Monday 9 May 2011

No 10149, Monday 09 May 11, Nita Jaggi

Plenty of selections from the infamous loooong list that NJ uses.
ACROSS
1   - Gulf of a large bay is in front of the steamship (5) - {ABY*}{SS}
4   - Cheese producing town in England (7) - CHEDDAR [DD]
10 - Great flood that may be a drought ender (6) - DELUGE [DD]
11 - Good food in the morning is rare in Bosnia, not at noon (8) - {AM}{B{R}OSnIA}
13 - Everyone is in front of writer Fleming for the church union (8) - {ALL}{IAN}{CE}
14 - Significance of pop's partner, a specialist (6) - {MOM}{ENT}
16 - She, at sea solves his problems initially (4) - {SHI*}{P}
17 - Sudden inspiration to stimulate ideas (10) - BRAINSTORM [CD]
20 - Dance with the Prince in this kind of hall ignoring William (10) - {CHARLES}{TOwN}
21 - This letter has revealed the key (4) - ISLE [T]
24 - Front page is inside the copy of a paper finally to be published (6) - {A{P}PE}{A}{R}
26 - Amateur Rex repairs this part of dynamo (8) - A(R)MATURE*
28 - Porous beak of the bird (8) - {OPEN}{BILL}
29 - His letters describe the track event (6) - {S}{PRINT} 's'-'his' ?
30 - What's left over in water pipes (7) - {RE}{MAINS}
31 - Small animals with decorative loops (5) - FROGS [DD]
DOWN
2   - Soviet space dog is behind the lake with a Russian instrument (9) - {BALA}{LAIKA}
3   - Device positioned maybe at road intersections (6) - SIGNAL [CD]
5   - Greek poet is left at the cottage (4) - HOMEr
6   - Animal at the campus site outside has not been reported (8) - {DORM}OUSE Anno pending
7   - A walkway in a theatre (5) - AISLE [CD]
8   - One hands out worthy principles (6) - {I}{DEALS}
9   - Keep out the small rug put up for the small chicken (6) - {BAN}{TAM<-}
12 - Needle like herbaceous parts cut out of soft shrubs evenly (7) - ACEROSEhbu* What is 'soft' doing here? 'Shrubs' evenly would give 's-r-b' or 'h-u-s' and not 'h-b-u'!!
15 - Big story written ignores us in dogmatism (7) - BIGOTRYs* 's'-'us' ?
18 - So bring cubs struggling out of the bushes from both sides making them less visible (9) - OBSCURINGbs*
19 - City palace for the kings (8) - ALHAMBRA [DD] How is one expected to get this without any wordplay? Took almost half an hour of googling to get this.
20 - Fish on a coloured rod (6) - {CRAY}{ON}
22 - Drawn to this with determination on big occasions (6) - EVENTS Anno pending (Addendum - {EVEN}{ThiS} - See comments)
23 - One having no money is an old man with pure character (6) - {PA}{UPER*}
25 - Trainee in Poland will be back at five (5) - {PL}{EB<-}{E}
27 - Regularly call one family group (4) - {CaLl}{AN}



9 comments:

  1. 22 - Drawn to this with determination on big occasions (6) - EVENTS Anno pending

    Drawn = EVEN
    ThiS with determination = TS (don't shoot me for this or ask why/how)

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  2. 6 - Animal at the campus site outside has not been reported (8) - {DORM}OUSE Anno pending

    Don't know if this should be treated as a deletion clue DORM (-h)OUSE [owing to outside has] or a homophone clue DORMOUSE ~ DORM HOUSE [owing to reported]

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  3. Col. & Bhavan need kudos for still trying to unscramble the insolvables!!!

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  4. Only 4 on a NJ Day - a record?

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  5. Weltschmerz

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  6. Going to Himalayas, Kishore

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  7. Inconsistent patterns of this setter frustrates me. Cryptics should arouse curiosity and should be enjoyable.

    Sowndar

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  8. Blogger is playing tricks again, today's post may get delayed.

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