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.

No 10572, Wednesday 19 Sep 12, Sankalak

HAPPY GANESH CHATHURTHI

NOTE

1  A SPECIAL CW ON THE OCCASION OF GANESH CHATHURTHI WILL BE UPLOADED AT 10:30 AM TODAY. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SAME WILL BE POSTED WITH THE CW.

2.  SINCE THERE WILL BE NO PAPER TOMORROW AND ALSO BECAUSE OF THE SO CALLED BHARAT BUNDH A JUMBO SPECIAL WILL BE UPLOADED AT 7 AM TOMORROW. INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE THERE WITH THE CW.

ACROSS

1   - The French nobleman in action made an inference (7) - DEDUCED {DE{DUC}ED}

5   - A bit of prose perhaps, to while away the time (7) - PASSAGE {PASS}{AGE}

9   - A member of the government who would incite tribesman to revolt (7,8) - CABINET MINISTER*

10 - Law, one on performance (6) - ACTION {ACT}{1}{ON}

11 - Endlessly cold, pretty girl — but immature (8) - CHILDISH {CHILl}{DISH}

13 - Once a collier, say, now he sets tests for students (8) - EXAMINER {EX}{A}{MINER}

15 - Reddish brown colour gives a bit of unusual glow (6) - AUBURN {A}{U}{BURN}

18 - High praise for guy getting involved with Leo (6) - EULOGY {GUY+LEO}*

19 - Helping in crime is a gamble people start taking (8) - ABETMENT {A}{BET}{MEN}{T}

22 - Indian army deployed around the large island where a Bonaparte ended his days (2,6) - ST HELENA {S{T HE}{L}ENA}

24 - Creature, little devil in the manner of an antelope (6) - IMPALA {IMP}{A'LA}

27 - Loaded with weaponry, destroyed the tattered home (5,2,3,5) - ARMED TO THE TEETH*

28 - Editor holding a gun in a part of London (4,3) - EAST END {E{A}{ST EN}D}

29 - Mark of a pause in writing by new democrat shows order (7) - COMMAND {COMMA}{N}{D}

DOWN

1   - Give orders to test acid afresh, removing sulphur (7) - DICTATE {TEsT+ACID}*

2   - First appearance of union leader sunk in borrowings (5) - DEBUT {DEB{U}T}

3   - Overlooking a swindle by lecturer in origin of genetics (9) - CONDONING {CON}{DON}{IN}{G}

4   - What one ought to do for tax (4) - DUTY [DD]

5   - Danger posed by parking lamp (6) - PLIGHT {P}{LIGHT}

6   - Small bit of medicine that can light a fire (5) - SPILL {S}{PILL}

7   - Feature of a word of praise about tenor (9) - ATTRIBUTE {A}{T{T}RIBUTE}

8   - Made of clay, new heater crumbled (7) - EARTHEN {N+HEATER}*

12 - Teacher’s qualification for a place to rest (3) - BED {B.Ed}

14 - Humble salt, lacking energy, turns clumsy (3,6) - ALL THUMBS {HUMBLe SALT}*

16 - The final terms — agree, or else … (9) - ULTIMATUM [CD]

17 - British honour accepted by Bob ever so gratefully (1,1,1) - OBE [T]

18 - Direction to hold a Russian, say and make him a vassal (7) - ENSLAVE {EN{SLAV}E}

20 - With rising skill, outbuilding is vandalised (7) - TRASHED {TRA<-}{SHED}

21 - Temporarily suspended over the cargo storage area (2,4) - ON HOLD {ON} {HOLD}

23 - The French have a measure for volume — a big spoon (5) - LADLE {L{A}{DL}E}

25 - Popular Indian nut! (5) - ARECA [GK]

26 - Stylish greeting in a carbon copy (4) - CHIC {C{HI}C}

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