HAPPY VISHU
ACROSS
1 Priest and I meet in session to consider anew (7) REVISIT {REV}I}{SIT}
5 He's in business, he'll give you a hand (6) DEALER [DD]
9 When determined, it's to your advantage (5) ASSET {AS}{SET}
10 Just like referees (9) IMPARTIAL [DD]
11 Reportedly looks at crew in swell treatment (3,4) ICE PACK {~eyes pack)
12 Edit badly grave letters in turbulent current (4,3) TIDE RIP {EDIT}* {R.I.P}
13 Log holder sounds wonderful (5) GRATE (~great)
14 Family member's tense with angry bridesman dismissing daughter (9) TRIBESMAN {T)+{BRIdESMAN}*
16 Leave girl to organise and spend time in grand style (4,5) LIVE LARGE*
19 Stone remains in hidden treasure (5) STASH {ST}{ASH}
21 Mark protects American bear (7) SUSTAIN {S{US}TAIN}
23 Reportedly looks at who's disturbing rink event (3,4) ICE SHOW (~eyes){ICE} {WHOS}*
24 First of environmentally unrefined, typical in felling medicinal trees (9) EUCALYPTI {E
25 Some Japanese Americans organise immigration in part (5) NISEI [T]
26 Halter? (6)
27 Girl madly nasty about man athlete (7) GYMNAST {G}{Y{M}NAST*}
DOWN
1 English town's girls looking over good specs for a certain activity (7,7) READING GLASSES {READING} {G}{LASSES}
2 Six scare horribly with innards (7) VISCERA {VI}{SCARE*}
3 Relaxed, one had stuff to capacity (7) SATIATE {SAT}{1}{ATE}
4 Cheat's short attempt to palm off sticker (9) TRICKSTER {TR
5 Store of French liquor (5) DEPOT {DE}{POT}
6 Cut a link (7) ABRIDGE {A}{BRIDGE}
7 Remark by Wilde perhaps on two animals at the end of line (7) EPIGRAM {
8 Will this punishment make one lose time? (4,2,3,5) SLAP ON THE WRIST [CD]
15 Taking an inventory of minis I get hauled up (9) ITEMISING*
17 Clive's ill with a little enlarged sac (7)
18 Tract of grassland left out (7) LEAFLET {LEA}{LEFT*}
19 Rigid Greek character pushed up breastbone (7) STERNUM {STERN}{UM<=}
20 One has a short period ahead with a language loss (7) APHASIA {A}{PHAS
22 Quick! Discard small diaper (5) NAPPY
GRID
17D is vesicle
ReplyDelete26A is sentry
Thank you I had just corrected it before seeing your comments
DeleteHappy new year & Vishu to all :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Tamil New Year and Vishu to all. May the New Year make all things interesting.
ReplyDeleteThank you Gridman for a nice enjoyable CW to start the New Year. May it continue through the year and more.
Missed it by a whisker- to be more precise due to a sentry. Disappointed after doing all the seemingly tough ones. Could only smell samosas!
Happy New Year & Vishu to all.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year & Vishu to all :)
ReplyDeleteFestival gift by Gridman. Thanks for samosa.
ReplyDeletePuthandu vazthukal!
"Vishu" a happy new year!
Nice puzzle but deprived of samosas by 26A SENTRY and 17D VESICLE. I had 17D as VESICAL. As for 26A it was a big ?.
ReplyDelete26A & 17D Anno correction...'Thanks' should go to...my name sake please!
ReplyDeleteThe correction I meant lies here Sir!
Delete(Correction - SENTRY [E] - Thanks to Ramesh)
(Correction - VESICLE - {CLIVES}*{En...d} - Thanks to Ramesh) :)
See my reply to your namesakes post. Moreover he has not given any anno's
DeleteOk then, Sir. :)
DeleteThanks GRIDMAN. Thanks to you I started off the Durmukhi on a positive note.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year and Vishu to all in the THC
ReplyDeletePuthandy vazthugal ! Happy New Year..happy Vishu
ReplyDeleteGosh it was easy peasy today from Gridman as a celebration.. but ran into the vesical/vesicle issue...put down as vesical and so had 26a as Clotty - thought clots halt bleeding hence halter could be clotty :) The sentry connection is a bit obscure from Halter.. Halt caller perhaps? Anyway not cribbing.. welcome respite from the sun today here..with a lil rain.. and feast with avial and payasam and all done.. ready to be kabalikaramed :) Have a great day all..
Happy New Year & Vishu everyone. Kaineettam pending from seniors and blog owner I guess :)
ReplyDeleteYou will have to come here if you want Kaineetam
DeleteHappy Vishu and New year to all@THCC.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the crossword today. 20D reminded me of the old O. Henry short story "A ramble in Aphasia" - don't think I've seen the word anywhere else :)
Happy New Year & Vishu to all..Gridman's 14 letter grid was a nice beginning to the new...loved doing the long ones..Oscar Wilde's epigram reminded of the famous one,"I can resist everything except temptation"
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ReplyDeleteHappy Vishu and new year to ye-all !!
CV: Your comment on F under yesterday's annotation in AFFAIR. F is from Fortissimo in music language for strong and P is for soft from Pianissimo. I thought, as a veteran solver you knew this? How come no one else had responded to your query?
Let's all accept open discussion and stop blog-b(a)iting each other. We had hounded off one earlier setter by Nattering Joyfully against her !
Tolerate and relate to each other patiently !!
Raju hasn't caught on as yet :-)
ReplyDelete??? Enlighten me, PRAY !.
DeleteRaju,
DeleteRead comments of the last few days to catch on.
My comments were based on those of the last few days. I'm not good at cold solving of cryptic puzzles. So please elucidate and elaborate or else i'll not get enlightened !
DeleteRead the comments of one Mahesh V and the responses thereon
DeleteMB,
ReplyDeleteWho is your namesake?! Did I miss something?
Col.,
Can I "Kaineettu" (Extend my hand) from Chennai? It is obviously a New Year special.
Mohan Biswas @ 8:32 am
DeletePaddy, you need to become elastic man if your "kaineetu' is to reach me
DeleteMind is more elastic!
DeleteHappy Tamil New Year to all. This Tamil New Year started with sweet samosas! Thank you GM!
ReplyDelete"Sweet samosas" specially available in Kanchee?
DeleteGot it MB. Failed to note it earlier.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year, Visu, Baisakhi, Naba Barsha to all!
ReplyDeleteCan some one help by cold solving?
ReplyDeleteclue: Sparkling with silver-leaf layer (8)
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Aglitter.. Not sure if your crossing is correct
DeleteI too thought of this but the crossings I have are correct.
DeleteIf you can give me your email ID, I can scan a copy of the completed grid and you can verify.
I have a feeling that the compiler had goofed up or the printers had let a gremlin creep in ! Both are not unusual.
This crossword is from Mumbai Mirror which is part of my past clippings that I attempt at times.
Thanks for showing interest, Ajeesh.
vmajeesh@gmail.com
DeleteToday it is easier, but not a great puzzle Lots of glitches And ambiguous instructions. head means PHAS should be in the start, not behind letter i . So answer must be AIPHAS in 20 down terrible
ReplyDeleteI see an indirection with a = one = I (if I am right). Ahead means go in front of a fodder component not particularly at the beginning of answer. So no problem I suppose
Delete20 One has a short period ahead with a language loss (7) APHASIA {A}{PHASe}{1}{A}
DeleteThere is no ambiguity. One =1, A Short period = A PHASe. Ahead is moving A PHAS before 1 and then A.
To quote Ravi you are trying to defend something that is undefendable . Instead of conceding that there's a fault you wish to make up an explanation for it This is why we cannot grow
DeleteThanks Raghu
DeleteWhy should he concede if there is a valid explanation?
Delete@Mahesh,
DeletePlease point out what's not right in my post @ 7.43.
You say Ahead Yet you deceive readers by placing the word behind. Ahead means A PHAS should follow I. This is basic grammar no doubt
DeleteVesical in medical parlance implies something related to bladder usually urinary bladder e.g vesical calculus.vesicle suits the definition better.
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