ACROSS
1 - How to accommodate homeland organisation is well known (9,4) - HOUSEHOLD NAME {HOUSE}{HOLD NAME*}
11 - World body's bitterness with social worker for not showing
bravery (9) - UNGALLANT {UN}{GALL}{ANT}
12 - Playing clarinets is criminal (9) - LARCENIST*
13 - Free article retrieved from the low point (5) - NADIR {NA}{DIR}<-
14 - Brown man not allowed in the circle (7) - TANGENT {TAN}{GENT}
16 - Please take part in the seventh rally (7) - ENTHRAL [T]
18 - Business revival is a silly antic, is what is spoken in southern
France (7) - OCCITAN {AC<-}{ANTIC*} {OC<-}{ANTIC*}
20 - Eats with the sales force having sat out (7) - REPASTS {REP{SAT*}S}
22 - It is said to be deadly but helps one to get a clear view
(5) - WIPER (~viper)
24 - A voice before the people, tense with expiation (9) - ATONEMENT {A}{TONE}{MEN}{T}
26 - Holding back not entire building (9) - RETENTION*
27 - Some proportion brought over into it arbitrarily (5) - RATIO <-
28 - Doctor knows obstacle will hit the roof (4,4,5) - BLOW ONES STACK*
DOWN
2 - The character is very small in size, next to nothing (7) - OMICRON {O}{MICRON}
3 - Extremely honest as others (9) - SINCEREST {SINCE}{REST}
4 - Time one has with a woman of beauty (5) - HOURI {HOUR}{I}
5 - May be shining for some time to be so far away (5-4) - LIGHT-YEAR [CD]
6 - The only difference is with name of the material (5) - NYLON {ONLY}*{N}
7 - Being tight-fisted the German will make a circuitous journey
(7) - MEANDER {MEAN}{DER}
8 - Place to keep complaints separate (9,4) - ISOLATION WARD [CD]
9 - Aristotle is in trouble to achieve asepsis (13) - STERILISATION*
15 - An anti-Australia New Zealand movement by one in East Africa
(9) - TANZANIAN {AN+ANTI+ANZ}
17 - Corrupt street cop kept strictly under wraps (3-6) - TOP-SECRET*
19 - A mine located within a state is great (7) - CAPITAL {C{A}{PIT}AL}
21 - Caught in festering surroundings, he has his doubts (7) - SCEPTIC {S{C}EPTIC}
23 - Start afresh following Descartes's direction (5) - RENEW {RENE}{W}
25 - Grunts hearing initial opinion, as they may be in different
shades (5) - OINKS {O}{INKS}
Nice CW. Enjoyed it though I could not get the last part of 28A. Shall I say blew it?! Did the 1st & 2nd part thanks to crossings.
ReplyDeleteOccitan was new. I could not get the anno for 13A, though I filled it.
Scion for graft was also different.
18a. small typo for the anno oc<- citan
ReplyDeleteThanks Doc,
DeleteSince corrected
Another enjoyable compilation. Many of the lengthy ones turned out to be anagrams, made it a tad easier I feel
ReplyDeleteSir, bile ten spewed is not in book (2,6)
ReplyDeleteThe above is a clue in firstpost crossword 30.
It is an anagram clue. I leave it to my reader to work out the answer. In any case, the solution can be chacked on the website www.firstpost.com
(until crossword 30 is online)
I would like to know whether the def for phrase required is correct. If you don't think so, what does the phrase mean exactly?
I have seen the phrase followed by some dotted lines on the fly page of book for owner to write their name.
Ex Libris {SIR+BILE+X*} X=ten - Latin for 'outside the book' - I just worked out the answer. Can't make any further paraphrasing.
Delete"Outside the book" or "not in book" is too literal a meaning.
DeleteActually, from my understanding, the phrase means "From the library [of]". In the dotted line below the owner will write their name.
Usually the phrase 'Ex libris' will be printed in some antique/classic font to lend it an air of scholarliness.
I am not sure if the clue-writer's def, "not in book", appreciates all this.
Clue-writing requires some skill beyond the literal, some work with the dictionary, doesn't it?
The BRB says,
DeleteEx Libris - from the books of (used eg on bookplates). n (with hyphen) a name-label pasted into the front of a book, a bookplate
This is what I got from dictionary.com
ReplyDeleteex li·bris
[eks lee-bris, lahy-] Show IPA
noun, plural ex li·bris for 2.
1.
from the library of (a phrase inscribed in or on a book before the name of the owner): Ex libris Jane Doe.
2.
an inscription in or on a book, to indicate the owner; bookplate.
Exactly as stated by CV.