THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER: No.10825, Monday 15 Jul 13, Mover

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER

No.10825, Monday 15 Jul 13, Mover Jul 15th 2013, 03:00, by Kishore Tarts (11a and 17a answer), trolloop, streetwalker, ...  Mover seems to be on the move ! ACROSS 1 Gigantic  // ship Down Under? (7) TITANIC DD,CD           This was one Monday without that sinking feeling ... 5 Increase recombined mutagen (7) AUGMENT (MUTAGEN*)           Remembered the Augmentin used for treating bacterial infections 9 Beginning note changes in handrails for cylindrical containers (9) CANISTERS (BANISTERS-B+C) 10 Tie torn coats (5) ASCOT (COATS*)           To learn how to tie this, you have to travel back in time...  to June 23,2013 : 11a 11 Head swallows pastry tart (7) TROLLOP (TOP around ROLL) 12 Pilfered fruit cake, we hear (7) STOLLEN (~STOLEN),           The clue seems to lead to STOLEN, but that is 6 letters... 13 Reportedly remained sober (5) STAID (~STAYED) 15 Preventing objectionable person in case (9) THWARTING (WART in THING)           Not sure if case=thing works 17 Having advantage in the race, leads a streetwalker (4,5) HEAD START (HEADS TART) 19 Fling // bedspread (5) THROW 2 21 Box put on line for bird (7) SPARROW (SPAR on ROW) 23 Monitor leading young man (4,3) HEAD BOY           He leads a hundred and fifty asses ! 25 Fibre extracted from Scottish thistles (5) ISTLE (T) 26 Sound insincere  like a cracked bell? (4,5) RING FALSE CD 27 & 28 Brazil may be a difficult problem to solve (4,3,2,5) HARD NUT TO CRACK (CD)           Reminded me of Uncle Fred and the Brazil Nut in the beginning of Cocktail Time DOWN 1 Ancient historian understood America (7) TACITUS (TACIT US) 2 Got an awkward dance (5) TANGO (GOT AN)* 3 Fitted inside surrounding beginner; arranged in cosy position (7) NESTLED (NESTED around L)           Like those Russian dolls ! 4 Pale actor playing Antony's lover (9) CLEOPATRA (PALE ACTOR)*           Julius, where art thou ?           Goscinny and Uderzo put it as: C LEO PAT RA in Asterix the Gladiator with the definition as "Caesar loves the whole of me" 5 Fools the Proletariat after banning Marx's Capital (5) ASSES (mASSES) 6 Thousand in the morning surrounds extreme evil next to our glitzy beauty (7) GLAMOUR (G (L) AM OUR) 7 Surpasses number one yellow-coloured wood shavings (9) EXCELSIOR (EXCELS I OR) 8 Showing disapproval, oriental nag could yield zinc alloy (7) TUTENAG (TUT E NAG)           A word of Tamil ancestry 14 White stone flower follows a dog (9) ALABASTER (A LAB(rador) ASTER) 16 Used to ward off a spell when bird follows hag (9) WITCHKNOT (WITCH KNOT)           I can't understand this withchery ! Wiki tells me it is to put a spell and not ward off one.                      Though untying one seems to do the trick.  But then, I was thrown out of Hogwarts for bad spelling before            Rowling came there bowling. 17 Has His Highness started cannabis? (7) HASHISH (T) or rather HAS HIS Highness 18 Swell operating doctor (7) SURGEON (SURGE ON)           If operating doctor is taken as def, then operating would be on double duty 19 Craft, if employed in trade (7) TRAFFIC (CRAFT IF)* 20 Painful result of craning to see a woodpecker? (7) WRYNECK (CD)           In India, if you want to see 'rubber necks' just look at an accident scene 22 Sausage, we hear, is least favoured (5) WURST(~WORST) or is it  WORST (~WURST)           Even money on both. Though I favour the first option because it lets me remember the knockwursts in 'Allo 'Allo 24 Fragrant resin endlessly yields wood (5) BALSA (BALSAm)           Wood used for making gliding model aircraft.  This reminded me of the bicycle repairman who, after examining            my free-wheel,  told me in the vernacular: "Aapke baalsa kharaab ho gayen hain" LINK TO SOLUTION GRID

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