Sunday, 8 February 2015

Special, Sunday 08 Feb 2015, Buzzer


Three answers per commenter (Annotations compulsory) as usual upto 6 PM.


ACROSS
1   Attendants left tea cosy carelessly (8)
6   Thirst after eggs and tea (6)
9   A fruit tea, each comes free with a program (6)
10 Reckon teatime's fantastic (8)
11 Increased intake of tea took extra toll (10)
12 Close in on tea or starters put out (4)
13 Case of trains being on time (3,5)
15 Grand dame, the one in the middle of teashop is Ms Moncrieff (6)
16 Run through tea leaves a team pile around (6)
18 Special limy tea brewed hotly (8)
20 Wrongly ordered two parts of tea for chief (4)
21 Map fitted in to a T for a tea estate perhaps (10)
23 Unthinking viscount regularly seen cheerily gulping last drop of tea (8)
24 Elements of China tea seemingly natural (2,4)
25 A long list of ingredients missing in litchi tea noticeably (6)
26 A minor variety of green tea (8)

DOWN
2   Catch tea cup slipping over edge of saucer (7)
3   Lavender tips in real unani herbal tea tonic (5)
4   Four unfinished teas round a sofa (4-1-4)
5   Cunning sledge at the onset of tea (7)
6   A group having anxiety disorder taking in tea oddly (5)
7   Minty herb kind of tea preceded lamb roast (5,4)
8   Showing too much curiosity about tea is hard (3,4)
14 Having the same tea before and after a dance (3-3-3)
15 Tea garden turned away domestic dog (5,4)
17 Spoil tea reportedly, tipping over in vermouth (7)
18 Ruddy mark/line on most of tea counter (7)
19 A glimpse of miss drinking fine tea heartily (4-3)
21 Average tea for the audience in gathering (5)
22 Greek character has tea interspersed with hot sides (5)

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37 comments:

  1. Vasant8 February 2015 at 12:15

    1A: ACOLYTE(L TEA COSY)*
    2D: CAPTU(R)E*
    3D: LILAC: ACROSTIC

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  2. Sowmya8 February 2015 at 12:35

    4D TE(-A) TE(-A) {A} TE (-A) TE(-A)
    14D CHA CHA CHA (CD?)
    13A TEACHES T

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  3. CA Prasad8 February 2015 at 12:43

    10.A. ESTIMATES. (TEATIMES)*
    14.D. CHA CHA CHA. LIT.
    15.D.GREAT DANE (TEA GARDEN)*

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    1. CA Prasad8 February 2015 at 13:31

      SORRY 10.A. ESTIMATE.. (TEATIMES)*
      2.D. CAPTURE. (TEA CUP R)*
      SUBSTITUTE FOR 14.D

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    2. CA Prasad8 February 2015 at 13:44

      SORRY 2 D IS ALREADY SOLVED.
      17.D,MARTINI. MAR{~TEA}{IN<}

      Delete
  4. Vinayak8 February 2015 at 13:01

    9A: {APPLE}{T}
    18A: STEAMILY { S LIMY TEA}*
    26A: TEENAGER { GREEN TEA}*

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  5. Gita SB8 February 2015 at 13:59

    22D THETA Anag of Tea+h(-o)t
    def - Greek character
    16A IMPALE Anag of team+pile-t-a
    Def - Run through
    5D SLEIGHT - Sleigh+t
    Def - Cunning

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  6. Nadathur Rajan8 February 2015 at 14:13

    11A Increased intake of tea took extra // toll {SUR(CHA)(R)GE}

    19D A glimpse of miss drinking fine tea heartily {LO(OK) SE}{E}

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    1. Nadathur Rajan8 February 2015 at 15:59

      11A Increased intake of tea // took extra toll {SUR(CHAR)GED}

      Delete
  7. Nadathur Rajan8 February 2015 at 14:18

    24A Elements of China tea seemingly natural AT EASE (T)

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  8. Sritri8 February 2015 at 14:20

    6A - LONG (Thirst) after OO(Eggs) - OOLONG
    8D - NOSY around TEA - NOT EASY
    21A - PLAN (Map) fitted IN TO A T - PLANTATION

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  9. Vasant8 February 2015 at 14:22

    Buzzer in India-Suits to a T!
    Wonderful X(or should I say T) word

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    1. Richard8 February 2015 at 14:25

      Is it monogrammed or does it carry a crossword design?

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  10. Richard8 February 2015 at 14:24

    Tea here, tea there.... not my cup of coffee.

    Have a good time at S&B, all of you.

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  11. Venkatesh8 February 2015 at 16:05

    Across
    15 G LADY S
    25 (L....I)(T...A)(N...Y)
    Down
    21 (PAR)(TY) ~tea

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  12. Ramani8 February 2015 at 16:24

    19 A glimpse of miss drinking fine tea heartily (4-3) LOOK-SEE (Miss - Lose, fine - OK, tea heartily - e)
    18 Ruddy mark/line on most of tea counter (7) SCAR L ET (Mark - scar, Line - L Most of tea - te <-)

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  13. Ramani8 February 2015 at 16:26

    12 Close in on tea or starters put out (4) NEAR (Starters in "oN tEA oR are deleted)

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  14. Venkatesh8 February 2015 at 16:27

    Left on board:
    Across: 12, 20,23
    Down: 6, 7, 18

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    1. Venkatesh8 February 2015 at 16:29

      Updated:
      Left on board:
      Across: 20,23
      Down: 6, 7

      Delete
  15. Ramani8 February 2015 at 16:35

    23 Unthinking viscount regularly seen cheerily gulping last drop of tea (8) VIS CER (A) L Defn Unthinking
    substitute for 19A

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  16. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 February 2015 at 17:27

    6Dn : OCTAD : {OC{TeA}D}
    7Dn: LEMONBALM : (LEMON+BALM*)

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  17. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 February 2015 at 17:46

    Mine and CW's last one.
    20A : Wrongly ordered two parts of tea for chief (4)
    ARCH {A{R}CH*} Def : Chief. Tea = CHA* containing second letter of oRdered. No idea how far it's correct!

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    1. VMA Nair8 February 2015 at 18:04

      Wrong anno as per setter

      Delete
    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 February 2015 at 18:06

      Still scratching my head! :-(

      Delete
    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 February 2015 at 18:32

      No amount of scratching is helping me! I give up now!! Over to veterans!!!

      Delete
    4. Chaturvasi8 February 2015 at 18:38

      I solved this but didn't instantly get the anno. I knew what must be going on and just moved on.
      Come to think of it...
      Wrongly ordered two parts of tea for chief

      Two parts of tea - two parts of CHAR (same as cha) - CH AR
      Wrongly ordered AR CH - arch (chief)

      Delete
    5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 February 2015 at 18:53

      Nice. Thanks, CV Sir. :) But never knew 'char' means 'cha' too! Even Free Dic didn't help me when I looked for "Char."

      Delete
    6. Nadathur Rajan8 February 2015 at 21:38

      CHAR for tea was shown in 11A also above.

      Delete
    7. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 February 2015 at 10:20

      Thanks, NR.

      Delete
  18. SandhyaP8 February 2015 at 18:43

    I missed this tea-party!

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    1. C.G. BHARGAV8 February 2015 at 19:01

      I have requested through that a S &B meeting be arranged in Hyderabad after a few months so that we could meet you, your btother and also MB.

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    2. SandhyaP8 February 2015 at 21:20

      That would be great! :)

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    3. C.G. BHARGAV8 February 2015 at 21:21


      should be read as: through Raghunath....

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  19. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 February 2015 at 18:59

    Thanks, Buzzer. It was a real TEAser!

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  20. raju umamaheswar8 February 2015 at 22:37

    TA to BUZZER. Total teaser ! O la la !! didn't take too long !! Only Rosie Lee was missing !!

    cosy here in N .York !

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