ACROSS
6 Fancy price tag — get out of the resort (5) CAPRI {PRIC
7 Like to break wind, it relieves toothache (5,3) CLOVE OIL {C{LOVE}OIL}
10 Football champs drink bottles instead ... (7) CHELSEA {CH{ELSE}A}
11 ...at last when there is so much food (7) NOODLES {
12 Work clothes on everyone (7) OVERALL {OVER}{ALL}
13 He draws a line (7) PAINTER [DD]
14 Fallen for a girl — fellow goes right in for a tool (5,6) ALLEN WRENCH {
21 Country rejects gold, madness to support it (7) ROMANIA {OR<=}{MANIA}
25 Battalion not to become a medieval force (7) TALIBAN BAT
26 Came on drunkenly on the floor for a dance (8) FLAMENCO {FL}{CAME+ON}*
27 Collect contents, return instrument (5) CELLO [T<=]
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1 Record time crossing border, lasts a short while (8) EPHEMERA {EP}{HEM}{ERA}
2 Doctor hesitates to ban the rest (6) SIESTA
3 Reliance on restoring QE II, perhaps (5,5) OCEAN LINER*
4 Horse participated in the race, got nothing (4) ROAN {R{O}AN}
6 Protect businesses which are running (6) COCOON {CO}{CO}{ON}
8 Increasing din, gets choice of wear (7) EROSION {NOIS{OR}E}<=
9 America online calls you in, takes a lot of interest (5) USURY {US}{U(~you)}{RY}
13 The closing remarks in every speech (10) PERORATION {PER}{ORATION} New word for me
15 Manual work, takes days for a perfume maker (7) LADANUM {D} in {MANUAL}*
16 Band playing in the auditorium is foul (8) HANDBALL {HA{BAND*}LL}
17 'White heron' — some detergent being promoted (5) EGRET [T<=]
20 Spear the animal, the end varies (6) IMPALE IMPAL(-a+e)E
22 Rodent carries a pound of venom (6) MALICE {M{A}{L}ICE}
24 Flyer's capital, not British (4) ERNE
GRID
Thanks Arden for making life easier.
ReplyDeleteAgree with you Col 13DN.
Had problems in the following:
15DN:Can D be taken for days? Chambers' uses D for Day.
22DN: Rodent is Mouse. Mice is for rodents, I feel.
Rodent as the order of mammsls can be used to denote a group of mice, rats, squurrels, etc
DeleteI have returned to Chennai from CBE trip. Raju and Deepak, i am glad I was able to meet you. The first thing here my PC network is not working. Thanks for your kindnesses. I am likely to be out of communication for a couple of days for other reasons as well
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Aw !! Glad that you reached home in one piece . Take it easy. It was our pleasure to see you after such a long time.
DeleteBe in touch once your network/PC is fixed.
Pure joy!Loved Chelsea, Clove Oil, Allen Wrench,et al.
ReplyDeleteThanks Arden
I have used 'Allen keys' hundreds of times without calling it an 'allen wrench'.
ReplyDelete5D- ET from?
+1 for Vasnt's comments.
Curiously, handball is a game by itself.
ET: the famous Spielberg movie
DeleteRight Paddy for Allen keys...I think we all engineers call them as such .
DeleteI took 'Movie poster' together for bill. My fault.
Delete21A- I was bowled by 'rejects' for a reversal. In stead, I was looking for a deletion.
ReplyDeleteThanks Arden for Chelsea. KTBFFH
ReplyDeleteHad to google for KTBFFH...die hard fans of Chelsea would probably be familiar
DeleteI followed you to KTBFFH!
DeleteThe one who draws line emperor=ruler
ReplyDeleteNaveen: the clue is having a 7 letters and your answer is having only 4 ? Please relook. The answer is PAINTER.
DeleteKeep visiting this blog to get the hang of bang-on only correct answers.
Good luck solving .
Raju:I think he meant the answer to be emperor which is a 7 letter word...ruler is a 5 letter word..how did u get 4?
DeleteYeah,to correct him and by mistake I quoted 4 ¬ Sorry.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, did you finish Kishore's puzzle in 1 Across? I did.
I did..a very interesting puzzle full of amazing artistry
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