ACROSS
1 - Short accurate summary (6) - PRECIS PRECISe
5 - Small mischievous being seen in heavens (6) - SKIMPY {SK{IMP}Y}
10 - Fashion model, glad to get first prize (4,5) - GOLD MEDAL*
11 - Westbound 9.50 Russian local (5) - LENIN {L}{ENIN}<-
12 - Retro composition of a rurally divine song (5) - IDYLL <-
13 - Ringing endorsement for marriage (9) - BETROTHAL [CD]
16 - Push off internal cricketing body problems (7) - HICCUPS {H{ICC}UPS*}
18 - Key members of staff for a dictator (7) - TYPISTS [CD] My COD even though it's a CD
20 - Floating across Isle (Man) on the French ship (7) - AIMLESS {A}{IM}{LE}{SS}
21 - Case of extremely tired retinas? (9) - EYESTRAIN {ExtremelY}{RETINAS*} & lit
25 - Hot drink in the morning for the elite (1-4) - A-TEAM {A{-TEA}M}
26 - Correct throw gets one a wicket (9) - CASTIGATE {CAST}{1}{GATE}
27 - Blessed virgin mother associated with birth essentially, inside
an animal shelter (2,4) - ST MARY {ST {MA}{biRth}Y}
28 - Saw a boat (6) - CUTTER [DD]
DOWN
2 - Side with supporter in a demonstration (5) - RALLY {R}{ALLY}
3 - Finishes unfinished building on time with odd ease (9) - COMPLETES {COMPLEx}{T}{EaSe}
4 - Secondary news article about seabird (7) - SIDEBAR*
5 - Mark piece of land surrounded by school (7) - SPLOTCH {S{PLOT}CH}
6 - House, primarily in Greenland, lacks opulence often (5) - IGLOO {I}{G}{L}{O}{O}
7 - Chaos in the U.S. Open top quarters (9) - PENTHOUSE*
8 - Criminal vs. Judiciary (7,3,3) - AGAINST THE LAW [CD]
9 - Perhaps pet author from Britain (7,6) - ENGLISH SETTER {ENGLISH} {SETTER}
17 - Symbol said to be first for a music player (9) - CYMBALIST (~symbol){CYMBAL}{1ST}
19 - Republican church content to remain stiff (7) - STARCHY {STA{R}{CH}Y}
20 - Forgetful person made Mensa in charge (7) - AMNESIC {MENSA+IC}*
22 - Stamp album showing place in Florida (5) - TAMPA [T]
Liked No.7, Deepak. Wonder what happens backside?
ReplyDeleteNot only the setters cycle, the bloggers cycle too has got rescheduled today ;-) Usually, if it is Tuesday, it must be B...
ReplyDeleteKishore,
DeleteB has a habit of penning a short note on top when he is blogging. I was wondering what it could be for today's superb CW. Suggestions & comments invited.
@Kishore, anticipating the former, I had requested Colonel to swap with me so I got Neyartha yesterday : )
Deletesuperb CW today. i broke my head to solve some clues. love the clue "tired retina" -solved it the last minute .not many anagrams though. over all A+ on difficulty level. good day all,,, off i go!!
ReplyDeleteThe retina is right up your alley. But tell me something: are you a right eye specialist or a left eye specialist?
DeleteWas reminded of a 'naval' specialist!!
DeleteHaha,what u ask is true. But I am a cataract surgeon, so I guess.. I can call myself bilateral specialist.
Delete13 - Ringing endorsement for marriage (9) - BETROTHAL [CD]
ReplyDeleteThe first part of the ring Trilogy, Engagement Ring, Wedding Ring, and xxxxxxxxx (Home censor board has run its blue pencil through)
Yammering?
DeleteHammering?
Grief funs enduring
DeleteThere's much to admire in the crossword today.
ReplyDeleteA good variety of clue-types, smooth surface reading, unusual treatment (11a, for instance; or 21a where the homophone of 'I' is avoided)), apposite wordplay (27a), etc., etc.
A young setter who is an asset for THC.
+1, with bells on
DeleteThis is probably one of the best in The Hindu, IMHO
Delete+2 ! I raise both hands. Pity he does not have time to set more CW's. I now know why. It must have taken a lot of time to get today's excellent CW in place.
Delete+3 An 23 A
DeleteMrs PP is well-advised not to click on the link 'skimpy number'.
ReplyDeleteAs for me, I didn't need to click on it to imagine what was coming.
Seven is a lucky number
DeleteKishore
DeleteYou're incorrigible, man.
Only NOW did I understand what on earth you meant in your 8:33.
If you write something, also add Konar notes along with it so that we can see light.
CV sir, you can add notes to "KONAR NOTES" for non-tamilians as well as the younger gen.
DeleteWe could not do without it in our schooldays!
The more I gazed at the cartoon, the number and number I grew...
DeleteKishore
DeleteTo answer your mischievous query at 8:33, would it be a mirror reflection of the figure in front?
Will someone write a corner note on what is meant by KONAR notes?
DeleteThe more I examine this crossword, the more I gape!
ReplyDeleteTake 10a
Fashion model, glad to get first prize (4,5)
What a superb clue!
In surface reading 'fashion' is an adj qualifying 'model'.
In wordplay, it is AInd and this time it's a verb.
The anag fodder being separated by comma is unusual.
The fact that 'is' is elliptical is taken care of by the comma.
That crossword is good when it stands up to scrutiny.
THC has had some setters most of whose clues won't endure even a cursory glance.
@CV, of all the clues you had to pick this one!
DeleteI'm not going to hear the end of it because Amudha suggested that wordplay.
Kishore's third ring is what I'll have to endure now :)
Then, my friend, in spite of all your other great word play, she is the better half ! ;-) The Queen Bee, if may say so.
DeleteQueen Bee is not an apt def. Kishore. It has negative connotations
DeleteOh, dont worry, Big B will take it in his stride. ;-)
DeleteWhen mentioning the three rings, why did you suff....ocate the third one? But most have caught it, beginning with Bhavan.
DeleteBuzzer is terrific as usual
ReplyDelete16 - Push off internal cricketing body problems (7) - HICCUPS {H{ICC}UPS*}: should ICC not be 'international cricketing body'?
ReplyDelete"internal" is used to indicate that the cricketing body i.e. ICC is inside (internal) HUPS (Push off). Cryptic part is a bit complex here prolly 'cause of the clue arrangement.
DeleteMy first COD was also 18A-typists-when I did it. But the one I could not do- 11A (9.50) blew me away !! The way it was put in nos. to mislead one towards time is a master stroke. Hats off, B!
ReplyDeleteI'm experiencing butterflies in the stomach now thinking of tomorrow's puzzle :)
DeleteIs that a happy feeling?
Delete@Suresh trick question right?
DeleteEqually tricky answer.
DeleteThanks VJ for the clarification (for international being internal)
ReplyDeleteYesterday Bhargav had said 'Engayo poittinga'. I am wondering if it would be an apt comment today!
ReplyDeleteLovely one from Buzzer. Got all except stale.
ReplyDeleteToday's cross word was :
Excellent to eat medicinal plant reportedly (6)
Superb
DeleteWrongly make North right. (2,3,4)
DeleteOn the mark :-)
ReplyDeleteInitial rejection in group hypnosis therapy is healthy. (5)
DeleteRight
DeleteWhat a pleasure the incorrigible boys derive in making Mrs.PP look like a prudish, humourless and unreasonable person!
ReplyDeletePP, I thought all of us had the exact opposite opinion.
DeleteYour monkey intrigues me.
P-lease, P-lease, dont say that ! We only hope your presence is more frequent. A cat-alyst so to say
DeleteAnd madam, I only looked at the cartoon with a mathematical purist's mind and wondered on the functionality of the number.
DeleteYou guys seem to have un-Coked the bottle. Now taste the thunder!
DeleteAn eerie atmosphere...
DeleteThe man who starts the ball rolling on the subject keeps a studied silence.
The boss watches from a distance.
Other players dumbstruck.
???
Sounds like Charlie Brown
DeleteA refreshing change. Smooth. What a corker!
ReplyDeleteSuresh, I like monkeys, I photograph them wherever I meet them- I've been meeting them from my very tender years:my mother got scared when she saw a baby monkey taking the pendant of the gold chain this baby monkey was wearing while on picnic to a riverside.
ReplyDeleteWhat intelligent eyes! How soft their palms feel when I feed them with whatever eatable I have with me! I have a whole collection of their photos-posted in facebook!
I also had a monkey with baby sitting on my head once in Bhubaneswar. Managed to get a photo too.
DeleteWell, I will be monkey's uncle..
DeleteI have been out since morning. Just logged in. I appear to have missed out on a lot of monkey business. Now sitting back and enjoying all the comments. My day is done.
DeleteMy wife had a close encounter with a huge man- size baboon in the Nairobi National Park, whilst on a safari, as it tried to jump through an open window of the car to snatch sandwiches that she had packed to have with my daughter. It was a desolate picnic spot she found to be safe but turned out otherwise. Promptly, thanks to the automatic window system in the Benz, she could fire the engine and have the windows rolled up. The leering and angry monkey jumped on the bonnet and ripped the windshield off and she could drive off, using her presence of mind, escaping with minor scratches on the right hand. She had to take an anti-tetanus shot.Talk about ancestral filiality.
ReplyDeleteJust completed yesterday's. LATRIA got me Lariated.
ReplyDeleteIf any one is named MORRISON CARTER, he would not be happy being garotted for NARCOTERRORISM.A Weapon of Mass Destruction that Saddam Hussein was accused of by amBUSHing the Americans with.
Col: Why the theme could not be POWER, given, WOOD, METAL, STEAM ENGINE, STEED(FOR SPEED?)and REGENERATOR, not to speak of BLACKMARKETEER and NARCO TERRORISM,equally POWERful?
S(T)URGEON was ok b ut why should he be a
ship's surgeon?
A POWERful compilation by Neyartha.
This comment has been removed by the author. Col:
ReplyDeleteA no-brainer query. Who be the 'author' here? The Bloggers or the owner of the Blog-You?. Am a bit confused. On what basis does this mysterious admonition appear occasionally here?
Please clarify, since the cat in me is curious.
There is nothing mysterious about it!
DeleteThe owner of this blog rarely deletes a post; if he thinks any post of a visitor is inappropriate he can remove it.
Today - as on most other days, the author, that is the original poster, may themselves remove it. In which case the advice appears that this comment has been removed by the author.
An author may delete their post for various reasons.
To remove one where they had committed a typo before reposting it after making amends.
To remove one when it is overtaken by a previous comment that was not there when they started typing their message and thus avoid duplication.
To remove one where they thought they had made a thoughtless remark.
Raju,
DeleteCV has replied your query. However I as owner of the blog can remove that detritus as wel,l in which case you will not see that comment also which states that 'the comment has been removed by the author' I do it occasionally but have not being doing so the last few days, as I was enjoying the few days with my granddaughter before she pushed off to Romania with her parents :-(
Hi amigos,
ReplyDeletewish you all a happy Onam. Will be back to THC on Sunday :-)
Wish you & the rest of the thcc folks a happy Onam
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