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ACROSS
1 Where you woo and pray for justice? (5,2,6)
10 It might show who leads the RK Puram elections, New Delhi (5)
11 Nice black beast; but it's your pet peeve! (9)
12 Old farm machine-a fan (9)
13 Sailor's daughter tied to a knave (5)
14 Happier to have Greek character in line (7)
16 Last consumer painfully endures (3-4)
18 No one is better than him at the wedding (4,3)
20 Preserved fodder burning idle gas (7)
23 Papers about liberal kingdom (5)
25 Upside down double rays bend with voltage (4-5)
27 Complete very large replica for clinical insight of stomach (9)
28 Manage and in charge of old alphabets (5)
29 Goad Ray on to tell a fine story? (4,1,4,4)
DOWN
2 Single pace dance (3-4)
3 Bureaucracy of communist maps it out (3-6)
4 Late notice's right to circulate (5)
5 18 and 24 are the ones who miss turn at matches (9)
6 Yearned for supposed love missing (5)
7 Manila's wild creatures (7)
8 Saint's stretching on the road (6)
9 Shoot remote celestial body (6)
15 Composes lunar song and leaves (4,5)
17 Quickly salvage what's left inside (9)
18 Egg inside toppings of bun roll for fast food (6)
19 He may not sit down for making you laugh (5-2)
21 Grander design for writer and lawyer (7)
22 Line cut in cube cooler (3,3)
24 Society friend not free for builder (5)
26 Authority utters nothing (3-2)
Across Lite version can be accessed at SPRINGER 8
Enjoy.
26d SAY SO (SAYS O)
ReplyDelete21D GARDNER*
9D METEOR*
11a enu OK?
ReplyDeleteenu is OK Prasad.
DeleteEnu should actually be (4,5) as indicated by Suresh in his solution.
Delete7D: ANIMALS {MANILAS)*
ReplyDelete23A: REALM (REA(L)M}
12A: EXTRACTOR (EX)(TRACTOR)
16ac end user (endures)*
ReplyDelete23ac realm (rea(l)m
2dn one step (DD)
12across: EX_ TRACTOR == old= ex, Farm machine = tractor.also a fan
ReplyDelete18 down: RUNS ALONG-- anagram of lunar song
18 across;; BEST MAN; best man in a wedding for the bridegroom
3D-Red Tapism- Bureaucracy- Red (MAPS IT)*
ReplyDelete4D- Orbit- O(R)BIT
Late notice- Obit (OBIT R)*
2D- One Step-Dance
ReplyDeleteSingle- one
Pace- Step
18D: BURGER (URGE in B(un) R(oll))
ReplyDelete22D: DRY ICE (RY in DICE)
29A: SPIN A GOOD YARN (Rev anagram of GOADRAYON, with SPIN as anagram indicator)
6D PINED {-oPINED}
ReplyDelete19D STAND-UP (E)
22D DRY ICE {D{RY}ICE}
10 A TREND (Acrostic)
ReplyDelete16 A END USER ( endures*)
23 A REALM ( REAM - papers , Liberal-L,about c/c indicator)
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ReplyDeleteSPRINGER not springing any surprises ? simple and elegant, a- la- Gridman & Incognito. Thanks.
ReplyDelete+1
Delete+2
Delete+3
DeleteIn place of DRY ICE
ReplyDelete27A ENDOSCOPY {END}{OS}{COPY}
1AC COURT OF APPEAL CD
ReplyDelete27AC END OS COPY
21DN GARDNER*
25AC ARSY*-V ARSY*
ReplyDeleteIn place of 23ac
ReplyDelete24dn mason (freemason-free)
11A BETENOIRE. In Nice this would mean literally black beast. Thought this should be two words.
ReplyDelete13A D RAKE
14A {TI{PSI}ER}
you are right about 11A.
Delete28a: runic - (run-manage)+(ic)
ReplyDelete5d at to(-u)rneys
ReplyDelete17d deliver(l)y
20d silaged (idle gas)*
17D DELIVERLY DELIVERY around L
ReplyDelete20A SILAGED (IDLEGAS)*
8D STREET STE around RE + T
ReplyDeleteAnno could be Saint ST stretched becomes Street.
DeleteThanks Vasant for the Sunday fare :)
Thanks for the special Vasant.
ReplyDeleteEntries invited for future Sunday Specials. I have only one left in stock for next week, from KKR
Thanks Col. for publishing and all for solving and for the feedback. Agree with Prasad and Suresh about enu of 11A.
ReplyDeleteThere is a theme and anyone can identify the theme words.
LAW is the theme ? Attorneys, Court of Appeal, Gardner, ( Paul)Drake, (Perry) Mason, (Della) Street, (Hamilton) Burger just to name a few ?
DeleteThank you Vasant & Col.
ReplyDeleteI am able to spot (Perry)Mason, Attorney,(Erle Stanley)Gardner,Court of Appeal,(Paul)Drake, Spin a good Yarn... Gardner's PM series of which I am an ardent fan. Thank you Vasant.
ReplyDeleteOh! I missed (Della) Street, of all people.
ReplyDeleteJust finished reading his The case of the Grinning Gorillas.
ReplyDelete...and (Hamilton)Burger.
ReplyDeleteThat's it Paddy!
DeleteAlso, dry ice is used in one of his novels.
ReplyDeletePaddy: you bet me to it ! I too was an ardent fan of Gardner. I iused ot borrow the paper backs , two a day-- all of 192 pages each ! Very educative and entertaining thrillers. I had the collection of all his work. He also wrote as A A Fair.
ReplyDeleteYou had.. you no more have?
DeleteI do have the entire collection.
Just read an A.A.fair too, though not as interesting. I have a local library here with his complete collection and I am reading (re-reading) some.
ReplyDeleteWe do have a lot of things of common interests among us.
WOW, Vasant & Paddy. ! I lost a lot of my collections of good books and other belongings like crystal glasses etc when I shifted from Nairobi to Mombasa, as a bachelor ! God knows where and how ! My loss is somebody else's gain ; so, no regrets.
ReplyDeleteStarted missing your wife even before marriage!!
ReplyDelete:-)
DeleteThanks for the entertainment Vasant! Very nice clues :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Ramki
DeleteMr KKR...awaiting for your puzzle the ensuing sunday......
ReplyDelete