Welcome to our new setter. Bouquets and brickbats invited.
Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in a single comment.
ACROSS
6 After brief fight, one leaves gentle scent (7)
7 Humiliating defeats - egghead leaves courses (5)
9 Ignore baked items pushed back (4)
10 Flora somehow get into Ave. (10)
11 Said: "Indeed, car's going around learner" (8)
13 Company after company goes after primarily robust and old architectural style (6)
15 The last word of one people (4)
17 Greek letter's river feature (5)
18 Egyptian river changes line (4)
19 With this one may be shot in a snap (6)
20 Done with the death penalty? (8)
23 Displaces excellent tournament favourites, we hear (10)
26 Cheer for underground supporter (4)
27 Persuade a geriatric to be partly willing (5)
28 Setter's angle marred in mix-up (7)
DOWN
1 Disorder follows as Uncle Bert riots around University (10)
2 Shake holder of arrows (6)
3 Small label for male deer (4)
4 I erratic about standards? (8)
5 Haggard girl leaves female relative (4)
6 Act of gluttony being broadcast (5)
8 Vacillating social scientist finally resigned (7)
12 To dig deeply, daughter gets the first woman to go over law (5)
14 Cheat and rascal torn apart at the same time (10)
16 Foot step? (7)
17 Not a living thing's ruse exposed, for certain (4,4)
21 How a piece of cake is made, presumably (6)
22 Call up the day before about fine (5)
24 Advantage in border? (4)
25 Not take in slummy establishment (4)
Across Lite version can be accessed at SADHYA 1
Enjoy.
24D Advantage in border? (4)EDGE (DD)
ReplyDelete4D I erratic about standards? (8)CRITERIA (I ERRATIC)*
3D Small label for male deer (4)S TAG
11A:DECLARED: DE{C(L)AR}ED
ReplyDelete15A:(A)(MEN)
27A:EAGER (T)
1D: TURBULENCE (UNCLE BERT U)
ReplyDelete2D: QUIVER (SHAKER == HOLDER OF ARROWS == QUIVER)
5D: AUNT (HAGGARD = GAUNT MINUS G(IRL) =AUNT)
Sorry for the non standard format annotations, please don't ban
As long as annotations are provided, in whichever format, there is no issue
Delete13A Company after company goes after primarily robust and old architectural style (6) ROCOCO {R}{O}{CO+CO}
ReplyDelete23A Displaces excellent tournament favourites, we hear (10) SUPERSEDES {SUPER}{SEDES}{~SEEDS}
17D Not a living thing's ruse exposed, for certain (4,4) DEAD SURE {DEAD}{SURE*}
To be precise...the annos should be shown as...
Delete13A : {R...st}{O}{{CO+CO}
17D : {DEAD}{RUSE*}
21d EASILY (CD)
ReplyDelete22a EXECUTED (CD/DD)
10a VEGETATION (GET INTO AVE)*
12D-Delve
ReplyDeleteDef.- To dig deeply
D{e(l)ve}
14D- Criteria- (I erratic)*
14D- Concurrent
Def.-At the same time
Cheat- Con
Rascal- Cur
Torn apart- Rent
Typo- Criteria is 4D and not 14D.
ReplyDeleteThanks to Sadhya for a well-clued puzzle and to DG for putting it up.
ReplyDeleteBtw, why is there no crossword in The Hindu today?
No CW in the epaper as well as Bangalore edition
Delete20 Done with the death penalty? (8) EXECUTED (DD)
ReplyDelete3 Small label for male deer (4)
{S} {TAG}
8 Vacillating social scientist finally resigned (7) STOICAL { {SOCIAL} + T} *
Thanks to Sadhya for a well-clued puzzle and to DG for putting it up.
ReplyDeleteBtw, why is there no crossword in The Hindu today?
Got the rest but not 22D ...E-O-E
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ReplyDeleteChandrasekhar, please provide the annotations else your answers will be deleted
Delete6A After brief fight, one leaves gentle scent (7) BOUQUET {BOU(-t)}{QU(-i)ET
ReplyDelete7A Humiliating defeats - egghead leaves courses (5) ROUTS {ROUT(-e)S}
9A Ignore baked items pushed back (4) SNUB <=
Where has this been published? Cannot find the puzzle present in Hindu
ReplyDeleteNot published anywhere. Some of the budding setters do send their puzzles to Colonel Sir and he posts them here as Sunday specials (mostly) but today is an exception there being no CW found in Hindu.
DeleteDid not know the meaning of bouquet as scent. Had to check it up.
ReplyDeleteOne smells the bouquet of a good brandy or cognac by moving the goblet under one's nose. A connoisseur's delight !
DeleteLiked 6D. Nice surface, though there is a typo in the clue.
ReplyDelete7A Routs . Rout(-e)s
ReplyDelete11A Declared De-C(L)ar-ed
19A Camera
28A Melange ME+ ANGLE
Ragov, Please note the limit is 3 answers per commenter
DeleteSorry, got carried away I guess
DeleteReplacement for 4D-
ReplyDelete19A- camera (E)
Again replacement-
ReplyDelete6D- Binge
Def.- Act of gluttony- (Being)*
Early morning jolt...No crossword ...Off-putting
ReplyDeleteA good morning exercise- walk in the park? Or how a cake is eaten?
ReplyDeleteTH continues its mysterious ways. After a holiday paper comes out but without Gridman. Unfair!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sadhya for an enjoyable time :)
ReplyDeleteExtremely enjoyable by the Anno Queen...if the clues posted by her in 1A was very good..the whole grid is a sumptuous treat....expecting many more
ReplyDeleteSimple and elegant! An enjoyable CW from Sa(n)dhya Ma'am, I suppose! Keep up the good work please. :)
ReplyDeleteLEFTOVERS
ReplyDeleteAcross : 26
Down : 22 & 25
A maiden attempt?
ReplyDeleteNo... She's a mother in law!
DeleteLike BSH, Sandy too is a down to earth person, both with fallschirmjager experience
DeleteWhat experience is that- quite new to me?
DeleteJust checked up- German for a partrooper- down to earth!! I really miss your comments these days.
DeleteThank you Sa(N)dhya & Col. More than made up for TH failure.
ReplyDelete26 A Cheer for underground supporter (4) ROOT (DD)
ReplyDelete22 D Call up the day before about fine (5) EVOKE {EV OK(fine)E}
25 D Not take in slummy establishment (4) DUMP (DD)
DeleteThanks Sadhya for a nice cw :)
ReplyDelete26A ROOT (dd)
ReplyDelete22D EV(OK)E
25D DUMP (DD)
Enjoyable crossword, Sa(n)dhya!
ReplyDeleteNothing new for Sandhya in this crossword, that she has not posted today?
ReplyDeleteDidn't know of this belated SADhya fare for vishu from Sandhya? Too late to put in my entry. All the same , I can give a satisfactory Burp !!
ReplyDeleteThanks to Deepak for filling in the gastric gap !
Way to go, Sandy! Expecting many more
ReplyDeleteMy query is a little unrelated. In the Guardian Quick CW that appeared in TH on April 13, a clue was 23 and the answer, EIGHT. How do we explain this?
ReplyDeleteIf I remember right the clue was 2 to the power of 3 = 2*2*2= 8- simple arithmetic. Such clues can get away in Quick CW's.
DeleteI don't solve the Guardian Quick crossword but I remember having seen this particular crossword and also having read the clue. I didn't find the answer but if I remember right the clue was printed merely as 23 - I rose from the computer chair and took the trouble of finding the old issue - yes, it is prinited as 23. There was no superscript. In which case we just can't get the answer EIGHT.
DeleteBTW, the Guardian Quick crossword as printed in TH does not hold any more charm to me as the papers eeems to have reduced the type size and I can't read the clues easily.
Cv,
DeleteIt is better these days- readble. But anyway, this clue was supposed to be 2 cubed and it came out right in the on line edition.
Thanks to all of you.
DeleteJust checked up- the print edition shows it as 23- obviously unable (?) to print 2 cubed! On line version was clear.
ReplyDeleteDoes TH offer the Guardian quick crossword online? Paddy, did you solve it in the Guardian site itself?
DeleteTh does not offer. But we can go to Guardian site, put in one of the clues which will lead us to the particular CW ( or one mus follow the serial no. like Col. does for Sunday Cryptic) Thankfully, it comes serially all right. It is easier to solve there than on paper. We can even get the answe for some of the weird clues.
DeleteThanks Paddy, for the tip! It works! Today's Guardian Quick CW no. 12116 was published on 13th Jan 2016 with serial no.14252. As you said, it is better to solve it on 'online!' :)
DeleteOnce you know the sl no it is much easier to follow online! Tomorrow I'll simply mention sl no 14253 and solve it online.
DeleteA simple question: why can't you solve the day's Quick crossword on the Guardian webnsite instead of locating the day's TH crossword there and solving it? I don't understand this sort of loyalty to the national paper. A sort of nationalism? Bharatmata ki Jai?
ReplyDeleteShall try your method too, Sir. Bharatmata ki Jai !
DeleteSome 'Unforced' Jai for Bharatmata!
DeleteAs for CV's question on loyalty, it is just some order. Of course we can do any one of Guardian quick or cryptic. When you get the day's paper you have an itch to do the CW. Only I found it easier to do it this way than on paper. I have been doing like this for a long time and find it easy. No occasion to talk about it. Probably we have to thank Prasad for starting it today.
Give yesterday's guardian cryptic by Paul a shot. Found it extremely good and quite doable with some head scratching. Some amazing clues
ReplyDeleteUncertain about Paul but rufus sets good puzzles
DeleteYes but I'd rather not be a one track pony
DeleteI have enjoyed puzzles by the late Sankalak too . Which has brought me here in pursuit of such quality. But failing to find it.
DeleteAnd it is called a one trick pony So your arrogance is meaningless
DeleteWhy is everyone presuming Sadhya is Sandhya?
ReplyDeleteIndeed!
DeleteAs my esteemed friend, HRH Hurree Jamset Ramsingh would say, "The presumptuousness of the posters is terrific "
DeleteCol. has not said yes or no for the presumption- cleverly side stepped the issue.
ReplyDeleteMissed this crossword yesterday. Sadhya is NOT me - please give credit to the setter - whoever she/he may be :)
ReplyDelete