Three answers per commenter upto 6 PM. With annotations of course.
Across
1 Happy judge with empty bottle (6)
4 Rallies around behind Asian with respect (6)
9 Beginning with a state's refusal to revert (4)
10 Abridged tale of Bermudas on conservative
(5,5)
11 Loose top sister wore had a complaint (6)
12 Meandering case American frames old university
with... (8)
13 Prominent nose for leader besieging Channel
Islands (9)
15 Change Virginia railway (4)
16 Damages camouflaged by Myanmar soldiers (4)
17 Wandered mare ended in a whirlpool (9)
21 Inspect deviant seer's vault (8)
22 Entertain appeal on Superintendent Engineer
(6)
24 Blunder COO made in the making of Swiss dish
(6,4)
25 Setter emerges from brook, with nothing in
place for a drum (4)
26 A type of clue resulting in a rage (6)
27 Bird eats each hour inside cage (6
Down
1 Our neighbour, just one house away! (7)
2 Planet sites lack energy (5)
3 Helps mule sit uncomfortably on top seat (7)
5 Planet looks like upturned teapot (6)
6 Outwardly needle short solicitor on the
company (9)
7 Happy surroundings for tailless dog in the
planet (7)
8 Reptile case ordered for a type of cat (13)
14 Publican displays craft in a binge (9)
16 Mole may develop into a disease (7)
18 Superannuate wild asura; for a change send him
to another planet (7)
19 Greek character's chapped lips sealed by time
(7)
20 Old city at the rear end of the planet (6)
23 Broken
heart on the ground (5)
To attempt the crossword using Acroslite follow the link ADB11
Enjoy.
19d Greek character's chapped lips sealed by time (7) E(PSIL*)ON
ReplyDelete20d Old city at the rear end of the planet (6) UR [ahem] ANUS
23d Broken heart on the ground (5) EARTH*
Afterdark will not be available today to answer queries on this CW as he is travelling in some interior parts of the country so he may not get internet access.
ReplyDeleteMy 3
ReplyDelete15A - {VA}{RY}
7D - {MER{CU(-r)}RY}
16A - MARS [T]
IXL Final to be held on 21 Dec 2013 at TERI Auditorium, Domlur, Bangalore.
ReplyDeleteI presume it will be sometime in the evening as 21st is a Saturday.
Grabbing the easiest ones:
ReplyDelete11A - PTOSIS (top*+sis)
17A - MEANDERED (mare ended*)
16D - MYELOMA (mole may*)
24A CORDON BLEU anagrams of Blunder+COO
ReplyDelete16D Myeloma(mole May)
ReplyDelete17A Meandered (mare ended)
2a Plant(-E) synonym for site
Usha-akka, 17A and 16D were provided by me five minutes ahead of you. :-)
DeleteDidn't see your entry on my screen while posting (paying the price for a slow connection and itchy fingers) ,sorry!:)
DeleteI seem to have got 2a wrong too:(
18A anagram of ( SUPERANNUATE - ASURA) - NEPTUNE
ReplyDelete1D JUPITER GK
ReplyDeleteTaking raincheck, but noting this planetary one has come on the day MOM has left earth orbit and the Sunday TH contains MIM which could arguably be expanded to Mars- Indian Mission
ReplyDelete2 D Planet sites lack energy (5)
ReplyDeleteVENUS (VENUES - E)
3D- ASSISTS
ReplyDeleteDef.-helps
Mule-ass
Sit uncomfortably-sis*-ist
Top seat- S
10A- short story
Abridged tale- Def.
Bermudas- shorts
Conservative- Tory
22a- Please
Entertain- Def.
Appeal- Plea (thank God it is not 'it' again!)
Sup.Engineer-SE
A full hearted hurray for AD for celebrating the Mars mission with a planetary special.
ReplyDelete1 A Happy judge with empty bottle (6)
ReplyDeleteJOVIAL (JO)(VIAL)
def Happy
Should it not be (J)(O) vial?
DeleteI take it as - Judge-G, empty-O, vial- bottle.
Sorry. J for Judge.
Delete13 Prominent nose for leader besieging Channel Islands (9) {PRO}{BOS(CI)S}
ReplyDeleteDOWN
8 Reptile case ordered for a type of cat (13) {TORTOISE}{SHELL}
14 Publican displays craft in a binge (9) {B(ART)ENDER}
How does cat fit into 8D?
ReplyDeleteTortoiseshell is a type of cat that is black, white, brown, and orange.
DeleteThank you Venkatesh. News to me.
ReplyDeleteWelcome. Many cultures believe that cats of this coloration bring good luck. In USA, they are also called money cats. The Japanese Maneki Neko figurine is almost always a calico cat (largely white with tortoiseshell patches).
DeleteFurther reading and pictures available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoiseshell_cat
26A A type of clue resulting in a rage (6) ACROSS (A CROSS)
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of superstition about cats, particularly black cats. I remember the dig made at it by Groucho Marx-
ReplyDelete"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere'!
12A Meandering case American frames old university with... (8) TORTUOUS ( TORT OU US Def :meandering)
ReplyDelete5 D Planet looks like upturned teapot (6) SATURN ( AS<- +T+ URN)
ReplyDeleteThe IXL Leadership Board is up now. The top 10 include 6 from Bangalore, 2 from Mumbai and one each from Kolkata and Delhi.
ReplyDelete21 A {RESE}*{ARCH}
ReplyDelete4A {E}{STEEM <=}
ReplyDelete27A {P {EA} {H} EN}
ReplyDeleteRemaining clues
ReplyDeleteAcross 9,25
Down
Down 6
ReplyDelete9A UP ON<
ReplyDelete25A RO(-I+O)LL
6D ENTOURAGE Not sure of anno
Suresh, my take on 6D:
DeleteENRAGE (=needle, v.,) containing TOU (tout = solicitor, shortened).
I hope it makes sense.
Joining very late. Nothing left. Disappointed :- (
ReplyDeleteGet the anno for 6D.:-)
ReplyDeleteCan someone confirm my anno for 6D @ 6:07 in response to Suresh 5:41?
DeleteI think, it does make sense but confirmation from a veteran solver will be much better than mine !
Delete6 Outwardly needle short solicitor on the company (9)
ReplyDeleteNeedle = Enrage
Short solicitor = TOU (-T)
Entourage = group or company
EN(TOU)RAGE
I provided the same anno at 6:07. Glad that an expert has confirmed it as wished by MB at 6:23..
DeleteSorry Richard, I had not noticed your anno at 6.07 and I am not an expert.
DeleteThe anno is OK. But my thought was whether 'on' is an acceptable link. Any opinions?
DeleteThe finalist in IXL are
ReplyDeleteMOHSIN AHMED (BANGALORE) 763
S. VENKATESH (NEW DELHI) 725
SHACHII MANIK (MUMBAI) 719
BHARATI (MUMBAI) 691
KISHORE M (BANGALORE) 664
VINOD RAMAN (BANGALORE) 662
DEEPAK GOPINATH (BANGALORE) 657
SHUCHISMITA UPADHYAY (BANGALORE) 633
RAHMAT ALI (KOLKATA) 604
PADMANABHAN.K. (BANGALORE) 538
Of these I think one is the owner of this blog and four have been members/ regular or irregular commenters from before IXL. That means the blog attracted some of the best solvers to it.
ReplyDeleteI may add that of them two have contributed to THC and one other is an amateur setter.
ReplyDeleteWell, Bangalore is well-represented, so well-represented that IXL is held in that city.
ReplyDeleteStill I am not sure if the city can be called the crossword capital of our contry.
I have long before said that Bangalore shops used to stock crossword collections that Chennai shopd did not have and I used to pick up books during my visits there in the Seventies.
Bangalore paper DH has and used to have only a weekly crossword set by an Indian.
And unlike Bombay the city never had commuters solving original crosswords from afternoon tabloids.
Maybe when it was still a pensioners' paradise old fogeys with plenty of time solved crosswords and looked for new material in the UK-published books.
Now as many computer geeks are there in the so-called Silicon Valley of India perhaps the tradition of expert solvers residing there continues.
CV 9:35 pm
ReplyDelete6D Outwardly needle short solicitor for company (9)?
Yes, this works!
ReplyDeleteI must have said above that I liked the use of 'outwardly' as a c/c ind.
Will the finale of IXL be only for the finalists listed or is it open for those others outsiders also who participated but failed to reach the top? just for the fun of solving? Will it be round 9?
ReplyDelete