Thursday 18 January 2018

No 12217, Thursday 18 Jan 2018, Sunnet


Welcome to 12 plus 1A.

Answer and Anno for 29A left for a rookie commenter till 10AM.

ACROSS
1   Land to build fair state (6) AFRICA {FAIR*}{CA}
4   Squanders outside American bars (8) SUSPENDS {S{US}PENDS}
10 Recycle note on professional tax (9) REPROCESS {RE}{PRO}{CESS}
11 Sign in muesli brand (5) LIBRA [T]
12 Shout out a direction (5) SOUTH*
13 Deer species' call's bass? Certainly (9) SPRINGBOK {SP}{RING}{B}{OK}
14 Go beyond and across an insect (7) OVERFLY {OVER}{FLY}
16 Punch a hydrant (4) PLUG [DD]
19 People's last letter to Nato for communication (4) ZULU [DD]
21 Soldier led back a leader (7) MANDELA {MAN}{LED<=}{A}
24 Abstainer breaks scarf's fall in old Rameswaram Express (4,5) BOAT TRAIN {BOA}{TT}{RAIN}
25 Rear lift (5) RAISE [DD]
26 Tribe has ox cooked (5) XHOSA*
27 Melted ingot & coin to form unknown figure (9) INCOGNITO*
28 Rays' child shows happiness verbally (8) SUNBEAMS (~son beams)
29 Nearly boost a bird found in South-Asia (6)  ?Y?H?N (Addendum - HYPHEN - {HYPe}{HEN} - See comments )

DOWN
1   Cut a supporter near Mumbai station (8) ABRASION {A}{BRA}{SION}
2   Shows great enthusiasm to somehow trap user (8) RAPTURES*
3   Many against the clergy (5) CLOTH {C}{LOTH}
5   Release one's revolutionary role (7) UNSTRAP {UN'S}{PART<=}
6   Friend's article on one of five means of transport in ancient India (9) PALANQUIN {PAL}{AN}{QUIN}
7   Catch former student and some successful millionaires (6) NABOBS {NAB}{OB}{Su...l}
8   Bob is without casual clothing (6) SLACKS {S}{LACKS}
9   Top cover for cow (6) JERSEY [DD]
15 Hesitate to cut and eat bananas after illness (9) FLUCTUATE {FLU}{CUT+ATE}*
17 Extremely bad food outside (8) DEVILISH {D{EVIL}ISH}
18 Stole to initially maintain city (4,4) CAPE TOWN {CAPE} {To}{OWN}
20 Fuel you managed with some initial hesitation (7) URANIUM {U}{RAN}{In...l}{UM}
21 Workers take professional risk (6) MENACE {MEN}{ACE}
22 Wild beasts take one born to former rivals (6) IBEXES {1}{B}{EXES}
23 Bachelor takes advantage of animal (6) BABOON {BA}{BOON}
25 Mat is close to game (5) RUGBY {RUG}{BY}

GRID

17 comments:

  1. Probably "welcome to 12 and 1a" more appropriate?(and get thrashed)

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  2. 29a- Hyphen- What we find between South & Asia.
    (Hype-e)hen

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  3. 7 Nabob called to mind 'Hurree Jamset Ram Singh', the dusky nabob of Bhanipur in Frank Richards' Greyfriars School series(Billy Bunter's classmate).

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  4. 29 A HYPHEN
    Nearly boost hype- e + hen
    There is a hyphen - in south-asia

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  5. A minor point about Boat train- it was actually called 'Boat Mail' and I have travelled in it many times. Mail part is not only indicative of a fast train, but it also included a mail van exclusively to carry post and a few people working inside and sorting mails for delivery en route. Those days transfer of mails largely depended on mail bags carried on trains. Even newspapers.
    The train was so called since it connected to a boat at Rameswaram for onward journey to Sri lanka, nee Ceylon. Those were peaceful days!

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  6. Hyphen 29a hype is hyp and hen

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  7. Rugby part of the theme words as well ?

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  8. Creativity at its best ! An extremely smooth and elegant crossie that made me jump with joy and satisfaction. No tangled web of deletions and additions. A pangram and theme too ! Dil Kyu Maange more ? Thanks Sunnet.

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    1. +2.
      Yes, Rugby is also part of the theme. SA is one of the Rugby mad nations.

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  9. Kiwis refers to New Zealand cricketers and Springboks to the South African cricketers.

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    1. Not only to cricketers but to all sports teams,

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  10. Not only sports persons, but people in general. We hear more in sports connection.

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  11. Thanks th handy clues I could make it today.Enjoyed 15d,7d&1d. Nicely clued.In particular cut and eat bananas( anind).29 a equally nice &trickily clued.Thanks sir.

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  12. typo. Please read as 'thanks to handy clues'

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