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Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Ganesh Chathurthi Special, Wednesday 19 Sep 12, Interrobang



GANESH CHATHURTHI GREETINGS TO ALL

Here's the Ganesh Chathurthi special from Interrobang.

INSTRUCTIONS

1.  EACH VISITOR MAY GIVE THREE ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW, WITH ANNOTATIONS OF COURSE.

2.  TIME AFTER WHICH THE CW WILL BE THROWN OPEN, IN CASE THERE ARE ANSWERS LEFT OVER WILL BE INTIMATED LATER IN THE COMMENTS SECTION.

3. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT HAVE ACROSS LITE, THE GRID AND CLUES ARE GIVEN BELOW THE ACROSS LITE VERSION.





Grid and clues for those with no access to Across Lite


ACROSS
8              21d's father lost a weapon (4)
 9,10        Katrina, Master of Arts, went around and  found 21d's vahanas in this temple in Bikaner (5,4)
10            See 9
11            Hard core fitness enthusiast  is a type of 23d mutation with a great young man, initially (3,3)
12            Cold flowers found when reshaping: rescaling without direction (8)
13            Child, on the contrary, does not matter (3,5)
15            Tarzan, the missing link (3-3)
17            Star quality found when turncoats return to the Spanish left (7)
19            Slightly hot back up power unit seen when 11a does prelims before the heavy exercise (4,3)
22            Chaturthi, the day that the Americans celebrate in July (6)
24            Prop seen when team follows tunes (8)
26            Armed general ran around a pinnacle of rock (8)
28, 16D   Known as the Atlantic city  where pal begat hip fracture (3,3,5)
30            I left Spain to go across a gap (4)
31            ə (5)
32            Ache passed on to everyone (4)

DOWN      
1              Marine greeting (4)
2              Finished murder, but went beyond the brief (8)
3              Girl got into ship that slides around (6)
4              Amphibian people: persons who operate underwater (7)
5              Ninja battle-cry reverberated around Mala in the mountains (8)
6              State building was once the tallest one in the world (6)
7              Rats return to the Sun, say (4)
14            Pair to mutate to excel (5)
16            See 28
18            Brief observation about hair mops used (8)
20            Marine creature sworn to be holy (8)
21            Vyasa's scribe worshipped on Bhaadrapada Shukla Chaturthi (7)
23            Nimrod enticed and hid creature with continuously growing incisors (6)
25            Tata's plant where Brown goes after a 23d (6)
27            See unknown after feeling beyond limits (4)
29            Make short progress on foot (4)

Enjoy solving.

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Special 4, 27 Mar 11, Interrobang




Lattice given as illustration for 9a in the CW of 6 Feb 11 (slightly modified to avoid more than two consecutives unches ,but probably still breaks some rules. Maybe too much black space)

Please submit your answers, with annotation, in the comments section. Remember the restriction of 3 PP.