It's Manna from tomorrow.
ACROSS
1 - Low fellow, suffering, produces what goes into candle-making (8) - PA{RAFF}IN
5 - Take off in a hurry? (6) - STREAK [DD]
10 - So-called lion man has changed (7) - NOMINAL*
11 - Nearly hit composer with a cooking apparatus (7) - {HI(-t)}{BACH}{I}
1 - Low fellow, suffering, produces what goes into candle-making (8) - PA{RAFF}IN
5 - Take off in a hurry? (6) - STREAK [DD]
10 - So-called lion man has changed (7) - NOMINAL*
11 - Nearly hit composer with a cooking apparatus (7) - {HI(-t)}{BACH}{I}
12 - Declare in Tamil Nadu inn (6) - T{AVER}N
13 - Go near a very soft insect (8) - {A}{PP}{ROACH}
15 - Cut around the left rod (4) - AX{L}E
16 - Firm leader of resistance gives an account of complementary things (10) - {CO}{R}{RELATES}
18 - Restlessness shown by one male before card game (10) - {I}{M}{PATIENCE}
20 - State Mumbai suburb is out of hate (4) - AVER(-sion)
23 - This won't do for a broken bone to heal (3-5) - NON-UNION [CD]
24 - Jumped without issue and spoke (6) - SPRUNG [CD]
26 - A girl to do modelling for fat (7) - {A}{DI}{POSE}
27 - Father's character, not right, for the board (7) - {PA}{LETTE(-r)}
28 - Raja, not one to take a bit of umbrage, has a lot of fun in martial art (4,2) - K(-i+u)UNG FU(-n)
29 - I stepped out for some chemical compounds (8) - PEPTIDES*
DOWN
1 - Muck up art nation's production, making a point, perhaps (11,4) - PUNCTUATION MARK*
2 - Act of dismissing disrupted a male lover (7) - RE{M}OV{A}L*
3 - Showy things about to be taken away from oil factory (6) - (-re)FINERY
4 - What divides the church is proclaimed in Sri Lanka, perhaps (4) - (~aisle)ISLE
6 - Potato, for example, clean without an excrescence (8) - {TUBER}{CLE(-an)}
7 - Inclination not to start charm (7) - (-p)ENCHANT
8 - Describing a man's advancement on the board or sir's movement (7,8) - KNIGHTS PROGRESS [CD]
9 - Does this disaster in the main expose hips? (9) - {SHIP*}WRECK Anno not clear
14 - A number is heard to perceive sign beforehand (9) - (~four){FORE}{TO}{KEN}
17 - Keep at a distance: on the street a don dances with folios (5,3) - {ST}{A}{ND O*}{FF}
19 - Allowance to writers no one put up (7) - {PENS}{ION<-} )
21 - Scrupulously valued about end product and jumped (7) - VAUL{T}ED*
22 - Computer program bears fruit to team leader (6) - {APPLE}{T}
25 - Catholic leader leaves space to manoeuvre in part of church (4) - APSE(-c)*
Hi all
ReplyDeleteNice crossword.
5A - Good play with 'take off' and 'STREAK'.
11A - Could this have been a Japanese brand-name one time, but later accepted in daily parlance a la Xerox. Hoover etc. ?
12A - TN was 'dry' some years ago, wasn't it? Or is it still ?
20A, 28A, 1D, 8D - Nice ones.
14D - This took some time to fall.
Richard
postscript to the above:
ReplyDeleteThe link provided to HIBACHI has cleared my doubt. Please ignore the point.
Richard
9D - Does this disaster in the main expose hips? (9) - {SHIP*}WRECK Anno not clear
ReplyDeleteYes, in my case too, Mr Guesswork came to my help.
Richard
Very good puzzle.
ReplyDeleteHad me stumped in the lower right quadrant
Aver (sion) was such an easy one. I was working on vile(evil)
I missed palette and applet also.
'ship' when wrecked gives hips
ReplyDelete'in the main' stands for 'in the high seas'
8d - sir's movement?
ReplyDelete@ vck
ReplyDeleteOne who has been knighted is addressed as 'Sir'. 'Movement' is PROGRESS.
Richard
thanks richard sir
ReplyDeleteFunny that Col chose Kung fu Panda.
ReplyDeleteI put down 7D as (-G)RADIANT and took a long time to finish the right hand corner.
ReplyDeleteVenkatesh's anno on shipwreck makes some sense
Good morning.
ReplyDelete@Richard
TN is not dry, state run TASMAC stores are having a great run.
9 - Does this disaster in the main expose hips? (9) - {SHIP*}WRECK Anno not clear
ReplyDeleteCould this be an &Lit + Anagram?
Disaster = wreck and the the "hips" anagram to be solution for the def. , Disaster in the main
@Veer,
ReplyDeleteThat's correct
9 - Does this disaster in the main expose hips? (9) - {SHIP*}WRECK
ReplyDeleteVeer
You're right!
The clue-writer's intention is:
"disaster in the main" - SHIPWRECK
'shipwreck', 'ship wreck', might produce H I P S
As for clue-type I thinks this is reverse anagram.
I know you are all good people who will ignore unintended typos.
ReplyDeleteGridman is certainly having fun..Susie with stand a couple of days ago and now ship in a wreck are both standout clues that were different than the usual milieu.
ReplyDeleteI am kind of like the kid in summer vacation as it gets closer and closer to the end of the holidays - wake up each day with a tinge of apprehension at time flying by and knowing all good things must end. Well, the Col. put an end to that with his no-nonsense header today. Back to school for me..
Hi All,
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed today's puzzle. Solved all except for 14D and 23A.
A few days back when we were wrestling with NJ's last puzzle of the series, Vck asked,
ReplyDelete"colonelji, how is gridman? better than NJ? because expectations are running too high."
Colonel replied,
"Easy or difficult is for the solver to decide, but as far as Gridman is concerned you will not get an occasion to find fault with the clues which will be impeccable, you will not run into the kind of problems posed by NJ."
I wonder what Vck thinks of Gridman's puzzles and perhaps others might weigh in, if they so choose.
I like his clues.
ReplyDeleteI think this is how I'd rate these 3 clue-makers. I don't know about the rest.
* Gridman: 9/10 (smooth, neat and innovative)
* Sankank: 8/10 (keeps it simple and nice)
* Nita Jag: 6/10 (this one's too repetitive. and abstruse at times. otherwise all right)
@satya,
ReplyDeletegridman is like sunil gavaskar; copy book; follows all the rules of crossword setting; makes it interesting to solve; very neat. But of course he is not exhilarating. But definitely does a great job.
Vck,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your opinion. I understand what you mean.
Your comment, "follows all the rules" is interesting. My take on that, especially as an engineer/mathematician, is that the least one should expect when a problem is stated is that it be a "well-posed problem". Anything less would be sacrilegious. I think Gridman makes a concerted effort to be precise because the rules demand that he be so.
From tomorrow watch for printing errors
ReplyDeletewhy is that so, sureshji?!
ReplyDeletevck That is Manna's speciality
ReplyDeleteoh, i see! so gridman is departing! we had a week of peace and sanity after the unadulterated mayhem from NJ.
ReplyDeleteTUBERCLE,PEPTIDES,NONUNION,ADIPOSE,
ReplyDeleteA lot of medical terms made it relatively easy for me
jaggu bhai, are you a medical man?
ReplyDeleteor woman perhaps?!
ReplyDeletei dont know about the etiquette here. whether it is permissible to enquire about personal details....
ReplyDeleteso sorry if i am transgressing.....
ReplyDeleteI ve been for the past fortnight reading with interest all your comments on the compilers , having not given much thought to the person behind the squares all these days. I am sorry Gridman is going to be away since I was getting the hang of his clues and enjoying the challenge .When will he back?
ReplyDeleteGridman is the one for square deals!
ReplyDeleteSlightly off topic but somewhat relevant since it is a crossword clue. Came across this in today's London Times crossword as a scrap for those succint clue aficionados:
ReplyDeleteIn cracking bone, upset dish (7)
@Usha
ReplyDeleteGridman will be back on 10 Apr
nice clue veerbhai!
ReplyDeleteAll Hindu Crossword lovers,
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