ACROSS
1 Singer in musical, touring (4) ALTO [T]
3 No PR in Central American country for international award (5,5) NOBEL PRIZE {NO}{BEL {PR}IZE}
10 Policeman left with US composer (7) COPLAND {COP}{L}{AND}
11 Nursed a poorly man like Fonteyn's partner? (7) DANSEUR*
12 Subject to its value, how books may be bought in addition? (2,3,4,5) BY THE SAME TOKEN [DD]
14 Dreamlike, a 50 after county side comes up short (7) SURREAL {SURRE
15 26, perhaps, eating last of fruit cocktail (7) STINGER {S{T}INGER}
16 Said about part circling a large city (7) ORBITAL {OR{BIT}AL}
19 Mother's broken flask (7) THERMOS*
21 Generous supporter of mayor righted wrong (5,9) FAIRY GODMOTHER*
23 Chaotic state of affairs in a Sicilian port (7) MESSINA {MESS}{IN}{A}
24 Country hotel, so in need of refurbishment (7) LESOTHO*
25 Dear dessert? Pity (10) SWEETHEART {SWEET}{HEART}
26 Fish, black when small (4) BASS {B}{AS}{S}
DOWN
1 Mysterious man, man of the church (10) ARCHBISHOP {ARCH}{BISHOP}
2 One giving better advice? (7) TIPSTER [CD]
4 Peculiar periodic social event (7) ODDBALL {ODD}{BALL}
5 Non-stop, but with no purpose? (7) ENDLESS [DD]
6 Christmas show character - I metamorphose spookily around end of Aladdin (9,5) PANTOMIME HORSE {PA{N}TOMIME HORSE*}
7 One with a cold manner in charge on English mountain (7) ICEBERG {IC}{E}{BERG}
8 Docked in good time for nobleman (4) EARL EARL
9 Painter in quiet little avenue met Tristan unexpectedly (8,6) PAVEMENT ARTIST {P}{AVE}{MENT ARTIST*}
17 Money that is found in old wood (7) BRASSIE {BRASS}{IE}
19 Young child in red, told off (7) TODDLER*
20 Wise man's headgear held by mother (7) MAHATMA {MA{HAT}MA}
22 Prophet, a second son (4) AMOS {A}{MO}{S}
An interesting article on 'The craft behind crossing swords with crosswords' by SV Venugopal in the
ReplyDeleteOpen Page today.
Here is a write-up on crosswords by S V Venugopalan, published in The Hindu's Open Page on Sunday, April 27, 2014.
ReplyDeleteIt is accompanied by a creative cartoon on crossing the words by Surendra.
Oh, NR has beaten me by two minutes.
DeleteI wanted to do it too, but very very late. I am happy many of us find time to read interesting articles in addition to doing CW's.
DeleteSpecial at 10:30 by Doppelganger
ReplyDeleteI wantto add that I was not very far from this state when I entered this blog a fe years ago. Thank you Col.
ReplyDeleteDidn't quite get 1 and 8 d.
ReplyDeleteDocked = Deletion of tail indicator
ReplyDeletein good time = EARLY
Docked in good time = EARL(-y)
for
nobleman = Definition = EARL
Mysterious = ARCH
man = BISHOP
man of the church = {ARCH}{ BISHOP}