Thursday, 3 November 2011

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:


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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)

10 comments:

  1. 9a ARE(N)A
    15a SA LAM(-b) I
    17A OYSTER (T)

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  2. 10A DEHYDRATE*
    11A (DR)(UB)
    12A ALLUREMENT*

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  3. 26A CHARIVARI*
    27A {U}{R}{BAN}
    1D {B}{RAND}

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  4. Down
    3 EL/AN
    4 MUDSLIDE* - cocktail of vodka, Kahlúa, Irish cream, and cream
    6 RE/DEEM/ABLE

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  5. 1A BOILERMAKER
    28A GIN AND TONIC
    20D BOURBON
    25D PUNT

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  6. Ravi, adding annos for your solutions:

    1A BOILERMAKER [dd]
    28A GIN AND TONIC {into dancing}*
    20D BOURBON {BOUdoiR -doi} {BON}
    25D PUNT [dd]

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  7. Leftover solutions:

    Across
    14: PRECLUDE: {PRE {C} LUDE}
    19: GULLIBLE: {GU {LL} I {B} LE}
    22: PREVALENCE: {P {REVAL <-} ENCE}
    23: PULP [CD]


    Down
    1: BRAND: {B} {RAND}
    2: ICE CUBE [CD]
    6: REDEEMABLE: {RE} {DEEM} {ABLE}
    7: CAMERA: {C {AM} E} {RA}
    8: BEATRICE: {BEAT} {RICE}
    13: ALIENATING: {A} {LIEN} {rATING –r}
    14: PROSPECT: {PRO} (SPEC} {T}
    16: FUNCTION [DD]
    18: SEESAW: {SEE} {SAW}
    21: DETAIN: {D {ETA} IN}
    24: PANIC: {P {AN} IC}

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  8. 3D, Spanish on its own can't yield EL. The in Spanish or The Spanish means EL.

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  9. Thanks Bhavan. Did not realize this.

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  10. VP

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    Please send me an email so I can use Reply button and write.

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