Tuesday 12 January 2010

No 9738, Tuesday 12 Jan 10, Sankalak

ACROSS
 1  - A gap providing an opportunity (7) - OPENING [DD]
 5  - Not a role a star wants to play (3-4) - BIT-PART [CD]
 9  - Panchayati raj (5,10) - LOCAL GOVERNMENT [E]
10 - Len’s knock-out design, something to add strength to the keel of a ship (6) - KELSON*
11 - Precipitation resulting from pollution (4,4) - ACID RAIN [E]
13 - Denial, say, in a race (8) - N{EG}ATION Nice clue
15 - Mass movement of people shown in 1960 movie (6) - EXODUS [DD]
18 - Child admirer in international setting (6) - IN{FAN}T
19 - Sudden, heavy rain could be a cause of ruin (8) - {DOWN}{FALL}
22 - A programme to seclude Henry somehow (8) - SC{H}EDULE*
24 - Criminal law nets expert returning with plant (6) - IP{ECA<-}C
27 - Ceaseless movement in a hypothetical situation (9,6) - PERPETUAL MOTION [CD]
28 - Puts on clothes (7) - DRESSES [E]
29 - Pineapple that could be a blast (7) - GRENADE [CD]

DOWN
 1  - Material that lubricates top of knife at home (7) - {OILS}{K}{IN}
 2  - Do better than 40 Roman ones, say (5) - EXCEL (~xl) Nice one
 3  - Such wealth cannot be the result of honest labour (3-6) - ILL-GOTTEN [CD] THC printer's devil honestly at work
 4  - Hired thug who would talk too much (4) - {GO}{ON}
 5  - Used to whiten clothes, it is large, found in the Marina, for example (6) - B{L}EACH
 6  - Kind of milk good for the weight conscious (5) - TONED [CD]
 7  - Russian empress, one banished from African city (9) - ALEXANDR(-i)A
 8  - Lockjaw (7) - TETANUS [E]
12, 17 - Doubly nice French combining in a sweet (6) - {BON}{BON}
14 - It does not deserve an oral examination (4,5) - GIFT HORSE [CD] Interesting meaning
16 - One in fear of foreigners put a hex on eastern BPO organisation (9) - XENOPHOBE*
17 See 12
18 - At home I’d accept drink that is tasteless (7) - {IN}{SIP}{ID}
20 - Gaps formed in a (shortened) nuclear explosion (7) - LACUNAE(-r)*
21 - They may come before a fall (6) - CLOUDS [CD]
23 - Fights to settle matters of honour once (5) - DUELS [E]
25 - Feature article on a country (5) - {CHIN}{A}
26 - Start fast, then fall behind, get tired (4) - {F}{LAG}



GRID

11 comments:

  1. Morning Colonel. Not a whole lot to complain about today, an 18D type 9A clue notwithstanding.

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  2. Good one.

    The clues I liked: 5A, 9A, 27A, 29A, 14 D and 20D.

    Had to Google for 24A.

    Richard

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  3. Yes, Colonel, the XL and EXCEL homophone (2D) was a cute one.

    Also I missed mentioning the printer's devil in 3D.


    Richard

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  4. Hi all,
    This blog is great. I had never in the past crossed 50% of the Hindu CW. I am essentially a Deccan Herald CW fan. This blog had somehow gotten be interested and today, by around 1300 hours I complete the whole Hindu CW. Hope to catch up with you people at 0830. Thanks.

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  5. Welcome, Suresh MS. We already have another Suresh (D) actively interacting here. Since you have your full name as username, we should not have any problem in identifying either of you.

    Richard

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  6. Hi Suresh MS,
    Welcome to my blog.
    Col Gopinath

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  7. I second what Suresh MS just said..This blog is a pretty cool forum for THC-philes. No surprise the Col.'s blog crossed 50000 visitors - like substance dependence I am now dependant on the 0830 post from the Col. everyday and also check-in in a couple of hours for the always interesting commentary from very knowledgeable solvers that seemingly have cut a very wide swath of experience in their lives..Always a pleasure and almost as a sidenote, everyone here has enabled me to solve almost every THC XWD since Gridman's NINA...

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  8. 21D - They may come before a fall (6) - CLOUDS. Interestingly, 'maycome' means cloud in Tamil.

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  9. I guess it is derived from Sanskrit 'megh' or 'megha'.

    Richard

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  10. Me bugged too... Just found your Blog Sir. Im gonna be a daily from now... Thank You.

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