Crossword No 4

Back after a month of hiatus

Please provide 3 answers per solver in the comments section. If any solutions are pending by Nov 8th 10 AM IST, I ll post them  Any comments/feedback regarding clues welcome at any time.

Here's the link to the acrosslite version of the puzzle:

http://icrossword.com/share/?id=4F80_across_lite_version.puz

Here's the puzzle copied from word format:

1		2		3		4		5		6
												7		8
9						10
11					12
				13
14									15
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17		18					19					20
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22											23			24
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26										27
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Across

1 Purdue student having a shot of whiskey with a pint of beer (11)

9 Stadium land outside Norway (5)

10 Heated dry setting could remove water completely (9)

11 Thrash doctor with half club (4)

12 Temptation can rule mental makeup (10)

14 Prohibit introduction outside club (8)

15 South American lamb chopped and added to Italian sausage (6)

17 Boy, St. Erasmus hid a source of pearls (6)

19 Naïve boy caught in trickery admits students (8)

22 Coins bearing mirror image of tennis player are in currency (10)

23 Tarantino’s fiction (4)

26 Chair Ravi arranged for a custom to mock newlyweds (9)

27 City union, king faced prohibition (5)

29 Tricked into dancing with cocktail (3,3,5)

Down

1 Make British currency (5)

2 Scotch ain’t neat with this (3,4)

3 Spanish article on style (4)

4 Slim dude ordered dessert drink (8)

5 Liqueur served hot in traditional Hawaiian cooking (6)

6 A type of bond engineers reckon fit (10)

7 Artist followed hymns in church with lens (6)

8 Dante’s guide thrashed grain (8)

13 Causing hostility by leaving Republican out of a debt security valuation (10)

14 Possibility of getting expert specification of model (8)

16 Routine social event (8)

18 Look at a bill move back and forth (6)

20 Do I leave a lady’s chamber with good French drink ? (7)

21 Hold back terrorists amidst loud noise (6)

24 Article in photograph causes fear (5)

25 Bet they would kick the ball on fourth down (4)

Solutions for Crossword No 3

Solutions to puzzle #3. Some of these are already posted by solvers under comments section. Will try to come up with the next one later this month.

1 M

O

2 H

I

3 C

A

4 N

5 S

C

6 O

U

7 R

G

8 E

I

O

A

O

U

N

A

L

9 S

A

T

U

R

A

T

E

D

10 T

A

C

C

A

H

E

E

I

D

H

E

T

11 A

I

L

S

12 A

C

C

E

L

E

R

A

T

E

N

C

13 H

E

N

R

G

14 D

E

A

L

E

R

15 E

L

D

O

R

A

D

16 O

L

L

M

17 A

Y

C

I

X

18 E

P

I

L

O

G

U

E

19 S

K

I

N

N

Y

F

R

R

20 P

S

S

G

21 P

R

O

P

R

I

E

T

O

R

22 S

T

Y

E

L

R

H

L

N

23 A

T

N

24 A

P

N

E

A

25 I

N

C

O

G

N

I

T

A

Z

I

G

U

H

E

M

T

26 A

M

A

D

E

U

S

27 O

B

S

C

E

N

E

Across

1. Doctor greeting accountant with new hairstyle (7)

MOHICAN: {MO} {HI} {CA} {N}

5 Destroy firm in upward swing (7)

SCOURGE: {S {CO} URGE}

9 This type of fat could increase blood cholesterol levels (9)

SATURATED [CD]

10 Bat flowers formed by rearranging cacti, removing one and adding one at the end (5)

TACCA: {CATCI* -i +a }

11 Cruises without son, falls sick (4)

AILS: {sAILS –s}

12  Speed up bill before a follower leaves party (10)

ACCELERATE: {AC} {CELEbRATE -b}

14 He distributes a hand with hesitation (6)

DEALER: {DEAL} {ER}

15 Rodeo lad stumbled into a place full of gold (2, 6)

EL DORADO {RODEO LAD *}

18 Record, I record, for alternate use at the end (8)

EPILOGUE {EP} {I} {LOG} {UsE -s}

19 A very naughty way to take a dip in water (6)

SKINNY [CD]

20 Patron provides support for deranged rioter (10)

PROPRIETOR {PROP} {RIOTER *}

22 Eye infection caused by a filthy place in the East (4)

STYE: {STY} {E}

24 Father returns from New England with a respiratory problem (5)

APNEA: {AP <-} {N} {E} {A}

25 A woman disguised in plastic coating (9)

INCOGNITA: {IN} {COATING *}

26 Salieri’s tale about a mother wrongly sued (7)

AMADEUS {A} {MA} {SUED*}

27 Bob lost head on stage and became indecent (7)

OBSCENE {bOB -b} {SCENE}

Down

1 Mess up, almost fail to make a deal with the French (9)

MISHANDLE {MISs -s} {HAND} {LE}

2 Song about a raging Spanish state in America (5, 10)

HOTEL CALIFORNIA: {HOT} {EL} {CALIFORNIA}

3 Worry about pointless fear (4)

CARE {sCARE –s}

4 Acknowledge a caveat (6)

NOTICE [DD]

5 All at once ends, duly resolved (8)

SUDDENLY {ENDS DULY *}

6 When in distress, have a drink this way (2, 3, 5)

ON THE ROCKS [DD]

7 A nice magistrate scrambles to beat a deadline (4, 7, 4)

RACE AGAINST TIME: {A NICE MAGISTRATE *}

8 Retracted story about English to lift up spirits (5)

ELATE: {ELAT <- E}

13 Profuse bleeding of heart, adversely more, when anger consumes Henry (10)

HEMORRHAGE:  {H} {MORE*} {R {H} AGE}

16 Enrich blood by developing ten yoga extensions without tensions (9)

OXYGENATE {TEN YOGA EXtensions *}

17 Roman Emperor’s aura is halved and rule is disturbed (8)

AURELIUS {AU} {RULE IS *}

20 Boss was initially head of North Carolina housing organisation (6)

HONCHO: {H} {O} {N} {C} {H} {O}

21 Pal wandering outside Arizona shopping center (5)

PLAZA: {PAL * outside of AZ}         

23 Grows old over an extended period of time (4)

AGES [DD]