Star Trek cum Star Wars special day.
ACROSS
ACROSS
5 - Agree that baffled NCO was eaten by a street dog (6) - CONCUR {C{NCO*}UR}
7 - Nothing back in one found on the web (6) - ONLINE {ON{LIN<-}E}
11 - Talk nothing! Top sailor went back (7) - ORATION {O}{RAT<-}{1ON<-}
12 - Different knights surrounded tongue: tongue that was spoken in
Star Trek (7) - KLINGON {K}{LINGO}{N}
13 - Odd one out, not belonging to a herd of white animals (10) - BLACK SHEEP [CD]
18 - When my robe is in disorder, it symbolises the beginning of life
(6) - EMBRYO*
20 - Money demanded, as poetic morning transforms (6) - RANSOM {AS+MORN}*
21 - Roster of names found in bistro tarts (4) - ROTA [T]
22 - Anakin Skywalker's trader had five confused (5,5) - DARTH VADER {TRADER+HAD+V}*
29 - Bat-man is an RAF fighter (7) - VAMPIRE [DD]
31 - Eager and roaring to go without a ring (6) - RARING RoARING
DOWN
1 - Musical composition from a travel agent that son confused (6) - SONATA {SON}{A}{TA}
2 - Right group goes around to give us a mid-morning meal (6) - BRUNCH {B{R}UNCH}
3 - Chess piece that is a learner (6) - ROOKIE {ROOK}{IE}
4 - Arsenic ragman tossed to get words formed from juggled letters
(8) - ANAGRAMS {AS+RAGMAN}*
6 - Press a button and get a kilometre for a GI (5) - CLICK Anno pending (Addendum - [DD] - See comments)
8 - Dial back and kept down (4) - LAID <-
9 - Betrayal as symbolised by The Great Dictator's regime (6,5) - DOUBLE CROSS [DD]
14 - Words moulded into weapon (5) - SWORD*
15 - Er, the mixture will put you under (5) - ETHER*
16 - Super Thai hides a place in Australia (5) - PERTH [T]
19 - Salver put in ale for a traitor (8) - BETRAYER {BE{TRAY}ER}
23 - Thingummies at the end of your shoelaces (6) - AGLETS [E]
26 - Disk jockey in normal saline gets magical creatures (6) - DJINNS {DJ}{IN}{N}{S} normal saline?
27 - French 14 Dn. found in American Indian dwelling (4) - EPEE teEPEE
29 - Bat-man is an RAF fighter (7) - VAMPIRE [DD]
ReplyDeleteReminded me Frederick Forsyth's The Shepherd.
26 - Disk jockey in normal saline gets magical creatures (6) - DJINNS {DJ}{IN}{N}{S} normal saline?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saline_%28medicine%29
9 - Betrayal as symbolised by The Great Dictator's regime (6,5) - DOUBLE CROSS [DD]
I think the following image is more apt:
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Picture changed
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ReplyDeleteVisit
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unearmarked
and scroll down to see the word at 10d
I didn't find the word at the link you have given
Delete10 - Usable items (not reserved) are unmarked anyway (2-9) - UN-EARMARKED* Couldn't find this word anywhere
ReplyDeleteThis word is usually used by accountants in connection with grants not meant for a specific purpose. I think this might be one of those words like prepone, which seem to find their way into ones vocabulary, but may not find their way into dictionaries.
Incognito needs to be more careful...
25 - Remove endlessly and put back a bone (5) - VOMER eVOMER
DeleteCorrection in Anno
eVOMER<
Prepone is there in the BRB but un-earmarked or unearmarked isn't there
DeleteAnno for VOMER corrected
DeleteI disagree.
ReplyDeleteThe word is quite a legitimate one and it doesn't require a CA to vouchsafe for it.
On visiting the page above, one may have to click on "un-" to reach another page where all the words beginning with un- are listed. There, by scrolling down, you may lo and behold un-earmarked.
Well it's not in the BRB which you normally swear by!!
DeleteInteresting sideshow these days - guess the next setter : )
ReplyDeleteThe theme was fun.
I thought it was an odd-looking grid. It didn't help that it was misprinted near 14D.
I still have problems with surface readings.
Isn't BLACK SHEEP a 5,5 rather than 10?
CV,
ReplyDeleteI didn't find the word at the link you have given
On reaching that page, click on un- link in blue.
DeleteOn the page reached thereafter, please scroll down to see the exact word.
Un-Earmarked might be legitimate (I could find it on the web in a few places), but it was still kind of odd to find whole segments of the clue reproduced in the solution (also cf Roaring/Raring, Placement/Cement)
ReplyDeleteOverall, liked the Star * references, was fun.
ReplyDelete30A and 31A could have been made a bit more challenging.
Personally, I felt some surfaces like 19D and 26D were not plausible enough.
I think, with CLICK, ONLINE and JAVA, the theme might be 'The Stereotypical American Geek'. :D
ReplyDeleteColonel,
Re: 6D, a Click refers to a Kilometer is military-speak, although I think it may be restricted to the US.
And I agree with Kishore: despite the obvious reference, the Double Cross is different from the Nazi Swastika.
Did not like 10D and 30A, since the letters or most of them at least appear in the same order in the clue
ReplyDeleteBhavan is perfectly right on the 5,5 enumeration. Navneeth is also correct on the reference to CLICK and the subconscious unintended theme - maybe I was watching too many American sitcoms. The point on 30a and 31a are validly taken. I will avoid them in future. Glad the * references were enjoyed. And yes, some surfaces need to be handled better.
ReplyDeleteThe grid error, however, was not my achievement and I cannot take credit for it.