Another flawless offering from Arden. Even though 10A and 21D were unknown words for me, the wordplay suggested the word which only had to be checked from the dictionary to see whether it was correct.
ACROSS
1 - For a change came across a ship’s room in order (13) - METAMORPHOSIS {MET}{A}{SHIPS+ROOM*}
10 - Insect finds it hot in fall (5) - THRIP {T{H}RIP}
11 - Time managed before the peak. It will happen (9) - TRANSPIRE {T}{RAN}{SPIRE}
12 - Note distance, lift some weight before reaching a city with
novelist (5,4) - EMILE ZOLA {E}{MILE} {ZO<-}{LA}
13 - Let law be lax (5) - LEASE {L}{EASE}
14 - Similar gestures hide something taking the most space (7) - LARGEST [T]
16 - May be a 10 gets power. Check out (7) - INSPECT {INS{P}ECT}
18 - Go against the window (7) - COUNTER [DD]
20 - Rank gets a measure of the explosive thing (7) - GRENADE {GR{EN}ADE}
22 - Expert nowadays shows record time (5) - ADEPT {AD}{EP}{T}
24 - A ball has something to eat, plenty of it (9) - ABUNDANCE {A}{BUN}{DANCE}
26 - Mob agreed to disperse when banned (9) - EMBARGOED*
27 - Allow publicity for the American university (5) - ADMIT {AD}{MIT}
28 - Protesting before the wicked one, the sailor follows the saint
(13) - DEMONSTRATING {DEMON}{ST}{RATING}
DOWN
2 - Before the noble one in front of the Queen (7) - EARLIER {EARL}{1}{ER}
3 - International sports body makes you hate now (2,7) - AT PRESENT {AT P}{RESENT}
4 - Expenses away from home, try to follow (5) - OUTGO {OUT}{GO}
5 - Keeping at the centre is mollifying (9) - PLACATING {PLAC{AT}ING}
7 - Follow one time at random (7) - IMITATE {1+TIME+AT}*
8 - An athlete replaces these somehow (13) - STEEPLECHASER*
9 - Lets ten metres dislocation in these camps (13) - RESETTLEMENTS*
15 - Pulled away, one does follow these twisters (9) - TORNADOES {TORN}{A}{DOES}
17 - Firm changes dates quickly (9) - STEADFAST {DATES*}{FAST}
19 - Blue sea transport could be hired (7) - USEABLE*
23 - In-out from twisting trunk (5) - TORSO TORSiOn
25 - Ranked below in Sunderland (5) - UNDER [T]
Really liking Arden's style of clueing.
ReplyDelete(From yesterday)
ReplyDeleteSeshagiri Karry
May I ask if you are the same person as Seshagiri Row Karry whose letters appear occasionally in newspapers including The Hindu.
Yes,your words are music to my ears,Thank you.
DeleteI had not come across 'embargo' as a verb. So a little hesitant in filling - of course I had to check up.
ReplyDeleteAs it was suggested in this column yesterday Arden has indeed raised the bar and enjoyably so.
Good stuff again. Clues mixed up nicely. But some referencing to validate answers was required for me, even if some answers suggest themselves. For eg, one could guess Thrip from the wordplay without knowing the bird, but who's really heard of the river Ouse (which can also be spelt Ouze) and btw Ouzel is also a river, blah blah...
ReplyDeleteCan someone please explain 12A and 20A
ReplyDeleteIn 12A distance is MILE, weight is OZ, city is LA etc. But how is "note" = "E"?
Note distance = E MILE ?
In 20A, "Rank" is "Grade", but how is "measure" the cue for "EN".
A,B,C,D,E,F and G are musical notes. En is a measure used in printing and is equal to approx 1/12 inch
Deletethat was really nice. thanx
Delete:)
Deepak
ReplyDeleteYou have encountered AGNOMEN once before. That was in a Gridman puzzle (9690) that was published on 17 Nov 09 when you solved it and said it was new word for you.
But then these strange words we tend to forget. They appear fresh to us each time we meet them at long intervals. After all, in our everyday speech or writing, we would never get to use such words.
From my dB, I find the word was used in an earlier puzzle as well but that might be before you began writing your blog.
You ar right when you say we tend to forget new words. The word under discussion was new to me too. I may vaguely remember having seen it before, but will definitely not remember its meaning. I have forgotten it already.
Delete... and I'm sure next time I encounter it I will again say new word for me!!!
DeleteAfter this prolonged discussion we will remember this word and forget the word 'nickname'
DeleteTook quite some time to figure out Agnomen even after finding out that the was the only word that could fit in. ( BTW Spellcheck believes that there is no such word ! )
ReplyDeleteAnother good crossword. Is there any way I can get access to all crosswords set by a particular creator ? ( Grid + Clues without the answers ). Thanks
You can go to The Hindu website and type the name of the setter in the search box (top right corner next to the masthead ) and that seems to be listing puzzles by that particular setter.
DeleteThank you
Delete19Dn.Is there another word as "USEABLE' when we have "Usable"?
ReplyDeleteBoth are allowed.
Delete