Solution to 16A 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 Animal's dark spot (4) MOLE [DD]
9 Cain murdered churchman? Wrong! (10) INACCURATE {CAIN*}{CURATE}
10 "Die horribly on hill, journalist!" (6) EDITOR {DIE*}{TOR}
11 Beatles drove around carrying Tesla's safety device (4,4) SEAT BELT {BEATLES}* over {T}
12 Oddly, United Nations female starts to loiter in New York (8) UNEVENLY {UN}{EVE}{N{Lo...r}Y}
14 Snake consumes bits of dangerously exposed gingerbread in convenience store in New York city (6) BODEGA {BO{Da...y}{Ex...d}{Gi...d}A}
16 Slight mispronunciation (4) ?L?R (Addendum - SLUR [DD] - See comments)
17 Angry corsair loses head (5) IRATE pIRATE
18 Female took the lead and scarpered (4) FLED {F}{LED}
19 Rejected red rum results in homicide (6) MURDER<=
21 Relatives who may be pests on Sunday (8) STEPSONS {PESTS}*{ON}{S}
23 Extraordinary debate about one small disease (8) DIABETES {D{1}ABETE*}{S}
26 Doctor's consulting place has some liniment in small measure (6) CLINIC {C{LINIment}C}
28 Insomniac hero's pain (4) ACHE [T]
DOWN
1 Old bouncer can make meat and cheese dish (6,4) CORDON BLEU*
6 Dishonestly induced hiding of bone in sack (6) BRIBED {B{RIB}ED}
7 Alien, criminal and others in Rome (2,2) ET AL {ET}{AL}
13 Yankee devours poet (5) YEATS {Y}{EATS}
15 Breaking the leg ring? Go ahead! (5,5) GREEN LIGHT*
17 For starters, Indian Railways train is vandalised before commencement of tour. It can be troublesome... (8) IRRITANT {In...n}{Ra...s}{TRAIN}*{Tour}
18 It's time for celebration if valets dance (8) FESTIVAL*
20 Girl making first entrance in society had discussion (6) DEBATE {DEB}{ATE}
22 Wrong excise tax after exporting sax results in stir (6) EXCITE {EXCIsE+Tax}*
24 One vehicle for someone terrible? (4) IVAN {1}{VAN}
25 Observed new bishop's jurisdiction at first (4) SEEN {N}<=>{SEE}
Reference List
Hill = TOR, Tesla = T, Female = F, Sunday = S, Girl = G, Alien = ET, Criminal = AL(Capone), Yankee = Y, Girl making first entrance = DEB, New = N, Bishop's jurisdiction = SEE
Col sir
ReplyDeleteToday is 11th May
This 23 is the year. It is just Nov.23. I was fooled once.
ReplyDeleteSorry. May 23.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get you Paddy sir. I pointed towards a typo in the heading today:
DeleteNo 13862, Thursday 10 May 2023, Incognito
Col.marks only Month & year here. Not the date.
DeleteOh! I get it now. He has put 10th at the top. Typo to be corrected to 11th.
DeleteSame error in the side bar as well.
DeleteLiked inaccurate Cain!
ReplyDelete5D0 scrambled around trying to fit in MIG for fighter until the solution unscrambled itself.
....being the setter's pet!
DeleteSmooth as SILK ... as usual!
ReplyDeleteBodegas seem to be NY special (on googling) but I was more familiar with 7/11 stores which are spread all over U.S. Same type of neighbourhood convenience shop,though not open 24/7.
ReplyDeleteThank you Incognito!!! Your clueing is so clearly parsable that even a THC layman like me can complete your puzzle. I've not looked at THC for the past 10 years and voila... the last 3 days I was in heaven. Was able to complete over 90 % of your puzzles. Today, I hit the jackpot... 100%!!! Thank you for making your puzzles solvable. :) Kudos for your construction. I've been a NYT junkie specifically for their Thursday puzzles over a long time.
ReplyDeleteThe 2nd Innings
ReplyDeleteAlana met IVAN through a dating app. A widow, from LAOS, with 2 STEPSONS, she was nearing 50. Managing her own BODEGA, she was also the EDITOR of a local weekly.
After talking over the phone, for almost 2 months; she was planning to surprise him at his CLINIC, with a mid morning visit.
As Ivan had DIABETES, Alana packed her LEFT OVER CORDON BLEU with some CITRONS, giving the cakes ET AL a miss. After some DEBATE, she also bought a book of YEATS poems.
An IRATE Alana realised, what a SCRAMBLE it had been; to get the GREEN LIGHT from her sons for this visit & to invite IVAN home for the FESTIVALS. She had BRIBED them with a special dinner & SEEN them melting down slowly.
As she fastened her SEAT BELT, she felt her own EXCITEment. It wouldn't be INACCURATE to say, the ACHE in her heart, over the sudden demise of her husband, was still there. It was a MURDER by street hoodlums, near Central Park. A SLUR on the NYPD, as it was still an open case.
But now she was ready to move on. Driving towards the CANTONMENT, she FLED the IRRITANT NY roads, waiting to hit the UNEVEN tracks of the suburbs.
There was joy in her heart & a song on her lips.
2nd innings may have disappeared from cricket; but thank God! for it's presence in love & life!
Nice one Gowri ma'am. Keep them coming!
DeleteNice story. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteBut don't kill test cricket so soon! It is still managing to survive the onslaught of T 20.
😇
DeleteFound elsewhere
ReplyDeleteBack of a leg or a little lower? (4)
CALF
DeleteAnno!
DeleteDD
DeleteBack of leg - calf
Lower - one who lows - cow
Little lower - calf
well written Gowri. Good Theme. Second innings definition perfectly matched with your story.
ReplyDeletecol.sir , in ref. list "Girl making first eb=ntrance = DEB" .....eb=ntrance is typo?????
ReplyDeleteYes, looks like a typo only.
ReplyDelete26A - small measure 'C' - Celsius???
DeleteCC - cubic centimeter?????
DeleteSmall measure is cc
DeleteThank you Col.sir
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ReplyDeleteCorrected all the typos after reaching Coimbatore.
ReplyDeleteNo novice having a go at 16A
Col.on the move again.
DeleteCan we answer?
ReplyDelete16ac - SLUR - DD
ReplyDeletegood solve.......
DeleteApropos Gowri's great 2nd innings,...
ReplyDeleteI once tried to bowl a maiden over...
Only tried? Did not succeed?
DeleteWell, let me put it this way...
DeleteI was too successful. I probably used too much force or she was an acrobat. She went over and over and over and ....
till she was half a furlong away
😊
Delete😊😊😊
DeleteWould SLUR qualify as a Dual Definition (DD). At least, I looked it that way... Another definition for slight would be SLUR or mispronunciation could also be due to a SLUR????
ReplyDeleteThat MM, was the intention.
DeleteExactly
ReplyDeleteI have put DD. 🤔
ReplyDeleteSorry, did not see you had responded earlier. My bad!
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