Thursday 20 August 2020

No 13019, Thursday 20 Aug 2020, Gridman

Solution to 13A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular/novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

ACROSS
1   Badly wearing shoes every day, head of academy set out (8) SHODDILY {SHOD}{DaILY}
5   Two fellows follow company device to end a session (3,3) LOG OFF {LOGO}{F}{F}
10 Team’s regret about Oriental criticism being withdrawn (7) RETINUE {R{E}{NIT<=}UE}
11 One hounding is more hirsute, we are told (7) HARRIER (~hairier)
12 Father's destroying spam, it’s plain (6) PAMPAS {PA}{SPAM*}
13 Creamy food’s cut down — a king gets a dish from Greece (8) ?O?S?A?A (Addendum - MOUSSAKA {MOUSSe}{A}{K}{A} - See comments)
15 Peon started hiding for long stretches of time (4) EONS [T]
16 Speechless as language edit is horrific (6-4) TONGUE-TIED {TONGUE}{EDIT*}
18 It fights the anti-social acts of arsonists (4,6) FIRE ENGINE [CD]
20 About to leave crowd in haste (4) RUSH cRUSH
23 Piteously morbid about head office’s shape (8) RHOMBOID {R{HO}MBOID*}
24 A company is involved in study of church official (6) DEACON {DE{A}{CO}N}
26 Slowly with a new and old Italian poet (7) ANDANTE {A}{N}{DANTE}
27 Admit Im panic-stricken, carrying instruments (7) TIMPANI [T]
28 Hound and almost injure donkey (6) HARASS {HARm}{ASS}
29 Obtain bite, and, having no time, get back to Canadian city (8) WINNIPEG {WIN}{NIP}{GEt<=}

DOWN
1   Having no money, manage — do crafts, perhaps (8,3,4) STRAPPED FOR CASH*
2   Tot flown to country seat (7) OTTOMAN {TOT*}{OMAN}
3   Study short story of a canine, perhaps (6) DENTAL {DEN}{TALe}
4   Misrepresented a German song (4) LIED [DD]
6   See gross, crazy hideous females (8) OGRESSES*
7   One girl goes into Maori display of paper-folding (7) ORIGAMI {OR{1}{G}AMI*}
8   In favour of child, the short chic raja is progressive (7-8) FORWARD-THINKING {FOR}{WARD}{THe}{IN}{KING}
9   Pressing article about injustice women abandoned (9) THRONGING {TH{wRONG}ING}
14 Pine for return of fiend to be permanent (4-5) LONG-LIVED {LONG}{DEVIL<=}
17 Entanglements from primarily egregious boys in the sides (8) WEBBINGS {W{Eg...s}{B}{B}INGS}
19 Request again and again for alternative red uprising (7) REORDER {RE}{OR}{RED<=}
21 Relative has no Oriental snake to release (7) UNCLASP {UNCLe}{ASP}
22 European gets two equal sections of stable interchanged (6) GERMAN MAN<=>GER
25 Premiere extra time uncle invested in case (4) ETUI Acrostic

Reference List
Fellow = F, Oriental = E, King = K, About = C, Head Office = HO, Company = CO, New = N, Time = T, Girl = G, Chic = IN, Women = W, Boy = B, Again = RE

GRID
(Same as yesterday)

13 comments:

  1. Once again IA version spoiling the fun of Gridman's artful serving.
    1a and 5a didn't have enu's.
    10a didn't have the def. ("Team's" missing from clue)

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  2. 13A MOUSSAKA {MOUSSE-E) A King A,
    Mousse is the cream

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    1. Mousse is 'Creamy food' not just Cream

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    2. I read that it's a Greek dish and the creamy food use to serve for King. I too misunderstood that it's a cream. After your post I read that it's a creamy food. Thans for the challenging puzzle.

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    3. Thank you Col Gopinath with the meaning.

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  3. @ col. The word 'cut down' denotes the deletion of 'e' in mousse. Is it so???

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  4. I liked 22 D, immensely. Very well crafted

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    1. I could not follow 'two equal sections of stable'. Any clarification?


















      Is manger a food trough in a stable or stable itself?

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    2. Stable = manger. Two equal sections are man,ger. The whole section are interchanged.manger to german.

      As to manger vs stable, I don't rem the date but we already had a discussion in recent past.

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    3. Hypatia11 March 2020 at 16:48

      Here is the reference from Thesaurus.com where it is listed as a synonym. I believe that originally the "manger" was just a ledge/extension within a stable or a stall where the fodder was kept. It has since become more common as a fodder box

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  5. Thank you Prasad. I also remembered about the discussion but neither had the details nor could search so fast like you did.

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