Tuesday 12 March 2019

No 12571, Tuesday 12 Mar 2019, Gridman


ACROSS
1   Twice the French vice-admiral gets Polynesian garment (8) LAVALAVA {LA}{VA} Twice
5   Restrict one article — inner garment (6) BANIAN {BAN}{1}{AN}
9   Spiteful move on us squelched (8) VENOMOUS*
10 Record having been published, exit the system (3,3) LOG OUT {LOG}{OUT}
12 Husband, almost certain, to be back in bustle (4) RUSH {H}{SURe}<=
13 Not the original pop? (10) STEPFATHER [CD]
15 Will old road get no good? (6) ORDAIN {O}{RD}{gAIN}
17 Garment a Turk restyled (5) KURTA*
20 Game town in England (5) RUGBY [DD]
21 This results in tears, no doubt (6) CRYING [CD]
24 Exaggerated points pulled out: wear garment that isn't tucked in (10) OVERBLOUSE {OVERBLOwn}{USE} E in Overblown is also a point
27 Ruler set his sofa afar finally (4) TSAR Tail Acrostic
29 Cover our sailors for certain (6) INSURE {IN}{SURE}
30 The man's taken in by business leader on return — there's unity! (8) COHESION {CO}{HES}{NO 1<=}
31 Took a chance and searched no female (6) RISKED fRISKED
32 Lyrics TT belted out by the book (8) STRICTLY*

DOWN
1   Learner and I ever so uniform (6) LIVERY {L}{I}{VERY}
2   Gloss over, run away and disappear (6) VANISH VArNISH
3   In short, relative by marriage put up old car (4) LIMO {MIL<=}{O}
4   Jump in a section of bank (5) VAULT [DD]
6   See! There's 'sabash' all round and greeting (5) ALOHA {A{LO}HA}
7   One drunkard with that woman at end of glum line (8) ISOTHERM {1}{SOT}{HER}{gluM}
8   Refusal to amateur in test of an authenticator (8) NOTARIAL {NO}{T{A}RIAL}
11 Old writer lady outed publicity matter in a brash manner (6) OPENLY {O}{PEN}{LadY}
14 Bess’ man doesn't start binge (4) ORGY pORGY Thanks to Google
16 Secure a New Delhi thief (6) ANCHOR {A}{N}{CHOR}
17 Relative's starting to keep fetish (4) KINK {KIN}{Keep}
18 Less spirited doctor's rounds on beach walkway (8) DROOPIER {DR}{OO}{PIER}
19 Moves back right out of exits (8) EGRESSES rEGRESSES
22 Desire to pull up son for informal wear (1-5) T-SHIRT T(+s)SHIR(-s)T
23 Conclusion in attempt to get very fashionable (6) TRENDY {TR{END}Y}
25 Head of nunnery held by tiresome person tolerated (5) BORNE {BOR{Nu...y}E}
26 Game for ruler to be put in place (5) SPORT {SPO{R}T}
28 Food shop gets the job done by half (4) DELI DELIvery

GRID

5 comments:

  1. Wonderful grid! Loved stepfather, anchor, lavalava and many more :)

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  2. Mr Chaturvasi, thank you for yet another enjoyable puzzle. I'm a fan of your clear, economical style. And I appreciate the little 'desi' touches: in anchor, kurta, banian.

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  3. Chathurvashi sir, the word "ALOHA" was amazing. I was trying with Telescopic definition "SHALL" from "sabash" all.....finally I got it the correct definition. very nice and mixed with all variety.

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