12K and counting. In case you would like to take a crack at the 1000th one, here is the link
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1 Dreams of snakes receiving one portion (11) ASPIRATIONS {ASP{I}{RATION}S}
9 …of legumes // that cost almost nothing (7) PEANUTS (DD)
10 Earnest single heartless man (6) SOLEMN {SOLE}{MaN}
11 Protect losing Republican’s issue (5) ENSUE {ENSUrE}
12 Sincere // Wilde stated the importance of being thus (7) EARNEST (DD)
16 Delicacy of tennis played in dais (10) DAINTINESS {DAI{TENNIS*}S}
18 Unwind, lose source of stress, protest at port (10) DISENTWINE {DISsENT}{WINE}
20 Starts badgering a lonely individual in Indonesian island (4) BALI (Acrostic)
23 Prepare again in difficult terrain (7) RETRAIN {TERRAIN*}
26 Love assortment of fruit (6) ORANGE {O}{RANGE}
27 Evicting son admitted into excursion (7) OUSTING {OU{S}TING}
28 Dear sir, save material for enemies (11) ADVERSARIES {DEAR+SIR+SAVE}*
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2 Kitchen appliance, unidentified, may be flying (6) SAUCER (DD)
3 Leave Quebec out of enquiry this month (4) INST {INqueST}
4 Staying away from sailors missing first round of drill (10) ABSTAINING {ABS}{TrAINING}
5 Sick of single endless drone in US city (8) ILLINOIS {ILL}{I}{NOISe} State is more famous. Not sure if any one has even heard of the city of Illinois
6 Greeting returning chap with wobbly seat (7) NAMASTE {MAN<=}{SEAT*}
6 Greeting returning chap with wobbly seat (7) NAMASTE {MAN<=}{SEAT*}
7 Rupee dips in a frenzy from the top (5,4) UPPER SIDE {RUPEE+DIPS}*
8 Minister’s correspondence with lad (6) PARSON {PAR}{SON}
13 Stifle authors who write comedy (10) GAGWRITERS {GAG}{WRITERS}
14 Spying on exotic sea pigeon (9) ESPIONAGE {SEA+PIGEON}*
17 Beguile at // the gate (8) ENTRANCE (DD)
19 He dares comic to be cut off (7) SHEARED {HE+DARES}*
21 Scared of air force strike (6) AFRAID {AF}{RAID}
22 Modest Conservative in a hurry (6) CHASTE {C}{HASTE}
25 Physicist’s book on how radiation originates (4) BOHR (Acrostic)
One=I, Republican=R, Iodine=I, Love=O, Son=S
Quebec=Que, Sailors=ABS, Single=I, Air force=AF, Conservative=C
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Thank you Ramesh for the nice blog and the link to old times.
ReplyDeleteFor my first visit to the US in 1996, I landed in O'Hare international airport, Chicago, Illinois, where my niece and her family received me and drove me to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I stayed with them for one month before I went to Kingston, ON, Canada.
ReplyDeleteAny memorable crossword experience in USA?
DeleteIn 2002 when I posted messages to Cryptic Clue Workshop on NYT Forums on the Web from Texas, my fellow-members wondered what the heck I was doing in that State. Heidi on FB:1ACross knows me from that time. Later in 2004 I was an active participant from Calif. in a Yahoo Groups that was run by Pradeep Raghunathan who is now seen on FB.
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DeleteThanks Ramesh for the link & the blog.
ReplyDeleteNice easy puzzle from Anon..Heron reminded of his formula to calculate the area of the triangle...& Niels Bhor, the Danish Physicist whose structure of atom was a path breaking effort
Simple and elegant weekend puzzle! Thank you Anon.
ReplyDelete1000th puzzle was published on Oct 17th 1974! Almost 43 years ago.
ReplyDelete...which means it must have started a further 3 years back. CV to confirm. Earlier to that was it a syndicated CW or not numbered?
DeletePrior to 1971 when THC was launched, the paper carried no crossword.
DeleteBut the weekly Sport & Pastime, the predecessor to Sportstar, carried a general (non-sports thematic) crossword without attribution but obviously from a UK paper/syndicate.
Interesting. Thank you CV for the info. I was under the impression that the CW in TH was started much earlier. I started doing CW with the Sunday edition and IE and had to wait for a week for correction/ filling leftovers and preserving the print edition till then.
DeleteYes, I remember seeing CW in S&P but was not solving them.
Another day of low attendance. ANON's simplicity is his forte'. Sens for a drug is new to me.
ReplyDeleteDISENTWINE had me in a twist as it is rather unusual, as DISENTANGLE is more common. PEANUTS reminded me of ex- president JIMMY CARTER. GAG WRiTERS is not a hyphenated word?
Deepak has to solve the mystery of low hits here !
The cause of low attendance may be due to social media..fb..whats app..those who were regularly commenting here might be busy there..just a surmise.
DeleteGo back and check. Attendance has always been thin on Saturdays.
Deletee for drug, sens for drug and it makes sense!
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DeleteThanks Anon, it was to nice to solve your crossword. Congrats on taking the THC 12000 Mark.
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