ACROSS
1 - Good man found fault with, for being hard up (8) - STRAPPED {ST}{RAPPED}
6 - Hindu idol secreted in van about to start (4) - SIVA {S}{I}{V}{A}
9 - He oversees time-servers (6) - JAILER [CD]
10 - Doing very well — at the casino? (2,1,4) - ON A ROLL [CD]
13 - International man is employed in a Durgapur establishment,
perhaps (9) - IRONWORKS {I}{RON}{WORKS}
14 - Overshadow and ward off female (5) - DWARF {WARD*}{F}
15 - Greeting? Yes, greeting (4) - HIYA {HI}{YA}
16 - Observers who may not be in a sit-in? (10) - BYSTANDERS [CD]
19 - Mover's vehicle? (7,3) - REMOVAL VAN [CD]
21 - Playboy's ornamental button (4) - STUD [DD]
26 - …And how? Quite the rage! (2,5) - IN STYLE {IN}{STYLE}
27 - Almost go and read out to merchant (6) - TRADER {TRy}{READ*}
29 - The man and I in perturbation show uncertainty (8) - HESITATE {HE}{S{I}TATE}
DOWN
2 - Time to have a piece of cake over company's appointment on board?
(3,4) - TEA COSY {T}{EA {CO}SY}
4 - Representation of harbour light by boy (9) - PORTRAYAL {PORT}{RAY}{AL}
5 - Lets go of lozenges (5) - DROPS [DD]
7 - Single out one too behind (7) - ISOLATE {I}{SO)(LATE}
8 - Like a bolt from the blue (3,2,1,6) - ALL OF A SUDDEN [E]
11 - Eager for a right study tool to begin with (6) - ARDENT {A}{R}{DEN}{T}
12 - Taking in notes just by looking and performing (5-7) - SIGHT READING [CD]
17 - For ones on a bench the estate ma'm gathered (9) - TEAMMATES*
20 - Quality of one retiring from way to dirty place (7) - MODESTY {MODE}{STY}
22 - Roughly interacts without article to make scores of 60 (7) - TRISECT InTERaCTS*
23 - Finally, you stay after a large number in foreign land (6) - KUWAIT {K}{U}{WAIT}
Gridman doffs his hat at Mover and Arden in 19a and 11a. Any others?
ReplyDelete9a could be Jailor/Gaoler, both fit.
9 - He oversees time-servers (6) - JAILER [CD]
ReplyDeleteThis is a poor clue.
GAOLER (keeper of jail, someone who guards prisoners) also fits.
Warder also fits, though it gets eliminated when the crossings appear
ReplyDelete22D- How does "make scores of 60" become trisect? Is it 180 degrees trisected?
ReplyDeletescore = 20, so make scores of 60 = divide 60 in 3 = trisect
DeleteThank you Bhavan. Looked complicated, but now simple. "Elementary my dear Watson"!!
ReplyDeleteThanks to Gridman for bringing in some math in CWs (other than clue numbers). I fancifully hope that it was in response to my request, I know not when...
ReplyDelete60/3 is elementary school arithmetic. And it is the only maths that we Chartered Accountants know.
DeleteFor Kishore and others
ReplyDeletehttp://www.caravanmagazine.in/Story/923/Why-Do-We-Read-PG-Wodehouse-.html#
Caravan in issue dated May 5 carries an article on PGW. It quotes the following para:
It was in reading Wodehouse that I awoke to the erotic charge that words could carry, as this comment by Wooster on Roberta Wickham might prove:
Aunt Dahlia, describing this young blister as a one-girl beauty chorus, had called her shots perfectly correctly. Her outer crust was indeed of a nature to cause those beholding it to rock back on their heels with a startled whistle. But while equipped with eyes like twin stars, hair ruddier than the cherry, oomph, espieglerie and all the fixings, B Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup she would carelessly plunge you.