Sunday 7 October 2012

Special, Sunday 07 Oct 12, Buzzer



Enjoy the first in the Sunday special series.

INSTRUCTIONS

1.  3 answers per commenter in the comments section.
2.  Annotations to be provided.
3.  The numbers shown in the grid are only for your reference do not include them in your comment while giving the solution.

This puzzle was first published in the CrOZworld magazine September 2012 edition.

Solutions begin with the given letter. Place the answers in the grid jigsaw-wise, where they fit.






A - Bars of Aluminium seen atop Eastern dwellings (9)
B - Make fun of bat-woman's hairstyle (8)
C - Greek character snorting LSD; one hot head showing no maturity (12)
D - Golf club chauffeur (6)
E - Station Wagon from Ford - Fiesta, Territory etc (6)
F - Gave up supporting or getting into erratic NSW (8)
G - Engrasping recipe for a biscuit (6,4)
H - Heard that man, woman and stranger when in agreement, sing from this same page (4,5)
I  - Snowstorm blowing away empty barrel, the last one (6)
J - Military group took a month joining volunteers (5)
K - Family has entered appeal for capital (8)
L - Heads of law enforcement division, under pressure, initiated action (3,2)
M - In speech, dignifi ed conduct is normal (4)
N - He trades heroin for a wealthy person? No (8)
O - Excessive flora evident in ruins (12)
P - Particle physics' origin has roots in engineering (8)
Q - Almost completely give up (4)
R - Hastily put together a truck due for change in Grand Prix (6,2)
S - Glib talker going on and on without any grooves (6-4)
T - Knocking off gallons? Just BYO beer mugs (4,4)
T - Riddle impaired for the most part with Potter getting everybody (3,4,3,5)
U - Ashes action starting off with spin (6)
V - Freely give outside, for example rabbit food (6)
W - Arms tired going across pond endlessly (8)
X - Annual commemoration held by orthodox Masons (4)
Y - Unknown miracle needs no introduction over there (6)
Z - Revolting minute Aussie fly (4)


51 comments:

  1. I am kickstarting the comments as I had the privilege of seeing this CW first and the answers given by me below were the first 3 that I solved

    G - GINGERSNAP*
    N - (-h+nob)NOBELIUM
    O - OVERINFLATED*

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  2. My contributions :
    L - LED UP (Starting letters of "law enforcement division, under pressure")
    W - WEAPONRY [WEARY across PON(-D)]
    Y - YONDER [Y+(-W)ONDER]

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  3. ALEHOUSES
    CHILDISHNESS
    ESTATE

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    1. Made it by copy pasting on a word document

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  5. D - DRIVER (DD)
    F - ESTATE - fi{ESTA TE}rritory (T)
    L - LED UP - {L}aw {E}enforcement {D}ivision, {u}nder {p}ressure (T)

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  6. Suresh @ 10:56,

    Please give the annotations also

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  7. since first two were already up, i am having a go at one more.
    q - QUIT (DD)

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  8. P -(P)(OSITRON*)
    Q - QUIT[-e]
    X - XMAS (T)

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  9. Replacements for duplications:
    G - GINGER SNAP* (Anag of Engrasping; recipe - AnagrInd)
    J - (JAN)(TA)

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  10. B BOUFFANT* (fun of bat)
    DEF: Hairstyle

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  11. V VEGGIE
    {V{EG}GIE} GIVE OUTSIDE EG

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  12. Rangarajan Ramanujam's comment was deleted as he had indicated the Number of the square. His entry was

    T TOBY JUGS* (G + JUST BYO)
    DEF: BEER MUGS

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  13. Annotations for answers given by Suresh @ 10:56

    A - {AL}{E}{HOUSES}
    C - {CHI}{LD{I}S}{H}{NESS}
    E - ESTATE [T]

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    1. Just saw your post. Thanks for filling in.

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  14. F - Forsworn {FOR}{SW{or}N}*

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  15. Left Overs

    H, I, M, R, T(3,4,3,5), U and Z

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  16. H - Heard that man, woman and stranger when in agreement, sing from this same page (4,5)

    HYMN+SHE+ET

    HYMN (~him = that man - 'heard that' homophone indicator)
    SHE (woman)
    ET (stranger, alien)

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    1. Correction: 'heard' homophone indicator.

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  17. Good one Buzzer!

    I - IZZARD; [bl]IZZARD. Slang for the last letter Z.
    M - MEAN; {~mien}
    T - TOM, DICK AND HARRY; TOM (Riddle, aka Voldemort) DICK[y] (impaired, for the most part) AND (with) HARRY (Potter)

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  18. This one was looking so mind-boggling. But after reading Shuchi's anno, it looks clear as crystal. Thanks, Shuchi.

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  19. U - (-t)Urning (6) (Spin=turning, starting 't' off)

    I have used two from quota.

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  20. Z - ZOOM reversal of MOOZ - MO (moment, minute) plus OZ (Aussie)

    R - RIGGED UP - RIG G(EDU*)P - truck; GP - Grand Prix

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  21. Enjoyable puzzle. Always like these 'alphabet' puzzles.

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  22. Now who will fit the words in the grid? The Colonel?

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  23. I have solved alpha-numeric puzzles in which apart from the alphabets you also have some numbers - 1 will have a word beginning with O; 2, T and so on.

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    1. Nice to have you back here after a break,CV.

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  24. Since all the answers are in here's how they fit

    ACROSS
    1 - IZZARD
    5 - TOBY JUGS
    9 - NOBELIUM
    10 - URNING
    11 - OVERINFLATED
    13 - XMAS
    14 - KINSHASA
    17 - FORSWORN
    18 - MEAN
    20 - CHILDISHNESS
    23 - YONDER
    24 - RIGGED UP
    25 - WEAPONRY
    26 - ESTATE

    DOWN
    2 - ZOOM
    3 - ALEHOUSES
    4 - DRIVER
    5 - TOM DICK AND HARRY (The only anno I didn't quite get)
    6 - BOUFFANT
    7 - JUNTA
    8 - GINGER SNAP (My favourite biscuit)
    12 - SMOOTH BORE
    15 - HYMN SHEET (Trust Richard to have got that)
    16 - POSITRON
    19 - VEGGIE
    21 - LED UP
    22 - QUIT

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    1. Trust Richard to have got that.

      Would you believe that I led the church choir for many years during the Latin liturgy and hymn era, during my childhood?

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    2. The solution is in Oct. issue of Crozworld: http://www.crosswordclub.org/ACCsite%20Site/Crozworlds/Crozworld%20October%202012.pdf

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  25. Thanks Buzzer for making our Sunday lively

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  26. Hastily put together- def
    Truck- rig
    Change DUE for Grannd Prix- DUEGP*
    Rigged up

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  27. Can I give the completed jigsaw puzzle?

    Z is the only letter left- (Z?o?)

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  28. A BIG 'thank you' to Buzzer & Col. for a wonderful Sunday AN, certainly not 11A !!

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  29. Padmanabhan @ 3:15,

    It's ZOOM and CV gave the anno in his post @ 2:03 PM. The complete answers are there in my 2:53

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  30. Ooh. I missed this one as I was busy shifting home :-(

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  31. The grid of an an alpha jigsaw puzzle does not have the clue numbers in cells as the clues themselves don't have any numbers but only the beginning letters.
    Obviously, the answers cannot be fitted into the grid by multiple solvers. I wish that this task was left to an advanced solver, 'advanced' in the sense one who can produce an image of a completed grid.
    Was there a compromise while publishing this puzzle here? Would Buzzer clarify whether the original crossword grid had clue numbers in cells?

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    1. CV,

      I must clarify. There were no numbers in the Grid provided by Buzzer. I added the numbers for ease of explaining where the Answer would fit in finally. That is why in the instructions I had specifically mentioned not to give out the numbering in the grid along with the answers.

      It was easier to indicate the final answers using the numbers as I would not be able to put in a grid with the answers in the comments section.

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  32. So the inclusion of numbers in cells was because of exigencies. I understand. Thanks for the clarification.

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  33. Thanks Colonel.

    Was out most of the day yesterday, so couldn't participate. Looks like all clues were unravelled without any problems.

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