Lockdown Day 35 of 40 Stay Safe at home
Solution to 10D 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
8 Group of people of some obscure origins have base in large town... (7) SOCIETY {Some}{Ob...e}{C{havE}ITY}
9 ... chasing King’s lost drawing (7) TRACING TRACkING
11 Idea from one in local office’s killed regularly (10) BRAINCHILD {BRA{1}NCH}{kIlLeD}
12 Less number of fouls, initially pitched by pitcher (4) EWER fEWER
13 Sugar container emptied daily (5) CANDY {CAN}{DailY}
14 He rigs networks to support Hawaii’s skyscraper (4-4) HIGH-RISE {HE+RIGS}*<=>{HI}
16 Popular old rat (8) INFORMER {IN}{FORMER}
18 Where one may find a movie director — somewhere on the big picture? (5) INSET {IN SET}
21 Only men can get this notice at a Mississippi tech company (5,5) ADAMS APPLE {AD}{A}{MS}{APPLE}
24 A new team’s entry often causes worry (7) ANXIETY {A}{N}{XI}{EnTrY}
25 This’ required to obtain college degrees, ultimately? (6) THESIS {TH{c...gE}{d...eS}IS} &lit
26 Window’s old — top requires replacement (6) DORMER (-f+d)DORMER
DOWN
1 Lover without love — ever without heart (5) WOOER {WO}{0}{EveR}
2 Ignoring sound eastern law, leader lost foresight (7) ELISION {E}{L}{vISION}
3 Pet at Macy’s running with tip of leash causing disaster (9) CATACLYSM {CAT} and {MACY+Le..h}*
5 Management sounded unenthusiastic (5) BORED (~board)
6 Cloudy nuclear explosion (7) UNCLEAR*
7 Utensils to mostly tenderise ingredients hung around head of nail (6,3) DINNER SET {TENDERISe}* over {Nail}
10 Perform extemporaneously, express displeasure and walk (5-4) ?I?H? R?A? (Addendum - SIGHTREAD {SIGH}{TREAD} - See comments)
13 Fire set to a lab on freight carrier (5,4) CANAL BOAT {CAN}{TO+A+LAB}*
17 Not oddly, robust oldie vies to survive (7) OUTLIVE {rObUsT+oLdIe+ViEs}
21 It could bail one out? (5) ALIBI {BAIL+1}* &lit
Reference List
Church = CH, Sailor = AB, Boat = U, King = K, Popular = IN, Notice = AD, New = N, Team = XI, Without = WO, Eastern = E, Law = L
19A- & can be ignored in T?
ReplyDeleteFirst time I am conibg across.
I was told that all punctuations are tools for deception :-)
DeleteVery entertaining puzzle. Straight clueing in many cases but it has to dawn upon one. I had many favourites, absurd, informer, inset, anxiety, 10d etc. which needed mere concatenation of words in the clue. Brainchild, ewer, thesis and former also I liked.
ReplyDeleteThank you...
Delete10D- sight read- perform extemporaneously; sigh- express displeasure; walk -tread; sigh(t)read
ReplyDeleteDormer not former : typo
ReplyDelete8AC I feel the 'have' here indicates containment ind. and base=E
ReplyDeleteI thought so too first, but later I felt that 'in' is the containment indicator that way both 'have' and 'n' are employed
DeleteI know your interpretation was on this line. Just thought this too would work.
DeleteI took 'Have' to be a connector and basin large town as (CI E TY)
DeleteI intended S(-...) O(-...) CI(E)TY so Have as the concatenation and in as the containment indicator... Have as a containment is tough to make it work since nothing is going into S O...
DeleteChange will finally come up after some time (5) LATER (+l)LA(-l)TER
ReplyDeleteChange is Alter, that I get. But how does ‘will finally come up’ tell us to exchanging the first two letters?
Will finally is l. It comes up in Alter.
ReplyDeleteAh, thank you.
DeleteMy pick Across12 13 16
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Delete10Dn - Extempore performance = Sight Read with Anno-: (Sigh)(Tread)
ReplyDeleteSorry already solved by N Sridhar @ 8.40. Did not see. Good solve
Delete3d Anno looks incorrect. It should be CAT + (MACYS+L)*
ReplyDeleteYes,'At' to be removed from the anagram fodder.
DeleteThanks corrected
DeleteBraid is plait, not plat?
ReplyDeletePlait is a noun and plat is a verb- to plait. Just checked with Free dic.
ReplyDeleteI see plat as both noun and verb... in TFD.com
ReplyDeleteNice puzzle. My fav - ABSURD, INFORMER, ADAMS APPLE, HIGH RISE.
ReplyDeleteThanx. 😊