Tuesday 1 December 2015

No 11563, Tuesday 01 Dec 2015, Afterdark


ACROSS
9   Security seen in hot, love scene (7) HOSTAGE {H}{O}{STAGE}
10 Ignorant of a clash between UN and England (7) UNAWARE {UN}{A}{WAR}{E}
11 Grain supplied by the Spanish soldiers taken by stranger (7) ELEMENT {E{LE}{MEN}T} (Addendum - {EL}{E{MEN}T} - See comments)
12 Father makes cake; girl on entry gets a box (7) PACKAGE {PA}{CKA{G}E*}
13 Reports from east's wrong, media vets infrequently (9) EXPRESSES {E}{X}{PRESS}{vEtS}
15 Forsake General concealing a victory (5) LEAVE {LE{A}{V}E}
16 Instruments like die I dispatched as a substitute for spade (7) DEVICES {DiE}{VICE}{S}
19 Stay if son organized meet (7) SATISFY*
20 Right inside, auditor seen with wife's pupil; Creep (5) CRAWL {C{R}A}{W}{L}
21 Be dormant in cold period. I ne'er bath anyway (9) HIBERNATE*
25 In new demo, nut is fixed and assembled for use (7) MOUNTED*
26 OK, get down and head right inside (7) ALRIGHT {AL{Ri..t}IGHT}
28 Old city in South African province is chemical-free (7) NATURAL {NAT{UR}AL}
29 Somehow accede position and get security (7) DEPOSIT [T]

DOWN
1   Dairy product from Switzerland, Central Greece used without dressing (6) CHEESE {CH}{grEEce}{uSEd}
2   Being inactive? Please reform (6) ASLEEP*
3   About to win air conditioner in contest (4) RACE {R{AC}E}
4   Check-up incomplete; repeated for an organ (6) TESTES {TESt}{TESt}
5   Engineer uses prop for plans (8) PURPOSES*
6   Alto car crashes around lake; in it Copper finds an electronic device (10) CALCULATOR {L}{CU} in {ALTO+CAR}*
7   Groups of travellers seen in vehicles carrying a vanadium article (8) CARAVANS {CAR{A}{V}{AN}S}
8   Unsympathetically terminate/end love with heartless lady (8) SEVERELY {SEVER}{lovE}{LadY}
14 Lifts cost a real bomb at Sweden (10) ESCALATORS {COST+A+REAL}*{S}
16 Diamond and forecast of copper inside — Archaeologist's final certificate (8) DOCUMENT {D}{O{CU}MEN}{a...sT}
17 Visa reissued, includes passage to bridges (8) VIADUCTS {VIA{DUCT}S*}
18 On return, avoids including Switzerland itinerary (8) SCHEDULE {S{CH}EDULE<=}
22 Confronts king decked in jewels (6) BEARDS {BEA{R}DS}
23 Gold rush is awe-inspiring (6) AUGUST {AU}{GUST}
24 Eats stew at Lawrence's manor (6) ESTATE {EATS*}{TE}
27 Dismissed first player, point secured in tie (4) ROPE {RO}{Pl...r}{E} Dismissed = Runout = RO

17 comments:

  1. Simply entertaining...trademark AD puzzle..smooth surfaces

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  2. Simple and elegant 12A on offer! Thoroughly enjoyed the fare. Thank you Afterdark.

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  3. 11 Grain supplied by the Spanish soldiers taken by stranger (7) ELEMENT {E{LE}{MEN}T}
    I had it as {EL}{E{MEN}T}

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  4. 29 Somehow accede position and get security (7) DEPOSIT [T]

    Somehow - typo for somewhat?

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    1. I don't think so. "Somehow' is intended teles. ind.
      In such signals, is 'what' or 'how' redundant?

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  5. AD's CW is the silver lining in the dark cloud at chennai! Thoroughly enjoyed. No paper delivered. Solved thanks to the link to grid here. Thank you Col.

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  6. Dismissed first player, point secured in tie (4)
    Very good clue.
    Tie is noun in surface and verb in WP of SI (subsidiary ind).
    'first point' to indicate P is not accepted by judges of even CWCs, leave alone newspaper CWD eds.
    When we say 'first night' (he,he,he) to indicae first of long, interminable, sometimes boring nights, I don't understand why 'first player' and similar constructions should be frowned upon.
    What is your take?

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    1. No problem at all with first player, first night,(tongue-in-cheek)

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  7. Nice one from AD today...simple, smooth one.. Rope couldnt parse though..

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  8. Suresh @11.19: I wish there were "Like" buttons as in FB for the comments here too.

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  9. Over a period, like a bad habit the deletion/anagram type clues were predominant when I was setting. Made a conscious attempt to avoid it totally in these 2 puzzles of this cycle. That made anagrams predominant yday. Getting tougher to make a puzzle in one stretch to keep a note on such things :(

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