Saturday 19 September 2015

No 11504, Saturday 19 Sep 2015, Sunnet


I see four people, are there more? Or is there some other theme? (See comments)

ACROSS
1   Can I randomly add in a vitamin? (6) NIACIN {CAN+I}*{IN}
4   Disentangles entangled news unit (8) UNTWINES*
10 Quiet local leader (9) PRESIDENT {P}{RESIDENT}
11 Lean on superior tree (5) TENDU {TEND}{U}
12 Finally lost important part of a leg (5) THIGH {losT}{HIGH}
13 Came by fashionable woman's special diet (9) INHERITED {IN}{HER}{DIET*}
14 Beside a profit on Street (7) AGAINST {A}{GAIN}{ST}
16 Help back unknown explorer (4) DIAZ {DIA<=}{Z}
19 Care about a unit (4) ACRE*
21 Modify rail camera's front half to get wind condition (4,3) CALM AIR {RAIL+CAMera}*
24 Dispatch school's letter carrier (4,5) MAIL COACH {MAIL} {COACH}
25 Birth from cervical vent (5) CALVE [T]
26 English speaker representing Golan (5) ANGLO*
27 Sent packing grass to extinguish last bit of fire inside (6,3) TURFED OUT {TURF}{firE}{D OUT}
28 Visual aids possessed by electronic visor (8) EYESHADE {EYES}{HAD}{E}
29 Deformed Manila savage (6) ANIMAL*

DOWN
1   Upcoming pan-Indian newspaper has incendiary articles (8) NAPHTHAS {NAP}{HT}<={HAS} (Correction - {NAP<=}{HT}{HAS} -See comments)
2   A French sea touches one Canadian national (8) AMERICAN {A}{MER}{1}{CAN}
3   Rishi transformed those lucky people (5) IRISH*
5   Number printed without the crown is cut (7) NOTCHED {NO}{eTCHED}
6   Force of wet pitch (9) WATERFALL {WATER}{FALL}
7   Number central to a boxcar (6) NINETY {boXCar}
8   Outfits court in ship (6) SQUADS {S{QUAD}S}
9   On insurer's final settlement to widow (6) RELICT {RE}{LIC}{s...nT}
15 Make out fabric of cravat (9) NECKCLOTH {NECK}{CLOTH}
17 Put everything in to sweep the dance area (8) BALLROOM {B{ALL}ROOM}
18 Align with criminal from the East (8) ORIENTAL {ORIENT}{AL}
20 Honoured by former key journalist (7) EXALTED {EX}{ALT}{ED}
21 Group's nothing invested in malfunctioning torch (6) COHORT {COH{O}RT*}
22 Spike rascal's drink (6) IMPALE {IMP}{ALE}
23 Metallic sound in tune (6) JINGLE [DD]
25 Wipe carbon tip (5) CLEAN {C}{LEAN}

GRID

24 comments:

  1. That was fun, Sunnet - thank you! I especially liked the clue for NINETY - very neatly done!

    DG: Thank you for the blog. The link you have given for "extinguish" shows a different meaning of DOUT (one I didn't know, so that's my learning for the day!). The relevant meaning of DOUT is at http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dout

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  2. 1 Upcoming pan-Indian newspaper has incendiary articles (8) NAPHTHAS {NAP}{HT}<={HAS}

    I thought HT: Hindustan Times, (w/o reversing)

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    1. Or did you place the reversal wrongly after HT?

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    2. No, I reversed both. Shall change the paper to HT

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  3. I took it as H(TH)AS- Has containing TH

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  4. Sunnet helped me in my diet- missed samosas in waterfall and tendu.
    Curious that 'Boxcar' has a meaning of twelve (on the dice- 2 sixes) I was a little confused after filling in ninety with the help of crossings.

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  5. Lovely puzzle...superb surface stories..lots of clues to savour

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    1. I thought it was victorian era what with neckcloth mailcoach ballroom

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    2. You almost have it. Regency not Victorian.

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    3. Yep regency.. wat other words tho...?

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    4. Neckcloth styles was the theme. The rest should be easy now.

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    5. neckcloth, Oriental, American, Mailcoach, Irish, Ballroom

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    6. Waterfall completes the set

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    7. Thank you RameshJ. Waterfall tie is another name for Mailcoach tie which requires no starch or very little of it.

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    8. Brilliant .... the trone d amour

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  7. Apart from the usual by Sunnet, see three and a half nationals

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  8. Tendu and turfed out missed... absolutely smooth going but then got stuck in north west ...

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  9. very interesting &entertaining sort.1a&d,good jugglery.13a - easy to come by thanks to handy clues.8d-oscilating between squads & synods but alas settled for synods entailing awrong answerfor 11a. All counted a wholesome package by sunnet. Thank you sir.

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