What is Gridman hinting at with his message today?
ACROSS
6 - No doubt about News Editor being dirt remover (7) - CLEANER {CLEA{NE}R}
7 - Make a speech to only half of the voters (5) - ORATE electORATE
9 - Against not one insect (3) - ANT ANTi
10 - They are enlightened demons leaving multidimensional sections
(10) - ILLUMINATI MULTIdImensIoNAL*
11 - Decline to iron? (8) - DECREASE [DD]
13 - Research paper of the half-sister (6) - THESIS {THE}{SISter}
15 - Nobody but a religious woman is heard (4) - NONE (~nun)
17 - Edge towards 50 inside (5) - SIDLE {SID{L}E}
18 - Be effusive about gloomy one getting head start (4) - GUSH {GUS}{H} Anno not clear
19 - Add up to a group of hands, we hear (6) - ACCRUE (~a crew)
20 - Deceit in West Indian business on ship (8) - WILINESS {WI}{LINE}{SS}
26 - More apt to lose both ends? Feel sorry! (3) - RUE tRUEr
27 - Something sticky in drug and lime concoction (5) - ELEMI {E}{LIME*}
28 - Crook Al breaking rowboat device (7) - OARLOCK*
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DOWN
1 - European, with starry eye, properly presented 2011 (10) - YESTERYEAR {E+STARRY+EYE}*
2 - New York tribe gets no idea out (6) - ONEIDA*
3 - River rising in spectacular upper reaches (4) - URAL [T<-]
4 - Moving to remote sleeping unit (8) - ROOMETTE*
5 - Sound alarm about fighting by extreme ruffian (4) - WARN {WAR}{N}
6 - Don’t go on with Central leader’s well-being (5) - CEASE {C}{EASE}
8 - Involves gut to extinguish right (7) - ENTAILS ENTrAILS
12 - Send now without headers the message: “Provide funds” (5) - ENDOW {sEND}{nOW}
14 - Ignore omen manifesting in part of a ship (6,4) - ENGINE ROOM*
16 - Officer Commanding variously clued in to cover a passage
(7) - OCCLUDE {OC}{CLUED*}
17 - I, a censor, revised the film script (8) - SCENARIO*
21 - Scholar with great interest losing son for unknown comfort
(6) - LUXURY {L}{U(-s+x)XURY}
22 - Trim ship parts from bottom upwards (5) - SLEEK <-
24 - Article I encountered is facing the wrong way (4) - ITEM {I}{TEM<-}
25 - Almost bar allied group (4) - BLOC BLOCk
GM had asked for clues to be included in his cw. He is probably acknowledging that wish list by his circumambulatory message. Nice one from GM. Especially liked the half sister and the half electorate.
ReplyDeleteGot it, though I wonderhow many made it into the grid, need to go back and check the list.
Delete18 - Be effusive about gloomy one getting head start (4) - GUSH {GUS}{H} Anno not clear
ReplyDeleteGloomy Gus is a phrase like the Indian English Late Latif. Probably alliteration had a role in it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gloomy%20gus
Was nice to see Wile E Coyote..
ReplyDelete???????
ReplyDelete20A cartoon features Wile E Coyote, cartoon character.
DeleteThe cartoon coyote preceding the Road Runner in the illustration for 20a
DeleteGood one today ( as usual ). Loved 7a the best.
ReplyDeleteWhat THC setters provide :
Plum's work frolicking in humor? Enjoying it without even music (3,2,3,7)
Joy in the morning
Delete:) . Expected you to come up with it
DeleteI had gone out, otherwise you would have had my post half an hour earlier ;-)
DeleteLead found when nothing was after Wodehousean carrier (8)
Plumbago ?
Deleteplumbago
DeleteLittle correct !(5)
DeleteHi Ramesh, sorry if I'm being a bit pedantic here, but "even music" is not strictly UI - probably "even in music," but not "even music."
DeleteTo VJ@10:52.
DeleteThanks for the feedback. The clue will not pass a grammar test too. So in hindsight, a forgettable clue.
Bingo !
DeleteManaged to grab an hour before the start of a manic weekend - and great to spend it with Gridman. Loved "decreased"
ReplyDeleteWhen does Sippy display his equestrian talents?
DeleteThey have decided to do Oct/Nov next year, as they want to do the UK one first (Aug). But have demanded that I get my Sherwani this PM, so off to get kitted out!
DeleteBTW Sherwani is considered the national dress of our neighbour, PK. Good luck!
DeletePie in the pudding?
ReplyDeleteHow did you arrive at it ?
DeletePartly guessing with the help of 'pie' (part of PGW title)
ReplyDeleteI could not really place-UI-even music.
ReplyDeletein humor Enjoying it
Deletewithout ui
and unscrambling it gives you 'joy in the morning'.
Oh! A good anagram which explains the missing 'United India' (remember the slogan of United India Insurance?- 'You' before 'I'?)
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