Across
6 Standing area in a stadium // is a platform (7) TERRACE (DD)7 She will start to apply carbon coating (7) SHELLAC {SHE'LL}{A
9 Metropolitan old city credit union is finally risk free (5) URBAN {UR}{BAN
10 Gladiator fight against ferocious cats gets extremely ugly (9) SPARTACUS {SPAR}{TAC{U
11 In love with MIT, sent application (7) SMITTEN*
13 U.S. resident built a haunt (6) UTAHAN*
15 I’M a normal man with rues put right (5,8) ROMAN NUMERALS*
19 Soldiers in two Arab countries killed by officer (6) YEOMAN {YE
20 Representative // affair (7) LIAISON (DD)
23 Meaningless sacrifice, according to hearsay (9) HOLOCAUST {~HOLLOW COST} Sacrifice on double duty?
24 Collection starts to sell tepidly at Sotheby’s hall (5) STASH (Acrostic)
26 Italian wine (large) is kept in New York in an unhealthy manner (7) NASTILY {N{ASTI}{L}Y}
27 Long, extremely unpleasant mumps treatment payment made in one shot (4,3) LUMP SUM {L}{U}{MP SUM*}
Down
1 Steal // a cot (4) CRIB (DD)2 Stone extracted from gutter sand that’s treated after cleaning dust (6) GARNET {G
3 Surprise a son in Guatemala bearing condiments (10) SEASONING (T)
4 A willing person? (8) TESTATOR (CD)
5 There’s no coming out of these (5,5) BLACK HOLES CD)
6 Criminal lacking in generosity? That’s commonplace (6) TRUISM {
7 Note: Wash the top away with cleaner (4) SOAP {SO}{
8 Accountant in Cambodia? (6) CASING Accounant=CA forms the casing for Cambodia
12 Critic purified lost cocain (10) ICONOCLAST*
14 Trivial discussions on short reeds around shopping centre (5, 4) SMALL TALK {S{MALL} TALK
16 Disorganised Armani top is in stores — North American region, to begin with (8) ANARCHIC {A
17 Snake language (6) PYTHON (DD)
18 The man composed a song (6) ANTHEM*
21 Think about a small muse (6) ASSUME {A S MUSE}*
22 Little one in France, around the peaks of Pyrenees (4) PUNY {P{UN}Y} Seems to give U{PY}N
25 Dome is found at the centre of chapel, museum (4) APSE {
Reference list
Carbon=C, Old city=Ur, Soldiers=Men, Large=L, New York=NY, Long=L
Criminal=Al (Capone), Note=So, North American=NA, Small=S, One in France=Un
Criminal=Al (Capone), Note=So, North American=NA, Small=S, One in France=Un
Color/Font Scheme
Definition,Solution,Component letters,Anagram Indicator,C/C indicator,Reversal Indicator,Hidden word Indicator, Letter Pick indicator,Deletion Indicator,Homophone Indicator,Movement Indicator,Positional Indicator,Substitution Indicator, Link/ConnectorGRID
Fairly straight forward one from Aspartame today, thanks :) Is Holocaust an attempt at &lit or semi&lit? thought there was a roman theme with numerals and spartacus but thats only 2 .. so guess not?
ReplyDeleteNice one from Aspartame...confirmed soap & casing from the interactive grid of the hindu...
ReplyDeleteNice one esp. the clue for CASING
DeleteNice to see the colours back in Saturday blog
ReplyDeleteVasant
ReplyDeleteTo get clue text to solve the crossword in your own way outside of TH IA ver, you can click on 'Print' above the grid and on reaching the page, copy the clues to past where you want.
Shall try..thanks sir
DeleteAfter the intro of interactive grid, the Hindu is prompt to show us the crossword by early morning. Thanks to all for this development.
ReplyDelete15A I agree with Ramesh. It needs explanation, although one can get the answer with the help of available letters.
ReplyDeleteWhat he probably means is that 'm' after I' should be in capitals for M = 1000 and not m. Does 'a' fit in the clue?
DeleteWhen I made it, I had it penned down as I'M (both capitals). It came out this way.
DeleteI do agree the 'a' is superfluous, but for the sake of the surface, it had to be there
Thanks Aspartame. Is this the first time you have commented?
DeleteRe the 'a' I meant is it OK grammatically? "a' Followed by plural.
No. Aspartame has commented here before
DeleteMade the required changes to 15A.
One of the election promises a prominent party leader has made (as I write this I can hear drumbeats and cracker noises made by a passing cavalcade of an election candidate with party workers on his trail) is that if s(he) comes to power (s)he will see to it that the paper does away with the annoying instant checking of letters in TH IA ver. That is their 'green' pledge even if trees are destroyed to make way for concret jungles.
ReplyDeleteHa, ha~Vasi sir, I was seriously looking for a real election promise.
DeleteNow who can that be?
DeletePrevoius election promise must have been to get the IA version
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