Friday 3 January 2014

No.10973, Friday 03 Jan 2014, Buzzer



ACROSS
1 Kind of criminal faction facing judge (11) CONSIDERATE (CON SIDE RATE)
9 Knock off all ten through bowling attack (6) STRIKE CD
10 Most formidable Ram entering court after end of vanvas (8) SCARIEST (ARIES in CT after S)
11 Court can enforce holding back decree (5) ENACT (T<)
12 Bowled over travelling along a town in Italy (7) BOLOGNA (B O ALONG*)
13 To start with, a magician cut through boy (6,2) SWITCH ON (WITCH in SON)
          It required ole Fatty just one line from Ern to switch on his portry recital ...
15 Pest e.g., raids filly frequently (6) GADFLY ( eGrAiDsFiLlY)
16 Saw is next to unopened blade (6) BYWORD (BY sWORD)
18 Bird (emu) to sit tight (8 ) TITMOUSE (EMU TO SIT)*
20 Club or disc I run has fluorescent lighting outside (3,4) ONE IRON (O+ I R in NEON)
21 Succeeded getting into proper shape (5) PRISM (S in PRIM)

22 Hard to digest extraordinary credit cut (8) INEDIBLE (INcrEDIBLE)
23 Demolished entire compound (6) TRIENE (ENTIRE)*
24 Rambling poet, endless bore (4,2,5) SEND TO SLEEP (POET ENDLESS)*
          Remembered old Frederick Algernon Trotteville's rambling poetic skills ... Especially the one on PC Goon

TO MY DEAR UNCLE
Oh how I love thee, Uncle dear,
Although thine eyes like frogs' appear,
Thy body is so fat and round,
Thy heavy footsteps shake the ground.
Thy temper is so sweet and mild,
'Twould frighten e'en the smallest child,
And when thou speakest, people say,
"Now did we hear a donkey bray?"  

DOWN
2 An agent from the west reportedly (7) OXIDANT (~OCCIDENT)
3 Caught a whiff of fish (5) SMELT 2
4 Spooner’s broken racket in a trash can (7) DUSTBIN (Spoonerism of BUST DIN)
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5 Tail lamp nearly chipped at the edges during fitting (4,5) REAR LIGHT (nEARLy in RIGHT)
6 With time, wearing a toupee caught on (7) TWIGGED (T WIGGED)
7 One hurt a rowdy badly? The opposite (5,3,5) OTHER WAY ROUND (ONE HURT A ROWDY)*
8 The authorities setting up a business (13) ESTABLISHMENT 2
14 Got to catch a derby racing in capital city (9) HYDERABAD (HAD catching  A DERBY*)
          The Hydera-baddies usually go off to Malakpet for the racing
17 Finished a detailed musical composition behind schedule (7) OVERDUE (OVER DUEt)
18 Fruit hybrid secreting cold lactogen (7) TANGELO (LAcTOGEN)*
19 Provided stuffing (gold and diamonds) for an oral cavity (7) ORIFICE (IF in OR ICE)
          Reminded me of Diamond Tooth in the Lucky Luke comics
21 Snape tales featuring say Lily’s part (5) PETAL (T)

13 comments:

  1. Nice crossword with good mix of clue types

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  2. Of late, I have noticed setters putting a part of the clue in brackets - 18A & 19D here. This makes the clue crisp and clear. Wonder whether the practice was there earlier, and I missed it.

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  3. For all of Buzzer's effort & Kishore's cartoon, only 4 comments! Tut,tut!

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  4. A few I could not finish and a few I could not get the anno. Blog came to my rescue.

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  5. Kishore,

    Is Fred (Do you still remember the long name?) the one they call 'fatty'? I read a few '5 Findouters' recently thanks to my grandson.

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  6. Fatty's full name has been quoted by Kishore at 24A, I don't think he was ever called Fred.

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  7. I stand corrected. I used it as an abbreviation (my own) of the full name. I just wanted to make sure it is 'fatty' and you confirmed it.

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    1. In fact FAT of fatty comes from the first letters of his name

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    2. At the age when I read those books, I felt it would be nice if I could grow up to be like him: solve mysteries, rattle off poetry at will etc.

      I achieved a measure of success, though not in the intended categories: I became fat.

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    3. You also create mysteries for all of us and give us the solution when we can't solve it ;-)

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  8. Poor Obama seems to have scared away our people today !

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  9. So good to read Fatty's poem!
    And Kishore, great cartoon.

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