Shall leave it to a non-regular commenter to identify the theme and themed words of today's crossword.
ACROSS
7 Woman in Germany gets piece of chicken (4) WING {W}{IN}{G}
8 Officer's vehicle carrying excited mom goes around North Dakota estate at first (9) COMMANDER {C{MOM*}A{ND}{Es...e}R} AS per word play this becomes {CAR} over ({MOM}* over {ND}{Es...e})
10 Pure tea on street has energy (6) CHASTE {CHA}{ST}{E}
11 Tirade when aid is returned by clan (8) DIATRIBE {AID<=}{TRIBE}
12 1 usually involves this sort of nice love (8) VIOLENCE*
14 Goes around men with parts (6) ORBITS {OR}{BITS}
16 Sprightliness of a soldier burning before end of enmity (7) AGILITY {A}{GI}{LIT}{e...tY}
18 Young lady on French island makes an arrow, for example (7) MISSILE {MISS}{ILE}
21 Note by student: Study hobby, perhaps (6) FALCON {FA}{L}{CON}Hobby? See comments
23 Manufacture oven and hats for poor people (4-4) HAVE-NOTS* {OVEN+HATS}*
25 Removal from jet I once flew (8) EJECTION* &lit
27 Wound Indian group of decision makers (6) INJURY {IN}{JURY}
29 Mince puce pears? Capital! (5-4) UPPER-CASE*
30 Adds drinks (4) TOTS [DD]
DOWN
1 Rookie drops out of air travel to get gin cocktail for battle (8) FIGHTING {FlIGHT}{GIN*}
2 Wandering sage grows old (4) AGES*
3 Show hide (6) SCREEN [DD]
4 Little insect’s stuck between poles (7) SMIDGEN {S}{MIDGE}{N}
5 While on the move, Marconi consumed a type of penguin (8) MACARONI* {MARCONI}* over {A}
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6 German or Polish river? (4) ODER {DE+OR}* (Addendum - [DD] - See comments)
9 Right boot is fitted to automaton (5) ROBOT {R}{BOOT*}
13 Small air-conditioner's colour (5) LILAC {LIL}{AC}
15 Buffalo's first bus is running (5) BISON {Bus}{IS}{ON}
17 Inert gas synthesised in Moroccan city (8) TANGIERS*
19 Can read tile rate after rewriting (8) LITERATE*
20 Revolutionary not available in Northern Ireland city (7) CHENNAI {CHE}{N{NA}I}
22 Endlessly Don Juan travels to old French province (5) ANJOU {dOn+JUAN}*
24 Announced part of invoice description (6) VOICED [T]
26 Policeman gets Axis’s promotional material (4) COPY {COP}{Y}
28 Planes, for example, jungle elm tree slats, for starters (4) JETS Acrostic
GRID
8 Officer's vehicle carrying excited mom goes around North Dakota estate at first (9) COMMANDER {C{MOM*}A{ND}{E
10 Pure tea on street has energy (6) CHASTE {CHA}{ST}{E}
11 Tirade when aid is returned by clan (8) DIATRIBE {AID<=}{TRIBE}
12 1 usually involves this sort of nice love (8) VIOLENCE*
14 Goes around men with parts (6) ORBITS {OR}{BITS}
16 Sprightliness of a soldier burning before end of enmity (7) AGILITY {A}{GI}{LIT}{
18 Young lady on French island makes an arrow, for example (7) MISSILE {MISS}{ILE}
21 Note by student: Study hobby, perhaps (6) FALCON {FA}{L}{CON}
23 Manufacture oven and hats for poor people (4-4) HAVE-NOTS* {OVEN+HATS}*
25 Removal from jet I once flew (8) EJECTION* &lit
27 Wound Indian group of decision makers (6) INJURY {IN}{JURY}
29 Mince puce pears? Capital! (5-4) UPPER-CASE*
30 Adds drinks (4) TOTS [DD]
DOWN
1 Rookie drops out of air travel to get gin cocktail for battle (8) FIGHTING {F
2 Wandering sage grows old (4) AGES*
3 Show hide (6) SCREEN [DD]
4 Little insect’s stuck between poles (7) SMIDGEN {S}{MIDGE}{N}
5 While on the move, Marconi consumed a type of penguin (8) MACARONI* {MARCONI}* over {A}
9 Right boot is fitted to automaton (5) ROBOT {R}{BOOT*}
13 Small air-conditioner's colour (5) LILAC {LIL}{AC}
15 Buffalo's first bus is running (5) BISON {B
17 Inert gas synthesised in Moroccan city (8) TANGIERS*
19 Can read tile rate after rewriting (8) LITERATE*
20 Revolutionary not available in Northern Ireland city (7) CHENNAI {CHE}{N{NA}I}
22 Endlessly Don Juan travels to old French province (5) ANJOU {
24 Announced part of invoice description (6) VOICED [T]
26 Policeman gets Axis’s promotional material (4) COPY {COP}{Y}
28 Planes, for example, jungle elm tree slats, for starters (4) JETS Acrostic
GRID
21a hobby:"a migratory Old World falcon with long, narrow wings, catching dragonflies and birds on the wing."
ReplyDeleteThe theme is the recent incidents following Pulwama- balakot .. theme words wing commander, missile, jets, Chennai, fighting, violence, ejection, orbits,falcon,injury,bison.
ReplyDeleteClose
DeleteTheme: Wing commander Abhinandhan Warthaman from Chennai
ReplyDelete*Varthaman*
DeleteWING
ReplyDeleteCOMMANDER
CHENNAI
JETS
MISSILE
EJECTION
VIOLENCE
FIGHTING
ReplyDeleteAGILITY?
ReplyDeleteSCREEN?
ReplyDeleteWhy Screen?
DeleteI agree with Jacob B that the last two words too could be considered part of the theme as a fighter pilot requires AGILITY and there certainly will be computer SCREEN in the dashboard. Too broad, of course.
ReplyDeleteGuess he has seen the cross wire on the screen to eject the missile and shoot down the plane
DeleteDIATRIBE
ReplyDeleteI think 6D is a DD clue. German for "or" is "oder". The clue has no anagram indicator.
ReplyDeletePolish is the Anagram indicator
DeleteWouldn't that make it an indirect anagram?
Delete+1 yadu and vasant. oder is a river in poland. or in german is oder.
DeleteMy intention is as Yadu has annotated. As Vasamt has correctly pointed out, the oder annotation results in an indirect anagram.
DeleteI was waiting to post at least 3 clues with in Top 5. but Colonel has given surprise Theme. Abhnandhan's Strategy nicely reflected through puzzles. Thanks to Incognito and our Colonel.Have a nice Day.
ReplyDeleteThank you
Delete26 Policeman gets Axis’s promotional material (4) COPY {COP}{Y}
ReplyDeleteOne of you correct me the word "Y" to be extracted from Axis = X,Y. Policeman = COP & Axis=X,Y. Hence Y to be considered...is it so....
Think of X, Y in maths, a subject I am poor at. Thanks to crosswords, I know this.
DeleteX and Y are axes.
DeleteThank you sir.
DeleteToday's puzzle was unusually easy, enjoyable no doubt. 26 down and 29 across stumped me for a while. Promotion material made me initially think of ad and for 29 I was looking for the name of a capital city!
ReplyDeleteTotally forgot about today being a Friday :-(
ReplyDeleteIt turned out to be a Fly Day, sir
DeleteRather fly-fight-flight-fall-free-feast day!
DeleteMore likely A "Fry"day:-)
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ReplyDeletePP is this a book of Recipe's?
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