The HINDU has decided to give AFTERDARK a foreign sounding name? The CW today is attributed to 'AFLER DERRK' ! Maybe, as he is showing us so many foreign movies today, had to google a lot to get them as I had not heard of most of them.
ACROSS
1 Retaliate violently when ale is vomited on dress (6) ATTIRE RETalIATe*
9 Front to back, brand the vehicles (4) CARS (-s)CAR(+s)S
10 Travel aboard ship to make a movie (5,5) WHALE RIDER {WHALE {RIDE}R}
11 Photographic defect caused by late night flight? (3,3) RED EYE [DD]
12 Everyone surprisingly itchy before the government building
(4,4) CITY HALL {CITY H*}{ALL}
13 Set up? Set off and destroy leaving nothing (9) ESTABLISH {SET*}{ABoLISH}
15 Because one stays strong initially, he becomes the chief (4) BOSS {B}{O}{S}{S}
16 Now? No point, it was earlier (4) ONCE nONCE
17 Pester yours truly to make a film (9) DISTURBIA {DISTURB}{I}{A}
21 Fat sink Henry fabricated as an aquarium (4,4) FISH TANK {FAT+SINK+H}*
22 A setter’s fiction made into a movie (6) AMELIE {A}{ME}{LIE}
24 Partner caused female French setter’s demise (10) GIRLFRIEND {GIRL}{FR}{I}{END}
25 Man regularly fasts to gain passion (4) HEAT {HE}{fAsTs}
26 Relative from the east caught cold touching the Spanish metal
(6) NICKEL {NI{C}K<=}{EL}
DOWN
2 Dreadful taskmaster reduces wrong marks by discernment (5) TASTE TaskmASTEr
3 This movie is an example for bad treatment (3,4) RAW DEAL [DD]
5 Son took over when female left the festival for a nap (6) SIESTA (-f+s)SIESTA
6 Huge Robin Cook is the guy next door (9) NEIGHBOUR*
7 Framework made by short tree fixed over window bar (7 ) TRELLIS {TREe}{LLIS<=}
8 Compare staff with soldiers in the film (10,3) MATCHSTICK MEN {MATCH}{STICK} {MEN}
14 Coach ill-disposed to include leading opium addict (9) ALCOHOLIC {COACH+ILL+O}*
16 Plant good in my assessment (7) OPINION {O{PI}NION}
18 The mass led astray by hogwash (7) TWADDLE {T}{WAD}{LED*} 'T' for 'THE' from the long list?
19 Ape meat Italian cooked adding iodine (7) IMITATE {MEAT+IT+I}*
20 Release movie I say! (6) FAERIE ? Like CV syas, annotation left to the reader! (In my case I couldn't crack it!) (Addendum - CARRIE (~carry) - See comments)
23 Heater burst to release a volatile liquid (5) ETHER HEaTER*
20D is CARRIE Colonel
ReplyDeleteThanks. Never thought of that synonym of 'release', the definition in the middle didn't help also.
DeleteKnock! Knock! Anybody home?
ReplyDeleteNo comments up to now? 'Movie' and 'film' appear so many times in the clues. Added to that, French, Greek, Spanish.... phew!
Got only a few like SIESTA, FISH TANK, BOSS, ETHER AND HEAT and gave up to attend to other work.
Oh, Shrikanth arrived in the meantime.
DeleteThe opening clue 1 Across sounded yucky enough. How does 'vomited' work in the place of 'omitted'? Who threw up this one, the setter or the typesetter? :-)
ReplyDeleteLike Afterdark's choice of movies. Like Amelie the best.
ReplyDeleteOK, there are 17 movies in this puzzle, but luckily many of them titled normally hence other definition could be provided. For some it was straight forward film/movie indication.
ReplyDeleteA couple of difficult movie names to get, esp. CARRIE, DISTURBIA. The notorious 'long list' rears it's head again?
ReplyDeleteA couple of difficult movies to watch too. Carrie's a popular horror movie from the 70s and Disturbia is based on Hitchcock's Rear Window. A spine-chilling thriller.
DeleteOr a spine-thrilling chiller!
DeleteMovies are shown after dark. No wonder we are in the dark about some movies!
ReplyDeleteI read Richard's comment@9.46 with Col.'s opening remark about Afterdark going foreign!
Setter/ setter's leads to I / me- how is it normally? 22A- Me, 24A-I .
16d- 'pI' from?
Enjoyed the way Robin was Cooked with a capital C. Shuchi had an article recently on fa;se capitalisation. This time it leads everyone (or is it just me?) think about Robin Cook, the author.
Padmanabhan, 16D - PI is Good
DeleteHow good is 'good' equal to Pi ? If you could throw some more light on that please !
DeletePious= good .The explanation given by Shuchi some days back ,when I asked her the same question :)
DeleteThank you, LV.
DeleteSo I presume PI is taken as abridged form of Pious.
Nice (cine*) puzzle Shrikanth.
DeleteWith verbal anagram indicators like Cook (6d), the indicator needs to precede the anagram fodder so that it serves as an instuction to the solver. If the anagram indicator follows the fodder, then it needs to be either a gerund form of the verb (cooking) or an adjective or past tense of the verb (cooked).
Richard,
ReplyDeleteI thought so too about the link. But looking around I clicked on the subheading ... I see that you have got it too in the meantime.
Good time to wish them all (and more particularly our bloggers) the Best of Luck in the finals.
Paddy, the like-minded always think alike, after all.... ;-)
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DeleteShall be happy if you could fill the blank 'after all'... ! Mind spoon feeding me !?
DeleteMy comment is addressed to Richard's post @ 11:50 am
Delete.... great minds think alike.
DeleteThank you, Sir. Wish, someday, I too will have a great mind !
DeletePhotographs of IXL finalists with a small write up about each of them is available at the IXL site at the following link
ReplyDeleteIXL FINALISTS
Good luck to all !
DeleteGood luck to all ...
DeleteMy photo there was snapped by Sir Richard !
Delete...Burton or Attenborough ?!
DeleteLasrado
Delete...of Mangalore ! :)
DeleteShrikanth9:52 am GMT+5:30
ReplyDeleteOK, there are 17 movies in this puzzle.
And my take on them :
Across : 9 Cars, 10 Whale Rider, 12 City Hall, 15 Boss, 16 Once, 17 Disturbia, 21 Fish Tank, 22 Amelie, 24 Girl Friend (Hindi) and 25 (The) Heat (Total 10)
Down : 1 Amadeus, 2 (The) Taste, 3 Raw Deal, 5 Siesta, 6 Neighbour, 8 Matchstick Men and 20 Carrie (Total 7)
I was unsuccessful in completing the puzzle. In fact, could hardly reach halfway mark ! But hope, I've succeeded in unearthing those 17 movies, AD was talking about !!
You can add Red eye to the list
DeleteYou're right, Ramesh ! In that case, one of the movies I mentioned above, must be wrong ! Only AD can point it out, I believe.
DeleteGood thing with the list is that it doesn't have any obscure movie titles.
DeleteThat being said, I don't think there's any popular movie called Boss or Taste. So prolly either of 'em's not part of the list.
Boss is a Hindi Movie. Akshay Kumar in the lead. Taste was not in my list , though there is a TV Movie called Taste .
DeleteMost of the movies I was in dark.Only after dark they (names of the movies) came to light. Of course we could crack some by contextual meaning. Nice cw in general.
ReplyDeleteAt what time is the finale on 21st?
ReplyDeleteGood luck to all
1030 hrs
DeleteWe will all be thinking of you !
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