Sankalak continues to be in fine touch with this entertaining opener.
ACROSS
1 Have consideration for competence, a quality desired by honourable people (14) RESPECTABILITY (RESPECT+ABILITY)
8 Mythical creature gives healer endless torment (6) DRAGON (DR+AGONy)
Fondness for taffy — one in the making (8) AFFINITY (TAFFY I IN)*
11 Such a suspicious death as may throw the book back in copper’s face (9) CUSTODIAL (OT<- inside CUS+DIAL)
12 Patronage available, say, in All India Services (5) AEGIS (EG inside AIS)
13 Lying in wait in Omalur, kin goes crazy (7) LURKING (T)
15 Correct behaviour of daughter with spirit holding English company (7) DECORUM (D+RUM outside E+CO)
17 Certifies to the validity of a trial in a back street (7) ATTESTS (A+TEST inside ST<-)
19 Colourful festival time, a time free from work (7) HOLIDAY (HOLI+DAY)
21 Farewell from a god in Spain (5) ADIOS (A+DIOS)
23 Dish taken in German city with hesitation (9) HAMBURGER (HAMBURG+ER)
25 Musical drama by a lawyer, “Ecstasy”, can be worked on (8) OPERABLE (OPERA+BL+E)
26 It provides cover for a new party dish (6) CANAPE (CAPE outside A+N)
27What a penitent may do to transform knave’s grief so close to crisis (3,11) ASK,FORGIVENESS (KNAVE'S GRIEF SO+S)*
DOWN
1 The basis for one with extreme views (7) RADICAL (DD)
2 Heroes for a sailor on board ship (5) STARS (TAR inside SS)
3 Subject foreign to a poor money manager? (9) ECONOMICS (CD)
4 Confused and a bit bored, African leaders escaped (7) BAFFLED (B+AF+FLED)
5 Famous dog with a Russian instrument Bala abandoned (5) LAIKA (balaLAIKA)
6 Tough young chap, straddling boat, set off (9) TRIGGERED (TED outside RIGGER)
7 Substance found by agent back in a Soviet store (6) GYPSUM (SPY<- inside GUM)
10 Knight wearing a toupee as an aid to flight (4) WING (WIG outside N)
14 A rent rise managed by moneys paid in advance for work to be done (9) RETAINERS (A RENT RISE)*
16 A clean cult, nameless, in distress — work it out (9) CALCULATE (A CLEAn CULT)*
17 A practical joke in operation in a European community (6) ARAGON (A+RAG+ON)
18 Learned person, but still a student! (7) SCHOLAR (DD)
19 Old partner leaves to disinter famous party founder (4)HUME HUME (exHUME)
20 Tricky deliveries from large English county (7) YORKERS (DD)? (See comments)
22 A cover for a mark beginning to fester (5) SCARF (SCAR+F)
24 Strong light associated with publicity (5) GLARE (DD)
ACROSS
1 Have consideration for competence, a quality desired by honourable people (14) RESPECTABILITY (RESPECT+ABILITY)
8 Mythical creature gives healer endless torment (6) DRAGON (DR+AGON
11 Such a suspicious death as may throw the book back in copper’s face (9) CUSTODIAL (OT<- inside CUS+DIAL)
12 Patronage available, say, in All India Services (5) AEGIS (EG inside AIS)
13 Lying in wait in Omalur, kin goes crazy (7) LURKING (T)
15 Correct behaviour of daughter with spirit holding English company (7) DECORUM (D+RUM outside E+CO)
17 Certifies to the validity of a trial in a back street (7) ATTESTS (A+TEST inside ST<-)
19 Colourful festival time, a time free from work (7) HOLIDAY (HOLI+DAY)
21 Farewell from a god in Spain (5) ADIOS (A+DIOS)
23 Dish taken in German city with hesitation (9) HAMBURGER (HAMBURG+ER)
26 It provides cover for a new party dish (6) CANAPE (CAPE outside A+N)
DOWN
1 The basis for one with extreme views (7) RADICAL (DD)
2 Heroes for a sailor on board ship (5) STARS (TAR inside SS)
3 Subject foreign to a poor money manager? (9) ECONOMICS (CD)
4 Confused and a bit bored, African leaders escaped (7) BAFFLED (B+AF+FLED)
5 Famous dog with a Russian instrument Bala abandoned (5) LAIKA (
6 Tough young chap, straddling boat, set off (9) TRIGGERED (TED outside RIGGER)
7 Substance found by agent back in a Soviet store (6) GYPSUM (SPY<- inside GUM)
14 A rent rise managed by moneys paid in advance for work to be done (9) RETAINERS (A RENT RISE)*
16 A clean cult, nameless, in distress — work it out (9) CALCULATE (A CLEA
17 A practical joke in operation in a European community (6) ARAGON (A+RAG+ON)
18 Learned person, but still a student! (7) SCHOLAR (DD)
19 Old partner leaves to disinter famous party founder (4)
20 Tricky deliveries from large English county (7) YORKERS (DD)
22 A cover for a mark beginning to fester (5) SCARF (SCAR+F)
A new post by Shuchi today: 'Why Hindi and Cryptic CWs do not mix'. Link on the left side.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyable typical Sankalak CW with a lot of nice pictures added. Thank you, Bhavan,making it more enjoyable. Particularly liked the one for Hamburger. Till recently I was under the impression all hamburgers contained ham till I came to know the name originated in Hamburg !
ReplyDeleteI think 20 down is a CD
ReplyDelete20 Tricky deliveries from large English county (7) YORKERS (DD)?
DeleteI would think this is a DD. If Bhavan has put a query mark, it must be for the reason that he thinks that the two definitions do not stand out distinctly.
Of course, one def is "tricky deliveries" [in the cricketing sense].
The other?
We can take "from large English county" as the other, supplying "those from" at the beginning of the words.
People from Yorkshire are not called Yorkers, or are they? Well I don't find any such reference in any of the dictionaries.
DeleteI thought yorker (cricket) came from Yorkshire.
DeleteConfirms my faith in Sankalak
ReplyDeleteClean and clever. Defs are sometimes so straightforward, becomes easy to guess solution
ReplyDelete19D thought it was Allan Octavian Hume founder of indian national congress
ReplyDeleteI thought the same too.
DeleteThanks. You both are right. I've corrected the link.
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