Sunday 6 May 2018

Special, Sunday 06 May 2018, K Koteswar Rao


Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.


ACROSS
6   Listening attentively, liberals took over liabilities discharging rights (3,4)
7   Fit out piquet play without initial tricks (5)
9   Indian courthouse bore fruit (9)
10 Photocopies of applied mathematics (5)
12 Previous translation is receptive (8)
14 This rabbit brings gifts to children (6)
16 Mammal in the mainline (4)
18 Soldier follows delicious mushrooms, say (5)
19 Red game no good to play (4)
20 Megastar loses bit of vegetable (6)
21 And what have you is unsteady tee in broken crate (2,6) 
24 H2O solution gives the instructions for doing? (3-2)
26 Window for chatting on facebook covers nothing good, yak! (6,3)
29 Bad weather, we leave the world (5)
30 A negative back-ends make one senseless (7)

DOWN
1   Location advantage a digit enjoys! (5,5)
2   Look, man,  at the summerhouse (6)
3   One who took liberties outswears regularly (4)
4   28+This+U= Stately home (3)
5   New wine is an essential thing (4)
6   Alphabets floating on river at Euphrates first shade (5)
8   Different in lead plant in kitchen garden (7)
11 Consignment missing very meaty shop (4)
13 Scorch despairingly upset, rapidly taking off (5)
15 Magistrates have no interest in development schemes (10)
17 Reportedly looks at paddle - something one doesn’t want to look at. (3,4)
18 Sprites in far-off brawls (4)
22 Inexperienced animal eats everything (6)
23 Wine from port of Jamaica (5)
25 Reportedly shed finished in short (4)
27 Self-administered country (4)
28 This+4+U= Stately home (3)

Across Lite version can be accessed at KKR 14

Enjoy

68 comments:

  1. 27d Self-administered country (4)I RAN

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  2. 22d Inexperienced animal eats everything (6)C(ALL)OW

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  3. 15D Magistrates have no interest in development schemes (10) STRATAGEMS (MAGISTRATES-I)*

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  4. 1D- Place value- E or is it classified as & lit?

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  5. 13 D- Singe- (Despairingly- rapidly)*
    Def.- Scorch

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  6. 21 A- et cetera-(tea+ crate)*
    Def.- what have you

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  7. 7ac equip piquet-T(ricks))
    21ac Et cetera tee+crate
    3dn user. oUtSwEaRs

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  8. 4d 28+This+U= Stately home (3) TEA
    28d This+4+U= Stately home (3) CHA

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    1. Excellent connected clues. A little different, enjoyable all the same.

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    2. Thanks Vasi Sir. I missed as I was expecting your third one!!!

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    3. No prob, KKR. The pair of clues piqued my interest and I grabbed them.

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  9. 16A SEAL Minline to be separated and read as Main Line
    17D EYESORE (~EYES OAR)
    29A EARTH (-we)ATHER*

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  10. 2 down: GAZEBO= Look- Gaze+BO= Summerhouse

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  11. 8 doown: POTHERB-- lead+PB+ different+ OTHER + from kitchen garden

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  12. 30a: anosmia {a}{no}{aims(=ends)<-} = senseless

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  13. 23D RIOJA RIO + JA

    20A CELERY CELEBRITY - BIT

    12A PERVIOUS (PREVIOUS)*

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  14. 12a: pervious {previous}* = receptive

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  15. 11 Down Consignment missing very meaty shop (4)
    Deli
    Consignment is Delivery
    Take out very to get a meaty shop.

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  16. 7 across; EQUIP+ fit out - PIQUET-T

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  17. 6 Across 6 Listening attentively, liberals took over liabilities discharging rights (3,4)
    All Ears
    Liabilities are ARREARS
    Remove RR(Discharging Rights)
    Add LL(Liberals took over)
    meaning Listening attentively

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  18. Mr. Raju, Mr. Venkatesan and Mrs. Jayalakshmi,

    You still have one chance, after deleting repeats

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  19. 18a: fungi {fun}{gi} = mushroom

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  20. 1 Down Location advantage a digit enjoys! (5,5)
    Place Value
    Location is Place
    Advantage is Value
    A digit might cryptically enjoy a place value!

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  21. 13Dn : SINGE (DESPAIRINGLY - Rapidly)*

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  22. Replies
    1. Your original answer is what I have in mind, with OFF on double-duty as deletion/anagram indicator

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  23. 9 AC CUTCHERRY CUT(=BORE)CHERRY
    14 AC EASTER FROM EASTER BUNNY(=RABBIT)

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  24. 24A HOW-TO (H-TWO-O*)
    25D THRU (threw hom.)

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  25. Very enjoyable crossie KKR!Loved the trick of 24A, 9A was difficult but all clues entertaining. Thanks KKR.

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  26. 26A Window for chatting on facebook covers nothing good, yak! (6,3) DIAL(O + G) + B + OX (dial = face)

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  27. Thanks for the puzzle, KKR I too liked 24A, and the 4D/28D pair.

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  28. Replacement for 1 Down
    6Down: Alphabets floating on river at Euphrates first shade (5)
    Azure which is a shade
    AZ are alphabets ( to be read as A to Z)]
    Ur is river
    E from first letter of Euphrates

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  29. 26 A DIALOG BOX ( Face- DIAL, Book- B , around nothing-O, Good- G, yak- OX )

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    1. Thanks LV!
      But it was already solved by Fraz.

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    2. I was late for the show 😊 Thanks for a nice cw 👍

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  30. 6a SMALL DOUBT ABOUT RIGHT->rr and not the third r.

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  31. Thanks KKR for enjoyable Sunday.

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  32. 6 don:lET ME TAKE IT. iT IS MY FAVOURITE COLOUR. AZURE= A-Z +R+ E from Euphrates.

    Unusually pithy clues from KKR. Short words but tricky construction ! Where do we place answers like CHA+ TEA_ U for stately home? I have come across such connected clues very rarely ! Good variation in clue forming !

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  33. Thank you KKR for an enjoyable solve. Sunday morning well spent.
    Comparatively easier than your usual ones?

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  34. Thanks for the entertainment KKR! :)

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  35. KKR, The pair of clues piqued my interest and I grabbed them.

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    1. I had asked which categpory wuill this pair of cluing fall in ? CV_ over to you !

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