Thursday 14 March 2013

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER: No.10721, Friday 15 Mar 13, Sankalak

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER
No.10721, Friday 15 Mar 13, Sankalak
Mar 15th 2013, 03:00

Another smoothie from Sankalak. He never disappoints.

The much dreaded Ides of March are come as Caesar said to the soothsayer in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene I, to which you will, course remember the soothsayer's famous riposte: "Ay, Caesar; but not gone."

But with Sankalak, at least in the crossword world, I can only quote Alfred E. Neuman :  "What, me worry?"

ACROSS
 1 In unusual parlance, a cave can be a place for rocket shots (4,9) CAPE CANAVERAL (PARLANCE A CAVE)*
10 Girl, stranger, to press for metal in thin layers (5,4) SHEET IRON (SHE+ET+IRON)
11 Reportedly spotted and located (5) SITED (~sighted)
12 See, work by youth leader is crafty (5) LO OP Y
13 A gear refit arranged for something that holds a source of heat (9) FIREGRATE (GEAR REFIT)*

14 The way British sailors become up-to-date (6) MODERN (MODE+RN)
16 Make petty objections to Victoria visiting U.S. sate (5) CAVIL (VI inside CAL)
19 Play the guitar, as would a good man with spirit (5) ST RUM
20 Inciting the inclusion of drink in breakfast food (6) EGGING (GIN inside EGG)
25 Royal creeper with a deadly bite (4,5) KING COBRA (CC,2) Sworn enemy of 21 down


26 More depressed because energy is consumed in a haze (5) BLUER (E inside BLUR)
27 Hooked finger seen in a foetal onager (5) TALON (T) 21d's talon can grad 25a
28 Russian money beginning to draw editor in is increased by 100 per cent (9) REDOUBLED (ED inside ROUBLE D)
29 What disputants do to keep the peace when there is no common ground (5,2,6) AGREE TO DIFFER CD

DOWN
 2 Mass of tissue producing noise: dad needs treatment (8) ADENOIDS (NOISE DAD)* If definition is taken as "Mass of tissue producing noise", then noise is on double duty, as part of definition and part of anagram fodder
3 Directions to attempt ingress (5) EN TRY
4 A physician provided with time is left to his own resources (6) A DR IF T
5 Sailor girl, trainee, is not the usual (8) AB NORMA L
6 Relaxed – not necessarily only when on the way out! (9) EASY GOING I am tempted to put my own picture here, but then no self-aggrandizement is going to be appreciated, even by friends
7 Real performance by leaders in university alumni league (6) ACT U A L
8 The refugee's goal (6) ASYLUM CD
9 Milk producer taking top off steering device (5) rUDDER I thought some udder word would come in here because udder is not a producer, only a distributor. We 29a. Oh, just joking.
15 Unwillingness to talk about recent ice formation (9) RETICENCE (RECENT ICE)*
17 One may get this if careless in exposure to big star (8) SUNBURNT CD
18 Artificial intelligence and cunning trap student in sharp peak of rock (8) AIGUILLE (AI+GUILE outside L) This word was new to me, though I have seen such formations in the middle distance when on the slopes of Mt Rainier



21 Indian divine vehicle for Irish cop crossing university (6) GARUDA (GARDA outside U) Sworn enemy of 25 across
22 A fish that takes beating (5) SKATE 2 though I really didn't get the beating part.;-) A skate drum?
23 Disconnect the power of peacekeepers with a commercial (6) UN PLUG
24 Came back to earth from an unusual and educative flight (6) LANDED (T) Linked to 1 across, take off from there and come back to earth
26 Too honest // to deceive! (5) BLUFF 2



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