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1 Corporate pass to work in USA with locals crossing borders (13)
10 Bits of treats, usually cookies, kept at buffet (4,3)
11 Swimmer can endlessly shift waves (7)
12 Reply quietly, passing time for recount (6)
13 Attacked vehemently when son was sick (8)
15 Popular suggestion - banning bold holy books or abstractions (11)
17 Pull for work (3)
18 Not a walk for cheap fellow (3)
20 Hospital Ophelia! I am sick with uncontrollable bleeding! (11)
22 Only ego and love involved in science of making wines (8)
24 Nightmares in certain cubicles (6)
26 Abomination from toon country, possibly (7)
27 A way to travel with legs on either side (7)
28 Destabilising current throne to reach safe position (4,3,6)
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2 Angrily I cut cop's head at the back (7)
3 City near incomplete arena with the endless maze (9)
4 Lad holding cross, square in shape and plain (4)
5 Fish tosses nut scratching backside (4,6)
6 Four kinds of fish (5)
7 Animal doctor hold new line of small conduits for carrying a vital liquid (7)
8 Opening talk about promiscuous lady's love consumed by ale (8,5)
9 Advertisement during show? It can be about opposition counterparts of the ministers (6,7)
14 Not new gramophone, I'm excited for an old age stencil copier (10)
16 Ring shaped muscle of tailless mythical creature, more attractive without slightest of utility (9)
19 Bird with habitat in a mountain (7)
21 Setting clue in English for an amino acid (7)
23 Buttermilk from Phultala, Bangladesh (5)
25 Mostly chat about a cosmetic powder (4)
22a penology science of making wines from only ego o (love) anagram
ReplyDelete19d Tinamou - bird from habitaTIN A MOU ntain
23d lamban - buttermilk from phultaLA BANgladesh
28a turn the corner -reach safe position from current throne anagram
27a Astride legs on either side from A st- way ride travel
Recheck 22A and 23D.
Delete22a: OENOLOGY= science of wine making
ReplyDeleteAnagram of ONLY + EGO +O (love)
23d: LABANG = buttermilk
ReplyDeletefrom PhultaLA BANGladesh
Enu is only 5 but your solution has 6 letters
Delete7d: Animal doctor = VET
ReplyDeleteVET+ LINE anagrammed gives
VEINLET: small vessel in plants and humans to carry fluids water/ blood
Refine pls.
DeleteNot total anagram.
The way you annotated, it becomes indirect anagram.
18a GIT=cheap fellow
ReplyDeleteGa̶IT,
20a,HAEMOPHILIA=sick with uncontrollable bleeding
{Ho̶s̶p̶i̶t̶a̶l̶+OPHELIA+I+AM}*
26 a NAMIBIA=country
(namibia+toon)=abomination
19d TINAMOU=bird
habitaT IN A MOUntain(T)
26a isn't the anind in the wrong place!
Deletethanks Sir, shall I call it (CA)?
Delete13ac: when = AS
ReplyDeleteS from Son
was sick: AILED
ASSAILED: Attacked vehemently
Sorry about 23d: It is LABAN from PhultaLA BANgladesh
ReplyDelete16d SPHINCTER=ring shaped muscle
ReplyDeleteSPHINx(mythical creature, tailless)+Cu̶TER(more attractive without (u)tility
20.ac. Haemophilia. H from Hospital +iiOphelia + I am
ReplyDelete24.ac. Incubi. In from certain+ cubi from cubicles
28.ac. Turn the corner. Rearranging letters from current throne
14.dn. Mimeograph. Gramophone - delete 'n'(new) and 'o' (not)+ I 'm
21.dn. Leucine. Clue in + E from English
28 A - It is expressed as
Delete( current throne)*
Anind- Destabilisation. This must be indicated.
Please follow the notations used in the blog
One correction : in 20 ac. Read Ophelia. Instead of iiOphelia
ReplyDelete24 A- Pl.mention it is a T clue
ReplyDeletecerta(IN CUBI) cles
Vidwan getting more concerts in December season!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is fishy!
DeleteSathia
My last for the day
ReplyDelete9d: SHADOW CABINET=opposition counterpart of ministers
Advertisement = AD
AD+SHOW rearranged is SHADOW
IT CAN BE rearranged gives CABINET
Not exactly. Refine. Look what during means
Deletein lieu of 19d(answered earlier)
ReplyDelete9d SHADOW CABINET =opposition counterpart of ministers
AD during SHOW=SHADOW
(it can be)*=CABINET
25d: TALC = TALK-K+C
ReplyDeleteTALK=chat-> mostly TALK=TAL
C= about (circa)
8D:starting point=opening
ReplyDeletetalk(sing)about promiscuous lady(tart)
love(o) consumed by ale(pint)
[{s(tart)ing}{p(o)int}]
1Ac COLLABORATIVE - {COL}{LABOR}{nATIVEs}
ReplyDeleteCol-Pass; Labor - US spelling of Labour - Work; Locals - Natives -without borders - Ative
Delete8D: opening = starting point
ReplyDelete(S(tart)ing p(o)int)
Promiscuous lady is tart
Talk is sing
Love is o
Ale is pint
Sathia
In lieu of 8D,
Delete11A: swimmer= catfish
Can endlessly is ca
(Shift)*
Waves is anagram indicator
Hence, (ca(tfish))
Sathia
5d ROCK SALMON; fish; ROCKS ALMONd
ReplyDelete10 ac tuck box - box of treats.
ReplyDeleteT reats U sually Cvookies Kept.box-buffet.
12A REPORT recount(def) reply - reT ort P quietly for T time
ReplyDelete2d anagram of {i cut cop}"s is OCCIPUT = Back of the head
ReplyDelete3d. LABYRINTH. - Maze
ReplyDeleteLA. - City
BY. - Near
RIN. - Arena RIn(-g) incomplete
TH. - TH(-e).the endless
11A {CA}n endlessly + {SHIFT} anagram is CATFISH swimmer
ReplyDelete4d: boxy = square in shape and plain.
ReplyDeleteLad - boy, cross - x.
6d: tetra = four and fish
12a: report = recount.
Reply-retort, quietly (p) passing time(t)
17a: tow = pull / work.
3d: labyrinth = maze.
City - LA, near - by, incomplete arena - rin(g) and endless th(e).
15 A intangibles- abstractions
ReplyDeletePopular - in
Suggestion- tang
Holy books- bibles
Banning bold - (-b)
In tang (-b)ibles
Nice solve, Surendra 👏
Delete27A A + ST (way = Stree) + RIDE (travel) ASTRIDE
ReplyDelete14D {Gramoph}-one (not new=neo) + {im} MIMEOGRAPH stencil copy machine
ReplyDeleteIncorrect annotation
Delete2d- Occiput- (I cut cop)*
ReplyDeleteFree Dic. gives meaning as- " The back part of the head or skull"
Angrily- Anind