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ACROSS
1 Firm controlled trade union with bit of engineered isolation (8)
5 Earliest of researches in study of Cancer, say (6)
10 Pashto lord taking fellow to India, occasionally (7)
11 Love piece of crossword clue about German block (7)
12 Bridge looked misaligned optically (5-4)
14 Moves towards new listeners (5)
15 Conspires to use crude things like emeralds and quartzes (8,6)
17 Quietly avoiding entrance to places without right arrangements (14)
21 Non-specific start of viral fever (5)
22 One who can understand dialogues in a muted movie, split head for Spooner (3,6)
23 Atmosphere is bad! It's malice! (7)
24 Resistance to change gets noted, possibly for one resting at tide (7)
26 Set him free of belief in one almighty (6)
27 Small and remote, on English shore, perhaps (3-5)
DOWN
1 Small freedom, having a view of coast! (8)
2 Quietly going close, screening with perfect hearing organ (7)
3 It can be green or greenish-blue colour mostly! (3)
4 Duty-free loo Sir! Possibly for one who advocates making things oneself! (2-2-10)
6 Field survey about hoax explosive gathers nothing (11)
7 Pick and soften down (7)
8 One from China trading in English dairy product (6)
9 Account of biblical prophet's duties and responsibilities at workplace (3,11)
13 Quiet around his king, child comes back with small starters (5,6)
16 American queen with awfully mean online self-identification (8)
18 Great! I'm playing Jazz! (7)
19 Some cold, sterile, retired fellow (7)
20 Bird with a disheartened voice starting to trill (6)
25 The flawed crypto-currency (3)
13D, Shish kebabs=starters (def)
ReplyDeleteSsh=quiet+ is(around his)+k(king)+ebab(babe*< =child comes back)+s(small)
18D. RAGTIME=JAZZ(DEF)
(great I'm)*
1A, solitude=isolation(def)
Firm=solid+tu(trade union)+ e(bit of engineered)(solidtue)*=solitude
4D. Do it yourselfer. Anagram of Duty free loo sir.
ReplyDelete9D. Job description. Account is description and biblical prophet(strictly speaking Job is not a prophet) is Job.DD
18.D.Ragtime. anagram of Iam great. Jazz music is also know as ragtime.
26A.Theism. anagram of set him. Free is anagram indicator.
12A. Cross eyed. Bridge= cross and looked= eyed. Optically misaligned= Cross eyed.
Job(Ayyub) is a prophet. The book of job is very illusstrative and runs parallel to several Hebrew, Egyptian and mesopotomian traditions.
DeleteThe book of job strikes a chord with our Harischandra.
There is test, book of job which was part of our syllabus.
12A, cross eyed = optically misaligned (def)
ReplyDeleteBridge=cross
Looked=eyed
4D, Do it yourselfer=(duty-free loo sir)*
One who advocates making things oneself is the definition
In liue of just repeated answers of 12A and 4D:
ReplyDelete15A, precious stones= like emeralds and quartzes
(conspires to use)* anagram
14A - NEARS - Moves; (N)ew + EARS(listeners)
ReplyDelete15A - PRECIOUS STONES - Things like emeralds and quartzes; {CONSPIRES TO USE}* anagram; anagrid - crude
4D - DO-IT-YOURSELFER - One who advocates doing things oneself; {DUTY FREE LOO SIR}* anagram, anagrid - possibly
8D - CHEESE - Dairy product; CH(IN)ESE + E; one from China - Chinese; replacing IN with (E)nglish
Delete16D - USERNAME - Online self identification; US(American) ER(queen) +{MEAN}* anagrid = awfully
DeleteIn lieu of 15A - RAGTIME - Jazz; {GREAT I’M}* anagrid - playing
Delete👆 is 18D
DeleteIn lieu of 4D - am attempting 22A - spoonerism for 1st time
DeleteLIP READER - one who can understand dialogues in a muted movie; from
Split - RIP
Head - LEADER
spoonerism - LIP READER
Got it right!!
DeleteThank you!
DeleteIn lieu of 18D as it was already solved above
25D - ETH - Crypto currency. Symbol of Ethereum; {THE}*; anagrid - flawed
Good Morning all!
ReplyDeleteIt is getting tough, all are truly competitive
21a vague non specific V start of viral + ague - fever
ReplyDelete19 d oldster retired fellow from cOLD STERile
ReplyDelete1d seascape view of coast freedom - escape with Small and a anagram
ReplyDelete20d avocet from a and Voice - I and t from trill
ReplyDelete21a climate - atmosphere from malice and iTs- is anagram
3d
ReplyDeleteIt can be green=tea
Greenish blue color mostly =teal- l=tea
17a probably saying the Annos online aren't from setter!!!
ReplyDeleteSetter's voice is in all of us. Our answers and annotations are merely his own reflections sir !
DeleteToday's crossword is so lovely and yet cut-throat.
A limeric for all avid solvers :
One -one was a race horse
Two two was one too
One one won one race
Two-two won one too!!
11a OCCLUDE=block
ReplyDelete{(O)(C)(CLU(D)E}
O=love, C r̶o̶s̶s̶w̶o̶r̶d̶, CLUE*, about D=german
10 a AFGHANI =pashto
AGHA=lord, taking Fe̶l̶l̶o̶w̶, i(N)d(I)a
occasionally
Ok, so German is D( deutsch)
ReplyDeleteLove=o
Crossword(c) +clue+d(occlude)*
27A, on English (ONE)+(horse= (shore)*
ReplyDeleteOne horse =small and remote(def)
6D, Reconnoitre= field survey(def.)
ReplyDeleteRE (about)+ con(hoax)+nitre(explosive
Nitre, an explosive is mostly saltpetre(
Ornpotassium nitrate)+o(nothing)
5Ac TROPIC - {T{R(es..h)OPIC}
ReplyDelete2D:lughole=hearing organ(ear)
ReplyDeleteclose(plug), quietly(p) going=deletion ind.
perfect(whole), screening=deletion ind
with(w), {(plug-p)(whole-w)}
7d PLUMAGE: down
ReplyDeletepick:PLUM soften: AGE
10A : AFGHANI (A(F)GHA)(NI)
ReplyDeleteLord : AGHA
Fellow : I(n)d(i)a occasionally; NI
Defn : Pashto
Typo : Fellow ; F
Delete17a. ORCHESTRATIONS - porche is entrance without P (quietly avoiding) is ORCHE, places is STATIONS, but without right (R), strations becomes stations. Orche+stration meaning arrangements
ReplyDelete24A-inertia=resistance to change; inertia +gets +noted= one +resting + Tide(CA)
ReplyDeleteDifferent type (indirect?) of CA since we have to get 'Inertia' from 'Resistance to change'.
ReplyDelete13D: Starters = Shish Kebabs
ReplyDelete((S(his)h (k) (babe<)(s))
Quiet is sh
Around is container indicator for his
King is k
Child is babe<=
Small is s
Sathia