Looks like Gridman went to an Italian restaurant before setting this one!!
ACROSS
ACROSS
1 - Goes with the money collected (8) - PROCEEDS [DD]
6 - Comb for comical person? (4) - CARD [DD]
9 - Relays about fit quarter (6) - CABLES {C}{ABLE}{S}
10 - More corpulent Susan leaves suburbanites dazed (7) - TUBBIER suBURBanITEs*
13 - Determination with which new one leaves Italian city holding
macho types (9) - VEHEMENCE {VE(-ni+hemen}HEMENCE}
14 - Reason to record one note (5) - LOGIC {LOG}{I}{C}
15 - Leaders of Naxalite order gave out scuttled mission (2-2) - NO-GO {N}{O}-{G}{O}
16 - Child's desire returns for nut and vegetable (6,4) - KIDNEY BEAN {KID}{NEY<-} {BEAN}
21 - Judicial order put on paper briefly (4) - WRIT WRITe
24 - Describe fully unit of measurement that stops short (5) - PARSE PARSEc
25 - Starter in Italy points at a variation (9) - ANTIPASTO
26 - Pasta the Pescara violinist tucked in (7) - RAVIOLI [T]
27 - After fast, I begin liking pulse (6) - LENTIL {LENT}{I}{L}
28 - Mark to study tense (4) - DENT {DEN}{T}
29 - Let the cigarette be …, from the health point of view (8) - UNBURNED [CD]
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2 - Go hard — furiously — around the circle to get the speedster
(4,3) - ROAD HOG {R{O}AD HOG*}
3 - Army officer's hesitation on northern body of troops (6) - COLUMN {COL}{UM}{N}
4 - All-important city of space — no steamy resort (9) - ESSENTIAL {ESSEN}{spaTIAL}
5 - Gridman, for one, doesn't complete a Roman number (5) - SETTE SETTEr
7 - Excited adult can shake leg (7) - ATINGLE {A}{TIN}{LEG*}
11 - If it rains like this, it pours (5-1) - BILLY-O [CD]
12 - Calm celebration — czar drops alternative by journalist
(4-8) - EVEN-TEMPERED {EVEN-T}{EMPERor}{ED}
17 - Bad thing to stick in an entertainment spot (9) - NIGHTCLUB {THING*}{CLUB}
18 - Dopes distributed about key dashboard instrument (6) - SPEEDO {SPE{E}DO*}
20 - Two vehicles around a company of people (7) - CARAVAN {CAR}{A}{VAN}
22 - With others, I have become fidgety (7) - RESTIVE {REST}{I'VE}
23 - No. 1 batsman is a help in drinking sessions, perhaps (6) - OPENER [DD]
Col., your plate overfloweth today.
ReplyDelete29 - Let the cigarette be …, from the health point of view (8) - UNBURNED [CD]
Who was that wit who said cigarettes are vile things and should therefore be burnt and thrown away. TP Kailasam, Beechi ?
Col.,
ReplyDeleteWas Gridman in just an Italian restaurant or in Italy itself?!
Now that's a good question!
DeleteKishore,
ReplyDelete"Your plate overfloweth today"- to make him 10A?
+1
Delete8D is a totally new word- one never stops learning.
ReplyDeleteI have heard of a smoker being a fool with a burning end on his lips and dying embers in his brains.
ReplyDeleteNice one today
ReplyDeleteLooks like Gridman went to an Italian restaurant before setting this one!!
ReplyDeleteWonder if Antonia Maino was serving there ;-)
Naw, just joking. AM was serving in a Greek, not Italian, restaurant.