Sunday, 31 May 2015

Special, Sunday 31 May 2015, Bruno


Three answers per commenter as usual (Annotations compulsory) till 6 PM
Please try to provide all your answers in one comment.


ACROSS
1   Broken sculpture (4)
3   Something like a lungi could be a hit in Washington circuit (10)
9   Travelling grim worker? (7)
10 Sun behind desert-palm (6)
11 Bundle of what’s dispersed in outer-space (6)
12 Announced bad deal in press (8)
15 Dirty women make love fully-covered (8)
17 A mainly nationalistic people’s song (6)
19 Tone of log’s last entry went up a notch (6)
21 Him? Saint? Ridiculous! It could make one break out in hives! (8)
24 New head of gallery occupies one’s vehicle, goes around to the best seats in the arena (8)
25 Even self defence can be a struggle (6)
28 Greedy one’s hesitant to overlook new source of Rupees (6)
29 At the start of spring (roughly April) a type of boat is loaded with squid (7)
30 Most advanced unit in jungle (10)
31 Wind, in the end, blew away branch (4)

DOWN
1   Escapee, perhaps, hid doctor and that woman at an underground hiding place (4-7)
2   Greek symbol of inclusivity? (5)
4   Protestors arrested without thought (4)
5   Carefree in empty palatial area (6)
6   Learn a new skill on the subject of Fall coming after end of August (7)
7   Star spangled banner contained defence of division among people? (2,3,4)
8   F in E out? Figure that! (6)
13 Rama’s heading into territory led by Ravana, perhaps causing protest (11)
14 Investment bankers tend to be mostly… (3)
16 Casanova, for one, is more knowledgeable about love and people (9)
18 Tip over container (3)
20 Castro’s ariatic composition on flowers (7)
22 Fightin’ for a meal? (6)
23 Loved to join mineral in the middle (6)
26 Eyes copper in crude oil (5)
27 System’s starting to become lost without change (2-2)

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74 comments:

  1. Ramki Krishnan31 May 2015 at 10:42

    1A. BUST (DD)
    1D. BOMB SHELTER - BELTER (escapee) around MB (doctor) and SHE (woman), def = hiding place
    24A. RINGSIDE - {R{I{N G}S}IDE}, New - N, head of gallery - G, one's - IS, vehicle = RIDE, def = best seats in arena

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    1. Vasant31 May 2015 at 11:05

      What about the unaccounted O in 1 D?

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    2. Balaji31 May 2015 at 11:12

      Vasant, escapee is a BOLTER containing MB and SHE. Ramki's anno is slightly off.

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    3. Ramki Krishnan31 May 2015 at 11:15

      Sorry for the typo - escapee is BOLTER and not BELTER

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    4. Vasant31 May 2015 at 11:18

      Thanks For the clarification, Balaji...

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    5. Vasant31 May 2015 at 11:40

      & Ramki

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  2. Vasant31 May 2015 at 10:49

    9A: MIGRANT= (GRIM)*(ANT)=&LIT
    2D:SIGMA:CD
    26D:O(CU)LI*

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  3. Vasant31 May 2015 at 11:01

    A Challenging puzzle....MB's Phrase "Kadak Acrod"(Hard nut to crack) comes to mind.

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam31 May 2015 at 11:17

      Yeah! Its really a कठिन अखरोट !!

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    2. Balaji31 May 2015 at 11:17

      Hopefully, it worked for you.

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    3. Vasant31 May 2015 at 11:20

      Kathin it is...I stand corrected..

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam31 May 2015 at 11:30

      Balaji @ Still trying hard to break some more nuts!

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  4. Sudarshan J31 May 2015 at 11:04

    17A - ANTHEM - A N(-ationalistic) THEM (people), Def: Song;
    21A - THIAMINS* - Anagram of (Him Saint), Def: It could make one break out in hives!;
    25A - EFFORT - s(E)l(F) FORT (defence), Def: A struggle

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    1. Vasant31 May 2015 at 11:14

      I think 21A needs to be rechecked as the crossing with 13 D doesnt match

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    2. Balaji31 May 2015 at 11:15

      Yes, Vasant. THIAMINS is not the correct answer.

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    3. Sudarshan J31 May 2015 at 11:35

      HISTAMIN*? I thought it was spelled Histamine. This answer goes with 22D and 13D.

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    4. Balaji31 May 2015 at 13:03

      HISTAMIN is a variant spelling of HISTAMINE according to Dictionary.com

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    5. Bud31 May 2015 at 13:22

      Interestingly, although the OED does not list HISTAMIN as an alternative spelling, the very first quotation it gives (from 1912) uses the shorter spelling twice, so one can say the OED accepts it by default.

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    6. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 13:53

      But Histamine is neither in Chambers nor in Free Dic.

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    7. Bud31 May 2015 at 18:46

      This is quite extraordinary. A search of the Google Books corpus shows over 1100 books using only the spelling without a final 'e', although the number using it has diminished in the last two decades. Why it does not appear as an alternative spelling in the main dictionaries is puzzling.

      Example: Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine, Jefferry R. Davis M.D, 2007, page 60. ... local mediators (histamin, serotonin, TXA2, ... .

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    8. Unknown31 May 2015 at 19:39

      Hmmm... Thanks for the research Bud. I must admit I was a bit hesitant about using it since all textbooks I have read used HISTAMINE. It was only after being suggested by a wordsearch website that I used it and was also found in Dictionary.com

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  5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam31 May 2015 at 11:07

    11Ac : Bundle of what’s dispersed in outer-space (6) SWATHE {S{WHAT*}E}
    4Dn : Protestors arrested without thought (4) ROTE [T]
    23Dn : Loved to join mineral in the middle (6) ADORED {AD{ORE}D}

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  6. Raghunath31 May 2015 at 11:23

    24a: New head of gallery occupies one’s vehicle, goes around to the best seats in the arena (8) R(I{N G}S)IDE. Is Vehicle a verb?
    30a: Most advanced unit in jungle (10) FOR(WARD)EST
    22d: Fightin’ for a meal? (6) TIFFIN g

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    1. Balaji31 May 2015 at 11:26

      Vehicle ~ ride both nouns in this case. A car or a vehicle is often referred to as a ride

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    2. Raghunath31 May 2015 at 11:29

      I tried to see whether vehicle = ride in dics but could not find

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    3. Balaji31 May 2015 at 11:33

      From the TFD: n. A means of transportation: waiting for her ride to come.
      Also, quite commonly used colloquially - e.g. like the MTV show "Pimp my ride"

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    4. Bud31 May 2015 at 13:06

      Chambers makes this very clear: a journey on horseback, on a bicycle, or in a vehicle; the animal, vehicle, etc. providing this.

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  7. Nadathur Rajan31 May 2015 at 11:33

    15 Dirty women make love fully-covered (8) (ENWOM*)(BED)
    DOWN
    8 F in E out? Figure that! (6) (F)(AT/HOM[-e]) F+in=AT HOM[-E]
    16 Casanova, for one, is more knowledgeable about love and people (9) {W(O)(MEN)ISER}

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    1. Nadathur Rajan31 May 2015 at 11:34

      WOMANISER is generally used. First time coming across WOMENISER

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    2. Balaji31 May 2015 at 11:37

      I did intend WOMANISER and PEOPLE as in MAN as in humans. Not working?

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    3. Bud31 May 2015 at 13:15

      No problems with MAN = MANKIND = THE MASS OF HUMANS = PEOPLE for me - so this gets you the desired 'womAniser'.

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  8. Ramki Krishnan31 May 2015 at 11:59

    Compensating for the wrong anno for 1D:
    3A: WRAPAROUND - {W{RAP}A}{ROUND}
    def = something like a lungi, RAP (hit) in WA + ROUND (circuit)

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    1. Raghunath31 May 2015 at 12:27

      Ramki it's I who should be posting for dup entry. 😉

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    2. Deepak Gopinath31 May 2015 at 16:06

      Wrong anno doesn't merit a compensatory entry

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  9. Vasant31 May 2015 at 12:11

    Nice Puzzle with very good clues...challenging but entertaining...3A, 12A, 13D, 16 D...super clues but my COD: 7D( Nice word play)..doubt on a few... waiting for all clues to be solved

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    1. Vasant31 May 2015 at 12:35

      8D was also very good...

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam31 May 2015 at 12:41

      My pick from the above as my COD is 13Dn. Rama heading into Ravana's territory to protest against the dastardly act of Ravana kidnapping Sita!?

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    3. Balaji31 May 2015 at 13:05

      Thank you Vasant and MB.

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  10. SandhyaP31 May 2015 at 12:32

    6 D Learn a new skill on the subject of Fall coming after end of August (7) {RE}{T}{RAIN}
    7 D Star spangled banner contained defence of division among people? (2,3,4) {US} {AN{D} THEM}
    13D Rama’s heading into territory led by Ravana, perhaps causing protest (11) DEMON ST{R}ATE

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  11. Mukundala Balasubramanyam31 May 2015 at 13:05

    LEFTOVERS :

    Across : 10,12,19,28,29,31.

    Down : 5,14,18,20,27.

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  12. Venkatesh31 May 2015 at 13:41

    10A Sun behind desert-palm (6) (RAT)(TAN)
    12A Announced bad deal in press (8) HER(ALDE*)D
    19A Tone of log’s last entry went up a notch (6) TIMB(+R)E[-r] TIMBER (log) with R moving up

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  13. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 13:43

    19A- Timbre
    Log- Timber
    Last entry up a notch- timbre (last 2 letters reversed)
    Def.- Tone

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  14. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 13:47

    28A- usurer- Def. greedy onr
    Hesitant- er
    New source of rupees- Usur? Rupees is Rs. but uu?

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  15. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 13:49

    20A- Rosaria- T
    Def.- Flowers

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  16. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 13:55

    Thank you Venkatesh.

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  17. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 14:02

    Replacement for 19a-

    Men
    invetMENt
    Tend to be men? Do I hear any objections or my parsing is wrong?

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  18. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 14:21

    28A- I made the mistake of assuming 'er' for unsure and fell into the trap!

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  19. Bud31 May 2015 at 14:22

    29A SPIRULA S + U in APRIL*

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  20. Bud31 May 2015 at 14:23

    18D NIB BIN<

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    1. Venkatesh31 May 2015 at 15:00

      It could be

      Tip over NIB<=
      Defn: container BIN

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  21. Gita SB31 May 2015 at 14:25

    5D PARCEL {P(CARE)*L}

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    1. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 14:30

      So carefree is split, with free as anind. Nice one.

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  22. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 14:28

    That is lovely.

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  23. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 14:31

    2.28 is for nib/ bin.

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  24. Bud31 May 2015 at 14:33

    5D is my favourite clue. Still can't annotate 27D .

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  25. Bud31 May 2015 at 14:39

    27D AS IS ... (-B)ASIS???

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  26. Mukundala Balasubramanyam31 May 2015 at 15:16

    LEFTOVER:

    The last one

    31 Across.

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  27. Mukundala Balasubramanyam31 May 2015 at 18:16

    It's well past 6:10 pm and no takers for 31 Across solution!?

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  28. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 19:23

    Is it 'Tide'?
    I am not sure of the anno except D coming in.

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  29. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 19:24

    Clarification from balaji needed.

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  30. Deepak Gopinath31 May 2015 at 19:29

    Wind = TWINE
    in the end, blew = W
    away - Deletion indicator
    branch = Definition = T(-w)INE

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  31. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 19:42

    Thank you Col. I read it as Wind and not as 'Yind' if I may say so and also attributed 'in the end' to wind and got D.

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  32. Padmanabhan31 May 2015 at 19:46

    Looked up Tine just now and learned that it is the branch of deer's antlers. Now everything falls in place and that is an interesting one too. Nice way to end.

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    1. Unknown31 May 2015 at 19:47

      Thank you. That one ended up being harder than intended. Multiple misdirections there. TINE is also branch of a fork.

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  33. Ramki Krishnan31 May 2015 at 20:22

    Challenging crossword, Balaji!

    Got everything except TINE :) Liked DEMONSTRATE the best.

    Regards,
    Ramki.

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    1. Balaji31 May 2015 at 20:33

      Thanks Ramki. Yeah TINE is a bit of a snorter...

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