ACROSS
1 Pageantries, made up or make up? (6,5) GREASEPAINT*
7 Bag of starch picked regularly (3) SAC StArCh
9 Live in the valley, drinking whiskey (5) DWELL {D{W}ELL}
11 Picks up money outside practice (9) REHEARSAL {RE{HEARS}AL}
12 Sharp turnover of public transport (5) SMART<=
13 Partners adopt orphan girl as caretakers (7) NANNIES {N}{ANNIE}{S}
15 Nobody for the opponents to take on (4) NONE {N}{ON}{E}
18 Only discharge work (4) OPUS {O}{PUS}
20 Go for recognised player, they say (7) PROCEED {PRO}{(~seed)CEED)
23 Boxing team- our display of love (5) AMOUR [T]
24 Misplaced glory etched in stone of sorts, it's much sought after (4,5) HOLY GRAIL {GLORY}* in {HAIL}
26 Man and wife, one from the Northern islands (9) HEBRIDEAN {HE}{BRIDE}{AN}
27 Global Times featuring mountain people (5) BALTI [T]
28 Chennai once was half crazy (3) MAD MADras
29 Long comical soap opera, finally medic comes in with one of his instruments (11) LAPAROSCOPE {L}{SOAP+OPERA}* over {m..iC}
DOWN
1 Correct, and agree it's something to do with headlong rush (8) GADARENE*
4 ...as we support stake for a horse (7) PEGASUS {AS}{US}<=>{PEG}
6 Money to procure organs, to come under attacks (5,4) TEARS INTO {T{EARS}IN}{TO}
7 "End of dynasties" - people in India with a new battle cry (6) SLOGAN {d...eS}{LOG}{A}{N}
8 Animal quiet with broken toe (6) COYOTE {COY}{TOE*}
16 Built so large, one enters the harem (8) SERAGLIO {SO+LARGE}* over {1}
19 Leaders say can provide help shift inside, so haul it (7) SCHLEPP {Say}{Can}{Pr...e} over {HELP}*
22 Supporting an offer? Deny (6) FORBID {FOR}{BID}
25 Taunts as soldiers get to live (5) GIBES {GI{BE}S}
Reference List
Whiskey = W, Partners = N,S, Opponets = N,E, Only = O, Long = L, Large = L, New = N
20d guessing its....
ReplyDeleteBeer regularly taken......
Can't understand what you're saying
DeleteTake-n
DeletePrasad, although your guess is innovative, I am afraid its location, particularly before "regularly" is not very logical. I prefer to wait for Arden's thoughts.
DeleteThats why i put (rewrote) regular before. The clue as it is not in correct order.
DeleteEven that is wrong. It has to go after slip<=
DeleteAfter taking a few PILSNERS and making one or two SLIPs and ERs, perhaps the uninvited N, having crashed the party, will seem like it is a lifelong friend.
Delete@kkr (pils, er ) take n.
DeleteI think the best solution is given by @sree sree at 8:43 although with a change of order. 👍
DeleteArden,
ReplyDeleteAre you abridge player?
Yes he is
DeleteThank you Col.
DeleteAs a concatenator of words he might say "taken separately abridge player" 😂
DeleteSadly there was no such clue in his puzzle today. "Taken separately amount" for {A}{HORSE} from yesterday continues to haunt me.
To PROCEED with the story should one exclaim 'God FORBID'?
ReplyDeleteNo need. A person on the steamer had applied GREASEPAINT on his face and
it was NONE else but our Vladimir. SMART? Well, not really. Maybe providential.
And we know too that Vladimir is half MAD.
To top it all, the drone was on a REHEARSAL.
Difficult to FATHOM what happened next?
Happy you are regular.
ReplyDeleteOf late we have seen a lot of new commenters and budding setters. I hope all the newcomers will register and participate in IXL-23 (Indian Crossword League). Registration for which will commence by the end of this month. Details and schedules will be put up here once it is announced
ReplyDeleteCertainly Col.
DeleteThank you Col.
ReplyDeleteVentured means 'laid into'. I am not sure if the given clue is technically correct.
ReplyDeleteLooks like it, but I cant also understand how.
ReplyDeleteHow about:
ReplyDelete17D 17 Ventured not into, but into a river in Australia (8)🤔
Down 20, 17 remaining it seems😅
ReplyDeleteSo.laid is into the river Dee.
ReplyDeleteNot to forget 'a'
ReplyDeleteLay: stake (an amount of money) in a bet.
ReplyDelete"she suspected he was pulling her leg, but she wouldn't have laid money on it"
Similar:
bet
wager
gamble
stake
hazard
risk
chance
venture
Thank you, but a little difficult to get.
ReplyDeleteGood, but still similar doesn't amount to a synonym.
ReplyDeleteFortunately Arden has given us a somewhat easier grid before we bid him adieu for another month. Looking forward to Incognito.
ReplyDeleteWhiskey from the NATO alphabets was seen in 9A, while PILSNER with an undefined N was found to “give rise to mistake” in 20D. A discharge of PUS was to be found in 18A, perhaps related to the SAC in 7A. It was nice to find Chennai mentioned in 28A. Bridge players returned to the grid in 13A, and this time the “partners” adopting ANNIE were unopposed, however 15A had “opponents” taking “on” {N}{ON}{E}.
I found and solved the Compound Anagram in 14A without a problem, though it feels like a foreign concept and has made me question whether even Reverse Anagrams should be tolerated.
12A Sharp turnover of public transport SMART {TRAMS<=} was enjoyable. Other fine clues were 3D {SA}{L}{SA} (“twice as large in the middle”), 4D {PEG}{AS}{US} (“as we support stake”), 5D {INSUL(-t)}{IN} (“slight shortage in”), 7D having “people in India” as LOG, 8D {COY}{OTE} being “quiet with a broken toe”, 21D {FAT}{HOM(-e)} and 22D {FOR}{BID}.
The cluing for 19D {SC{HLEP*}P} was technically right but felt grammatically incorrect on the surface. 10A GUSTATORY (“have a blast with a party”) was an interesting word, with {A}{TORY} being the party following the “blast”. The word “have” seems to be redundant except in the surface reading. Similarly in 20A {PRO}{CEED (~seed HP)} - the word “go” felt redundant in this clue (“Go for recognized player, they say”).
1D GADARENE could have been defined more precisely than “something to do with a headlong rush”. Though 17D ADELAIDE is quite well-known, surely a better way to describe it would be something more specific than “in Australia”, as the list of things that are “in Australia” must be as large as the continent itself. I had heard of JIBES but not of GIBES, which apparently means the same thing and has the same pronunciation!
20a go redundant????
DeleteMy mistake, "Go" is the definition for 20A and is not redundant.
Delete17d river on double duty?
ReplyDeleteAdelaide river!!!
+1
DeletePray then whats a synonym!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/lay
ReplyDeletePls look under def 8.
First of all 'ventured' is the word in the clue. 8th definition of lay has venture as a synonym because it is very specific and contextual.
ReplyDeleteStill ventured is the word used in the clue.
Easy Grid by Arden standards.
ReplyDeleteReally liked SALSA, PEGASUS, INSULIN & ADELAIDE.
Thanx & Bye Arden. C u next month!