Monday 25 June 2012

No 10498, Monday 25 Jun 12, Gridman

Looks like Gridman went to an Italian restaurant before setting this one!!
ACROSS
1   - Goes with the money collected (8) - PROCEEDS [DD]
6   - Comb for comical person? (4) - CARD [DD]
9   - Relays about fit quarter (6) - CABLES {C}{ABLE}{S}
10 - More corpulent Susan leaves suburbanites dazed (7) - TUBBIER  suBURBanITEs*
13 - Determination with which new one leaves Italian city holding macho types (9) - VEHEMENCE {VE(-ni+hemen}HEMENCE}
14 - Reason to record one note (5) - LOGIC {LOG}{I}{C}
15 - Leaders of Naxalite order gave out scuttled mission (2-2) - NO-GO {N}{O}-{G}{O}
16 - Child's desire returns for nut and vegetable (6,4) - KIDNEY BEAN {KID}{NEY<-} {BEAN}
19 - What Houdini practised (10) - ESCAPOLOGY  [CD]
21 - Judicial order put on paper briefly (4) - WRIT WRITe
24 - Describe fully unit of measurement that stops short (5) - PARSE PARSEc
25 - Starter in Italy points at a variation (9) - ANTIPASTO
26 - Pasta the Pescara violinist tucked in (7) - RAVIOLI [T]
27 - After fast, I begin liking pulse (6) - LENTIL {LENT}{I}{L}
28 - Mark to study tense (4) - DENT {DEN}{T}
29 - Let the cigarette be …, from the health point of view (8) - UNBURNED [CD]
DOWN
2   - Go hard — furiously — around the circle to get the speedster (4,3) - ROAD HOG {R{O}AD HOG*}
3   - Army officer's hesitation on northern body of troops (6) - COLUMN {COL}{UM}{N}
4   - All-important city of space — no steamy resort (9) - ESSENTIAL {ESSEN}{spaTIAL}
5   - Gridman, for one, doesn't complete a Roman number (5) - SETTE SETTEr
7   - Excited adult can shake leg (7) - ATINGLE {A}{TIN}{LEG*}
8   - Uprooting of tie draconian treatment (12) - DERACINATION* New word for me
11 - If it rains like this, it pours (5-1) - BILLY-O [CD]
12 - Calm celebration — czar drops alternative by journalist (4-8) - EVEN-TEMPERED {EVEN-T}{EMPERor}{ED}
17 - Bad thing to stick in an entertainment spot (9) - NIGHTCLUB {THING*}{CLUB}
18 - Dopes distributed about key dashboard instrument (6) - SPEEDO {SPE{E}DO*}
20 - Two vehicles around a company of people (7) - CARAVAN {CAR}{A}{VAN}
22 - With others, I have become fidgety (7) - RESTIVE {REST}{I'VE}
23 - No. 1 batsman is a help in drinking sessions, perhaps (6) - OPENER [DD]
25 - Notice that is primarily uninspiring — so long! (5) - ADIEU {AD}{IE}{U}




9 comments:

  1. Col., your plate overfloweth today.

    29 - Let the cigarette be …, from the health point of view (8) - UNBURNED [CD]

    Who was that wit who said cigarettes are vile things and should therefore be burnt and thrown away. TP Kailasam, Beechi ?

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  2. Col.,
    Was Gridman in just an Italian restaurant or in Italy itself?!

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  3. Kishore,

    "Your plate overfloweth today"- to make him 10A?

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  4. 8D is a totally new word- one never stops learning.

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  5. I have heard of a smoker being a fool with a burning end on his lips and dying embers in his brains.

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  6. Looks like Gridman went to an Italian restaurant before setting this one!!

    Wonder if Antonia Maino was serving there ;-)

    Naw, just joking. AM was serving in a Greek, not Italian, restaurant.

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