Tuesday 26 February 2013

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER: No 10707, 27 Feb 13, Arden

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER
No 10707, 27 Feb 13, Arden
Feb 27th 2013, 03:00

 Delight for 14's fans today.

ACROSS
1   One carat in five might be bogus (7) FICTIVE {F{1}{CT}IVE}
5   Poor Charlie ate twice the salt (7) ACETATE {C+ATE+ATE}*
9   A choice before teacher to return to the root (5) ORRIS {OR}{RIS<=}
10 Helps with neat assembly of animals (9) ELEPHANTS*
11 May be earth work inside makes one go for a quick union (9) ELOPEMENT {EL{OP}EMENT}
12 Builder recalled in Osama's den (5) MASON [T<=]
13 Throws water over some food (4) STEW<=
15 Drainage gets these animals up in anger (8) SEWERAGE {SEWE<=}{RAGE}
18 On an animal one rides out, as it rusts (8) OXIDISER {OX}{1}{RIDES*}
19 Oddly laid net material (4) LINT {LaId NeT}
22 Tenor in the band store (5) STASH {S{T}ASH}
24 Bid to keep thousands on the run (5,4) GRAND SLAM {GRAND S}{LAM} Trust Arden to have a Bridge clue
26 Wages for shedding some light in book review (9) EMOLUMENT {EMO{LUMEN}T<=}
27 Mark leading in the first half (5) COMMA COMMAnding
28 Dispatched, having played game without a piece (7) SEGMENT {SE{GaME}NT}
29 Carried out without interest by the old lady (7) DOYENNE {DO{YEN}NE}

DOWN
1& 20 dn 14 created wealth kept in cold storage (6,6) FROZEN ASSETS [DD]
2   An element of burden involved in curbing pollution (6,3) CARBON TAX {CARBON} {TAX}
3   Paper has no time for the matter (5) ISSUE tISSUE
4   Seles managed to get even with a break (9) ELEVENSES{EL{EVEN}SES*}
5   See 7 dn
6   Record by Border could be real or transitory (9) EPHEMERAL {EP}{HEM}{REAL*}
7, 5 dn & 17 dn Alternate gunmen sent as replacement for 14's work (5,5,9) AUNT'S ARENT GENTLEMEN*
8   Reducing fifty while renting (6) EASING lEASING
14 Do we by arrangement shelter a writer? (9) WODEHOUSE {DO+WE}*{HOUSE}
16 Justified action having spoken in anger (9) WARRANTED {WAR}{RANTED}
17 See 7 dn
20 See 1 dn
21 Devil drink will kill (6) IMPALE {IMP}{ALE}
23 A girl gets a day in the middle (5) AMONG {A}{MON}{G}
24 Wind carrying oriental visitor (5) GUEST {GU{E}ST}
25 Condemn if there is no booze around parts of London (5) DECRY {D{EC}RY}


You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.

If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions

No comments:

Post a Comment