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ACROSS
1 Poke around old parlour (6)
4 General manager finally arranged photographic equipment (8)
9 Head of inventory in Somalia enthralled by lively merger (6)
10 Arab chaps present at the back (8)
12 Your old guards about to acknowledge a funeral song (8)
13 Cry over one boring North American country (6)
15 Forged math degree to get tasks regularly and to succeed (4,3,5)
18 Better tell salesman at the entrance casually to pack a furniture item (7,5)
21 Core of Putin's ideologies (6)
22 Worker dumping good, bulkier clothes behind old undergarments primarily (8)
24 Way to receive grant for gambling game (8)
25 Sister collecting money for organized protests (3-3)
26 Black coffers kept inside vault (8)
27 Country essentially secured borders of Ghana (6)
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1 Duration of English film E.T. varies outside India (8)
2 Unusual posture limiting king's movement towards top (8)
3 Dangerous, stoned criminal showing friendliness (4-11)
5 Christmas story unsettling Vatican City (4)
6 Company owned by Indian origin techies initially developed system for controlling the temperature (3-12)
7 Old woman from Gabon controlled New York (6)
8 Detective Inspector taps official phone again (6)
11 Unlucky day to open state park? Not quite (7)
14 Navy mainly taking tips from lawmakers on amount a person can carry (7)
16 Seaman given unopened parcel for cancellation (8)
17 Harry Kane has supporters in US state (8)
19 Couple on board ultimately having a series of rows (6)
20 Publisher lives with petitioner (6)
23 Spot a male cat (4)
1D - LIFETIME - Duration ; E(nglish) FILM ET (anagram - varies) I(ndia)
ReplyDelete17D - NEBRASKA - US State; KANE has BRAS (supporters)
27A - UGANDA - Country; secUred (essentially) GhanA(borders) NDA (and)
Delete25A - SIT-INS - Organized protests; SIS (Sister) TIN (money); sis collecting tin or si(tin)s
Delete17D- you must explain why 'Harry'?
Delete1D- LIFET(I)ME* is how it is expressed to indicate the anagram (varies is Anind) outside I. You can do this if you follow the main post daily.
We must explain not only the components but how they are put together to get the solution word. It is not a total anagram but one outside I.
Thanks! Will do better next time. I was not sure how Harry could be the anagrid.
Delete15a Make the grade -succeed from math degree tAsKs anagram of math degree ak
ReplyDelete17d Nebraska -anagram of Kane and bras for supporters. harry anagrind
ReplyDelete3d Goodnaturedness anagram of dangerous stoned. Criminal anagram
18a Trestle table anagram of better tell + S entrance of salesman
18A- A is missing in your solution. Also why 'Casual'?
Delete3D- Criminal is not anagram, but indicator (Anind)
23D, ATOM? (A tom)
ReplyDeleteSpOT A Male cat
Incorrect.
Delete21A, INSIDE ( =core)
ReplyDeleteCore of PutIN'S IDEologies
4a enlarger from anagram of General + R from manageR
ReplyDelete2d UPSTROKE =movement towards top
ReplyDelete(POSTURE + K)*ing
24a ROULETTE =gambling game
Way =ROUTE, to receive, LET=grant
20d, ISSUER=publisher
IS=lives+SUER=petitioner
21a INSIDE =core
P̶u̶t̶INS IDEo̶l̶o̶g̶i̶e̶s̶(T)
2d typo. No ing after*
Delete3d GOOD NATUREDNESS=friendliness
ReplyDelete{DANGEROUS +STONED}*
6d aur conditioning from C indian origin +o t from Origin Techies anagram
ReplyDelete13A, Bosnia. Cry over ( sob), One(I),.North America (NA)
ReplyDeleteBos>sob+I+NA= Bosnia
Country (def), boring (indicator)
In lieu of 21a, already answered
ReplyDelete1a LOUNGE=parlour
LUNGE =poke, around (O)l̶d̶
7d granny old woman from G abon RAN - controlled NY
ReplyDelete12A, Threnody( a lamentation, funeral song)
ReplyDeleteYour (thy, old indicates old engliah word thy), Guards (RE= Royal Engineers), acknowledge (nod)
So, THY+RE+NOD<threnody