Monday 23 November 2020

No 13100, Monday 23 Nov 2020, Arden

Solution to 7D 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   Magazine a failure, it’s ticking along (4,4) TIME BOMB {TIME}{BOMB}
5   It is part of a music review, still... (6) STATIC {C{IT}ATS}<= It should have been 'musical'
10 ... As moving cranes pick one (7) ARSENIC {ARSEN{1}C*}
11 State tax, I’m able to follow (7) VATICAN {VAT}{I CAN}
12 Alphonso, perhaps he is game (5) MANGO {MAN}{GO}
13 He makes things difficult for people in the hills (9) TORMENTOR {TOR}{MEN}{TOR}
14 Have no hope of converting to fresh water (4,3,5) FEAR THE WORST*
18 Made a crucial adjustment to optical device (6,6) CAMERA LUCIDA*
21 First pay a rent — promising 50% side by side (4,5) PARI PASSU {Pay}{A}{RIP}{ASSUring}
23 A fighter’s only friend (5) AMIGO {A}{MIG}{O}
24 Auden or other bards’ work (7) RONDEAU*
25 Great assembly, like to make people disperse with this (4,3) TEAR GAS {GREAT}*{AS}
26 Turn over, hard to kiss someone with a frozen smile (6) SPHINX {SP{H}IN}{X}
27 Yes, it’s dirty and it’s genuine (4-4) TRUE-BLUE {TRUE}{BLUE}

DOWN
1   Summarisation leads to mission in distress (6) TRAUMA {TRAUMA+MISSION = SUMMARISATION} [CA]
2   Thinking America will stop China (6) MUSING {M{US}ING}
3   An old criminal drowning in booze, can take in many rounds (9) BANDOLIER {B{AN+OLD}*IER} (Correction - {B{AN+OLD}*EER} - See comments)
4   Make fun, or let us put out this on the menu (4,6,4) MOCK TURTLE SOUP {MOCK}{OR+LET+US+PUT}* 
6   The thing comes in for tax (5) TITHE {T{IT}HE}
7   One’s implicated in law, successively withdrawn (8) T?C?T?R?  (Addendum - TACITURN {AC{1}T} in {TURN} - See comments)
 It could be cast, cast initially on an island (8) CONCRETE {Cast}{ON}{CRETE}
9   Close the balance for drugs without prescription (4-3-7) OVER-THE-COUNTER {OVER}{THE}{COUNTER}
15 May be a run before a wash — one’s fully aware (4,5) WIDE AWAKE {WIDE}{A}{WAKE}
16 Doctor respects symbols of power (8) SCEPTRES*
17 Herb in India, ageless until the end (8) AMARANTH {AMAR}{ANTH}
19 Keeping watch over writing of a Roman bard (6) VIRGIL {VI{R}GIL}
20 Navigation aid called, could be part of the last course (6) MOUSSE (~mouse)
22 Clean and tidy central area in prison (5) PREEN {P{aREa}EN}

Reference List
Only = O, Hard = H, Kiss = X, Ageless in Hindi = AMAR, he end in Hindi = ANTH, Writing = R 


26 comments:

  1. Thank you Arden for a very nice set of clues. I especially loved 10ac, 26ac, 1dn and 19dn. These clues made me think longer

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  2. 3D is Bandoleer, booze = beer. If you put bandolier, you won't get 14A as Fear. It would be Fier. Kindly check.

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  3. 5 Across: My submission copy shows 'musical'. Typo seems to have happened at the Hindu

    while retyping the clues for print

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  4. 20D The pronunciation for mouse is very different from mousse, with called being the homophone indicator.

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  5. 7D- taciturn- withdrawn; law - act; successively- turn; one’s implicated in law successively t(ac(i)t)urn

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  6. Becoming esoteric by the day....

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  7. Tor is hill. People are men. People in the hills(note the plural) is
    Tor( men) tor. One who makes things difficult for people

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  8. @Dr.X ( Dr. Satyen Nabar )Happy birthday !

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  9. Happy Birthday & Many Happy Returns of the Day.
    May you regale us with many more of your CW's in the years to come.

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  10. Happy Birthday Satyen. Have a great year ahead

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