Wednesday, 16 September 2015

No 11501, Wednesday 16 Sep 2015, Lightning


ACROSS
8   Chapter fifty included in test? Not in the score awarded! (11,4) EXCLAMATION MARK {EX{C}{L}AMinATION} {MARK}
9   Irritable engineer with thug regularly breaking into manufacturing facility (8) PETULANT {P{E}{ThUg}LANT}
10 Flawless in diplomacy (6) INTACT {IN}{TACT}
11 Criticism of one ousting university building (9)  STRICTURE STR(-u+i)ICTURE
12 Show topless chest (5) OFFER cOFFER
15 Afflicted with scary illness in the heart becomes underweight (7) SCRAWNY {W+SCARY+illNess}*
17 Eternal goal? Not so much (7) ENDLESS {END}{LESS}
19 Range of strategic chess move cut short at the beginning (5) AMBIT gAMBIT
20 Designed for comfort, therefore no mount in chair for starters (9) ERGONOMIC {ERGO}{NO}{Mo..t}{In}{Ch..r}
23 For qualified gain (6) PROFIT {PRO}{FIT}
25 Ends of snake spanning greyish-brown ridge in a desert (4,4) SAND DUNE {Sna{AND} {DUN}kE}
26 Now freebie might not be distributed (3,3,4,5) FOR THE TIME BEING*

DOWN
1   Omit passage right away (6) EXCEPT EXCErPT
2   Enlightened group’s aim until one left devastated (10) ILLUMINATI {AIM+UNTIL+1+L}*
3   Bestowing one with special skill to entice Member of Parliament in German (9) IMPARTING {1}{MP}{ART}{IN}{G}
4   Importance of the frame of mind I hear you are in (7) STATURE {STAT{UR}E}
5   These gates admit the truth (5) LOGIC [CD]
6   Release monthly payment by end of August (4) EMIT {EMI}{a...sT}
7   Return journeys (8) PROCEEDS [DD]
13 Animal freed by mistake, let inside (6,4) FALLOW DEER {F{ALLOW} DEER*}
14 Bump into noble one almost breaking into register (9) ENCOUNTER {EN{COUNt}TER}
16 Rekindling old romance in this country (8) CAMEROON {O+ROMANCE}*
18 Old kingdom of northern Poland and its neighbour (7) PRUSSIA {Po..d}{RUSSIA}
21 Losing opener, unbeaten for 50 overs, say (6) INNING wINNING
22 Animal seen in hot territories (5) OTTER [T]
24 Chance fellow had (4) FATE {F}{ATE}

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19 comments:

  1. Vasant16 September 2015 at 08:38

    Lovely xword..long ones nicely done..others equally njoyable
    Doing an MB today: L needs to be addef in the anno of 9 A

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  2. Chaturvasi16 September 2015 at 08:42

    Didn't do this crossword but as I casually and incompletely look at the clues and answers above, down 7 13 22 24 are all so good!
    I am sure solvers must have had good time.

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  3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam16 September 2015 at 09:04

    Delightful one. Enjoyed thoroughly. Could annotate all except 25Ac "SAND DUNE. Not getting 'AND' part. Any one to throw some light on this please!? Thanks Lightning. :-)))

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  4. Chaturvasi16 September 2015 at 09:25

    What are the ends of Mukundala?
    Well, they are M and A, not MA.

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  5. Chaturvasi16 September 2015 at 09:27

    MB
    Ref your smiley above. How many mouths do you have?

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam16 September 2015 at 09:38

      Only one Sir! But when I complete a CW my smile becomes quite enlarged just like that of a Cheshire cat! :-)))

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam16 September 2015 at 09:43

      ...grinning from ear to ear!

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  6. Srividya16 September 2015 at 11:17

    Ok rather decent xword after yest.. messed up on fallow deer tho... put it down as fellow doer for sm reason :) took help for proceeds

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  7. Chaturvasi16 September 2015 at 12:40

    Today, while reading a film review on the Internet,I came across a word that I have never met before.
    mentee
    Do you know what it is?
    If not, guess here and then visit
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mentee

    The word was in a review of the film Kaviya Thalaivan by a writer who was my colleague in a newspaper organisation.

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  8. Vasant16 September 2015 at 12:43

    Had come across the word during one of the training programmes:mentor & mentee..my webster in my cell phone confirms that

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  9. Chaturvasi16 September 2015 at 13:15

    Yes, we have protector, protectee; assignor, assignee....
    But mentee is repulsive to me.

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    1. Chaturvasi16 September 2015 at 15:05

      It was an instinctive revulsion.
      I wonder why. Then iI got the answer.
      Assign is verb. Assignor is noun. Assignee, we can understand.
      So also protect, protector, protectee.
      Mentor is in itself a noun and a verb. We cannot derive mentee from that.
      Mentee is faceitous in my opinion.

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    2. Kishore16 September 2015 at 16:03

      I have encountered a Manatee but never a manator ...

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  10. Unknown16 September 2015 at 17:23

    Excellent puzzle.
    7 and 24d are beautiful.

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  11. Padmanabhan16 September 2015 at 17:48

    Assignee, protege, pupil were some of the synonyms thrown up by the net. Interestingly, chambers does not have an entry.
    K,
    You may not have encountered a manator, but certainly a 'man eater'- I mean only on paper.

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  12. Ramki Krishnan16 September 2015 at 17:59

    Lovely crossword! Too many nice clues to list (12, 21, 24...)
    Thanks Lightning!

    - Ramki.

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