Sunday, 12 January 2014

Special, Sunday 12 Jan 2014, Afterdark


Three answers percommenter (with annotations) till 6 PM



ACROSS
1      Opening of CSK shaky with no foreigner (6)
4      Discourage king's fan (6)
9      Flower blossomed (4)
10    Instrument made of muscle (10)
11    One who illtreats a vehicle has beer regularly (6)
12    The French accepts a type of clue at oriental game (8)
13    String 10 Across German worker who is cheerful (9)
15    Unqualified small judge in conversation (5)
16    Happy to swap nothing for oriental dessert (5)
18    Brewed ale in ruined Sparta school (9)
22    Traditional dress you draped on gangster (8)
23    Vehicle hits an iron pitcher (6)
25    Potter eyes making a mould (10)
26    Lawyer is on stage (4)
27    Endless review about the sport (6)
28    By coming back into Coorg, nothing is lost by the robot (6)

DOWN
1      Drive away the revolutionary engineer coming in (7)
2      Game on revolutionary singers is hollow (5)
3      King of lawless Rome captures salesman from the South (7)
5      Decorate Catherine differently for new eatout (6)
6      Relatives, horribly hot inside, removes dress (9)
7      Female too backward for top setter that is, to have a flirting act (7)
8      Lowly Belgians play here (7,6)
14    Reformed, liberalized Eastern Europe misses a game (9)
17    Glorified by not including gangster Edward (7)
19    Players of this game take a bow (7)
20    Call because of no hesitation about the game (7)
21    Rapturous kudos as you enter the game (6)
24    Composition in Romania on adventure sport (5)

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67 comments:

  1. Unknown12 January 2014 at 10:35

    Instrument made of muscle (10)(Nutriments*)

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  2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 January 2014 at 10:36

    8D : Lowly Belgians play here (7,6) BOWLING ALLEYS {LOWLY BELGIANS}*

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  3. Nadathur Rajan12 January 2014 at 10:43

    18a Brewed ale in ruined Sparta school (9) PALAESTRA*
    25a Potter eyes making a mould (10) STEREOTYPE*
    19d Players of this game take a bow (7) ARCHERY (CD)

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  4. Raghunath12 January 2014 at 10:47

    26 A Lawyer is on stage (4) DA IS
    28 A By coming back into Coorg, nothing is lost by the robot (6) C(YB<-)ORG - o

    21 D Rapturous kudos as you enter the game (6) SUD(O)KU*

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  5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 January 2014 at 10:56

    27A : Endless review about the sport (6) DISCUS {DISCUSs}

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  6. Col_Gopinath12 January 2014 at 10:58

    Very sporting of Afterdark to have supplied today's special :-)

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    1. Raghunath12 January 2014 at 11:07

      AD's always game for Sunday specials.

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    2. Shrikanth12 January 2014 at 11:14

      :) :)

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    3. Raghunath12 January 2014 at 11:26

      Long time no hear?

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    4. Shrikanth12 January 2014 at 11:27

      Been extremely busy Raghu.. At some kind of crossroads in career. Trying to bring into shape 3 different things.

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    5. Unknown12 January 2014 at 11:47

      9-rose

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    6. Deepak Gopinath12 January 2014 at 12:01

      Ranjit please give the annotation as well in future.For this particular answer since it is a double definition it has to be shown as

      ROSE [DD]

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  7. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 January 2014 at 11:18


    11A : One who illtreats a vehicle has beer regularly (6) ABUSER {A}{BUS}{ER}

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  8. CA Prasad12 January 2014 at 11:20

    3.D. EMPEROR (ROME+REP)*

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    1. Shrikanth12 January 2014 at 11:35

      EM(PER)OR

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    2. Venkatesh12 January 2014 at 11:52

      EM(PER<=)OR
      ROME*(lawless - Anagram Indicator) = EMOR
      captures (Container Indicator)
      REP fom South (Rev Indicator in a Down clue) = PER
      Defn: King {EM(PER<=)OR*}

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    3. Venkatesh12 January 2014 at 12:12

      'lawless' may be superfluous
      {EM(PER)OR} <=

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    4. Shrikanth12 January 2014 at 12:23

      why so Venkatesh, unless there was a reversal indicator for Rome there?

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    5. Venkatesh12 January 2014 at 12:27

      If we read it as
      {Rome captures salesman} from the South

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    6. Shrikanth12 January 2014 at 12:38

      :) I would have been lynched :D

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  9. raju umamaheswar12 January 2014 at 11:34

    12a: LACROSSE-- THE FRENCH- LE- ACCEPTING A TYPE OF CLUE -ACROSS- L-ACROSS-E
    28a: CYBORG-- BY INSIDE COORG LOSING NOTHING- O- C-Y B-O-(o) RG
    11a: ABUSER - A BUS(E)ER

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    1. SandhyaP12 January 2014 at 11:45

      28A & 11A have already been posted

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    2. raju umamaheswar12 January 2014 at 12:26

      SANDHYA:

      Whenever I post mine, I don't look into the earlier ones. My intention is to post any random three of my solutions, to beat the deadline !

      On one across, I could only think of SOCCER as also one down: as SHO(E)BOX
      cannot parse properly , though !

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  10. SandhyaP12 January 2014 at 11:44

    10A Instrument made of muscle (10) PROTRACTOR (DD)
    6D Relatives, horribly hot inside, removes dress (9) UNCL{OTH*}ES
    7 D Female too backward for top setter that is, to have a flirting act (7) {F}{OOT<-}{S}{IE}

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  11. Shrikanth12 January 2014 at 11:45

    Want to know how many have cracked 13A , just for the heck of it.

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    1. SandhyaP12 January 2014 at 11:56

      I did - though it took me some time to figure out the anno for the 1st letter.
      Great clueing!

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    2. Deepak Gopinath12 January 2014 at 12:01

      Same here

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    3. Shrikanth12 January 2014 at 12:13

      Thanks. I personally liked that clue :) Hahaha. Hence fished out compliments ...

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  12. Venkatesh12 January 2014 at 12:05

    13 (E}{X}{UBER}{ANT} Anno: String E + 10 X+ Across (in German) UBER + worker ANT Defn: (one) who is cheerful
    23 Vehicle CAR + an iron A FE Defn: pitcher (CAR)(A FE)
    DOWN
    5 Decorate Catherine differently for new eatout (6) ENRICH* -eat (CATHERINE* - EAT*)

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  13. CA Prasad12 January 2014 at 12:12

    4.A. REBUFF.{RE}{BUFF} DEF:DISCOURAGE

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  14. Suresh12 January 2014 at 12:14

    1A SOCKET O in CSK* + ET
    1D SHOEBOX Because it fits. BE< inside SHOO, with an X thrown in with/as an unknown definition?
    4A RE <BUFF Discourage doing double duty

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    1. Shrikanth12 January 2014 at 12:18

      Honestly I don't know the answer for 1D. Looks very iffy .... Can't be so

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    2. Deepak Gopinath12 January 2014 at 12:27

      Suresh @ 12:14

      There is no double duty in 4A

      Discourage = {RE}{BUFF}
      King = RE
      Fan = BUFF

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    3. Deepak Gopinath12 January 2014 at 12:28

      Shrikanth @ 12:18

      I think some elements have been missed out while clueing

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    4. Shrikanth12 January 2014 at 12:36

      Yeah Colonel. I am wondering what they are though.. It was a complete clue when I made it .. hmmmm :(

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    5. Suresh12 January 2014 at 13:44

      Deepak, I Thought ER would be king not RE.

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    6. Deepak Gopinath12 January 2014 at 14:25

      You're right Siuresh.

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  15. Suresh12 January 2014 at 12:16

    Compensating 15A S HEE (~hear)

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  16. Suresh12 January 2014 at 12:17

    That should read 15A S HEER (~HEAR)

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  17. CA Prasad12 January 2014 at 12:18

    14. D. BILLIARDS. LIBeRALISeD* DEF:GAME

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  18. Deepak Gopinath12 January 2014 at 12:30

    Leftovers

    Across - 16, 22
    Down - 2, 17, 20, 24

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    1. raju umamaheswar12 January 2014 at 12:51

      Col: Is it free and open for all now? Can I comment and give mine?

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    2. Richard12 January 2014 at 12:54

      The opening sentence terms 6 pm as deadline.

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    3. Chaturvasi12 January 2014 at 14:16

      Raju,
      I think the Col has made it clear more than once and actually in reply to a Comment by you that until 6 p.m. one can only give three answers (necessarily with annos) and that after that deadline answers to any numbers of the STILL REMAINING [past 6 p.m.] clues can be posted by one and the same person.
      What is the difficulty in understanding this simple rule that the Col repeats every week in the preamble?
      In fact once when you broke this rule once, thinking erroneously that once the Col indicates the remaining clues you could give all the answers,the Col. deleted your answers. It seems that you did not visit the day's blog subsequently to be aware of what is happening here.
      I do understand that the frequent power outages in CBE are a dampener to any continued surfing on the Net.

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    4. raju umamaheswar12 January 2014 at 16:20

      Do I extend my palm for your foot-rule or you prefer my knuckle for your duster, or worse still, a good sharp one on my derriere with your cane, SIR ?

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  19. Richard12 January 2014 at 12:41

    Loggin in late:

    My first: 16A Jolly (happy) O replaced by E = JELLY

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  20. Vinayak12 January 2014 at 13:28

    22A: {HABIT}{U}{AL}
    Defn: Traditional

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  21. Vinayak12 January 2014 at 13:31

    24D: R{ODE}O
    Defn: Adventure sport

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  22. Padmanabhan12 January 2014 at 13:53

    22a- HABITUAL
    Traditional- Def.
    Dress- Habit
    U
    Gangster0 AL

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  23. Padmanabhan12 January 2014 at 13:55

    2- CHESS
    Game- Def.
    Revolutionary- CHE
    Singers hollow- S(inger)S

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  24. Padmanabhan12 January 2014 at 13:57

    24D- RODEO
    Adventure Sport- Def.
    Romania- RO
    Composition- Ode

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  25. Padmanabhan12 January 2014 at 14:01

    13A- String leading to E? can you pl. explain?

    Excellent CW on a favotite theme of games. Thank you Shrikanth & of course Col.

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    1. Raghunath12 January 2014 at 14:06

      I think it refers to a chord in a stringed instrument like a, b, c...

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    2. Raghunath12 January 2014 at 14:07

      And that clue is very well worded!

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    3. Padmanabhan12 January 2014 at 14:12

      Thank you Raghu. Yes, I also enjoyed the clue very much.

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  26. Padmanabhan12 January 2014 at 14:07

    Replacement
    17- EXALTED
    Glorified- Def.
    Not- EX
    gangster- AL
    Edward- TED

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  27. thiru12 January 2014 at 14:10

    Not 100% sure
    20 D
    game - def - rafting
    call -ring
    because of - after (not sure here)
    no hesitation - er goes out of after

    Does this work?

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  28. Padmanabhan12 January 2014 at 14:11

    Replacement 2-
    20D-RAFTING
    Game- Def.
    Call- RING
    Because of- After
    No hesitation- AFTER_ ER+AFT
    R(AFT)ING

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    1. Venkatesh12 January 2014 at 15:14

      should AFT be 'about' or INSIDE RING?
      RING AFT[-er] inside = R(AFT)ING

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  29. Deepak Gopinath12 January 2014 at 14:28

    That's it then till next Sunday. Thanks Shrikanth. Next Sunday we're going to have another new budding setter making his debut.

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  30. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 January 2014 at 14:42

    Tricky clueing adopted by Shrikanth for today's puzzle ! You can call it a brain-teaser !! Thanks, AD, for keeping our grey cells busy today !!!

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  31. Mukundala Balasubramanyam12 January 2014 at 15:09

    I still wonder, how could Sandhya Ma'am crack 10Ac clue, just like that, for PROTRACTOR (DD) !!!

    I tried WIKI typing 'muscle' and found nothing. I didn't try 'instrument' fearing the list would be too long !

    After seeing the solution, from Dic only I could get Protractor = Instrument = Muscle.

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  32. Shrikanth12 January 2014 at 18:38

    Thanks everyone. I am always very excited about Sunday Specials. One should not forget their roots you see! More than that, to stay away from such enthusiasm is very difficult. :( Thanks again.

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