ACROSS
9 Within a month offer capital (7) ABIDJAN {A}{BID}{JAN} That should have been the Economic capital. Political capital is Yamoussoukro
10 Ugly drug, girls become quiet (7) HAGGISH HA(-sh+gg)GGISH
11 Bad feeling having succeeded in two overs (7) REMORSE
12 Once capital diplomacy used to stop mob violence (4,3) RIOT ACT {RIO}{TACT}
13 Beer drinking — everyone joins Bill as he sings (9) BALLADEER {B{ALL}{AD}EER}
15 I had returned to old state (5) IDAHO {I}{HAD<=}{O}
16 About cost there is unpredictability (7) CAPRICE {CA}{PRICE}
19 Killers trim beards evenly (7) SNIPERS {SNIP}{
20 Liquor regularly sent in, you're welcome (3,2) GET IN {G{
21 Spooner's frank in using furniture outdoors (9) CAMPSTOOL (-st+c)CAMP(-c+st)STOOL
25 Poles take over, it spins continuously (7) NONSTOP {N{O}NS}{TOP}
26 Ships's gone away, taking everyone (7) GALLEON {ALL} in {GONE*}
28 Editors reproduce chemical... (7) STEROID*
29 ...when mass-energy are taken altogether (2,5) EN MASSE [T]
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1 City girl in zebra crossing (6) ZAGREB {G} in {ZEBRA}*
2 Terrible call, second man implicated (6) DISMAL {DI{S}{M}AL}
3 Open to the ascension of Indian King (4) AJAR <=
4 Girl gets in next, essentially an extension (6) ANNEXE {ANN{
5 Four in India, rest away in France (8) CHARTRES {CHAR}{REST*}
6 Avoids taking a small car, not right to give abuses (10) IGNOMINIES {IGNO
7 Vehicle enters through empty garage in minister’s house (8) VICARAGE {VI{CAR}A}{G
8 He is on Times, goes around the favelas (8) GHETTOES {G{HE}{TT}OES}
14 Transfer to the said foreign country (10) ALIENATION (~ alien nation)
16 Tax over a drink, showing caution (8) CAGINESS {C{A}{GIN}ESS}
17 Granted rights on cue, need time to resettle (8) PATENTED {PAT}{NEED+T}*
18 Thrill for a day, avoid outdoors (8) ESCAPADE {ESCAP{A}{D}E}
22 It's attractive, partly over ten games (6) MAGNET [T<=]
23 Property act, take time out and return to port (6) ODESSA {ASSE
24 Inlet can be adopted for a knife (6) LANCET {L{CAN*}ET}
27 Starts with limited investment, maintaining adequate capital (4) LIMA Acrostic
GRID
11a Two overs, re(about) and more.
ReplyDelete+1
Delete...and S from succeeded?
DeleteNot convincing
Deletes. for succeeded usually appears in biographical/genealogical notes in compendiums giving hundreds of entries and where space is limited.
DeleteJohn, s. by Lou, who is ... ...
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/s
DeleteS is fine, I was not convinced by Re and More as two overs
Delete21a in:hip/cool
ReplyDelete+1
Delete10a clue reads drug=haggish (-gg +sh), IMU.
ReplyDelete16A- CA from about? I thought we always had C(irca) for it.
ReplyDeleteIts both
DeleteThank you Prasad.
Delete18D, there is a spello in the anno. It says esAcape. Kindly edit it.
ReplyDelete25A-Poles give N,N &S.It is unusual.
ReplyDeleteIMU n(on)s.
DeleteI took it as {N}{ON(=OVER)}{N}{TOP}
DeleteHow does Poles become N on S?
DeleteSee Venkatesan anno. Poles:N,S. over=on.
DeleteNoticed typo in my anno. Read as
Delete{N}{ON(=OVER)}{S}{TOP}
The anno as given by the Col N (O) N S is perfect. That's my thought too.
ReplyDeletesree_sree's anno is possible as per his U (which is very wide when it's expanded).
Top is from 'it spins', of course.
PV ans s_s are on the same broadband.
ReplyDeleteThey mean
ReplyDeleteN and S take (include) ON (over)
I really don't know what percentage the Hindu readership does the crossword at all and how many even among them bring it under the powerful lens.
ReplyDeleteComments here have become technical.
Yes, very technical. Practically under a microscope.
DeleteMaybe decimal, if not dismal!
DeleteYou've put it cryptically!
DeleteWhat percentage?I was just thinking about this the other day..the township I live in, in the Hindi belt, among a population of 3 lakhs, I think only a couple do. The previous township in UP the figure would be same. The percentages improve in Metros and other big cities. It is I think more popular in South India and South Indians if we go by the solvers, Commenters and setters appearing here. It would be an interesting survey if it is done.
DeleteThe question is What percentage of our population do crosswords?
Deletei was ardent fan of "the hindu" till 1994 (student life). work life has been taking me to places where i could get paper only the next day. it was difficult to get the paper even in kolkota (2001). but i used to get it (the value was more in details and depth of reporting and not just headlines) great relief from 2001 to 2010 while i was in hyderabad. but the quality has gone down from 2012-13 and i started noticing printing errors and grammatical mistakes around that time. the overall quality looked like TOI (headlines first, report first). i cant get the paper in rajahmundry without making a special visit to railway station. with diminishing quality i dont make the effort. so now i am limited to crossword online version.
DeleteI used to read the print edition till 2011. I used to get the paper in Rudrapur(Uttarakhand), Shimla and Jammu.
DeleteThe sports column was my favourite. Writers such as R.Mohan, Nirmal Shekhar wrote with great depth and elan.
Mohan is now Editor,Deccan Chronicle,Chennai.
DeleteThanks Paddy for the info
DeleteIn Durgapur, WB, in 1957, when I was 14 years old, my father as a postal subscriber, used to get the paper. It arrived one or two days after publication date. I was an ardent reader.
ReplyDeleteTH used to be sent to my town Tindivanam (near Villupuram) by train and it would reach the rly. station late night/ early morning. People looking for school/ college results published in it would be waiting eagerly at that odd hour. Later on after Neyveli became active, it used to be sent by a car from Chennai to Neyveli and all the towns en route (including ours) would be covered by that. Funny part is that this car would pick up passengers waiting at the bus stand to go to Chennai and the local Th agent would be helpful in fixing people. All unofficial of course.
ReplyDeleteOf course, after the car was arranged we used to get a later edition.
ReplyDeleteI do crosswords in the print edition of the paper in the evening ( today is an exception) more as a diversion after a day's work.I look up the blog for answers I might have missed .
ReplyDeletevasant.....% of crossword is very limited. I started cross word from 1996 especially in printed edition.....but I could not get any clue and definition. i knew that students especially from chennai spent time in THC....so still I am fond of THC....very much interested to interact this blog......
ReplyDeleteYou are most welcome here. Quite a few of us have honed our CE solving skills after following the blog and interacting with some of ace solvers here who are only too willing to clear any doubts.
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteIt would seem that though the number of solvers is less, those who are into the game are keen.
ReplyDeleteI know a solver from our regularly attending music concerts at various venues and getting introduced to each other.
I bumped into him at a restaurant yesterday. He turned to me from the nearby table and said, "The H crossword was good."
Paddy: there were two R Mohans in the HINDU and one of them passed away last year. Is the second one on to the Deccan Chronicle now? Is he Resident Editor now? I like the DC because it publishes some of the writers from the Spectator of the UK. I miss reading the DC and its crosswords in the magazine section.
ReplyDeleteI too have wondered oftentimes about the percentage of the reading population in the country who do the cryptic crosswords. Alas, these are only used as ' fillers' of space in the newspapers. I reckon, except the Hindu all others are publishing only syndicated crosswords from the UK papers and the Hindu is the only one that has local talent as compilers.
ARDEN follows the elegant British pattern and talent in compiling and is my favourite, while Gridman remains the all-time choice. Out of the box compilers here are KKR and Dr Nabar. Haven't we got an good admixture ?
Raju,
DeleteYou can read the e paper version of DC and do the CW also. I used to do it when I was in U.S.also. I will send you the link.
To my knowledge R.Mohan,who was covering sports in TH is now the Resident Editor of DC,Chennai. CV should know better.