Sunday 29 March 2015

Special, Sunday 29 Mar 2015, Agnya


Welcome to our new setter Agnya. Bouquets and Brickbats welcome with comments.
As it's a 13 X 13 today, only two answers per commenter (with annotations compulsorily)till 6 PM


ACROSS
7   Differently able seaman and I end a meal (6)
8   Clowns opposed to computer science (6)
9   Gotten thousand in a county? (4)
10 Fracture a bone, then take an hour to pay attention ( 4, 4)
11 Oddly, Rita with Patel broke a record (7)
13 Take away from the 150th year speech (5)
15 Might hear Spanish before causing pain (5)
16 Stab little sister and become a musician (7)
18 Chant conceals complaint on A-Team (8)
19 Ruptured the base of a column (4)
21 Variant in an orchestra I needed (6)
22 Behead ivory and go fashionably fashionable (6)  

DOWN
1   An artist is, first of all, mature, intelligent, modest and enigmatic (4)
2   Asylum built on Aluminum is related to an organization (13)
3   Marketed with a mark (7)
4   Food, we hear, passed with A (5)
5   It obtains sail to achieve normalcy (13)
6   Footwear around a perceived sea of gossip (8)
12 Invert alien animal and cover (8)
14 Master of Arts and Lee go for a masculine id ( 4, 3)
17 This carta is epic? (5)
20 River goes tailless to be torn apart (4)

Across lite version can be accessed at AGNYA 1

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32 comments:

  1. Chaturvasi29 March 2015 at 10:32

    14 Master of Arts and Lee go for a masculine id ( 4, 3) MALE EGO (MA LEE GO)
    17 This carta is epic? (5) MAGNA ([MAGNA] CARTA)

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  2. Nadathur Rajan29 March 2015 at 10:45

    ACROSS
    22 Behead ivory and go fashionably fashionable (6) GROOVY Anag of [-i]VORY GO
    DOWN
    20 River goes tailless to be torn apart (4) RIVE[-r]

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  3. Venkatesh29 March 2015 at 10:49

    10 Ac Fracture a bone, then take an hour to pay attention ( 4, 4) NOTA BENE {A BONE T[h]EN}*
    5 Dn It obtains sail to achieve normalcy (13) STABILISATION {It obtains sail}*

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  4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam29 March 2015 at 10:50

    8A Clowns opposed to computer science (6) ANTICS {ANTI}{C}{S}
    5D It obtains sail to achieve normalcy (13) STABILISATION {IT OBTAINS SAIL}*

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  5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam29 March 2015 at 11:00

    6D Footwear around a perceived sea of gossip (8) SCANDAL {S{C=~SEA}ANDAL}
    Compensating for 5D

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  6. Deepak Gopinath29 March 2015 at 11:02

    1D - MIME Acrostic
    2D - {INSTITUTION}{AL}

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  7. Vasant29 March 2015 at 11:11

    18A: INTONATE(T)
    21A: STRAIN(T)

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  8. SandhyaP29 March 2015 at 11:12

    13A Take away from the 150th year speech (5) CLEAR {CL}{EAR(~year}

    4D Food, we hear, passed with A (5) PASTA {PAST(~passed)}{A}

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  9. Ramani29 March 2015 at 11:17

    12 Invert alien animal and cover (8) LAMINATE (ET, ANIMAL)*

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    1. Venkatesh29 March 2015 at 12:20

      LAMINATE {ET ANIMAL <=} (invert- Reversal Indicator)

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  10. Ramani29 March 2015 at 11:20

    16 Stab little sister and become a musician (7) BASSIST (STAB SIS)*

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  11. Padmanabhan29 March 2015 at 11:24

    11A- Platter
    Record- Def.
    Oddly Rita- RT
    (PATELRT)*

    12D- laminate
    Cover- Def.
    Alien-ET
    Animal
    Both invereted or reversed

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  12. Ramani29 March 2015 at 11:24

    Other Topic
    Kanchipuram Eakambaranathar Arubathumoovar celebrated in a grand manner today. Velli Ratham is scheduled tonight.

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  13. Padmanabhan29 March 2015 at 11:28

    In place of 12D already doe-
    7A- Dinner
    Meal- Def.
    Seaman- RN (Royal Navy)
    (I end RN)*

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  14. Vasant29 March 2015 at 12:05

    Enjoyable X word. Excellent Debut!

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  15. VMA Nair29 March 2015 at 12:29

    19A TORE (dd)
    3D BRANDED (cd)

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  16. Deepak Gopinath29 March 2015 at 12:36

    Final 2
    Across- 9,15

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  17. Deepak Gopinath29 March 2015 at 12:40

    NZ out for 183, same score as India in 1983 which we defended successfully. Can NZ do it?

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  18. Abhay29 March 2015 at 12:57

    9 KENT = county, but not sure of the wordplay - KEN could come from gotten at a stretch, but then T for thousand? Or is it K for thousand, in which case the other wordplay is beyond my ken!

    15 SMITE = cause pain
    ~might with S(pain) before
    Spain is normally used to clue an E. Is S for Spain kosher?

    Enjoyed the crossword, Agnya - thank you!

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    1. Deepak Gopinath29 March 2015 at 13:05

      Gotten. Getit?

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    2. Abhay29 March 2015 at 13:50

      Not sure - I did think of lift-and-separate to get "Got ten" with "K", but then what is the anind to turn TEN K into KENT? If it is something else, then I am afraid I don't "getit"! :(

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    3. Deepak Gopinath29 March 2015 at 14:15

      The Anind is missing

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    4. Nadathur Rajan29 March 2015 at 20:29

      Got TEN K - Got is the AnagrInd here. Gets is an accepted AnagrInd. http://cryptics.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_anagram_indicators

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  19. Padmanabhan29 March 2015 at 13:05

    Good CW with quick solutions coming up inspite of the world cup final means everyone enjoyed doing it. More to come?
    9A- Could it be Tent? (T) But I cannot explain county.
    MB,
    Remember the group match between Aus. & NZ when the score was a close 153? Anything is possible. NZ will not give up that easily. But I understand it is very difficult to defend.

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam29 March 2015 at 13:11

      Of course, anything is possible but I go with your last line!

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  20. Harsha29 March 2015 at 21:17

    Thanks everyone for your comments. Hope you had fun solving it. Will strive to create better crosswords with your feedback and guidance. Special thanks to Col Gopinath for putting this up. Thank you sir :)

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  21. raju umamaheswar30 March 2015 at 02:35

    HARSHA: Welcome on board . NOt too harsh a crossie, Harsha. Keep em' coming !!

    Thanks, Col, you have one more name to add to the sideboard !!!

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  22. raju umamaheswar30 March 2015 at 02:38

    Oh ! to be in New York, now that spring is here !! Bright sunny sunday despite a chill wind blowing against my wind-cheater !! Wandered around the town seeing the sights and all the cosmopolitan faces , doing face-watching !

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  23. raju umamaheswar30 March 2015 at 02:48

    Ruptured the base of a column (4) Should be TORN? Could be TORE?

    Every one seems to have omitted 3 down?

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