Lockdown day 44 of 47 Stay Safe at home
RULES FOR POSTING COMMENTS ON FRIDAYS ONLY
All those who are not regular commenters but who are rookie commenters or silent followers of the blog are requested to post answers with annotations in the comments section. In your own interest please avoid looking up the answers from the interactive version. Don't hesitate to post your annotations, in case you make a mistake in the annotation someone will correct it with the right annotation.
PLEASE NOTE, SOLUTIONS WITHOUT ATTEMPTING THE ANNOTATIONS WILL BE DELETED
Each commenter is requested to post only 5 answers thereby giving others also a chance to participate. Please provide all your answers in one comment.
Regular solvers/Veterans can post 1 answer each, but after 11 AM only
The regular blog will replace the clues at 4 PM.
Thanks for the response, here's the regular blog.
ACROSS
7 Article behind the damaged iPhone box on a fear of foreigners (10) XENOPHOBIA {A}<=>{IPHONE+BOX}*
9 Warm to loosen up (4) THAW [CD]
10 Tubes combining well with cheese? (8) MACARONI [CD]
13 Stagger to the competition with a pollen collector (9) BUMBLEBEE {BUMBLE}{BEE}
17 Kind of strength shown by Israel under pressure all around (7) TENSILE {TENS{IL}E}
20 Policeman tricks the French into welcoming a flying mammal from the east (9) CONSTABLE {CONS}{BAT<=}{LE}
22 Liberal student getting rid of the second letter in the freight vessel (5) LARGE (-b+l)LARGE
25 Trouble resulting from ash-trays yet to be emptied out (6) HARASS {ASH+tRAyS}*
26 Boat on a lake with a bird needing an injection of blood (8) MACKINAW {MAC{KIN}AW} Needed help from Google for this
27 Young woman hiding in the glasswork section (4) LASS [T]
28 A relaxing beginning to a formal atmosphere in a ship sailing the Arctic seas (10) ICEBREAKER [DD]
DOWN
1 German-born Greek character turns up for an exchange of views (6) DEBATE {DE}{B}{ETA<=}
2 Painful struggle reported at the geological feature (5) THROW (~throe)
3 Leaderless gang putting a robe with cut sides on top of a geometrical feature (7) OBLIQUE {cLIQUE}<=>{rOBe}
4 Mediocre auditor’s impressionable (8) PASSABLE (~possible)
5 Stop work on the geological feature (6) STRIKE [DD]
6 Corrected her label for the flowering plant (8) HAREBELL*
15 Ticket-less passenger’s vacation interrupted by Washington drowning in a cry of anguish (8) STOWAWAY {ST{O{WA}W}AY}
16 Half-cousin going around the muddy lakes to get material for a fur coat (8) SEALSKIN {couS{LAKES*}IN}
18 Friend in France surrounded by upset workers shows inner strength (7) STAMINA {ST{AMI}NA<=}
19 Awkward ascent by an unusually calm rebel retreating after making the Spanish quit (7) CLAMBER {CALM*}{REBel<=}
21 Uncommon to find leading socio-political analysts requiring sensitivity education (6) SPARSE Acrostic
23 Deeply impressed Vatican chief makes way for the bishop to get to the geological feature (6) GRABEN GRA(-v+b)BEN
24 Row, after internal turmoil, to the geological feature (5) SCARP {SC(R<=>A}P}
Reference List
Turkey = TR, California = CA, Israel = IL, The in French = LE, Student = L, German = DE, Born = B, Washington = WA, Friend in French = AMI, The in Spanish = EL, Bishop = B
1A XENOPHOBIA,(iPhone box)*a,from article = fear of foreigners
ReplyDelete6D HAREBELL, (herlabel)*=flowering plant
11A SLIDER=fresh water turtle,mueSLI DERivative(T)
8D ON A ROLL=successful,register entry
27 ac young woman hiding in G(lass)work section
ReplyDelete27 ac young girl is LASS in glasswork
ReplyDelete25A HARASS=trouble, ASHTRAYS-yt(YET to be emptied)out,(ashras)*
ReplyDelete21d sparse
ReplyDeleteSocoi_Political Analysts Requiring Sensitivity Education
ReplyDelete3d oblique
ReplyDeleteRobe with cut sides - ob
Leaderless gang - clique minus c - lique
4d passible homophone of passable
16d sealskin
Half of cousin is sin
Anagram of lakes is ealsk
1d debate
ReplyDeleteGerman de
Born - b
Greek character - eta - turning up is ate
10d macaroni - DD
ReplyDeleteTubes - macaroni
Combines well with cheese - macaroni
20A- constable-policeman; tricks-cons; flying mammal- bat, from the east- tab, the in French - le;
ReplyDelete22A- large- liberal; freight vessel- barge; replace second letter- b;
13A- bumblebee- pollen collector; stagger- bumble; competition- bee as in spell bee;
11A- slider- fresh water turtle; telescopic;
18D- stamina- inner strength; ami - friend in France; workers- ants
18D anno is incomplete
Delete17ac. TENSILE..tens(il)e
ReplyDelete15d. STOWAWAY..st(ow)a(w)ay
18d. STAMINA..Ami in reverse ants
5d. STRIKE..DD
6d. HAREBELL..(her label)*
15D anno is incorrect
DeleteThis comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDeleteDeleted as no annotation given. Nam aslo not given
DeleteThis comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDeleteDeleted as no annotation given
DeleteThis comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDeleteDeleted as no annotation given
DeleteFor a newspaper which claims that it is India's National Newspaper, it is strange that it refers to the lockdown in Tamil Nadu only.
ReplyDeleteLet's restrict ourselves to matters related to Crosswords
Delete25 Trouble resulting from ash-trays yet to be emptied out (6)
ReplyDeleteASH-TRAYS less Y T emptied out ASHRAS HARASS
27 Young woman hiding in the g[lass]work section (4)(T)
ReplyDelete2 Painful struggle reported at the geological feature (5)
ReplyDeleteCAVES DD
Incorrect
Delete3 Leaderless gang putting a robe with cut sides on top of a geometrical feature (7)
ReplyDeletegang leaderless ANG
putting a robe AR
sides = Left and Up
ANGULAR
Incorrect
DeleteThis comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDeleteDeleted as name and annotation not given
Delete6 Corrected her label for the flowering plant (8)
ReplyDeleteher+label=HAREBELL
14Ac - useless {causeless (justifying reason) minus ca}
ReplyDelete28Ac - icebreaker (double definition)
19Dn - clamber (meaning awkward ascent) anagram of calm rebel minus El for Spanish the
23Dn - Graben a geological feature anno as Graven (deeply impressed) minus V plus B
19dn not a full anagram!
DeleteThank you. Got it! Calm is anagram and ber is the retreat of reb.
Delete26Ac - Mackinaw (boat on a lake) anno as Mac(kin)aw for Macaw as a bird injected with kin for blood (relation)
ReplyDeleteLast four to be solved
ReplyDelete12A, 2D, 15D(Annotation only) and 24D
2D THROW ~ THROE (painful struggle)
ReplyDelete24 d SCARP - SCRAP (Row) after internal struggle
ReplyDelete15d ST O(WA)W AY
ReplyDelete12ac TENOR : make a point
ReplyDeleteTurkey: TR
Individual: ONE
Revolutionary individual : (ONE)*: ENO
T(ENO)R
12A - Turkey abbreviation is TR, individual is ONE, Revolutionary Individual is ENO
ReplyDeleteTR imprisoning ENO is TENOR - Point
18 d
ReplyDeleteFriend in France is Ami
Workers is ants
Inner strength is STAMINA
AMI and ANTS will give you AMIANTS?
DeleteAnagram into stamina
DeleteNo anagram
Delete... and of course there is a theme to be identified
ReplyDelete1 d
ReplyDeleteGerman is de
Greek character beta
Exchange of views = debate
Annotation is incorrect
DeleteD ( beta turned to ebat ) e
DeleteDebate = exchange of views
Still not correct
Delete18d
ReplyDeleteAmi- friend in German
Ants*_ workers
ST(AMI)NA
Not an anagram
Deleteyes sir. abs. right
DeleteST(AMI)NA <---
Successful is on a roll
ReplyDeleteRegister entry is on a roll
1.ac.xenophobia - rearrange letters from iPhone,box,a
ReplyDelete11.ac.slider - sli from muesli and der from derivatives
27.ac.lass - from glasswork
5.dn.strike - stopping work and geological feature
18.dn.stamina -ami and stna ( upset workers)
Uncommon = sparse
ReplyDeleteS from socio
P from political
A from analysts r from requiring
S from sensitivity e from education
Theme: find a lot of terms related to faulting in geology; May be an earthquake.
ReplyDeletethrow, strike, scarp, tensile, garben, oblique
I was looking for a pangram,but missing a few.
ReplyDeleteStowaway
ReplyDeleteStay, wa for Washington ow =cry
Thank you Col. for the link on Mackinaw boat. Interesting.
ReplyDeletePassable and possible homophones? no sir/ madam
ReplyDeleteYes, you are right! It is PASSIBLE
DeleteIt isn't Passible, check the pronounciation in Free dictionary. Passable is correct
DeleteMoreover Passible is not Mediocre
DeleteI took the def as impressionable.
DeleteWith passable as HP for passible.
Sorry Col, I didn't see the blog since last night.
DeleteI see the def. in wordweb for "passible" as below:
"Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents"
Further, Freedictionary gives the same HP for both Passable and Passible
Okay the HP is Passible. Answer remains as Passable. Will correct it.
Delete