Monday 28 December 2015

No 11585, Monday 28 Dec 2015, Sunnet


Sunnet's hit the gambling table on his vacation?

ACROSS
1   Object to outrageous gear in race (6) TARGET {GEAR}* in {TT}
4   Note about former prisons for nationals (8) MEXICANS {M{EX}I}{CANS}
10 Complete set making use of hull (4,5) FULL HOUSE*
11 Screen without an exit (5) BLIND [DD]
12 Locate gold sent back by sovereign (5) ROYAL {RO}{YAL} <=
13 Also left guerrilla's stone workbox (4,5) TOOL CHEST {TOO}{L} {CHE}{ST}
14 Disregards Italian gentleman whose cap is down (7) IGNORES (-s)IGNORE(+s)S
16 Female's shabby pleat (4) FOLD {F}{OLD}
19 Reportedly skin a couple (4) PAIR (~pare)
21 Bonanza from John's weed (7) JACKPOT {JACK}{POT}
24 To replace slim and hot implement maker (9) TOOLSMITH {TO}{SLIM+HOT}*
25 Public squares having a speck of leafy vegetation (5) FLORA {F{Le..y}ORA}
26 Bag with right metal rod (5) POKER {POKE}{R}
27 Smearing of base gold can add glitter at first (9) BEDAUBING {BED}{AU}{BIN}{Gl...r}
28 Display feather in face-off (8) SHOWDOWN {SHOW}{DOWN}
29 Mad Hatter is a menace (6) THREAT*

DOWN
1   Drag up large and weak barrier in ship (8) TAFFRAIL {TAF<=}{FRAIL}
2   Signalling engineer to delay female force inside (8) RELAYING {RE}{LA{YIN}G}
3   Measure around the girl (5) ETHEL {E{THE}L}
5   Make up from seven offers (4,3) EVEN OFF [T]
6   Silly of setter to climb ice building (9) IMBECILIC {I}{CLIMB+ICE}*
7   Originated from a sentence to a Bengali (6) ARISEN {A}{RI}{SEN}
8   Staid girlfriend follows footloose set (6) SEDATE {SEt}{DATE}
9   Cites estimates (6) QUOTES [DD]
15 Cheered up on getting fool's turn to colour (9) REASSURED {RE}{ASS}{U}{RED}
17 Head Office interferes with a reward to use pithy sayings in the US (8) APHORIZE {A}{P{HO}RIZE}
18 Neat, narrow channel, say (8) STRAIGHT (~strait)
20 Bob to chase lavish, visionary goal (7) RAINBOW {RAIN}{BOW}
21 Sir, in India, workers lose heart in holy wars (6) JIHADS {JI}{HAnDS}
22 Lays over at a small shrine (6) STUPAS {STUP<=}{A}{S}
23 Liked excessively by knight's circle (4,2) TOOK TO {TOO}{K T}{O}
25 Crimson outpouring (5) FLUSH [DD]

GRID

13 comments:

  1. marvelous xword - tks Sunnet...well themed and some lovely clueing - mexicans, tool chest, full hpuse, imbecilic ... Relaying - the charade is wow ! One clarification needed on Rainbow - is Rain = lavish? and Bob = bow? i dont get the parsing..

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  2. Tough but enjoyable one! I missed a centum narrowly... was almost there but for 2dn which I had filled in as RALLYING. Thanks Sunnet for offering such a beautiful crossie!

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    1. Any time I fail to parse a filled in solution it invariably leads to a wrong answer...nine out of ten times! As for 2dn clue I couldn't account for 'delay'...hence the wrong answer!

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  3. 1ac : Object to outrageous gear in race (6) TARGET {GEAR}* in {TT}
    TT for 'race'.. how pl?

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    1. perhaps this reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_Trophy

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  4. Enjoyed the samosas on 25th itself when the CWD was available on line

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  5. Rain? lavish? Yes, Chennaites know for sure!
    Let us wish that Ramesh hits the jackpot! On those lines, those who got samosas can claim they hit a jackpot.

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  6. Very nice crossword, thanks Ramesh!

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  7. Got the majority. Rest was a learning experience e.g. 22DN, 'stupas' just didn't come to mind :) In all, a great mental workout. Thanks.

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