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AJJI 18
By Ajji
Across
| 1 | Native American woman disrobes at three hundredth anniversary and makes it four hundredth anniversary (15) |
| 9 | Half the talking drum included in the performance as supplement (7) |
| 10 | Majority consume the dish but remain extremely disappointed (7) |
| 11 | Miss mostly round copper’s position (5) |
| 12 | Helen’s place in endless desert is a killer (9) |
| 13 | Jumbled clay pieces lose article to describe Ptolemy’s geocentric models of planetary orbits (9) |
| 15 | Raise strangely a Turkish palace (5) |
| 17 | Educate missing article for new fresh-water fish (5) |
| 18 | Modify exercises missing one class (9) |
| 20 | Post graduate caught in foolish manner of speaking, figurative (9) |
| 22 | Regions in Far east (5) |
| 24 | Discordant noises after second meeting (7) |
| 25 | Animosity caused by being sick before and after onset of winter (7) |
| 26 | Criminal climbing down extremely lazily in a patronising manner (15) |
Down
| 1 | Game bird to recoil (5) |
| 2 | Object in a confusion causing wretched feeling (9) |
| 3 | Lowly Anglo Saxon labourers found here in ernes’ nests? (5) |
| 4 | The ill-bred man having appeal goes before the Spanish fortress (7) |
| 5 | Eastern chaps go up with half sister following, for retribution (7) |
| 6 | Nervously skip share, writing about a work of art (9) |
| 7 | The primate by railway causes imitation (5) |
| 8 | This chemical element is strangely yum and bitter (9) |
| 13 | Junior actor mostly at home almost unwell not forming an essential part (9) |
| 14 | The tribe of Arunachal Pradesh arrest that man at east to get a crystalline compound (9) |
| 16 | Feeling remorse about love, throwing model out, beginning afresh again (9) |
| 18 | Enormous attic in conversion (7) |
| 19 | Sale of university in operation (7) |
| 21 | Ben is wrong to have become a dramatist (5) |
| 22 | Air India carries the famous boxer, to tropical shrub (5) |
| 23 | Damage reputation with you finally left among cunning (5) |
Enjoy.
17A TENCH TE(-a+N)CH
ReplyDelete13D EXTRINSIC EXTR(-a)+IN+SIC(-k)
26A CONDESCENDINGLY CON+DESCENDING+ L(-azil)Y
7d: APERY {APE}{RY}
ReplyDelete8D: YETTERBIUM {YUM+BITTER}*
21D:IBSEN {BEM+IS}*
8D Typo? enum is 9 vs 10 answered.
DeleteYes. The spelling is wrong in solution.
DeleteYTTERBIUM
Delete11A- Locus- Lo(cu)s
ReplyDeleteMiss mostly= los
Copper =Cu
Round is containment indicator
5D- Nemesis- NEM=< E SIS= Retribution
7D- Apery = Ape Ry= Imitation
Primate=Ape. Railway=Ry
5D: NEMESIS E MEN< + SIS
ReplyDelete4D: CITADEL IT in CAD + EL
2D: ABJECTION object in a*
13A EPICYCLES (clay pieces - a)* as repl for 5D already solvef
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Delete1dn - QUAIL - DD
ReplyDelete1ac - QUATERCENTENARY - 400th anniversary
ReplyDeleteSquaw - native american woman - disrobed - qua + tercentenary
3dn - ESNES - Telescopic
DeleteIt is better to refrain from using auch words with connatation
Delete"Contemporary use of the term, especially by non-Natives, is considered derogatory, misogynist, and racist."
Noted. Thank you.
Delete21dn isben (ben is) *
ReplyDelete26ac condescendingly
(con) (descending) l(azil) y
25ac illwill (ill)(w) (ill)
@Vasanthi: check 21d
ReplyDelete12a destroyer
ReplyDeleteHelens place = Troy
Endless desert is deser
Def: killer
14d yohimbine
DeleteTribe = yobin
That guy = him
Eastern = e
Def: crystalline compound
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Delete18d titanic
Delete(Attic + in)*
Def: enormous
15a SERAI = A Turkish palace
ReplyDeleteAnagram if raise Strangely anind
10a MOPIEST = Extremely disappointed
Most =Majority
Pie = Dish
Mo+pie+st
Consume insertion ind
22a AREAS = Regions
DeletefAREASt, in contain ind
15A: SERAI. Anagram of "raise"
ReplyDelete18A: TRANS {trains (exercises) without the "i"} + FORM (class) + TRANSFORM = modify
20A: MA (post-graduate) inside IDIOTIC (foolish) = IDIOMATIC = figurative manner of speakig
Replacement for 15A
ReplyDelete24 A: Anagram of "noises" after S (second) = SESSION = meeting
AJ - I am so addicted to ur grid - I solved half of it while undergoing traction. U should have seen the expression on the physiotherapists face! 😊
ReplyDeleteThanks Gowri
DeleteEnjoyed solving. Surfaces are very apt- far far better than Ajji 1- if I may say so.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paddy!
DeleteGood distraction during traction!
ReplyDelete22A AREAS -->T = regions ,
ReplyDeletefAR EASt
22D AALII tropical shrub
ALI ( boxer) in AI (Air India)
23D SULLY = Damage reputation
with you finally = U
left = L
among cunning= in SLY
7 d ape +ry.imitation.
ReplyDelete24 session.noises+s*
17 ac tench te (-a+n)ch
compensating for 17 ac.
ReplyDelete13 dn extrinsic. extr-a in sic-k.
19d AUCTION = Sale
ReplyDeleteA(U)CTION
16d REOPENING = Beginning afresh again
O for love in REPEN(-t)ING = Feeling remorse
RE(O)PENING
19d University = U
DeleteOperation = ACTION
16d Model = T thrown out
DeleteAll done, I think?
ReplyDeleteNice grid - thanks AJ and Col for the Sunday special.
6d remains Ramki.
Delete9a also remains to be solved
DeleteThank you AJ for the Sunday treat!
ReplyDelete🙏🏾🙏🏾
DeleteSathia, check for Djun Djun
ReplyDeletehttps://www.x8drums.com/blog/djun-djun-or-dundun-kalani-explains-the-proper-name/
Delete6d EKPHRASIS: description of a work of art
ReplyDelete(Skip share)*
The definiton should be rhetorical description, imo.
DeleteAll done.
ReplyDeleteMy sincere thanks to all the solvers and commenters for finding time for the grid.
Thanks to Colonel for posting my grid in the blog as Sunday special.
6dn - EKPHRASIS - writing / description of a visual art
ReplyDelete(skip + share)*
Nice and smooth solve. 14D put the brakes for me and was the last to fall. Thanks for the special.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ramesh.
DeleteSome difficult (new) words for me:
ReplyDeleteTench, aalii, serai, ekphrasis, yohimbine
Yohimbine is a rarely used antihypertensive drug
DeleteThanks for the Special AJ
ReplyDelete