Tuesday, 7 June 2016

No 11720, Tuesday 07 Jun 2016, Anon


ACROSS
1   Beguile English by deception (6) ENTRAP {EN}{TRAP}
4   Subject could be of importance (6) MATTER [DD]
9   Wild sheep found in a ruination (4) ARUI [T]
10 Professional people drink bit of sake on the seafront (10) PROMENADES {PRO}{MEN}{ADE}{Sake}
11 Clear a disorganised basement (6) CELLAR* Seems to be an error in the anagram fodder
12 Improving cruciverbalist is an unexpected victor (8) UPSETTER {UP}{SETTER}
13 Surprised Doctor ate eggs scrambled (9) STAGGERED {DR+ATE+EGGS}*
15 At first, people value idle talk (5) PRATE {Pe...e}{RATE}
16 First lady in outskirts of Niger? No chance! (5) NEVER {Nig{EVE}eR}
18 Hide tea in waistband as a custom (5,4) STASH AWAY {S{T}ASH} {A}{WAY}
22 Saint to endlessly irritate her tailor (8) STITCHER {ST}{ITCh}{HER}
23 Bete noire slays a leading attorney during chant (6) ANTHEM ANaTHEMa
25 Leave valets at end of bureau (10) DEPARTMENT {DEPART}{MEN}{aT}
26 Letters from allied Germany found at boundary (4) EDGE [T]
27 Quake damages metro rail initially (6) TREMOR {METRO*}{Rail}
28 Batsman hits ball to fence with hesitation (6) OPENER {O}{PEN}{ER}

DOWN
1   Wilde stressed on the importance of being thus (7) EARNEST [GK]
2   Lose rug, quiver in shaft (5) THILL THrILL
3   Sully a southern leader intrinsically (7) ASPERSE {A}{So...n}{PER SE}
5   Loath a rhyme (6) AVERSE {A}{VERSE}
6   Italian restaurant gets tart ratio wrong (9) TRATTORIA*
7   Final chance for female to consider return (7) REELECT RE(-f+e)ELECT
8   Films show proof of Ram (13) DOCUMENTARIES {DOCUMENT}{ARIES}
14 Enormous European dog (5,4) GREAT DANE {GREAT} {DANE}
17 Plead with English party… (7) ENTREAT {EN}{TREAT}
19 … to commence a new business (5-2) START-UP [DD]
20 Captain America, for one, is one who pays back (7) AVENGER [C&DD]
21 Cut short visit to the ravaged district (6) GHETTO {Go}{THE+TO}*
24 Baron of Thane? (5) THEGN [DD]

GRID

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15 comments:

  1. Vasant7 June 2016 at 08:32

    Simple one as usual from Anon. THILL & THEGN took some time; both new words.

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  2. Vasant7 June 2016 at 08:35

    Only on reading the blog realised there was error in fodder of Cellar.

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  3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao7 June 2016 at 08:37

    Quickly solved almost all. ARUI, THILL and THEGN made me to halt. Initially, I felt THANE could be anagram!

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  4. Vasant7 June 2016 at 08:44

    As Baron,Thane & Thegn mean the same, would the clue classify as DD?

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  5. maradnusro7 June 2016 at 08:44

    Thanks Anon. I solved by 8.40 AM What will I do for the rest of the day?

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  6. Chaturvasi7 June 2016 at 08:54

    We setters just cannot afford to make errors in anagrams.
    We cannot trust our eye/mind to conclude that anagram fodder/anagram are perfect.
    We need to write the fodder and scratch every letter to ensure that the anagram emerges without redundancy or insufficiency.
    Of course there are anagram checking facilities online where we can carry out the exercise with much ease and speed.

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    1. Raghunath7 June 2016 at 09:27

      Agree. Add enu and other silly errors to that.

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  7. Mukundala Balasubramanyam7 June 2016 at 09:37

    Nice one from Anon. Mised out on just three...THILL, ANTHEM & THEGN.

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    1. Ramani7 June 2016 at 11:27

      ...and also an 's'...

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam7 June 2016 at 13:57

      :(

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    3. Ramani7 June 2016 at 15:56

      I meant missing of 's' in your MISED

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam7 June 2016 at 18:14

      I got what u meant Ram! My figurative expression above was to mean "Ayyoo!" for having misspelt the word!!

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  8. Deepak Gopinath7 June 2016 at 09:41

    Want to get en'light'ened on lights? Read the latest post on Shuchi's blog

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  9. falcon7 June 2016 at 10:09

    Nice, Arui and Thane were new

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  10. Srividya8 June 2016 at 16:28

    Google helped out with Thill meaning rug.. arui i guessed and checked..thegn i knew from my previous historical readings :) rest were all straight fwd..tho ghetto parsing escaped me for a while :) Nice one from Anon..

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