Sunday, 13 January 2013

Special, Sunday 13 Jan 13, Phantom

Todays special by Phantom

 INSTRUCTIONS

 1.   Three answers per person.
2.   Annotations to be provided.



ACROSS
1  Quitter-hack returning to worry, is employed by newspaper (9)
6   Funny hats worn by commanding officer, major in camp (5)
9   Anticipated return of queen guarded by men in buff (7)
10 Contrary meaning of article about unfinished book covering advent of New Year (7)
11 The man in tavern sent back to AA (5)
12 Learner, say in trouble forgetting one of the 'R's has to study again (9)
13 Can short sailor first get involved in face changing process? (8)
14 Maharishi's medicinal herb? (4)
17 Initially Salarjung Museum, say retrieved priceless possessions (4)
18 Drillmaster leaves it unfinished to leave without team (8)
21 Small built stand-in police officer, returned judicious court summons (9)
22 Wield influence on specialist forgetting playing the piano (5)
24 Excellent staff wearing right clothing (7)
25 Swimmer's life's in turmoil swallowing water, in middle of receding seas (7)
26 To walk in one word is colloquially within the law (5)
27 Incidental information in view about eatery (9)

DOWN
1   Put on ice upcoming meeting of whistleblower and reporter (5)
2   Keep that man's enemy in a state of existence temporarily (3,3,4,5)
3   Half cut rope with short beam stopping performances of tumblers (8)
4   Overlooking top police officer; phone's silent (8)
5   All agreed to fission process for an atom (2,1,3)
6   Captain is off without setter for a snooze (6)
7   Stashing ill-gotten wealth, concealing Euro, Yen and Pound in China (5,10)
8   Appropriate comment includes a maiden's favourite (9)
13 Judicial matters in periodical on unusual trial as an article's missed (9)
15 Vehicle rank where small car's on road in group (8)
16 Glorious sunset here always features celestial spectacle (8)
19 Secret court's not popular to include fifth decree finally (6)
20 Collaborates at University as Amartya comes up with the article (6)
23 Take care not to have unknown in agreement (5)




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33 comments:

  1. CA Prasad13 January 2013 at 11:09

    4.D.IGNORING.TOP POLICE OFFICER=IG, PHONE SILENT=NO RING

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  2. SandhyaP13 January 2013 at 11:13

    26A {LEG}{IT}

    2D {FOR T}{HE} {TIME} {BEING}

    7D M{ONEY LAUNDER*}ING

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  3. CA Prasad13 January 2013 at 11:17

    23 D.TREAT. TAKE CARE. TREAT(Y).

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  4. CA Prasad13 January 2013 at 11:19

    6.A.COMIC.FUNNY. CO+M+I+C

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  5. Venkatesh13 January 2013 at 11:26

    6d CATNAP*-i
    27a SI(DELI)GHT
    12a REANALYSE*-r (Learne[-r] say)*

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  6. Sreelakshmi13 January 2013 at 11:28

    17A- GEMS
    (SM E.G) <--

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  7. Unknown13 January 2013 at 11:36

    10A ANTONYM (AN)(TO(NY)M)
    Def: Contrary Meaning
    TOM = TOME-E

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  8. Unknown13 January 2013 at 11:47

    22A EXERT (EXPERT - P)
    Def: Wield Influence

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  9. RameshJ13 January 2013 at 12:04

    11A : REHAB {R{EH<-}AB<-}

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  10. RameshJ13 January 2013 at 12:06

    24A : RAIMENT {R {A}{I}{MEN} T} , Excellent - A1 = AI, RIGHT=RT

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  11. RameshJ13 January 2013 at 12:09

    1D : DEFER {DE<-} { FER<-} ,REF=Whistle blower

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  12. Unknown13 January 2013 at 12:13

    13D MAGISTRAL (MAG)(I(S)TRAL*) (S is AS - A)
    Def: Judicial Matters

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  13. Padmanabhan13 January 2013 at 13:46

    5D-
    All agreed- Def.
    (An atom)*- To a man

    16D-
    Glorious suns(et here al)ways feature celestial spectacle (T)

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  14. Padmanabhan13 January 2013 at 13:53

    25A-
    Swimmer- Def.- Alewife
    Life's in turmoil- life*
    water-w
    middle of receding seas- EA<

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  15. Chaturvasi13 January 2013 at 13:55

    21a SUBPOENAS :: SUB PO ENAS< :: Small-built suggests that SUBSTITUE (stand-in) is abbreviated. A good shorticator

    20d UNITES :: N(IT)ES<- :: A Bengali, famous one at that :: Not sure if 'collaborates' is an apt def. for UNITES

    16a ETHEREAL :: Telescopic :: Again not sure if the adj ETHEREAL can be defined as 'celestial spectacle' which is a noun

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    1. Padmanabhan13 January 2013 at 14:29

      Though I filled in 21A & 20D I had my doubts.

      21A- Is "PO" standard abbreviation for police officer? I was trying to fit in IG,SI etc.

      20D- "It" for article was a good change. I was trying to fit in a, an or the and failed. It dawned on me after seeing your comment!

      Delete
    2. phantom13 January 2013 at 17:58

      20 DN UNITES: Collaborates.

      I had till I sent the puz to Col, JOINS as the def, but at the last moment changed it, as I felt it was much easier to connect it to unites. Collaborates agreed is a synonym but not apt.

      16 AC: Ethereal:

      Again I felt there was something amiss in the clue but have no plausible explanation for not paying heed.

      Delete
  16. Chaturvasi13 January 2013 at 13:57

    Sorry, when I came in, the 'ethereal' answer was not yet in.

    I am not taking any other in compensation for the duplicate.

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  17. Deepak Gopinath13 January 2013 at 15:33

    13A - {MU{TA(-r)}{TIN}G}
    15D - {CA(-r)}{B{ST}AND}
    19D - {CO(-u){V}{E}RT}

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  18. Deepak Gopinath13 January 2013 at 15:41

    The computer at the skull cave is on the blink, so we may not get a response from Phantom!

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  19. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan13 January 2013 at 15:55

    14A Maharishi's medicinal herb? (4)
    Ans: SAGE

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  20. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan13 January 2013 at 15:59

    8 D Appropriate comment includes a maiden's favourite (9)
    Ans: COMPETENT {COM(-M)PET(favourite )ENT}

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    1. Chaturvasi13 January 2013 at 18:42

      I am not sure if the substitution is indicated properly. Does anyone have thoughts on this?

      Delete
    2. Padmanabhan13 January 2013 at 18:55

      Deletion of extra M?

      Delete
    3. Deepak Gopinath13 January 2013 at 18:59

      I think Phantoms intention was that "a maiden's favourite" is to be taken as "a maiden(M) is favourite(PET)"

      Delete
    4. phantom13 January 2013 at 19:38

      Col's right.

      Maiden changes into favourite(PET), literally, replacing M.

      Delete
  21. Col_Gopinath13 January 2013 at 17:25

    Remaining
    Across - 1, 9 & 18
    Down - 3

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  22. phantom13 January 2013 at 17:45

    Col,

    The computer at the skull cave is on the blink, so we may not get a response from Phantom!

    "Call the Phantom anywhere, and he will hear." ... Old jungle saying.

    Fortunately, the Skull cave has a Radio room and I was able to SOS for help and it arrived even on a Sunday because:

    "No man can refuse the voice of the Phantom." ... another Old jungle saying.

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  23. Suresh13 January 2013 at 21:48

    Could not get the annos for these

    1A DEFEATIST
    18A MARTINET

    Others
    9A {F{OR}{ER<}AN}
    3D{AC{RO(-pe)}BA(-r)TS}

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  24. Suresh13 January 2013 at 21:56

    On deeper look
    1A DE<{F{EAT}{IS}T}. FT is newspaper, eat is worry and hack for ED

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  25. Deepak Gopinath14 January 2013 at 08:19

    Anno for MARTINET still pending. I got as far as MARTIN{E(-xi)T}

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