I hope this unabated rain doesn't wash away our regular setters!! Another good opener from yet another new setter. Welcome lightning. I wonder if we will have Thunder tomorrow?
ACROSS
8 - Tread areas without boundaries (4) - PACE sPACEs
9 - Biased uncle Dan cunningly frames sailor from the East (10) - UNBALANCED {UN{BA<-}LANCED*}
10 - Cancel permit to enter river in Scotland (6) - DELETE {DE{LET}E}
11 - Register after twelve months for an almanac (8) - YEARBOOK {YEAR}{BOOK}
12 - Bale rope, damaged, but fit for use (8) - OPERABLE*
14 - Any use becoming tense? (6) - UNEASY*
16 - Smallest fragment of a cat (4) - ATOM {A}{TOM}
17 - Provide accommodation for dealer (5) - HOUSE [DD]
18 - Secure a vast area of uncultivated land (4) - MOOR [DD]
19 - Chief officer in charge of English election (6) - CHOICE {CH}{OIC}{E}
21 - Collectively go back into restraint (8) - TOGETHER {T{OG<-}ETHER}
23 - English fighter to evaluate move out of the country (8) - EMIGRATE {E}{MIG}{RATE}
27 - Introductory lesson of the highest quality (5,5) - FIRST CLASS [DD]
28 - Railway line, after a point, is twisted (4) - AWRY {A}{W}{RY}
DOWN
1 - Promotion of beer in ship initially provokes a craving (5,5) - SALES PITCH {S{ALE}S} {P}{ITCH}
3 - Fantastic man from Belgrade goes around Indian state (6) - SUPERB {S{UP}ERB}
4 - Carry out the order before end of day (4) - OBEY {OBE}{Y}
5 - Prayer, certain to give happiness (8) - PLEASURE {PLEA}{SURE}
6 - Empower the French to go after returning nemesis (6) - ENABLE {ENAB<-}{LE}
7 - The principal character featuring in the rodeo (4) - HERO [T]
13 - Blow up and destroy putter without a bit of thought (5) - ERUPT PUtTER*
15 - You can keep this ticking by taking singles (10) - SCOREBOARD [CD]
17 - Greeting the extraordinary comeback of church’s chief priest
(8) - HIERARCH {HI}{ERAR<-}{CH}
18 - Legendary one follows popular belief about the essence of
healing (8) - MYTHICAL {MYTH}{1}{CA}{L}
20 - Drink gin cocktail with oriental saint (6) - INGEST {GIN*}{E}{ST}
22 - A game-bird’s beef? (6) - GROUSE [DD]
24 - Correspondence from graduate at Illinois (4) - MAIL {MA}{IL}
25 - Former American’s test (4) - EXAM {EX}{AM}
Good morning all.
ReplyDeleteWas travelling yesterday. Missed negotiating KKK debut.
The debut Lightning strike was good. Could complete in toto in good time. The grid did not allow words beyond 10 in length.
YEARBOOK was bland. Thank God TOGETHER was not clued as TO+GET+HER. Otherwise it would have spurred many comments. Liked INGEST, HIERARCH and others.
Welcome Lightning. A bit too easy, perhaps even for a rank amateur solver
ReplyDeletenaaaice. my day is made. :D
ReplyDeleteNice crossword. Got all but five. Where does {CA} come in MYTHICAL?
ReplyDeleteCA = Circa = About
DeleteGreased lightning today. Welcome.
ReplyDeleteAs Abbé Busoni would say: Number Four
So how many composers we have now?
ReplyDeleteSit composed and compose the composers list.
ReplyDeleteAll the setters introduced so far this week have been excellent. Hopefully both trends will continue in the coming days.
ReplyDeleteBhavan, at this rate you may be dealing with 'Thunder' tomorrow :-)
DeleteHopefully I will not taste the thunder, but go back to Sankalak after this dizzying week : )
DeleteBack to full grid days for me.
ReplyDeleteDid the setter call him/her self lightning as he/she wants to show :
Suddenly have some clever ideas that may be seen in stormy skies (7,2,10)
I can spot a STREAK OF BRILLIANCE in your post.
DeleteNo offence intended to the setter. It was a nicely put together crossword. Great to see so much variety in the Hindu crossword.
DeleteA birthday suit run only merits 6 letters. :)
DeleteFlashes of brilliance was the phrase I was looking for
DeleteDid the setter want us to do it at lightning speed?!
ReplyDeleteLightning struck - easy CW, but when do we get Gridman, Sankalak, Nita Jaggi back? No offence to Lightning, it was a 5D to solve his puzzle! Late good morning, all.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is Sankalak should be starting some time soon - tomorrow or Saturday or latest by Monday. Gridman has been appearing immediately after Sankalak.
DeleteYou might be in for a disappointment if you are waiting for NJ : )
Will chance it!
Delete8AC- Tread areas without boundaries (4) - PACE sPACEs
ReplyDeletepLACEs LACE may be the correct answer
I withdraw my above post
ReplyDelete24d - graduate for MA - is it OK? In genl we go for BA
ReplyDeleteGood way start the day sitting on the THUNDERBOX early in the morning !!Thunder always precedes lightning?
ReplyDeleteOOPs !! Thunder always follows lightning? Got my Light and Sound all mixed up chasing each other !!
ReplyDeleteThunder and Lightning generate together. You see lightning first and hear thunder later as light (299,792,458 m/sec) travels much faster than sound (340 m/sec).
DeleteToday's cryptie crossie is a gourmet's delight !!
ReplyDeleteA thundering ovation for a lightning clue lights is due to the compiler.
Could finish tester and lightning
ReplyDeleteHope, it is only rain, not reign by new setters!
ReplyDeleteGreat to have yet another entertaining setter. Not very difficult, but at the same time not too straightforward either.
ReplyDeleteORISON new word for me, but was sure of the solution from the crossings and clue, yet could not find it in my usual online dictionary!
Did today's in Orkut online. Why do I have this queasy feeling that Pet bhargaya lekin Neeyat nahi Bhari? Must look for a print copy and do with my usual ball-point. How do others feel? Nothing like it, for me.Aadat se majboor !!
ReplyDeleteWell, i always solve with ball-pen, only. No on-line help. Only standard dictionaries, as i am bad in spelling.
DeleteThanks for the warm welcome and entertaining comments as usual !
ReplyDeleteJust a couple thoughts from my side:
Re: puzzle being easy, I did not set out to make an easy or a difficult puzzle for the sake of it. The clues are merely a reflection of what came to my mind at the time of writing them. The two things I wanted to make sure of was to try and preserve the integrity of clueing and to not get caught up with one clue type (which was hopefully the case !). Of course, I tried not to get too fancy with my first few submissions - so there may be a couple more "lightning fast" ones before I get to change things up a bit :)
Re: the name, nothing fancy there - its just an old name that has been stuck in my head since the days of naming my desktop during grad school :)
Once again, thanks for the comments & feedback.
Welcome Lightning,
ReplyDeleteWish to see more n more enlightening puzzles from you.
All the very Best :)
Hope this week ends with 2 more new setters Thunder and Wonder :)
This word 'thunder' somehow reminds me of a phrase that I have heard in my more youthful days.
ReplyDelete"Thunder thighs"!
Filmi magazines almost always applied this term to female actors (look, I am using a common gender, I am not calling them actresses).
Even now (let alone in my callow youth) I just could not imagine what attributes of that part of a woman's anatomy earned that description for the usually well-covered area.
Is it the circumference? The strength? The muscularity? The flesh? What?
If it is a snide reference to the monstrosity of the part, why was the term invariably applied to famous actresses who were top-of-the-rung and certainly not as bulky as - no, I won't name any one but in my mind I do have a famous actress whose name starts with N and ends in A and in between it could be the name of a man.
I understand that the term arose from the clapping sound made by one thigh hitting against the other when such a person walks, but, sorry, I must be tone-deaf, for I have heard no such noises. Maybe the sound was muffled by the folds of the sari.
Does any woman with thunder thighs wear 'leggings' - a clothing that has now become so popular in Chennai?
@CV
DeleteThat reminds me of a survey made somewhere - it showed that 20 per cent of men preferred thunder thighs, another 20 per cent slender thighs and the rest ...
Well, it is not appropriate to reproduce it here.
CV the thunder thighs that I recall from our era started with J and ended with an I
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