Sunday 9 February 2014

Special, Sunday 09 Feb 2014, Afterdark


This crossword was sent to me by Afterdark in connection with the 5th Birthday of the blog. It has something special connected with the blog. I couldn't find what it was. Let's see if anyone else can find what the connection to the blog is.

INSTRUCTIONS

 As usual three answers per commenter (with annotations) upto 6 PM.


ACROSS
1   Dutchman takes an old surgeon in the carriage (7)
5   Again consider letting stranger hop first into the skating floor (7)
10 Doctor gets past the person transporting animals (6)
11 Public relations work regularly ferrets unknown wealth (8)
12 The french worker has nothing to build a single slope roof (4-2)
13 Suggestion to include top Indian Scientist is an irritant (8)
14 Company's small sign (6)
15 Cases that includes artists and coaches (6)
18 Unknown person seen at opposite junction left (6)
20 Artist stepping into a swamp makes no change (6)
23 Filter player with a coach (8)
25 Examiner to diabolically restate missing article (6)
26 Involve a specialist's view (8)
27 Ostracized for having badly lied once before (6)
28 Democrat left terribly diseased at the coastal area (7)
29 Hid good man by a barn (7)

DOWN
2   Accepted a cardinal sin (6)
3   Competition noticed around a number (9)
4   Scientist Mani embraced roman catholic order (7)
6   Ghost-write badly, discard initial home work of self-seeker (7)
7   Animal's exclamation about currency (5)
8   Seeing no bonus including Tendulkar first.. (8)
9   Expose, broadcast, spot stranger in the souk (13)
16 Fool-like mistakes expose murderers (9)
17 Specify the current position (8)
19 Old person flip-flopped but accomplished (7)
21 Rodent ran around broken tree at a resort (7)
22 Respect king for accommodating always (6)
24 Gather animal around mother (5)


To attempt the crossword on a separate page follow the link DG ADB 14 

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69 comments:

  1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 10:35

    16D : Fool-like mistakes expose murderers (9) ASSASSINS {ASS}{AS}{SINS}

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  2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 10:37

    21D : Rodent ran around broken tree at a resort (7) RETREAT {R{TREE*}AT}

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  3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 10:40

    27A : Ostracized for having badly lied once before (6) EXILED {EX}{ILED*}

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  4. Richard9 February 2014 at 10:50

    Three from me:

    5A - RETHINK (= again consider) ET into RINK {R(ET)INK}
    11A - PROPERTY (=wealth) - {PR}{OP}{ERT}{Y} op - work, ert -alternative letters from 'ferret' and 'y' unknown
    22D - REVERE (= respect) {R(EVER)E} RE= Rex Edward = King Edward

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    1. Venkatesh9 February 2014 at 11:01

      5A Hop first - H to be added in anno

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    2. Richard9 February 2014 at 11:20

      Thanks, Venkatesh.

      So the anno is {R(ET)(H)INK}

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  5. Col_Gopinath9 February 2014 at 10:51

    Had gone for Golf so couldn't give an indication about the special

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    1. Richard9 February 2014 at 10:56

      In a hurry, I read it as 'gone to Gulf'. ;-)

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  6. Richard9 February 2014 at 10:55

    There seems to be an issue in 6D. My quota is done, otherwise would have explained.

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    1. Col_Gopinath9 February 2014 at 10:57

      I don't think there is an issue

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    2. Col_Gopinath9 February 2014 at 11:01

      Yes you are right, there is an issue, Initial home work has to be HW and not HWR as indicated by Venkatesh below

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    3. Venkatesh9 February 2014 at 11:12

      Request/routine could be added in the clue
      discard initial home work request = -hwr

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  7. VMA Nair9 February 2014 at 10:57

    25 Examiner to diabolically restate missing article (6)
    TESTER*(-a)
    12 The french worker has nothing to build a single slope roof (4-2) LE(AN T)O

    15 Cases that includes artists and coaches (6) T(RA) INS


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  8. Venkatesh9 February 2014 at 10:59

    DOWN
    3 Competition noticed around a number (9) {S(EVENT)EEN}
    4 Scientist Mani embraced roman catholic order (7) MA(RCO)NI
    6 Ghost-write badly, discard initial home work of self-seeker (7) EGOTIST*-hwr

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  9. Jayaseelan9 February 2014 at 11:03

    28A SEASIDE *{(-d)iseased}

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  10. SandhyaP9 February 2014 at 11:11

    13A Suggestion to include top Indian Scientist is an irritant (8) NU{I}{S}ANCE
    29A Hid good man by a barn (7) {ST}{A}{SHED}
    9D Expose, broadcast, spot stranger in the souk (13) {OPEN}{AIR}{MARK}{ET}

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    1. Nadathur Rajan9 February 2014 at 11:49

      9D is OPEN-AIR MARKET. Then, shouldn't it be indicated as (4-3,6)?

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  11. Jayaseelan9 February 2014 at 11:12

    29A (ST)(A)(SHED)

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  12. Ramani9 February 2014 at 11:12

    24d. A(MA)SS

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  13. Jayaseelan9 February 2014 at 11:16

    compensating 29A:
    8D (NO)(T)(ICING)

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  14. Jayaseelan9 February 2014 at 11:22

    14A (GE)(MINI)

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  15. Ramani9 February 2014 at 11:27

    2d A-GREED

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  16. Nadathur Rajan9 February 2014 at 11:36

    19d 'AGED MAN' flip-flopped = (MAN)(AGED) Defn: accomplished
    1a (HANS)(O)(MS) Defn: carriage
    23A (S)(TRAINER) player -S (in Bridge), a coach - TRAINER. Defn: filter

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  17. Ramani9 February 2014 at 11:52

    20a MO-RA-SS (moss and morass means one and the same)

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  18. Ramani9 February 2014 at 11:53

    Definition Swamp

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  19. Shrikanth9 February 2014 at 11:55

    Anyone could find the connection yet?

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  20. Ramani9 February 2014 at 12:04

    Is it related to politicians and their 'doings'?

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  21. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 12:04

    Trying ! Could it be "the blog is DG's 11 Across " !?

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  22. mohsin9 February 2014 at 12:18

    17D: {IN}{STANCE}

    7D: H(YEN)A

    26A: {ENT}{ANGLE}

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  23. Shrikanth9 February 2014 at 12:19

    I guess I indicated this to Venkatesh when I met him :)

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  24. Deepak Gopinath9 February 2014 at 12:24

    Leftovers

    Across - 10, 18,

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  25. Deepak Gopinath9 February 2014 at 12:29

    Hint regarding the speciality.

    It has something to do with the birthday of the blog

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  26. mohsin9 February 2014 at 12:32

    Same grid as on 04 Feb 2009. Different clues

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    1. Anonymous9 February 2014 at 12:36

      Great work, Mohsin. You have Manna-ged to find out that this was the very first one that the Colonel blogged.

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 12:52

      A scientist, that he is ! :)

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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 13:07

      And I find Richard was the first commenter of this blog on 07 Feb 2009.

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    4. Richard9 February 2014 at 13:21

      Balu, now that you have made a mention, I am putting my collar up...:-)

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    5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 13:24

      Cheers !!!

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    6. Richard9 February 2014 at 13:34

      Wait a minute before you raise your glass, I had not joined the blog as on that date. It could be a different date you are talking about. I began chipping in a couple of months later.

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    7. Shrikanth9 February 2014 at 13:35

      Of course it is Mohsin. Its my tribute to Colonel who has pulled this impossible coup of keeping us all together for 5 years and also make setters out of many of us. Hip Hip Hooray Colonel. 3 Cheers.

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    8. Shrikanth9 February 2014 at 13:38

      No offence meant. Here I just stole the grid :P

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    9. Col_Gopinath9 February 2014 at 13:48

      Great detective work Mohsin. I gave up trying after scratching my head over it for a whole day

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    10. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 13:50

      Richard @ 1:34

      Whatever it is, this is the comment of yours I'm copy pasting : Richard2:47 pm GMT+5:30

      Deepak and Kishore: Re Shanghai and Bangalore being used as verbs, I thought of telling you about the book BANGALORED the expat story by Eshwar Sundaresan, a good friend and former media colleague of mine. He is an IT techie-turned-fulltime-author, based in Bangalore.

      @ Shuchi, this might interest you as well. Earlier three comments posted @ 1:17 pm, 1:04 pm, 11:28 am have been deleted on Sat 7 Feb 2009 for CW no.9450 by M.Manna

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    11. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 13:55

      Hope, Col Sir, confirms it ! :)

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    12. Anonymous9 February 2014 at 14:31

      MB, that must have been posted on that day by some error, which RL was probably trying to correct when he deleted those posts. As RL put it a few days back, I had not yet 'happened', so there was no way RL could have addressed me.

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    13. Richard9 February 2014 at 14:39

      Yes, I double-checked it. I got to confess to some of my clandestine actitivy.

      In fact, those posts were made for test purposes to get link embedded on a much later date in mid-2009. I had thought no one would notice it.

      But CV somehow happened to discover it some days later and sent me a tutorial email on how to embed links in one's posts. Looks like I forgot to delete the last post. ;-(

      That should settle the matter. Feeling better now after getting it off my chest. :-)

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    14. Richard9 February 2014 at 14:40

      * corr. 'activity' in para 1.

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    15. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 14:41

      Well, that settles the issue ! Thanks, Kishore.

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    16. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2014 at 14:45

      ...and Richard !

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  27. Suresh9 February 2014 at 13:19

    10A PR OP ERT Y
    18A AN(-t)ONTM

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  28. Gita SB9 February 2014 at 13:38

    10A DRIVER

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  29. Col_Gopinath9 February 2014 at 13:50

    Let me finish it off

    10A - {DR}{OVER}

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  30. Col_Gopinath9 February 2014 at 13:50

    Thanks Shrikanth

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    1. Shrikanth9 February 2014 at 14:30

      Anytime Colonel. I am glad that I could do this little bit. :) for all what you hv done for us.

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  31. raju umamaheswar9 February 2014 at 15:07

    AFTERDARK: An easy-going Sunday made bery special by a very solvable crossie , linking it to the THCC blog started by the Col. Congrats andnthree cheers to you to devise such a devious riddle that could have been detected only by those who were the pioneers of this blog. In any case, a fitting tribute to the blog. Uf the good Col made you and a few others compilers, he also should be given credit to keep his Regiment closely lnit, knitting their brows by such a varied gang .

    OPEN AIR MARKET ( number of the clue answers) and HANSOMS were a bit tricky as the annotations were made a bit hard due to the Carriages/ Hansom .
    You are such a good "reservist' for Sunday duties. Keep it up !!

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  32. Padmanabhan9 February 2014 at 16:51

    7D- HYENA- H(YEN)A
    Animal- Def
    Exclamation- Ha
    Currency- Yen

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  33. Padmanabhan9 February 2014 at 17:05

    Joining in very late. enjoyed the CW. Thank you Shrikanth. What a way you chose to complement Col. for his unbelievable work.The 3 cheers are due to you as well. Keep up the good work. Setters are becoming very innovative and we, solvers, are enjoying the fruits!

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  34. Anonymous9 February 2014 at 17:16

    Thanks, AD

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  35. Col_Gopinath9 February 2014 at 17:56

    Refer the discussion on the first comments started by MB at 1:50 and the subsequent discussion.

    The first 10 persons to comment on the blog were
    Bhargav at 1:41 PM on Sunday 08 Feb 09 on CW No 2520 followed by
    CV - 09 Feb
    Anonoymous - 11 Feb
    Raghunath - 11 Feb
    Kar Sub - 14 Feb
    Shuchi - 18 Feb
    Ganesh TS - 18 Feb
    Easwaran N - 13 Mar
    Sudha A - 22 Mar
    Natarajan TG - 15 Apr

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  36. Col_Gopinath9 February 2014 at 18:08

    By the way Richard Blogged on No 9720, Tuesday 22 Dec 09, Gridman via e-mail

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    1. Richard9 February 2014 at 20:19

      Then, was I the very first among the chosen few to be asked to blog in your absence or non-availability? ;-)

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    2. Deepak Gopinath9 February 2014 at 23:03

      That's right. After you Gita did it once

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