Sunday 19 September 2010

No 2602, Sunday 19 Sep 10

ACROSS
1   - Could be Mira, twinkling star taken from a city in India (8) - AMRITSAR*
5   - Very good, or very bad? (6) - WICKED [DD]
9   - Following behind king (5) - {LATE}{R}
10 - Third-rate minstrel and clumsy actor carrying extra weight? (9) - {HAM}{FATTER} Had to google search this
12 - Lecturer baffled poor serfs (9) - PROFESSOR*
13 - Honours leader of expedition, extremely overweight (5) - {OBES}{E}
14 - Talk to an eccentric, revolutionary in the past, in a city in Tennessee (11) - {CHAT}{TANO*}{OGA<-} Listen to Chattanooga Choo Choo

18 - Victor's round? (3,2,6) - LAP OF HONOUR [E]
21 - Bring together in a religious service (5) - {A}{MASS}
22 - Private hotel by cobbled Rome street (9) - {INN}{ERMO*}{ST}
24 - Has to step off rapidly (9) - POSTHASTE*
25 - Benefit of dog having no lead? (5) - bASSET
26 - Bit of silly nonsense in bar (6) - {S}{TRIPE}
27 - In hiding in hotel, man with changed appearance (2,3,3) - ON THE LAM*
DOWN
1   - 50 introduced to remarkably special food flavouring (8) - {AL{L}SPICE}
2   - Reasonable grounds detailed (8) - RATIONALe
3   - Curt, in sister's estimation (5) - TERSE [T]
4   - A game outside with dad in discomfort (5,3,5) - {A}{CHES {AND} {PA}{IN}S}


6   - Lover from Ontario, possibly coming round in the morning (9) - {IN{AM}ORATO*}
7   - Christopher, 10, leads one to new-born pet? (6) - {KIT}{TEN}
8   - County Down's top store bombed (6) - {D}{ORSET*}
11 - A ballerina not many forget dancing (6,7) - MARGOT FONTEYN*
15 - Discusses business lectures before small dance (5,4) - {TALKS} {S}{HOP}
16 - Huge shortfall in fuel (8) - {CO{LOSS}AL}
17 - Jazz pianist, Greek character, tired all the time, artist brought over (3,5) - {AR}{T} {T}{A}{T}{UM}<- Didn't know TATT stands for 'Tired All The Time' Syndrome.
19 - Affected, American university grounds (6) - {CAMP}{US}
20 - Emperor is flanked by king and a queen (6) - {K}{A}{IS}{ER}
23 - Come to an open stretch of water (5) - REACH [DD]

15 comments:

  1. Col,
    1 - Could be Mira, twinkling star taken from a city in India (8) - AMRITSAR*

    These are to be taken as two anagrams:
    Could be Mira - MIRA* - AMRI
    twinkling star - STAR* - TSAR
    Defn: a city in India - (AMRI*)(TSAR*)

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  2. omg, this guy has unwiitingly clued me in; obese, amass, aches and pains and best of all kaiser, my pseudonymn 4 urdu poetry circa 1980

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  4. Would this be considered ambiguous clueing if one were to tackle it gridless ?

    9 Following behind king (5) (LATE)(R) Vs (AFT)(ER)

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  5. Bhavan,

    Isn't ER generally used for Queen (Elizabeth Regina) and GR for King (George Rex)?

    Of course, ER could be used for King Edward (Edward Rex)

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  6. Bhavan I had originally put down AFTER thinking there was an error in the clue giving King instead of Queen. I got the answer only LATER.

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  7. Loved the ACHES AND PAINS cartoon. Reminding me of our friend here. How are you today Kishore?

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  8. @Suresh: I made the same mistake and couldn't get a RATIONAL answer for 2D.

    @SR: I wasn't contesting the clue. In the current context there isn't any ambiguity. Just remarked about the quirk.

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  9. Bhavan The clue you would have got stuck was 1D since RATIONAL fits

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  10. Kishore.@ 09:26 From your photograph OBESE doesn't fit. But maybe an emperor size ego does

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  11. suresh: photo doesnt show 3rd dimension, hence first conclusion wrong, tho i fully agree with your second conclusion and thank u for saying so. blogs and fb cater to the urge of the ego and i have sipped fully of these. as hinted to richard some time back i planned to take a break from the blog on the completion of half a helio-centric orbit from 30th march the day i first posted and take my pumpkin chariot. this would have been about 30/9 but my inability has only precipitated this.

    wo afsaana jisse anjaam tak laana na ho mumkin,
    use ek khoobsoorat modd dekar chodna achcha,
    chalo ek baar fir se ajnabi ban jaaye hum ...

    thanks to all for the nice time i had here

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  12. Hey, Kishore, I had been busy since morning attending different events. What is your idea? Trying to whip up a mass campaign urging you not to stay away from this blog?

    Mind you, there could be such a landslide in your favour that the earth beneath your feet could just slip away! ;-)

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  13. Kishore - 14:38

    btw, these lines were written by Sahir. They're supposed to be a tribute to Lata who was said to have been madly in love with him at one time. There were at various times various other highly accomplished women of art who were in love with him incl Amrita Pritam, the Punjabi poet who won the Jnanpith Award or something just as big. Re Sahir, Ms Pritam is said to have remarked: Sahir is like the sky but all I ever wanted was a roof over my head.

    Sahir never married anyone. He was the last of the great mother worshippers of India.

    LNS

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