Sunday, 23 February 2014

Special, Sunday 23 Feb 2014, Afterdark


Three answers per commenter (with annotations) till 6 PM


ACROSS
1   Changes made in coach's shape removing iodine particle (15)
9   Approves loss of article by adman who faces anger and gains a point (7)
10 Fighter behind engineer and doctor for an instrument (7)
11 Not quite clever, this harridan (5)
12 Taking bone from a rabid Boston Terrier makes it radical (9)
13 All Latino somehow have this speech defect (9)
15 Sounds like easy comeback after messy lab fire... (5)
16 Connected with birth to an African province (5)
18 Learner at university inspired pointlessly to be productive (9)
20 Alert everyone to collect broken marble (5,4)
23 Periods the first queen has PMS is not quiet (5)
24 Build a fashionable booth (7)
25 Talk on European Union taking a castle (7)
26 No bar fight on gin cocktail nonetheless... (15)

DOWN
1   Reported coma at estate results in a surgery (15)
2   Doctor back in air with a novice officer (7)
3   Second team at the dance is mad (9)
4   Son shaken by stranger's advent (5)
5   Pasta recipe's third letter is a mix of two languages? (9)
6   Secretary's love has a beat (5)
7   Love queen for discarding unknown instrument (7)
8   Spain street grub different from other city? (5,10)
14 Sickness caused by rocky hill on earth changing sides? (3,6)
15 Transport snake by the first coach (4,5)
17 Peculiarity of players seen in journey (7)
19 Serial I adapted features foreign national (7)
21 Main road French friend took to the city (5)
22 Insurers' sex appeal permitted by law? (5)



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48 comments:

  1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 February 2014 at 10:32

    19D : Serial I adapted features foreign national (7) ISRAELI (SERIAL I)*

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  2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 February 2014 at 10:34

    22D : Insurers' sex appeal permitted by law? (5) LICIT {LIC+IT}

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  3. Anonymous23 February 2014 at 10:35

    21d MI AMI

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  4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 February 2014 at 10:36

    16A : Connected with birth to an African province (5) NATAL (DD)

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  5. Anonymous23 February 2014 at 10:37

    25a CHAT A EU

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    1. Col_Gopinath23 February 2014 at 10:40

      Typo {CHAT}{E{A}U}

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    2. Anonymous23 February 2014 at 10:51

      Thanks. I cannot forget the Chateau D'If and edmond Dantes and Abbe Faria.

      Delete
  6. Col_Gopinath23 February 2014 at 10:38

    Padmanabhan,

    Refer your 10:33 on the Sunday CW, who is the aspirant to the services?

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    1. Padmanabhan23 February 2014 at 10:45

      I thought it was Kishore- he used to say he could not get in being colour blind.
      Am I wrong?

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    2. Anonymous23 February 2014 at 10:49

      Pl. ref to my reply in that post

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    3. Deepak Gopinath23 February 2014 at 12:12

      Padmanabhan,

      When you said aspirant I thought someone is trying now, so I was wondering who it could be.

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  7. Anonymous23 February 2014 at 10:39

    23a T ER MS

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  8. Col_Gopinath23 February 2014 at 10:42

    Ended up all square after a round of 18 holes of Golf. Managed to lose two balls in the ponds on the course but found one later making a net loss of one ball for the day.

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    1. Anonymous23 February 2014 at 10:53

      Reminds me of a WW2 song sung to the same tune as the theme music of The Bridge on the River Kwai-

      Hitler had just one ----,
      Goering had none at all.

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  9. CA Prasad23 February 2014 at 10:48

    9.A. ADMIRES. (SIDEARM)*

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    1. Ramani23 February 2014 at 11:19

      I think it has to be (ADMAN -An) +IRE + S

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    2. CA Prasad23 February 2014 at 11:52

      THERE IS ANOTHER DEFINITION IN ACROSS LITE

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  10. CA Prasad23 February 2014 at 10:53

    13 A. LALLATION.(ALL LATINO)* DEF.SPEECH DEFECT

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  11. CA Prasad23 February 2014 at 11:02

    4.ONSET. (SON)*(ET)

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  12. Unknown23 February 2014 at 11:30

    20 Alert everyone to collect broken marble (5,4) ALARM BELL (ALL +MARBLE)*

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  13. Unknown23 February 2014 at 11:43

    8 D Spain street grub different from other city? (5,10) SAINT PETERSBURG(SPAIN STREET GRUB)*

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  14. Richard23 February 2014 at 11:45

    2D Doctor back in air with a novice officer (7)

    ADMIRAL - MD reversed in AIR with A L - {A(DM<-)IR}{A}{L}

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  15. mohsin23 February 2014 at 11:48

    The AcrossLite version and this one differ in at least a couple of clues [9A, 19D]

    18A L U CR(-e)ATIVE

    15D BOA T TRAIN

    15A BLA* ZE<-- (~ easy)

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  16. Vinayak23 February 2014 at 11:58

    3D: SCREWBALL {S}{CREW}{BALL}
    14D: ILL HEALTH ; (HILL EAL(-r)(+l)TH)*
    17D: TRANSIT ; { TRA (NS) IT }

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  17. Unknown23 February 2014 at 11:59

    1 Changes made in coach's shape removing iodine particle (15)TRANSFORMATIONS (TRAINS-I +FORMATIONS)

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  18. Deepak Gopinath23 February 2014 at 12:20

    My 3

    12A - TERRORIST(-bone)*
    24A - {IN}{STALL}
    26A - {NO}{T}{WITHSTAND}{ING*}

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  19. Vasant23 February 2014 at 12:25

    7D: (O){C(-Z)ARINA}

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  20. Vasant23 February 2014 at 12:27

    11A:SHREW(-D)

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  21. Vasant23 February 2014 at 12:42

    1D: TRANSPLANTATION
    (~TRANCE)=COMMA
    PLANTATION=ESTATE

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  22. Gita SB23 February 2014 at 14:04

    5D MACARONIC macaroni+c (third letter)

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  23. Richard23 February 2014 at 14:30

    Second one from me:

    6D - Secretary's love has a beat (5)

    TEMPO - {TEMP}{O}

    temp = a person, esp a typist or other office worker, employed on a temporary basis

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/temp

    Does that leave 10 Across alone to be solved? I have the answer but not sure of the anno.

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  24. Deepak Gopinath23 February 2014 at 14:56

    10A left for the final solver

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  25. Gita SB23 February 2014 at 16:15

    10A CEMBALI? CE+MB+ALI

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  26. Raghunath23 February 2014 at 16:27

    Is there a mistake in 10 a?

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    1. Col_Gopinath23 February 2014 at 16:36

      Instrument should have been in plural, CEMBALI is plural of CEMBALO

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    2. Gita SB23 February 2014 at 16:40

      That's right

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    3. Richard23 February 2014 at 17:34

      I referred to the same in my post @ 2:30. Since the clue was in singular, I was hesitant to post my third contribution CEMBALI.

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  27. Gita SB23 February 2014 at 16:42

    Also on Acrosslite the clue for 19D is different

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  28. Col_Gopinath23 February 2014 at 17:05

    Thanks for the special Shrikanth.

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    1. Richard23 February 2014 at 17:38

      + 1 Keep them coming, Shrikanth.

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    2. Anonymous23 February 2014 at 17:59

      Thanks, Shri

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    3. Shrikanth24 February 2014 at 06:59

      Thanks all of you for the encouragement. Can't believe yet. 11 months since I started and am expecting the 25th grid this week in The Hindu. Wouldn't have been possible but for all of you.

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  29. Padmanabhan23 February 2014 at 18:46

    Inviting your attention to today's article on CW in Economic Times magazine
    http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/crosswords-chequered-history-in-india-and-its-challenges/articleshow/30861200.cms

    There is ref. to Col. winning the national CW contest and also about Shuchismita's blog.

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  30. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 February 2014 at 20:20

    Thanks Paddy for the link. Quite an interesting article worth reading, by all cryptic CW solvers.

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  31. Padmanabhan23 February 2014 at 21:28

    You are welcome. I wanted to share it with everyone, the moment I read it. But all would have missed it. I will have to repost it tomorrrow. Glad you saw it.

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