Saturday, March 28, 2009

The ET Crossword No. 4199 Sunday, March 29, 2009

Kicking this off - thanks to Shuchi's instructions @ (http://www.crosswordunclued.com) on how to find it!

It will be tough finding time to do both Hindu and ET crosswords on a daily basis - will try to post as much as I can!

Grid @ http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=ETM/2009/03/29/4/Img/Ar0040100.png

ACROSS

1 Where to find somewhere to live around London (4,8) HOME COUNTIES

8 Writing skill needed to dispose of lice (7) ART ICLE

9 Badly cut nail making one mad (7) LUNATIC*

11 Front-of-house promotions (10) ELEVATIONS

12 A head turning to see fish (4) TUN A <-

14 Laid down on entering the church (8) ORDAINED

16 Modern centre arranged back to front (6) RECENT*

17 Money can be a problem (3) SUM

19 It gets one going at a lower level (6) SUBWAY

21 Red Doris gets involved in a riot (8) DISORDER*

24 She is behind an invitation to view (4) L AID?

25 Getting soft and stupid in university finally achieves nothing (10) DIM IN U END O

27 Dodge back to see first goalkeeper's success (7) EVAS I ON <-

28 A northern Ireland strike backed by the beasts (7) A N I (MALS <-)

29 Excellent under strain in reporting action completed (7,5) PERFECT TENSE

DOWN

1 The rash fellow angered the boss (7) HOT HEAD

2 Michael can do a turn without thinking (10) MECHANICAL*

3 Splits with church leader about sins (8) C RE VICES

4 Where one's high yet might be down (6) UP LAND

5 Man bound for New York (4) TI NY

6 Squeeze out the next non-starter being offensive (7) EXT RUDE

7 The French girl who forced one to go into the river (12) MADE M {OIS(E}LLE)

10 Hire a building for a school (12) CHARTER HOUSE

13 Political activity giving one quite a turn (10) REVOLUTION

15 No use taking religious instruction from an old priest (3) DUD

18 Limit moves by worker prepared to fight (8) MILIT ANT

20 Body of soldiers ordered to protect an oil platform (7) B(RIG)ADE

22 After the depression disposed of food with teeth (7) DENT ATE

23 Spread out (7) PICNIC

26 Turn it up very loud to make a row (4) TI<- FF

3 comments:

Chaturvasi said...

Anokha, Did you extract text from image file with relevant software or did you like the poster in my Orkut community type out the clues? Curious!

Chaturvasi said...

24a is LOIS: LO (invitation to view) IS

anokha said...

Chaturvasi sir - used voice recognition software as it seemed the most efficient way to get the text.

Thanks for LOIS - had thought of it but ended up making it more complicated than it actually was ...