Sunday, 21 June 2015

Special, Sunday 21 Jun 2015, Afterdark


Three answers per commenter (Annotations compulsory) till 6 PM.
As far as possible please provide your answers in one comment.


ACROSS
7   Clean space or space to clean (8)
9   I left lawless Karachi for one of centres of spiritual power (6)
10 Female escorted but escaped (4)
11 Aroused girl vanished without husband (10)
12 Excited houri's moan is rhythmic (10)
14 Facility lost its leader by murder (4)
15 New policeman's task is to nab habitual stealers (13)
18 Sahib is concealing a bird (4)
20 Decides to discourage supplies (10)
21 No lead mixed in Boost, not a bit of arsenic or other mineral (10)
23 Fit guy is bald (4)
24 Playpen Ang Lee opened in Malaysian state (6)
25 Small lid at the tip of valve (8)

DOWN
1   Approximate range of a ground (8)
2   Drop the cash Edward hid (4)
3   Money oddball has for a snack (8)
4   Canoes anyway cannot be used to cross these (6)
5   Finger millet given by kid at India (4)
6   Alternative arrangement is a nightmare (6)
8   Formalin atoms can be used to create abnormalities (13)
13 Set me up for encounters (5)
14 Sheikh Adib helps to make homespun fabric (5)
16 Bragi, Odin, Loki or one of them (5,3)
17 Detective finds hospital lockers vandalised (8)
19 Locked and left (6)
20 Endorsed editor to go in front to model (6)
22 It's alright to return animal after providing oxygen (4)
23 Advance without captain to the bridge (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at ADB 19

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65 comments:

  1. Ramani21 June 2015 at 10:31

    23 Advance without captain to the bridge (4) (M) ARCH

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  2. Ramani21 June 2015 at 10:32

    22 It's alright to return animal after providing oxygen (4) (O) KAY <-

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  3. Ramani21 June 2015 at 10:34

    17 Detective finds hospital lockers vandalised (8) S H ERLOCK*

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  4. Chaturvasi21 June 2015 at 10:35

    All down
    2 Drop the cash Edward hid (4) SHED - T
    4 Canoes anyway cannot be used to cross these (6) OCEANS - anag. of canoes
    5 Finger millet given by kid at India (4) RAGI - rag (kid, v.) I

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  5. Vasant21 June 2015 at 10:39

    12A:HARMONIOUS=(HOURI'S MOAN)*
    15A:KLEPTOMANIACS=(POLICEMAN'S TASK)*
    9A: CHARAK={KARACHI(-I)}*

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  6. D.Srinivasan21 June 2015 at 10:40

    12a HARMONIOUS. ( houri's moan*)

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  7. D.Srinivasan21 June 2015 at 10:42

    14D KHADI (T)

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  8. Aakash Sridhar21 June 2015 at 10:43

    13d meets*
    14d Khadi T
    17d sherlock*

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    1. Aakash Sridhar21 June 2015 at 10:49

      18A Ibis T
      8D malformations*
      Compensations for 14d and 17d

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    2. Aakash Sridhar21 June 2015 at 10:54

      2D drop T
      4D oceans *
      Compensations for my compensations which were answered at the same time by LV

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  9. D.Srinivasan21 June 2015 at 10:43

    14D KHADI (T)

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  10. D.Srinivasan21 June 2015 at 10:43

    12a HARMONIOUS. ( houri's moan*)

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  11. Unknown21 June 2015 at 10:45

    12 Excited houri's moan is rhythmic (10) Harmonious HOURISMOAN*

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  12. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan21 June 2015 at 10:48

    10 A FLED (F LED ) def: escaped
    18A IBIS (T) def : bird
    8 D MALFORMATIONS ( anagram of FORMALIN ATOMS ) def : abnormalities

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  13. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 June 2015 at 10:55

    .11Ac : GALVANISED {GAL}{VANIS(-h)ED}
    6Dn : ORDEAL {OR}{DEAL}
    3 Dn : DOUGHNUT {DOUGH}{NUT}

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    1. Vasant21 June 2015 at 11:00

      In that case(6DN Crossing) 9A is corrected as CHAKRA; anno stands as above

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  14. Jayaseelan21 June 2015 at 11:05

    7A (BATH)(ROOM)
    14A (-s)KILL

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  15. Jayaseelan21 June 2015 at 11:10

    25A STOPCOK (DD)

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  16. Chaturvasi21 June 2015 at 11:23

    Thanks Jayaseelan.

    I thought it was 'cook'.

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  17. Unknown21 June 2015 at 11:31

    1 Approximate range of a ground (8) Ballpark

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  18. Padmanabhan21 June 2015 at 11:37

    1D- Ballpark- DD
    Ballpark- aproximate

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    1. Jayaseelan21 June 2015 at 12:29

      Ballpark- (1)baseball ground (2) an area or range within which an amount or estimate is likely to be correct.

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  19. Padmanabhan21 June 2015 at 11:38

    Is 7A washroom or bathroom? I had it as washroom.

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  20. Padmanabhan21 June 2015 at 11:39

    24A- Penang- T

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  21. Padmanabhan21 June 2015 at 11:42

    23A- Able
    Fit- Def.
    Guy- Al , is- be

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    1. Suresh21 June 2015 at 12:00

      Cable - C

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 June 2015 at 12:07

      Yes. Guy = Cable (Bald = Hairless or capless. So 'minus' C)

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    3. Padmanabhan21 June 2015 at 12:11

      C?

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 June 2015 at 12:21

      You won't believe it Paddy! My first parsing was taking that guy to be Gable (Clark Gable), I deleted 'G' to get ABLE!!

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    5. Padmanabhan21 June 2015 at 12:21

      Got it now. My parsing is wrong.

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    6. Padmanabhan21 June 2015 at 12:23

      Yours also sounds reasonable. Clark gable is a guy, after all.
      Probably 'Guy' is better known as 'Guy rope'.

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    7. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 June 2015 at 12:27

      Later I got it correct after seeing your anno. Had to visit Free Dic to clear my doubt and found one of the meanings of GUY is a CABLE too!

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    8. Nadathur Rajan21 June 2015 at 12:29

      Guy-rope or guy is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a free-standing structure.
      Used in ship masts, radio masts, wind turbines and utility poles.

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  22. Deepak Gopinath21 June 2015 at 11:42

    Jayaseelan your anno for 25A is incorrect, please review

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    1. Jayaseelan21 June 2015 at 12:06

      (S)(TOP)(COCK) { (S)mall + TOP for 'lid' & COCK for 'tip'} Is it correct?

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  23. Unknown21 June 2015 at 11:52

    16 Bragi, Odin, Loki or one of them (5,3) Norse god DD

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  24. Vasant21 June 2015 at 11:52

    Nice breezy solve; Trademark AD.

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  25. Padmanabhan21 June 2015 at 11:53

    Nice one AD.Enjoyed it. Thank you. Very fast flowing.
    Karachi- chakra, sounds familiar. Have we seen it here recently?

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  26. Padmanabhan21 June 2015 at 11:55

    A bit of logic-
    If fit guy is bald, are all bald guys fit?

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    1. Suresh21 June 2015 at 12:02

      16D has the wrong enu in the acrosslite version. I says (8) and I had difficulty

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  27. Unknown21 June 2015 at 12:01

    19 Locked and left (6) Bolted DD

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  28. RameshJ21 June 2015 at 12:06

    20 Decides to discourage supplies (10) DETERMINES {DETER}{MINES}
    21 No lead mixed in Boost, not a bit of arsenic or other mineral (10) BLOODSTONE {NO LED BOOST}*

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 June 2015 at 12:16

      Anno : The role of 'a' in LEAD awaits your notice pl. :)

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    2. Padmanabhan21 June 2015 at 12:18

      He has put in 'Led' only, assuming removal of A.

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    3. RameshJ21 June 2015 at 12:35

      Lead without a bit of arsenic= Led & is what is used as fodder as shown above

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 June 2015 at 12:54

      Thanks, Ramesh :)

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  29. RameshJ21 June 2015 at 12:07

    5D Finger millet given by kid at India (4) RAGI {RAG}{I}

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  30. Nadathur Rajan21 June 2015 at 12:22

    DOWN
    20 Endorsed / editor to go in front // to model (6) DESIGN
    signed ED to go in front

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  31. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 June 2015 at 12:47

    An enjoyable puzzle! As Vasant had said @ 11:52 am, it's really a Trademark crossie of AD. Houseful or should I say, blogful entertainment for the day! Thanks AD. :-)))

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  32. Deepak Gopinath21 June 2015 at 13:51

    Shrikanth, thanks for the Special

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    1. Shrikanth21 June 2015 at 19:04

      My pleasure Colonel. There is always one for the blog from me. :)

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  33. raju umamaheswar22 June 2015 at 05:40

    A most enjoyable and one of the easier crossies good enough for any solver newly trying hands at cryptics !

    Thanks After Dark. You have come out of your darkness and followed the saying : lead, kindly light. ! Light in the sense of clues !

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