Afterdark, without using many obscure words, has done a great job giving us an entertaining pangram ...("Ho Hum !", you say, "We've seen quite a few pangrams in the past". But wait, read further)
ACROSS
1 Amusing girl not disheartened by friend basically (13) FUNDAMENTALLY (FUN DAME NoT ALLY)
10 Variable income due is capable of producing happiness (9) EUDEMONIC (INCOME DUE)*
When you demonic, how I happy ?
11, 16 ac. A subtly tailed British tribe (5) BANTU (B AUNT*)
The person entering this at TH seems to have added the comma after 11 and the 'ac.'after 16 making it look like
a clue that runs into two words, instead of '16A' reference which the setter probably intended to be a part of the
clue. Luckily, the enu has been correctly retained.
12 Rent the barn king housed in (5) SHRED (R housed in SHED)
13 Foreign office to come back on General who is carefree (9) FOOTLOOSE (FO TO< LOOSE)
14 Hunting cry made sick boy lose his head (6) YOICKS (SICK bOY)*
This along with the foxes in 24d reminded me of Aunt Dahlia and her cries of Yoicks and Tally Ho! which
are reportedly audible in the adjoining counties !
16 Adamant uncle not teaming initially with his wife (4) AUNT (A U N T)
19 Unknown environs of artist filled with radiation (1-3) X RAY (RA in the environs of X and Y)
20 Endure loss of a castrated sheep (6) WETHER (WEaTHER)
"Loss" of the shepherd, not of the sheep who has been subjected to the knife ...
25 Playing instrument's note is sacred (9) INVIOLATE (IN VIOLA TE)
Playing is 'on'. Is 'in' okay?
26 Returned currency after President spelt danger (5) PERIL (LIRE< after P)
27
Author organised orgy for
king to participate (5)
GORKY (K in ORGY*)
28 Can be counted even without direction? (9) NUMERABLE (eNUMERABLE)
29 Choice one's mom makes of a branch of study (4,9) HOME ECONOMICS (CHOICE ONES MOM)* &LIT
DOWN
2 Quoted lower for idli half burned by mistake (8) UNDERBID (IDli BURNED)*
3 Hemispherical shape is condemned without a hole (5) DOMED (DOoMED)
4 Decrease thirty seconds provided to last boy (6) MINIFY (MINute (30 s =half a minute) IF boY)
5 Saint from Northern Ireland meets royal dynasty (8) NICHOLAS (N I CHOLAS)
Ho, Ho, Ho !
6 One of the vehicles people don't want to travel in? (9) AMBULANCE (CD)
Hearse does not count as the person is blissfully unaware of the journey
7 Learning one song made of dialects (6) LINGOS (L 1 SONG*)
8 Sports uniform of American state not new (6) JERSEY (new JERSEY)
9 Strange that king joined his wife by killing the knight (5) QUEER (QUEEN-N+R)
15
Chromosome profile mutated a perky toy (9)
KARYOTYPE (A PERKY TOY)*
New word for me17 Uprooting tree at tricentenary bash is high-handed (8) TYRANNIC (trICeNTeNARY)*
18 Adorable guerrilla gets massage? I see! (8) CHERUBIC (CHE RUB I C)
Che has become adorable to the masses who wear his face on their T-shirts ignorant of whose face it is
21 Willingly going behind engineer provides
comfort (6)
RELIEF (
LIEF behind RE)
22 Gin cocktail consumed by the core of enzyme is stimulating (5) ZINGY (GIN* consumed by enZYme)
23 Stretch a point about road movie being aimless (6) OVERDO (ROAD MOVIE-AIM)*
24
Foxes dwell inside cle
ver minds? (6)
VERMIN (T)
Funny that folks hunt foxes, not for foxes per se, but to avoid them taking other game
26 Indian bread maiden makes for Jewish celebration (5) PURIM (PURI M)
... using all the letters of the alphabet at the beginning of the lights in this puzzle !
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