Sunday, 5 July 2015

Special, Sunday 05 Jul 2015. Spritzer


Three answers per commenter as usual (with annotations) till 6 PM


ACROSS
8   Two units at royal grinder (6)
9   Brake epidemic (8)
10 Excess gold held by me (4)
11 Illicit group follow criminal trade, mostly (10)
12 Six directions to look at (4)
13 Rescuers: "International tariff have different rate on Saturday" (10)
17 Sound school kids yearn for? (4)
18 Animal found in many a land (5)
19 Doctor or chef? (4)
21 Strong oppress our injured (10)
23 The others returned dead (4)
24 Dismal record wrapped in plaster (10)
28 Regular turn as setter (4)
29 "Red and black, for instance" :Topless call girl at beach (8)
30 Join specialist with sister-in-law around (6)

DOWN
1   No money in pleasant surroundings is dangerous? (8)
2   Night-time strolls? (10)
3   Crazy uncle puncturing peace in aggression (10)
4   Help jeer player (4)
5   Whip up a commotion? (4)
6   Shakespeare, say, in retrospect, is boring (4)
7   Monarch in anger shattered a store (6)
14 Supporter: "5-0. Hurrah!" (5)
15 A designer's assembly distributed differently (10)
16 Clumsily built castle without model is untrustworthy (10)
20 Maximise worktime one's invested in? (8)
22 Smelled, scratched again (6)
25 Lifted flower? (4)
26 Cocaine Pole hid in pig? (4)
27 Object in mid ear (4)

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63 comments:

  1. C.G. BHARGAV5 July 2015 at 10:32

    6 Down: DRAB<-

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  2. C.G. BHARGAV5 July 2015 at 10:34

    15 Down: Reassigned*

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  3. C.G. BHARGAV5 July 2015 at 10:35

    17 Across: BELL (CD)

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  4. Jayaseelan5 July 2015 at 10:43

    18A NYALA(T)
    15D REASSIGNED (a designer's)*
    27D IDEA(T)

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  5. Venkatesh5 July 2015 at 10:43

    ACROSS
    9 Brake // epidemic (8) OUTBREAK (break* = brake)
    10 Excess gold held by me (4) M(OR)E
    11 Illicit group follow criminal trade, mostly (10) CON TRA[-de] BAND

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  6. Vasant5 July 2015 at 10:44

    21A: PROSPEROUS=(OPPRESS OUR)*
    30A: EN(LIS<)T
    12A:: (VI)(E)(W)

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  7. Mukundala Balasubramanyam5 July 2015 at 10:48

    28A : SAME {SA<-- ME}
    14D : BRAVO {BRA}{V}{O}
    20D : OPTIMISE {OP}{TIM{IS}E}

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  8. Nadathur Rajan5 July 2015 at 10:54

    ACROSS
    21 (oppress our)* Defn: Strong = PROSPEROUS
    DOWN
    3 uncle* puncturing peace TRUCE. Defn: aggression {TRU(CULEN*)CE}
    14 Supporter BRA: 5-0 V-O Defn: Hurrah! BRAVO

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  9. Jayaseelan5 July 2015 at 10:59

    compensating 15D
    3D {TRUC(ULENC)*E}

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  10. Nadathur Rajan5 July 2015 at 11:02

    Replacement for duplication:
    12 Ac Six directions to look at (4) VI E/W
    2 Dn Night-time strolls? (10) SLEEPWALKS (CD)

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  11. Abhay5 July 2015 at 11:07

    13 LIBERATORS = rescuers
    {LIB(ERAT*)OR}{S}

    7 GARNER = store
    R in ANGER*

    16 TACTLESSLY = clumsily
    CASTLE* around T plus SLY

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  12. Jayaseelan5 July 2015 at 11:07

    compensating 3D
    7D {GA(R)NER}*

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam5 July 2015 at 11:24

      Jayaseelan seems to be having a tough time compensating many of his solved clues. The above one too needs to be compensated!

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    2. Jayaseelan5 July 2015 at 11:33

      :)

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  13. Unknown5 July 2015 at 11:11

    2 Night-time strolls? (10) Sleepwalks DD

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  14. Unknown5 July 2015 at 11:15

    19 Doctor or chef? (4) Cook DD

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  15. Ramki Krishnan5 July 2015 at 11:20

    13 Rescuers: "International tariff have different rate on Saturday" (10) LIBERATORS {LIB{ERAT*}OR}{S}
    24 Dismal record wrapped in plaster (10) DEPRESSING {D{EP}RESSING}
    29 "Red and black, for instance" :Topless call girl at beach (8) SEASHORE {SEAS}+{WHORE}-W

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  16. Deepak Gopinath5 July 2015 at 11:24

    23A - LATE<=
    5D - STIR [DD]
    25D - ROSE

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  17. Deepak Gopinath5 July 2015 at 11:26

    ... and so quickly at 11:25 the only leftovers are

    Across - 8

    Down - 1, 4, 22, 26

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  18. Chaturvasi5 July 2015 at 11:28

    7 Monarch in anger shattered a store (6)
    GARNER is a verb. The 'a' in the clue makes 'store' a noun. GARNER is a noun that is archaic, no longer in use.. If 'a' were not there, 'store' will be a noun in surface reading while as def for word reqd it will do a switcheroo as verb.
    This is not tot ake away from the merit of other clues.

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  19. Raghunath5 July 2015 at 11:29

    8 A Two units at royal grinder (6) MIL+ L + ER
    22 D: Smelled, scratched again (6)RE+ EKED
    26 D: Cocaine Pole hid in pig? (4) S(N)OW

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  20. Chaturvasi5 July 2015 at 11:32

    11 Illicit group follow criminal trade, mostly (10)

    Shouldn't it be 'follows'?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath5 July 2015 at 11:35

      Also TRADE mostly would be TRAD

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    2. Raghunath5 July 2015 at 11:40

      Also I personally don't prefer "mostly" when you leave out two letters instead of "one".

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  21. Chaturvasi5 July 2015 at 11:39

    26 Cocaine Pole hid in pig? (4)

    WP is OK but the surface reading does not make sense, does it? Well, if read carefully, the surface does make sense, only you wonder where inside the pig the Pole hid the drug.

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    1. Raghunath5 July 2015 at 11:43

      He could have used 'lodge', 'plant' etc. instead.

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  22. Ramki Krishnan5 July 2015 at 11:44

    29A: Shouldn't it be "Black" instead of "black" since it denotes Black Sea?

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  23. Rengaswamy5 July 2015 at 11:46

    1 No money in pleasant surroundings is dangerous? (8) [NI(O)(TIN)CE]

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    1. Raghunath5 July 2015 at 11:49

      Think the def is insufficient. Just NICOTINE cannot mean dangerous.

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    2. Nadathur Rajan5 July 2015 at 12:16

      Defn is (It) is dangerous.

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  24. Rengaswamy5 July 2015 at 11:46

    [NIC(O)(TIN)E]

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  25. Chaturvasi5 July 2015 at 11:49

    In this second effort, the setter has maintained conciseness in his clues.

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  26. Rengaswamy5 July 2015 at 12:01

    4 Help jeer player (4) BOO N
    jeer = Boo, N is North player in Bridge

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  27. Deepak Gopinath5 July 2015 at 12:07

    Finished by Noon. Thanks Spritzer

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    1. Unknown5 July 2015 at 12:43

      Spritzer here. Many thanks, Col. Thanks for the feedback, everyone. :)

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  28. Mukundala Balasubramanyam5 July 2015 at 12:07

    Nice puzzle. Enjoyed solving it.

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  29. Deepak Gopinath5 July 2015 at 12:11

    I'm told there is a theme in the CW today

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  30. Deepak Gopinath5 July 2015 at 12:16

    I think there are 9 words as part of the theme

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  31. Raghunath5 July 2015 at 12:17

    Except for some minor glitches, good puzzle, Spritzer

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  32. Raghunath5 July 2015 at 12:18

    Cricketers?

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  33. Ramki Krishnan5 July 2015 at 12:40

    Enjoyable crossword - liked BRAVO, SLEEPWALKS the most. Thanks Spritzer!

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  34. Rengaswamy5 July 2015 at 12:53

    @MB 12.30 pm. Only one Indian cricketer out of Nine?
    Do you want MORE?

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  35. Padmanabhan5 July 2015 at 13:34

    I thought you were talking about Kiran More!
    Joining in late to find it is completed already. Anyway,enjoyed doing most of it. Nice wordplays.

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  36. Padmanabhan5 July 2015 at 13:41

    I could get only 7 cricketers. Are 'Nyala' & 'rose' cricketers too?
    Miller, More, Bell, Cook, Snow, Bravo, Garner.
    (same)* is a cricketer too.

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam5 July 2015 at 16:45

      David Boon (Australia) & Franklyn Rose (West Indies)

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    2. Padmanabhan5 July 2015 at 16:59

      Thank you MB. I missed out on Boon.

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  37. SandhyaP5 July 2015 at 15:07

    Good effort Spritzer! :)

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