Sunday, 29 May 2016

Special, Sunday 29 May 2016, Dr Satyen Nabar


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


ACROSS
1   Grovels with fear (6)
4   One on Scotch, all shaken up lacking silly alcohol permit (7)
8   Sounds of distress (7)
9   Society has solutions for drug addicts (7)
11 Slightly dirty student leader dances drunk (4-6)
12 Endlessly boring in retrospect to express dismay (2-2)
13 Dim boy with mad king (5)
14 What an orthopaedic doctor might perhaps be called to break (8)
16 Master back in super form with knock for six (8)
18 Bathroom without Jacuzzi finally available for rent (2, 3)
20 Ladies ignore first warning (4)
21 Reciting fluently while staggering away (7, 3)
23 Avoid lad at bedtime (7)
24 Nothing helping lecture (7)
25 Like intrinsically to defame (7)
26 One with a website? (6)

DOWN
1   Understand drawback to secure contract (5)
2   Model is old enough (7)
3   Fund flow to largely clear jumble (9)
5   Not right to be licked, it's revealed (5)
6   Blistering dance festival (7)
7   Most close fight in a stern conflict (9)
10 Treated a fracture when very drunk (9)
13 These are very rare unhappy daydreams (4, 5)
15 Goes ahead at full speed to give the nod to one involved in plunder (4, 2, 3)
17 Slam champion bags tough Final in style (7)
19 Tied up opening in cover (7)
21 Duties for judges (5)
22 Level of puzzle (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at Dr SN 6

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51 comments:

  1. Ramani29 May 2016 at 10:34

    18a Bathroom without Jacuzzi finally available for rent (2, 3)TO LET (TOILET - I)

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  2. Ramani29 May 2016 at 10:36

    13A Dim boy with mad king (5)B LEAR

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  3. Ramani29 May 2016 at 10:38

    20A Ladies ignore first warning (4)(W)OMEN

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  4. Ramani29 May 2016 at 10:39

    Sorry Col. The comment box has some problem in my computer.

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  5. Vasant29 May 2016 at 10:42

    21A:REELING OFF (DD)
    24A:(O)(RATION)
    19D:LIGATED; GATE inside LID

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  6. raju umamaheswar29 May 2016 at 10:58

    26 across: SPIDER- website of a spider.
    18 across: TO LET_ Bathroom- to(-I)let
    21 down: RATES- duties (tax) also Rate to assess, judge

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  7. Nadathur Rajan29 May 2016 at 11:02

    ACROSS
    23 Avoid // lad / at bed/time (7) (BOY)(COT)(T)
    25 Like / intrinsically // to defame (7) (AS)(PER/SE)
    26 One with a website? (6) SPIDER (CD)

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    1. Nadathur Rajan29 May 2016 at 11:04

      Repl for 26
      DOWN
      13 These are very rare // unhappy / daydreams (4, 5) (BLUE) (MOONS)

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  8. raju umamaheswar29 May 2016 at 11:02

    15 down: LETS IT RIP; to go at full speed _ DD with : to let someone loot.

    Making up for 18across done already by RAM

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  9. Satyen Nabar29 May 2016 at 11:09

    15 D Not DD --- LET S(i)TRIP
    Give the nod - let
    one involved in plunder --- i in strip

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    1. raju umamaheswar29 May 2016 at 11:23

      Thanks Dr. Still jet- lagged and woozy eyed after a long journey from Japaa.

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  10. Satyen Nabar29 May 2016 at 11:28

    Sure Raju...perhaps one hopes solving the cryptics might cure the jetlag! :)

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    1. Vasant29 May 2016 at 11:36

      A cure for every ailment! One puzzle in the morning..one at night.

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    2. Satyen Nabar29 May 2016 at 11:38

      Very true!:)

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    3. raju umamaheswar29 May 2016 at 11:50

      What happens to me is because of an overdose of 10 to 15 per day !

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    4. Chaturvasi29 May 2016 at 12:07

      Kaalayum neeyae! Maalaiyum neeyae! Maddhiyaanam?

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    5. Vasant29 May 2016 at 12:15

      Maddhiyaanam Tuukam!

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  11. raju umamaheswar29 May 2016 at 11:28

    Seems like Dr Nabar has our friends here splintered and strai-jacketed as the bar has been raised several notches up ?

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  12. Padmanabhan29 May 2016 at 11:49

    11A-Shop Soiled
    S(HOPS)OILED

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    1. Satyen Nabar29 May 2016 at 11:53

      11A Hi.. Not container... Charade
      student leader - s
      dances - hops
      drunk - oiled

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    2. Padmanabhan29 May 2016 at 12:16

      Did not mean it as a container. Just used the brackets to set apart the 3 parts of the charade. I should have put it better.

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    3. Satyen Nabar29 May 2016 at 12:18

      Oh ok sorry!

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  13. raju umamaheswar29 May 2016 at 11:55

    Does the compiler get any sadistic plasure in silently seeing his solvers writhing and wriggling their nerves to read his mind? DR- are you a cranium breaker by any chance ?

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    1. Satyen Nabar29 May 2016 at 11:57

      Not sadistic pleasure but of course a lot of pleasure pitting wits with fine minds here! Overall a bone breaker Raju being an ortho :)

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  14. raju umamaheswar29 May 2016 at 12:02

    Hahah ! Thought as much ! This pleasure of cracking cryptics and not bones is very unique andincomparable to any other !

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  15. Padmanabhan29 May 2016 at 12:05

    17D- Panache
    Def.- In style
    Champion- Ace Bags tougH final- AC(H)E
    Slam- Pan
    Good one. Happy to have got it.

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  16. Deepak Gopinath29 May 2016 at 12:09

    10D - PLASTERED [DD]
    14A - SPLINTER [DD]
    1D - CATCH [MD]

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    1. raju umamaheswar29 May 2016 at 12:14

      Doppleganger ; is there a Deepak Gopinath who solves and Col Gopinath who administers the blog?

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    2. Deepak Gopinath29 May 2016 at 12:18

      That depends on the browser!!

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    3. Col_Gopinath29 May 2016 at 12:20

      Understood ?

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    4. doppelganger29 May 2016 at 12:30

      I hope they haven't confused you !!

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    5. raju umamaheswar29 May 2016 at 13:51

      Must you be so cryptic and laconic? Explain youself(ves) and clear me out of the double- entredre ! or am I seeing double, at 1335 hrs?

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    6. Vasant29 May 2016 at 18:50

      Raju Sir, You really must be jetlagged not to see through the joke!

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  17. Padmanabhan29 May 2016 at 12:17

    Welcome back Raju. Hope it is not very hot in CBE.

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    1. raju umamaheswar29 May 2016 at 14:01

      Thanks, Paddy . I'm fine but still fuddled after clearing my sleep debt of 8 hours spent at the Bangalore airport for my 30 minutes flight time to CBE ! Paradox of time and motion ! and we talk about connectivity ? Luckily, 2 hours were gainfully(as I won!) spent playing Scrabble with my wife at the Cafe Coffee Day lounge. The weather here is minatory of the advent of monsoon- sticky and stocky.

      Incidentally, sorry for this lte repsonseof your earlier query. Yur name sake's initial is K. Padmanabhan and he's in Bangalore, an ex-LIC and my olleague for two years in Nairobi. He competes with our Col for the moustache he sports making him look like an ex-army man , though so very timid and soft-spoken.

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  18. Kolluru Koteswara Rao29 May 2016 at 12:23

    2 Model is old enough (7)EX AMPLE
    3 Fund flow to largely clear jumble (9) POT POUR RI(-d)
    22 Level of puzzle (5) FLOOR DD

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  19. Ramki Krishnan29 May 2016 at 12:41

    1 Grovels with fear (6) - CREEPS (DD)
    4 One on Scotch, all shaken up lacking silly alcohol permit (7) CONSENT (ONEONSCOTCHALL - ALCOHOL)*, def = permit, 2 anagrinds used "Shaken up" and "silly" for 2 pieces of the fodder
    5 Not right to be licked, it's revealed (5) - OUTED {(-R)OUTED}

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  20. Raghunath29 May 2016 at 12:43

    4A One on Scotch, all shaken up lacking silly alcohol permit (7) CONSENT* –alcohol*
    9A Society has solutions for drug addicts (7)S(TONERS)
    12A Endlessly boring in retrospect to express dismay (2-2) m UH-OH <-

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  21. Raghunath29 May 2016 at 12:46

    In lieu of 4A:

    16A Master back in super form with knock for six (8) SURP(RIS<-)E*

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  22. Vasant29 May 2016 at 12:46

    Terrific Puzzle Doctor!Outstanding wordplay!
    Thanks, You have made my day!

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  23. Deepak Gopinath29 May 2016 at 12:47

    Yet to be tackled

    Across - 8

    Down - 6, 7

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  24. Raghunath29 May 2016 at 12:53

    Good one doc. More tough than the earlier ones?

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  25. RameshJ29 May 2016 at 12:59

    8A : Straits (DD)
    6D : Sunburn (DD)
    7D: NARROWEST {NAR{ROW}EST*}

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  26. Deepak Gopinath29 May 2016 at 13:12

    Great CW Doc

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    1. Satyen Nabar29 May 2016 at 13:17

      Thanks Sir for your kind words and of course for the opportunity as always! :)

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  27. Padmanabhan29 May 2016 at 13:18

    Not just tougher than earlier ones, but a jump from High Jump to Pole vault! Lured me into believing that his CW's would be easy. Enjoyable nevertheless.

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    1. Satyen Nabar29 May 2016 at 13:26

      Thanks Sir.. I guess "level of puzzle" was tougher :)

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  28. Ramki Krishnan29 May 2016 at 18:44

    Enjoyable crossword, Dr Nabar. PANACHE, SURPRISE and EXAMPLE were my favourites!

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