As I have the time I am following Ramesh's format of blogging for today.
ACROSS
1 What a dog may have — reason for tiff (1,4,2,4) A BONE TO PICK [C&DD]
9 Beat back on sign of life (7) REPULSE {RE}{PULSE}
10 Plea to write song for a kind of concert (4-3) OPEN-AIR {O}{PEN}-{AIR}
11 Keep talking about redhead's marriage one left out (3,2) RUN ON {R
12 Dirty Don's cruel villain (9) SCOUNDREL*
13 Non-uniform dress (5) MUFTI [E]
15 Result of chasing some calculations? (9) AFTERMATH {AFTER}{MATH}
18 Refused it? No, overindulged! (9) SURFEITED*
21 Congress leader's tilt to be spotless (5) CLEAN {C
22 Loud clamour for Hugh, say, with Bellow (3,3,3) HUE AND CRY (~hugh){HUE} {AND} {CRY}
24 Ambi's put out some poetic measures (5) IAMBS*
26 They have no hearing (3,4) THE DEAF [E]
27 Model lubrication at work (7) TOILING {T}{OILING}
28 Perhaps less perfect sense of one's dignity (4-7) SELF-RESPECT*
DOWN
1 Mafia errs in designing structures of rockets (9) AIRFRAMES*
2 Yellow pigment in round red fastener (5) ORPIN {O}{R}{PIN}
3 Flower in a gentle setting (9) EGLANTINE*
5 Settle on going into one drubbing (4,3) IRON OUT {1}{R{ON} OUT}
6 German mathematician finally took a different line (5) KLEIN {
7 Union bearing not hundred but thousand (8) MARRIAGE (-c+m)MARRIAGE
8 Vocalised song outside church (4) ORAL
14 Ironside gets engineer and journalist searched (8) FERRETED {FE}{R{RE}T}{ED}
16 Wrongly certifies mends (9) RECTIFIES*
17 This gives no forward view (9) HINDSIGHT [CD]
19 Being diplomatic, set right fault plaguing odd city (7) TACTFUL {FAULT}* around {C
20 The Sun, for example, omitted youth centre in Saturday's revised edition (7) DAYSTAR SAT
22 Dislike 'cover point' (4) HATE {HAT}{E}
23 Requires massages, reportedly (5) NEEDS (~kneads)
25 One is engrossed in additional material (5) MOIRE {MO{1}RE}
On = RE, Plea = O, Model = T, Red = R, Hundred = C, Thousand = M, Church = CH, Iron = FE, Side = RT, Engineer = RE, Journalist = ED, Point = E,
Color/Font Scheme
Definition, Solution, Component letters, Anagram Indicator, C/C indicator, Reversal Indicator, Hidden word Indicator, Letter Pick indicator, Deletion Indicator, Homophone Indicator
GRID
GM is known to set devious clues. But, surprisingly, I got A BONE TO PICK, SCOUNDREDL, MUFTI, AFTERMATH, CLEAND, IAMSBS, TOILING, SELF-RESPECT, AIRFRAMES, MARRIAGE, RECTIFIES, HINDSIGHT, NEEDS and MOIRE at first glance.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the frame of mind was fresh.
* corr CLEAN, IAMBS
Deleteanother correction: SCOUNDREL
DeleteThe way to make sure that the agencies don't forget to put out red corner notices for scoundrels is to add it to the word itself;)
DeleteInteresting c/c indicator plaguing in 19d. While solving i took it as anagrind., but I think Col is right.
ReplyDeleteSamosa day for me. Liked 15A.
ReplyDeleteQuite an enjoyable puzzle today as well. So no question of making a hue and cry about its difficulty level. Overall an engrossing CW. Thanks Gridman for making it my day. :-)))
ReplyDeletePardon my English. Pl replace 'making' with "raising" a hue and cry.
DeleteThank you Colonel Sir, for colourful blogging. :)
ReplyDelete12Ac : Colouring of anind word needs to be changed pl.
ReplyDeleteWhy?
DeleteI think MB means that colours are too close for easy identification.
Delete"Dirty" is the anind here Sir and not 'cruel', I think.
DeleteYes, cruel is part of the anagram fodder.
DeleteOk
DeleteHurray,Col.! The blog looks really colourful.
ReplyDeleteYes, Gridman gave us a lot of time today- still I missed out on the 'Bone' trying to fit in bark. Baring dogs don't bite!
If they bare their teeth, they do bite ;-)
DeleteGrindman's samosas are sweet! Thank you Sir. Very happy
ReplyDeleteYou mean he forgot to add salt!!!
Delete:-))
DeleteHeadlines seen in news item on Yahoo news
ReplyDelete"Head found guilty of underage sex"
Not my day :-( got only about 50%
ReplyDeleteSome doubts
No is an anagram indicator ?
Outside is deletion indicator ?
Side = R or Rt (from right ) ?. I thought Rt for right is from * correct * sense not *side*?
I think you don't take Net help. That's why it's 50%. Come IXL, will you avoid taking 'net' help? :)
DeleteThanks for the samosas Gridman! Can someone please help me understand anno for 10A, Plea = O?
ReplyDeleteThink it could be this from Free Dic.
DeleteO (əʊ)
interj
1. a variant spelling of oh
2. an exclamation introducing an invocation, entreaty, wish, etc: O God!; O for the wings of a dove!.
Thanks a lot Mukund :-)
DeleteHe is MB here for us, Arvind
Delete“What's in a name? that which we call a rose
DeleteBy any other name would smell as sweet.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Am I beating my own drum?! ;-)
Why not?!
DeleteMB, it was not Shakespeare, it was Thambu Chetty who said, "What's in a name? ..."
DeleteWe remove all caste names here in Chennai.
DeleteKishore @ Is it?! Is he the one with a street named after him in Parrys Corner, Chennai?!
DeleteSo, is the full form of TC Street Thambu Casteless Street?
DeletePassed! Paddy to answer!!
DeleteYes, MB, after all what's in a name?
DeleteIs it called TC st.? Maybe outside Chennai, who may find these long names difficult to negotiate.
DeleteThere are lots of ...Chetty sts. in Parry's corner area (just outside harbour & Fort St.George). These were 'Dubashi's who acted as translators to the British in pre independence days.
Col.,
ReplyDeleteLooks to be some spam. Pl. delete.
Zu befehl, Paddy
DeleteWhich language?
DeleteGerman
Delete...at your command.
DeleteLiked puzzle! Belated samosa ..
ReplyDeleteStarters for lunch instead of b'fast?
ReplyDelete