ACROSS
1 Electronic fault restricting new display (6) EVINCE {E}{VI{N}CE}
4 Old bottles, emptied and preserved, hidden (8) OBSCURED {O}{B
9 Revolutionary nonsense transported critic (9) DETRACTOR {ROT}{CARTED}<=
11 Shy maiden, poor, left out (5) MOUSY {M}{
12 Rig vote designed to cause feeling of instability (7) VERTIGO*
13 Inexpert, united, right behind a friend (7) AMATEUR {A}{MATE}{U}{R}
14 Important dancer having cracked rib, in alarm, pale (5,9) PRIMA BALLERINA*
17 Sense retreat, for example, brought about by champion defending north vigorously (4,1,9) WITH A VENGEANCE {WIT}{HAVEN}{EG<=}{A{N}CE}
21 Monk admitting naughty dance (7) LAMBADA {LAM{BAD}A}
23 Letter, second sent round by Conservative in club (7) OMICRON {MO<=}{I{C}RON}
24 One day, provoked, did nothing (5) IDLED {1}{D}{LED}
25 Conductor using baton with energy after return (9) ELECTRODE {ROD}{E} after {ELECT}
26 Aim to go back aboard schooner perhaps for pleasure (8) GLADNESS {GLA{END<=}SS}
27 Blunder, as edited, partly rubbed out (6) ERASED [T]
DOWN
1 Leaf vegetable? Need, in a stew, about four (6) ENDIVE {END{IV}E*}
2 Vignette, proper text with odd parts missing, read (9) INTERPRET {
3 Beginnings of markings usually in curve upward in skull (7) CRANIUM {M
5 Bird found around rocky crag, lone duck (8,5) BARNACLE GOOSE {BA{CRAG+LONE}*{O}SE}
7 Speaker's beginning course (5) ROUTE (~root)
8 Pleasant fantasy story finally penned by father on quantity of paper (8) DAYDREAM {DA{
10 Agitators break rule most recklessly (13) TROUBLEMAKERS*
15 Run up with documents from debtors? Not interested (9) INCURIOUS {INCUR}{IOUS}
16 Satisfactorily located in row, good home (8) DWELLING {D{WELL}IN}{G}
18 Gang ahead after a scrap (7) ABANDON {BAND}{ON} after {A}
19 Top star is in remake (1-6) A-LISTER {AL{IS}TER}
20 Batting, lean and mean (6) INTEND {IN}{TEND}
22 Type of whisky available initially in country (5) MALTA {MALT}{A
GRID
Special at 10:30 by Karthikeyan.
ReplyDeleteNext week onwards there will be no specials till completion of the IXL online rounds. Accordingly the next special will only be on 09 Dec
ReplyDeleteGuests at home today for lunch so I will not be around to monitor the special. I am sure Karthikeyan will be around to clear doubts
ReplyDeleteRef remarks by Raju in yesterday's CW regarding the Interactive version.
ReplyDeleteFirstly my preparing an Across Lite version and then adding it to the blog o=is not practical as it is time consuming beside it will take up space in the Across Lite server.
There are two ways of solving this, one is to learn how to make your own Across Lite version, a tutorial about this is available in the Across Lite site as well as on Shuchi's blog.
The second way is to open the online interactive version from the Hindu in one window and copy paste the clues onto notepad and open it in a second window and place these two windows side-by-side, that way you will have an interactive grid as well as all the clues being visible alongside.
There is only one problem with the interactive grid of the Hindu and that is when the Across and Down clues start at the same square, in this case only the Across squares gets highlighted, for the down squares you will have to move the cursor manually. This should not be such a big problem as such situations do not occur in all grids and even if they do it maybe a max of 4 odd clues.
As regards the squares getting highlighted I had mentioned yesterday that place the cursor in the first square of the solution Across or Down and all the squares for the solution will get highlighted except of course for the situation as mentioned above
Col. I do it the second way. Copy paste the clue in word and fill the grid on IA version
DeleteSecond solution is copy paste the clues in MS Excel. I have all the grids prepared in Excel. Advantage of Excel is it is available in all computers(even the office computers :-) )