THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER: No 10836, Saturday 27 Jul 2013, Aspartame

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER

No 10836, Saturday 27 Jul 2013, Aspartame Jul 27th 2013, 03:00, by Deepak Gopinath  Aspartame needs to refine the wordplay of his cluing in my opinion. Besides having me stumped at some places. ACROSS 6   Ancient author, one in Paris, clears all bases in one shot (7) HOMERUN {HOMER}{UN} 7   Girl managed a railway storehouse (7) GRANARY {G}{RAN}{A}{RY} 9   Money beside a little money plant (5) 10 Put up with boy and royal bodyguard (9) HOUSECARL {HOUSE}{CARL} 11 Focus on postal necessity (7) ADDRESS [DD] 13 Cue her to play game (6) EUCHRE* 15 Peculiar tomes about gold, maybe (8,5) PRECIOUS METAL* 19 Vegetable I have to finish at first (6) ENDIVE {END}{I'VE} 20 One from China to live with god (7) TIBETAN {TI{BE}TAN} Some will object to this! 23 She left with an addict and builder (9) DEVELOPER {D{EVE}{L}OPER} Wordplay does not suit the build up of the answer. 24 Dish you and me dish out without a shred of decency (5) SUSHI {S{US}HId}* 26 Ship out aft of ship on ship (7) GALLEYS ? 27 Vehicle may cover western half of Indian mountain range (7) CARAVAN Anno pending DOWN 1   Religious leader of Islam's second student left for Malta (4) IMAM {IslAM}*{M} Where's the Anind ? 2   Almost believe revolutionary can produce healing effect (6) 3   Immediately in trouble (2-3-4) ON-THE-SPOT [DD] 4   Master engineer has Skywalker's sword (8) MAMELUKE {MA}{ME}{LUKE} 5   Armoured rider at waterfall carrying scale (10) CATAPHRACT {CATA{PH}RACT} 6   Old Chinese leader said "King and horseman" (6) 7   Satiate belly with a bit of lettuce (4) GLUT {G{L}UT} 8   He needs right eye to become a singer (6) YELLER Anno pending 12 Reckless men defied disasters (10) DAREDEVILS {DARED}{EVILS} 14 It's obscure for girl to point from bottom to top (9) ESOTERICA {ES<=}{OT<=}{ERICA} 16 Arrogant vicar has ale cocktail (8) CAVALIER* 17 Man at sea with sea animal (6) SEADOG {SEA}{DOG} ?? 18 Medal for leaders of England at a function being aired (6) ENSIGN {ENgland}{SIGN}(~sine) 21 Brother is having tea inside a café (6) BISTRO {B{IS}{T}RO} 22 Jokes produced through self-action? (4) APES [CD] 25 Bail outbar (4) SAVE [DD]

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