No 14517, Saturday 21 June 2025, Karaoke

Because of one rotten egg in the blog I have taken the following step.

I have changed the settings to custom readers.

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Col Gopinath

Artwork by Prasanna

ACROSS
1 Often drunken man crashed into India Gate by accident (4,3,5) TIME AND AGAIN {MAN}* inside {INDIA GATE}*
9 Fluid injected into body of the other side mostly with key adrenaline (5) ENEMA {ENEMy}{Adrenaline}
10 Opt to pocket daughter's offer? May it not happen! (3,6) GOD FORBID {GO{D} FOR}{BID}
11 Trouble from the borders of Pahalgam intruded by butchers mainly in the job (7) PROBLEM {PahalgaM} over {RO{Butchers}LE}
12 The Spanish glue lacking essential viscous ingredient (7) ELEMENT {EL}{cEMENT}
13 Maybe penchant for a writer's last work? (4,4) SWAN SONG {SWAN}{SONG} penchant to be split and read as pen chant
14 Original Inuit can keep gun in house (5) IGLOO {Inuit}{G}{LOO}

18 Primarily bribe on duty becomes extra income (5) BONUS {Bribe}{ONUS}
20 Central forces involved in action set out for illegal substance (8) NARCOTIC {foRCes} in{ACTION}*
24 Keep record of return gift on promotion (7) DIARISE {AID<}{RISE}
26 Odd man out having interest for ice (7) DIAMOND {ODD MAN}* over I
27 Finally olive oil with inapt treatment causing loss of hair (9) EPILATION {olivE OIL INAPT}*
28 Easier to solve after key tip-off and put out of your mind (5) ERASE {EASiER}*
29 How do forums, take time, to spread rumours? (5-2-5) WORDS-OF-MOUTH {HOW DO FORUMS}* over {T}
 

DOWN
1 It is socially acceptable thing// for this //vegetable (3,6) THE POTATO [DD] The Potato or The Clean Potato is given in Chamber's Thesaurus and the Wikitionary.
2 Disease, maybe nameless, but not new (7) MEASLES {nAMELESS}*
3 Case of facility recruiting unnamed professional killers (8) ARGUMENT {ART} over {GUnMEN}
4 He avoids setter perhaps having date with editor on vacation (7) DODGER {DO{D}G}{EditoR}
5 Attempt a poem on horse, get an exclamation of approval (4,3) GOOD EGG {GO}{ODE}{GG}
6 Setter's depressed, doesn't take long to saturate (5) IMBUE {I'M}{BlUE}
7 Make-shift estate facing violent wind (7) TEMPEST {TEMP}{EST}
8 Checks issues, withdraws money for daughter (5) EDITS {E(-m+D)ITS}
15 Doctor hopes to examine a bone. He manipulates skeletons (9) OSTEOPATH {HOPES TO}* over {A}{T}
16 Some applaud a numbing narcotic painkiller (8) LAUDANUM [T]
17 Mixture of small cider and water essentially for beverage (4,3) ICED TEA {CIDEr wATEr}*
19 Tight-fitting garment, one put on by a rural dean (7) UNITARD {UNIT}{A}{RD}

21 Couple of beverages drunk heartily in country house (7) CHATEAU {CHA}{TEA}{drUnk}

22 Ride away after stealing large gold brick (5) IDLER {RIDE* over L}
23 Sheep hurriedly gone out of burning engine room (6) MERINO {engINE RoOM}

25 Friend is radical, good-for-nothing primarily (5) AMIGO {AMI(-n+G)O}

REFERENCE LIST

Daughter=D, The Spanish=EL, Gun=G, Time=T, New=N, Horse=GG(gee-gee), Setter's=I'M, Long=L, Make Shift=Temp(orary), Estate=EST, Money=M, Daughter=D, Bone=T (the T bone), One=Unit, Rural Dean=RD, Good=G.