Tuesday 15 August 2017

Special, 15 Aug 2017, Twin-set


FOUR answers per commenter (Annotations compulsory) till 6 PM. 8 AM on 16 Aug 17.
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

Published in the Freedom supplement of The Hindu today


Across
1 Earmark a national symbol (4)
3 Attempt extremely secret meeting (5)
6 A politician follows court rule to economise (6)
14 Popular face (no novice) returning home (5)
15 Book from right-minded mate of a different disposition (7,2,8)
16 Choose - pick no second! (5)
18 Warrior sheltered by woman in Jaipur (5)
19 Cancelled activist's handout in a rush (9)
24 Pester a tribal (4)
25 Downgrade two of Rajasthan's mounted police (4)
27 Saints preserving opus get concessions (4)
28 Netaji initially boarded ocean-going submarine enthusiastically (4)
29 Beginning of what Pippa does is ignored by fools (5)
31 Figure something happening in the limits of shanty (7)
32 What 47 and 65 were to 15 (7)
34 A Hindu verse 50 doubled for old emperor (6)
36 Head of Department with loads of aimless scribblings (7)
38 Fate of Pondicherry's small baby (7)
40 Tantric zone Karachi ended abruptly in chaos (6)
41 Delhi's landmark reportedly scanned for a little time (3,4)
44 Appointed ruler's bad - old in line (7)
46 Thread stocked in coastal isles (5)
47 Our country's father figure (4)
48 Dress of mother at pre-noon (4)
49 Deputy, with hesitation, is a colour changer (4)
50 Record find cut by half (4)
53 Insect to yield, accepting enrolled nurse’s hint (9)
57 Health drink - a whole lot to international college head (5)
60 Spiritual leader on books: it's an eye-opener (5)
62 Saying 'no' politely - one form of which is 5 (5,12)
63 "Begin working with one on LOC arrangement." "Consider it done." (5)
64 Crushes good parts of fruit (6)
65 Statesman loses spectacles in one hour of riot (5)
66 What the British did - very head of establishment thrown out (4)


Down
1 Rugby team's pipe has model length (7)
2 Alien enters a small area of land in narrow mountain ridge (5)
4 Italian capitalist runs country (5)
5 Dharna - it's terribly popular (3-2)
7 Indian party's against exam on ship (8)
8 Indian obtained bar of precious metal (5)
9 Old British PM has a type of bread (5)
10 Law cited erroneously (5)
11 Capote leaves operation theatre with desperados initially wearing part of Superman's dress (5)
12 Correct article when current is withdrawn (4)
13 Student wears a fantastic tika - a mark made on the forehead (5)
17 Bring down after century? It's madness! (5)
20 Indian ascetic resides in Godavari's hinterland (5)
21 Storage furniture for council of ministers (7)
22 Relaxes as sea recedes around ship after end of cyclone (5)
23 Hot in pen? Squirm! (6)
26 Analyse centre of decay from great distance (6)
30 So slang composition can become rallying phrases? (7)
31 Passover meal created from chopped reeds (5)
33 Silence! Yankees are hugging lady with diffidence (5)
35 One deadly sin, okay? (6)
37 Fed up with Australian lieutenant's failure to make payment (7)
39 Fighter in beret dropping ends becomes a self-exile (6)
42 Avoid Ms Peron's demand to some extent (5)
43 Romping primate has lost it - change boundaries (5)
45 Grant's death at university's first examination (5)
46 Told untruth about inventor and defamed (8)
51 Hundred and fifty Englishmen take tea said to be mild (7)
52 Remove accessories from runway (5)
53 Boast about new coin (5)
54 The sort of metals, perhaps, top lab found in crushed bone (5)
55 Disguised identity of person spilling gin around company (5)
56 Author's last words: "Novel's incomplete...revised ... I ..." (5)
58 Bill includes ring for executioner's equipment (5)
59 Apache eremite camouflages happiness (5)
60 Help after commencement of rebel's attack (4)
61 Almost bad nut is cracked by a native of Africa (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at FREEDOM CROSSWORD.

Enjoy.

SOLUTION GRID



84 comments:

  1. 1A..FLAG( ear mark...)
    15A..freedom at midnight( anagram of ' of right handed mate'

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  2. All down clues

    5 : {SIT*}{IN}
    20 : RISHI [T]
    21 : CABINET [DD]
    30 : SLOGANS {SO SLANG}*

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  3. 1. FLAG (DD)
    2. (TRY)(S..T)
    3. (SCR)(I/MP)
    18 NINJA (T)

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  4. 59D..CHEER(apa(chere)....chere..cheer is camouflaged

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  5. 58D:NO(O)SE
    59D:CHEER T
    60D: RAID R(-ebel)+AID
    61D: BANTU BA(-d)+ NUT*

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  6. Col: Unable to open the Acrosslite version. The link directs us to Google drive.

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  7. Making up for 59D solved by Gemini
    55D: INCOG CO in GIN*

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  8. 7D..CONGRESS..SS( ship)GRE( exam)..On( as given). is C ..contra. against? aporeciate enlightenment from the community.

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  9. Across
    63 WILCO ( W orking, one-I, LOC* - LCO, def: consider it done )
    64. GRINDS ( good-G, parts of fruit- RINDS, def: crushes )
    65. NEHRU ( ONE HOUR -OO * def: stateman)
    66. QUIT ( very- QUITE -E stablishment )

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  10. DOWN
    21 Storage furniture for council of ministers (7) CABINET [2]
    23 Hot in pen? Squirm! (6) WRIT(H)E
    39 Fighter in beret dropping ends becomes a self-exile (6) bE(MIG)REt
    46 Told untruth about inventor and defamed (8) LI(BELL)ED

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    1. 37 Fed up with Australian lieutenant's failure to make payment (7) (DEF<-) AU LT
      In lieu of 21D duplicated

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  11. 6A-Scrimp-
    A politician- IMP
    Court Rule- SCR ( I am not sure how we get S)
    14A- INDIA- IN(DIAL_L)
    18A-NINJA-Warrior-T

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  12. 1D - FIFTEEN {FIF{T}E}{EN}
    2D - ARETE {AR{ET}E}
    8D - INGOT {IN}{GOT}
    10D - EDICT*

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  13. Easy, enjoyable stuff. LOI was 32A. Thanks Col for putting this up.

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  14. Setter- Twinset- set by two persons? Each recognising the othetr?

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  15. This IND DAY crossie has a distinct signature style of the compiler who lies hidden in the grid !! Unmissable !!

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  16. Thank you Col. for making it much easier- the paper edition is too cramped for filling- and enjoyable doing it together here.

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  17. 62A CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE DD
    16A ELECT SELECT-S
    57A TONIC TON +I+C
    56D ENVOI (NOVE)* + I

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  18. TWINSET hints at both, but primarily INCOGNITO with RISHI shielded?

    19 across: RETRACTED-= cancelled REED= rush and tract= activists' handout.

    28 across: BOSE= Netaji. Boarded Ocean-going Submarine Enthusiast

    24 across NAGA- pester=Nag+A= tribal

    36 across: DOODLES- Head of Dept=D + loads = oodles = aimless scribblings

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  19. Many of the clues have Gridman's signature..

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  20. ...and 26D has Incognito's stamp on it! (BTW did I use the dots at the start correctly?)

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    1. Elipsis linked sentences..yes you did Paddy 😀😀😀

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  21. I'll go with Paddy in this guessing game. Let them come out of the hide-out !

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  22. Raining heavily in Kovai so will try this later :)

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    1. You want to go out and be dancing in the rain?

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    2. Bahana achcha hain Kidu!

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    3. Perhaps he has already had a dance in the rain & now enjoying a dark coloured drink with bajji & corn!

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    4. Lol. Was out already for Onam shopping and G watching

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  23. A poem that I received today
    I watched the flag pass by one day it fluttered in the breeze.
    A young Lieutenant saluted it,And then he stood at ease..
    I looked at him in uniform -
    So young, So tall, So proud,
    With hair cut square and eyes alert
    He'd stand out in any crowd.
    I thought how many men like him had fallen through the years.
    How many mothers' tears?
    How many pilots' planes shot down?
    How many died at sea?
    How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
    No, freedom isn't free.
    I heard the sound of Taps one night,
    When everything was still,
    I listened to the bugler play,
    And felt a sudden chill.
    I wondered just how many times That Taps had meant Amen.
    When a flag had draped a coffin,of a brother or a friend.
    I thought of all the children of mothers and the wives,
    Of fathers, sons and husbands with interrupted lives.
    I thought about a graveyard at the bottom of the sea,
    Of unmarked graves in valley,
    Of the price they paid for you and me,
    Oh! This Freedom Isnt Free !🌟

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  24. I believe BNG has had the highest rainfall in a single day in the past 100 years. 13cm? True?
    We in CHN had 27cm of rainfall in just 12 hours a couple of years ago.

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    1. I don't know how many cms it was but it was welcome showers and it was raining almost the whole time after midnight till 7 or so

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  25. A sobering thought on a FREE Independence day.

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  26. Still so many left?
    Maybe, it's time to open out since people seem to be busy on a holiday. Or continue tomorrow for the sake of others- after all, it is a jumbo.

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  27. 25A- Ramp- (RA) (M)ounted (P)oloce- Downgrade
    27A- SOPS- S(OP)S- Concessions

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  28. My 5th and 6th

    38A - DESTINY {DE}{S}{TINY}
    53A - CENTIPEDE {C{EN}{TIP}EDE}

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  29. 25 across: RAMP-- two of Rajastan=RA +Mounted Police = MP

    31 acros: SEVENTY=figure--event= something happening+ SY from limits of shanty.

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  30. Across :
    34. ASHOKA ( A, Hindu verse- SLOKA , 50 double - hundred- H, AS(l)HOKA )
    40 CHAKRA ( Karachi -I *, tantric zone :def )

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  31. 32A: WITNESS CD
    34A:ASHOKA A+ SH(-ll+O)KA

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  32. Making up for 34A answered by LV
    41A RED FORT ~READ+FOR+T

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  33. Twin-set have requested me to keep this open till tomorrow so that visitors from US/UK can also have a go. So I am taking back the permission to post two more. Time for posting additional answers will be after 8 AM on 16 Aug

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  34. Yes, some of us are just waking up here in other parts of the world! Here are my four:

    13D Student wears a fantastic tika - a mark made on the forehead (5) TI(L)AK*
    51D Hundred and fifty Englishmen take tea said to be mild (7) CL + E + MEN + “T”
    53D Boast about new coin (5) CROW + N
    54D The sort of metals, perhaps, top lab found in crushed bone (5) NOB(L)E

    Happy Independence Day everyone!

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  35. Replies
    1. Bamula..baadaab..hoshiyar!
      KKR padar rahe hain!

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    2. Vasant, I liked it.
      Thanks for remembering me.
      Submitted my quota on my time.

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  36. Two more:
    44A: Appointed ruler's bad - old in line (7) VICE R(O)Y
    42D Avoid Ms Peron's demand to some extent (5) EVA DE...

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  37. Repeating my comment at 5:36 above

    Twin-set have requested me to keep this open till tomorrow so that visitors from US/UK can also have a go. So I am taking back the permission to post two more. Time for posting additional answers will be after 8 AM on 16 Aug

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  38. ACROSS:
    46 LISLE T
    47 BAPU E
    48 MA XI
    49 DY ER

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  39. You can have 2 more like all of us.

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    1. Thanks Paddy,
      I will exercise my right after 8.00 AM IST

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  40. 43D : REMAP {PRIMATE - IT}*
    45D : ENDUE {END}{U}{E-xamination}

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  41. 22D- Eases- relaxes- (SEA)=< (cyclonE)(Ship)
    33D- Shyly- With diffidence- (SH)(Y)(LadY)

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  42. Still remaining

    Across - 29

    Down - 4, 9, 11, 12, 26, 31, 35, 52

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  43. 31D SEDER (REEDS)*
    35D AGREED A+GREED

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  44. Anyone can finish off the remaining

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  45. 9D- Pitta- DD
    11D- Caped- (Capote- OT)(Desperados)- Superman's dress

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    1. Paddy,
      Sorry for pointing late.
      9D is not DD. It is PITT+A

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  46. 29A: ASSES (-p)ASSES..Reference to Pippa Passes a poem by Robert Browning

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    1. I remember reading the poem in middle school..it had the lines
      When God's in his heaven
      All's right with the world
      A typical Browning optimism

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  47. Thank you Twin-set. Shall upload the solution grid after sometime.

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  48. Can the TWINSET untwine themselves now and come out of the incogrishicloset?

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  49. Can the TWINSET untwine themselves now and come out of the incogrishicloset?

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    1. I think it is now clear with Incog and Rishi highlighted in green

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    2. Yes, noted.
      Do we have to wait till Republic day for their next?

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  50. Highly commendable effort... Kudos!

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