Saturday 11 June 2011

No 10178, Saturday 11 Jun 11, Nita Jaggi

Is THC migrating to 'Easy' CW's??  We have 7 today!!
ACROSS
4   - Very cute Saudi citizen will control the work in Lahore with determination (8) - {A{DO}RAB}{LahorE}
8   - A scarce supply (6) - DEARTH [E]
9   - Worker pushes the cart on ice left in this continent (10) - {ANT}{ARCT*}{ICe}A How do we get the 'A', presuming ICE left is IC?
10 - Stare at the girl in the mirror (4) - {G}{APE}
11 - Popular celebrity (4) - STAR [E]
13 - A type of phonation in speech (6) - MURMUR [E]
15 - Measure the following drum, a structure of heartwood (7) - {DURAM*}{EN}
17 - Mural started by an artist depicting the god of death (4) - YAMA Anno pending. (Addendum - {M}{A}{RA} - See comments)
18 - Sailor will finally eat the pie (4) - {TAR}{T}
19 - Regularly reuses the measure for this French perfume (7) - {E}{S}{S}{EN}{CE}
21 - Hence learn about this sound (4,2) - HERE OF(~hear of) Here of is one word.
22 - Fill the holes in a wall (4) - STOP [DD]
25 - Boy is mostly ill ultimately due to liver secretion (4) - {B}{ILl}{E}
26 - Still the cat goes back to an angry lioness (10) - {MOT<-}{IONLESS*}
27 - The impetus of a collision (6) - IMPACT [E]
28 - One's uncle leaves the French particle in the capital of Paraguay (8) - {A'S}{UNCle}{ION}
DOWN
1   - A saying (5) - ADAGE [E]
2   - Complain about an exotic blanket (6) - {CARP}{ET}
3   - Church painting is on the table (5) - {CH}{ART}
4   - Gangster and the sailor are at a sacred place (5) - {AL}{TAR}
5   - Crew member rowing the boat (7) - OARSMAN [E]
6   - Every second change the neat arrangement (9) - {ALTER}{NATE*}
7   - Tutors in the French college stitch trousers cut in an old style (9) - {LE}{C}{TURERSos*}
12 - Collect a crowd of people (5) - {A}{MASS}
14 - Unmarried men (9) - BACHELORS [E]
15 - Online, add the description of this plant (9) - DANDELION*
16 - Opt for the Spanish city tours initially (5) - {EL}E{C}{T} From where does the second 'E' come" (Addendum - {EL}{EC}{T} - See comments)
19 - An Eastern aristocrat (7) - EFFENDI [E]
20 - One single male immature creature (6) - {AN}{I}{MALe}
22 - Polish the shoes not very large for English leaders (5) - {SHoEs}{EN}
23 - Desert island having water supply (5) -  OASIS [CD]
24 - Diet offered to pacify the southern god (5) - {DEIT*}{Y} 'the southern' becomes 'E' and not 'Y'



6 comments:

  1. 16D
    City - EC (postal code for London)
    EC (Eastern Central) postcode area is also known as the London EC postcode area. It covers a group of postcode districts in central London.

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  2. 17a - Mural started by an artist depicting the god of death (4) - YAMA Anno pending.

    Ans: M A RA. Mara is Hindu God of death; opposite of Kama.

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  3. [This post is a fluctuation in the set of data points. Lack of comments does not necessarily reflect the quality of the crossword.]

    ;-)

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  4. I again had a lot irritation solving this one. I had the answers down in very little time but could not fit the clues to them. Also, the number of direct, i.e., non- cryptic clues is too high. I request Nita Jaggi to restore her crosswords to the normal Hindu standards.

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  5. Crucifix,
    Your request will be to no avail.

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  6. There is a standard for The Hindu? That's news to me.

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