Across
2 Initially, a sign to have medicine again for a respiratory disorder (6) ASTHMA
7 To suspend a gymnastic exercise (4) HANG
9 Missing the first bonus is a difficult concern (4) ONUS
10 Agnostic? Goner, mixed-up in these groups! (13) CONGREGATIONS
12 Type of vessel (7) STEAMER
13 Mixture of gases at the lowest part of a military landing field (7) AIRBASE
15 Leave out even dirt (4) OMIT
17 Hot beverage for senior turned back with water in one’s eyes (5) TEARS
18 Left article on a ship for a young girl (4) LASS
19 With thousand Romans in heist of a shop selling drugs (7) CHEMIST
21 Permit to break silence (7) LICENSE
23 Feeling of satisfaction for head girl to sanction formally (13) GRATIFICATION
27 Held in concept for one time only (4) ONCE
28 Gold given to a vehicle (4) AUTO
29 Small break in an alcove (6) RECESS
Down
1 Symbolic figure found in Christmas cottage (6) MASCOT
2 Get a maiden alter one of the points to be considered (6,4) AGENDA ITEM
3 Rubber on wheel in one of a series of rows, overheard (4) TIER
4 Cut off the French from the imperial dynasty of China (4) MING
5 Oddly stop lion all alone (4) SOLO
6 Supports oneself over bus for sister in back street (8) SUBSISTS
8 Initially, look after two hard inmates with a heavy stick (5) LATHI
11 A sincere way of down payment (7) EARNEST
13 A cry left one with a synthetic fabric (7) ACRYLIC
14 Female dancers in a social gathering for the queen fashionable like (10) BALLERINAS
16 A hog inside many tropical timber trees (8) MAHOGANY
20 Article for virtuous person in street (5) SAINT
22 Turn back tin in to say being mentally healthy (6) SANITY
24 Copies small primates (4) APES
25 Start off the passageway to an island (4) ISLE
26 A kiss for the wheel shaft to the French (4) AXLE
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9 comments:
Quick one today. Looks like you're not happy with Nita Jaggi. :-)
OMIT is by inference or is there a logic behind? Even dirt = IT
With Nita Jaggi's puzzles there are so many problems, it makes it not worth one's time to even list them. Right from the first clue - which has her constant unimaginative acrostic indicator "initially" used not once but twice in the same puzzle, to the last clue which has incorrectly ordered wordplay.
It is amazing that The Hindu does not do any quality checks for the crosswords it publishes.
Nicely put, Shuchi (double checked the spelling :)
Dabbler - Ms. Jaggi is simply frustrating! God only knows how she got the compiler's job, she is not even grammatically correct in many of the clues.
Eswaran has zeroed in on a perfect example in 15 AC - that's one way to get at the answer but leaves you scratching your head about OM (although you have M from the other clue already there).
Ironically, there are two more possibilities -
1) OMIT is anagram of MOIT which is DIRT, referenced in the dictionary with MOTE -
–noun
1. a small particle or speck, esp. of dust.
2. moit.
2) MITE is also DIRT, referenced in the dictionary as -
Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
Leave out Even -> MIT(-E)
Then put O from OUT, I guess!
I'll be damned if I can guess what Ms. Jaggi intended as a possible path from the clue to the answer!
Do you guys have a unanimous choice of best compiler?
I have been solving puzzles only for a week. Got no idea about the crossword compilers.
The spelling is perfect :)
I had written this in Oct08, Anokha, when Ms. Jaggi had just surfaced on the scene. Nowadays I don't attempt the crossword when she's the compiler.
Do you know that I was running a poll for the solvers' favourite compiler on my blog, and it got rigged in her favour?! I had to abandon the poll because of that.
Poll getting rigged part is really funny !!
Nagged initially by her confused gait, hail Gurgaon's head hindu compiler (4,5)
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