THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER: No.10727, Friday 22 Mar 13, Gridman

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER

No.10727, Friday 22 Mar 13, Gridman Mar 22nd 2013, 03:00 Superb one from Gridman. Took me a little time to figure out the anno for 22d. ACROSS 1 Disney film number for Italian child (7) BAMBINO (BAMBI NO.) Not our vermicelli brand 5 Association almost let the fever catch on (6) LEAGUE (LEt AGUE) 9 One in terrible moan about prenatal test (5) AMNIO (1=I inside MOAN*) The best way to determine a baby's sex is after it is born 10 Troubled dealer rotting in prison (4-5) CARE LADEN (DEALER* in CAN) 11 Important gap in opening (7) KEYHOLE (KEY HOLE) The most embarrasing thing you can see through a keyhole is another eye. Nowadays used for surgery. 12 Gulf state reported complaint (7) CATARRH (~QATAR) 13 Poke tip of thong in crumbling dune (5) NUDGE (G inside DUNE*) 14 Remove // entrance? (9) TRANSPORT 2 16 Run, we hear, to beat the storm (9) HURRICANE (~HURRY CANE) 19 Vada doled out by one in a Chennai suburb (5) AVADI (1=I in VADA*) Best known for its tanks. According to Wiki: Avadi is an acronym for "Armoured Vehicles and Ammunition Depot of India. Can anyone here confirm that this is a fact? Reminded me of Mhow. 21 It makes sense if it's a bridge manoeuvre (7) FINESSE (SENSE+IF)* Did a double take at the setter's name. So Ardenesque. 23 Marker back to flash spider fly (3,4) BAT TICK (TAB< TICK) 24 Military person to peruse piece of writing (9) CONSCRIPT (CON SCRIPT) 25 Crag provided a bit of foothold to leaders of climbers' league (5) CLIFF (CL IF F) 26 Mix up all the French! (6) TOUSLE (In French TOUS and LE mean ALL and THE) 27 "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of __ thought" (Shelley) (7) SADDEST (GK, from To A Skylark, PB Shelly) from where we also got the immortal line: Hail to thee, blite spirit! DOWN 1 Extremely angry — like a tarred man's visage (5,2,3,4) BLACK IN THE FACE (DD) Remember 'tarring and feathering a person and carrying him on a rail' like they used to do in Lucky Luke. Of course, if he is feathered, he may be white faced, so Gridman is talking only of tarring him 2 Given a little time, needy turns well-off (7) MONEYED (MOment + NEEDY*) 3 Elemental variant in one's love to physical exercise (7) ISOTOPE (I'S O TO PE) 4 Its members must play in unison (9) ORCHESTRA (CD) 5 Cyril's awful poem (5) LYRIC (CYRIL*) 6 Wears away a table's sections (7) ABLATES (A TABLES)* 7 Suffer while transiting the subway? (7) UNDERGO (CD,DD) Hum to safar karte hain 8 Completely involved — no thinning there! (2,3,5,2,2) IN THE THICK OF IT (DD) 15 Embitters care-worn English writer (9) ACERBATES (CARE*+BATES) As against Norman Bates of Psycho, HE Bates seems to have been a nominally Ernest chap. 17 Turn-on I experience by bump (3,4) RUN INTO (TURN ON I)* Maybe when you run into a person, you meet him by accident 18 Bugs in groups (7) INSECTS (IN SECTS) See this cartoon  19 Medicine makes worker bitter (7) ANTACID (ANT ACID) 20 A north Indian business in dye chemical (7) ANILINE (A NI LINE) 22 Best girl out of murder (5) ELITE (ELIminaTE) As against the familiar Indian name of Meena, there is, of course, the English name Mina, familiarised to a large number of us by Bram Stoker as Mina Harker. LINK TO SOLUTION GRID

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