trees reportedly (6) - SILVER Anno pending
ReplyDeleteSilver is a kind of tree. But I suspect there's more to the anno. BTW, with all the metal, I am sure we are missing the woods for the trees: Pine, Silver,
28 - Not rewarded for getting HD? (5-6) - EMPTY-HANDED Anno pending
I took this as follows:
def=not rewarded=empty handed
HD is got by emptying HANDED, ie by removing its innards as in H(-ande)D
10 - Metal found in the country's forest trees reportedly (6) - SILVER Anno pending
ReplyDelete(~SILVA / SYLVA): forest trees growing in a country
A Nityananda, seems to have given us a miss, expected nitya, but turned out anitya...
ReplyDeleteNavneeth commented yesterday about a lot of white space. This I noted when Anitya's puzzles appeared last time too.
ReplyDeleteI think Anitya is very sparse in use of words: yesterday's crossword has (after removing the clue numbers and enus), some 140 words against the previous puzzle by Gridman which has 210 words. Anitya's average number of words per clue appears to be five.
Because of less wordage, many short sentences had been cut to spill over to the next line in order to fill out the allotted space.
The grid, I noted, was slightly bigger. The length was found to be 8.5 cm, as against 8.1 cm on a typical day.
The sparseness of wordage was perhaps due to the fact that the solution words were common, simple ones.
I wonder what solvers think of this lack of uniformity in difficulty level of puzzles. In the event, we must be glad that the Colonel decided to stay longer in bed this morning expecting the puzzle to be an Anitya.
Anitya had two puzzles last time that is why I was expecting one again today. Luckily I managed to crack Neyartha today in spite of the fact that I started on the CW only at 7:30
Deleteha ha ha yes neyarta , in his elements, may be a chemistry lover?? not forgetting the periodic table??
ReplyDeleteand silver oak is a tree i think
It is, but that is not the reference here
DeleteI have the following doubts-
ReplyDelete4D- I can't understand "auditor's", even taking auditor as ear. What has crying or bawling to do with ear?
5D- what is the significance of "fancy" in the clue? Normally it may be an Anind, but it has no use here.
Auditor is a homonym indicator. Bawl can be heard as ball
DeleteFancy is the anind for Hotel. What is the confusion here?
Learnt today that I was always mis-spelling ad nauseam as ad nauseum
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me of a recent encounter I had with a lawyer. For ages, he had been using 'ultra virus' in place of 'ultra vires'. When drafting a notice on my behalf he insisted on 'ultra virus'. Upon my strong protest, he agreed to have a look into a good dictionary and found my version correct. And to think that, as a senior lawyer, he has been using 'ultra virus' for over 20 years...
DeleteThe story of our profession, in one neat little anecdote. :0
DeleteThank you Suresh, but my doubt about hotel is that it appears as it is and not as an anagram. Then why an anind?
ReplyDeleteDitto about ad "nauseum"! I was so sure of my wrong spelling that I was thinking there is something wrong here.
Hotel appears as 'lethon' not as it is.
DeleteRead letho
Delete21 D XEROX IS A COMPANIES NAME?
ReplyDeleteYes
DeleteXEROXING has become so synonymous with PHOTOCOPYING!!
DeleteThough 'Xerox' is a registered trademark. The BRB also carries the following meanings
Delete'a copy so produced' and 'to produce a copy by this method'
By the way the method used by 'Werox' is called 'xerographic method of reproduction'
Xerox not Werox
DeleteSuresh,
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for your holiday since I am getting prompt replies. Thank you once again.
Mumbai and rest of Maharashtra are also enjoying the Holiday for Maharashtra Divas.
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