ACROSS
1 - Having knowledge of specifically credit notes seen around is no point for us (13) - CONSC{IOUS}NESS I lost consciousness trying to annotate this
8 - Did go around somehow briefing regardless of the British showing respect (9) - DI{GNIFIE(-br)*}D
9 - Complain if club accepts the French (5) - B{LE}AT
10 - Extreme case of an admirer at ninety nine (7) - {FAN}{AT}{IC}
12 - Saint’s ego resolved right on earth (6) - GEO*{R}G{E} where did the second G come from?
14 - Social at first, young girl is in a Middle East country (5) - {S}{Y}{RIA}
16 - Staple food for the king emperor in the borders of Chile (4) - {RI}{CE}
19 - Eager amateur has six dogs in front (4) - {A}{VI}{D}
20 - Readily changing in court, a new cleric has nothing to win heartlessly (2,3,4) - {UP} {A}{N}{D D}{O}{W(-i)N} Readily changing - up and down ??
21 - Oh! friend has a gemstone (4) - {O}{PAL}
22 - This country was once the seat of the Pahlavis (4) - IRAN [E]
25 - Initially, I never even recognised the noble gas (5) - {I}{N}{E}{R}{T}
27 - Acid I see back on three compounds at first (6) - {CI<-}{TRI}{C}
29 - Particles in a container (7) - AEROSOL [CD]
32 - Waste matter on the seat (5) - STOOL [DD]
33 - Bold Maria is disturbed in the Italian region (9) - LOMBARDIA*
34 - Brush the anxiety surrounding the road in America to start thrilling expedition (7,6) - FEA{THE}{R D}{US}{T}{E}R WOW!!!
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2 - Plant food arranged in cargo (7) - ORGANIC*
3 - Job duration (5) - STINT or SHIFT [E]
4 - A foolish act (6) - IDIOCY [E]
5 - Uruguay absorbs an initially developed language (4) - UR{D}U
6 - A former gold coin of England (5) - NOBLE [E]
7 - A hideaway of idyllic beauty (7-2) - SHANGRI-LA [E]
8 - Postpone the director always holding the central portfolio (5) - {D}{E{F}ER}
11 - One claims to argue about the religion (7) - {I}SLAMIC*
12 - Cottager cuts out the caught wire (7) - GAROTTE(-c)*
13 - Foreign national in Ohio is with a fellow at lunchtime (5) - {O}{MAN}{I}
15 - High pressure on the narrow range of hills (5) - RIDGE [DD]
17 - As regards to an opinion wrongly accepting the female (2,5,2) - IN POIN{T} O*{F} T from ?
18 - Mathematician in the European Union is with the king not good (5) - {EU}LE{R} If Le is the french where is the indicator?
23 - Last bit in a chemical reaction (7) - RESIDUE [E]
24 - Unidentified everybody taking up the weapon (5) - NO{LLA<-} )? (Correction - NU{LLA<-} )
26 - Hit into an animal in some desperation (6) - {RAM}{MED}
28 - Again lets in the channel of water (5) - INLET [T]
30 - Sounds of animals (5) - ROARS [E] Do all animals roar!!
31 - Regularly gal fused the sticky substance (4) - {G}{L}{U}{E}
Black squares - 68 (30%)
White squares - 157
GRID
Black squares - 68 (30%)
ReplyDeleteWhite squares - 157
Pray elucidate the significance. Thanks
Pammechu,
ReplyDeleteI started this with NJ's first CW of this round when I saw so many black (blocked out) squares in the CW I think almost 50% were black that day. Chaturvasi would be able to give us the exact significance of having too many black squares.
NJ truly takes the cake today. No joy in solving this, although I got most of the words.
ReplyDeleteYesterday was a great day in comparison.
1A
ReplyDeleteHi Colonel, I survived longer. still no anno.
34A (Wow) An unexpectedly good clue
Colonel, Yesterday must have been some kind of record in terms of number of comments. Do you have a statistic on this?
ReplyDeleteHi Suresh,
ReplyDeleteI don't maintain any statistics but I can check the archive and see if and when there were more comments
Suresh,
ReplyDeleteThe record for comments goes to NJ we had 25 yesterday and 25 on 30 Sep both being NJ's, CW's. I did get 27 comments on Sankalak's puzzle on 24 Sep but that was mainly discussion between those who follow my blog as I did not post at 8:30 AM that day as I was travelling, so they cannot be considered as comments
Col Sir,
ReplyDelete18D-Mathematician in the European Union is with the king not good (5)
May be EU+LE(-A)R KING LEAR
Svemuri,
ReplyDeleteMaybe correct, but then how do we relate 'A' to 'good'
Actually NJ in the past also has given articles in French, Spanish etc without any indicator
ReplyDeleteCol Sir,
ReplyDeleteA is for advantage
see at http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/advantage
Svemuri,
ReplyDeleteStill, 'Good' and 'Advantage' have very little in common
A could be regarded as good in the sense of getting an A in a subject etc. In that sense I think svemuri's explanation may be possible. However to know what the setter intended needs a look into the mind on NJ, which we are not able to do
ReplyDeleteDeepak
ReplyDelete17D. Could the T be from "the""female?
Rajan
Rajan,
ReplyDeleteNot likely