Thursday 25 August 2016

No 11786, Thursday 25 Aug 2016, Neyartha


Citric delight from Neyartha

ACROSS
1   Get serious about a depressed joint? (7,4) KNUCKLE DOWN {KNUCKLE} {DOWN}
9   Look inside the animal for a medicinal powder (7) CALOMEL {CA{LO}MEL}
10 Plant product gets eccentric trio imprisoned by China (6) CITRON {C{TRIO*}N}
11 Urge to claim pellet gun's contents (5) IMPEL [T]
12 Note about informal expressions yields clues (7) SIGNALS {SI}{SLANG<=}
15 Bill of fare — something seen on a computer screen? (4) MENU [DD]
16 No time to draft annotations about the American city (3,7) SAN ANTONIO ANNOtATIONS*
18 Get up! Friar's running around for a plant product (10) GRAPEFRUIT {GET+UP+FRIAR}*
20 Fool's daughter going right to the end of an article reflecting personal views (2-2) OP-ED (-d)OP-E(+d)D
23 Kind of symmetry in the folds around a box for the titanium article (7) SPATIAL {TI}{A} in {LAPS<=}
24 Old sweetheart caught with a plant product (5) LEMON [DD?] (Addendum - (~ leman) - See comments)
26 The first German to be evicted from a farmhouse by Oscar gets a plant product (6) ORANGE (-g+o)ORANGE
27 Fabulously designed fob goes missing routinely (7) USUALLY fAbULoUSLY*
28 Dark spruce damaged by copper and a gibbon (11) CREPUSCULAR {SPRUCE*}{CU}{LAR} Reverse engineered guesswork!

DOWN
2   Quick male enters overturned container before the French (6) NIMBLE {NI{M}B<=}{LE}
3   Ring to get an old head covering for the auditor (4) CALL (~ caul)
4   Calm surroundings for operation in-charge rendered powerless by a sour milk component (6,4) LACTIC ACID {ACT}{IC} in {pLACID}
5   Set off? (8) DETONATE [E]
6   Owl Noel disturbed with bulky cloth (7) WOOLLEN*
7   American football practice leading to a noisy riotous fight (9) SCRIMMAGE [DD]
8   Lubricants containing phosphorus returned with new type of footwear (4-2) SLIP-ON {SLI{P}O<=}{N}
13 Woman's daughter's off with the audience (not trendy) to find some clerical assistants (3,7) LAY READERS {LAdY} {READERShip}
14 Excellent view of the swift diving duck (6-3) GOLDEN-EYE {GOLDEN}-{EYE}
17 Battered peanut cooked after a follower meets the Asian (6-2) BEATEN-UP {B}{E}{PEANUT*}
19 Drug, fashionable, replaced with hesitation by one with high hopes (7) ASPIRER ASPIR(-in+er)ER
21 The plant product was rudely lampooned and left out (6) POMELO LaMPOOnEd*
22 Part of the sample uranium taken out to get a lung membrane (6) PLEURA [T]
25 Balu finally gets to support the leaders of the young Uzbek zookeepers with a plant product (4) YUZU {Yo..g}{Uz..k}{Zo...s}{balU}

GRID

18 comments:

  1. Excellent one from Neyartha ! Themed wonderfully.. On 24a i am not sure if it is Lemon or Leman (archaic word for lover) ..it is not a DD but some form of addition/deletion .. crepescular a totally new word for me.. thank god for google :)

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    1. You are right Srividya. Leman hp indicator (caught with = heard)

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    2. oh i see.. the caught is the hp indicator.. not an addition/deletion then.. thanks KKR

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  2. Neyartha's trademark and fine one.
    13DN I think it still works without "Not trendy"

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  3. A fruitful session!
    I was thinking that 'Grapefruit' is regular grapes until I saw the Col's picture and read up.
    I was lampooned by the deletion of 'and' for a long time.

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  4. Neyartha returns with a superb citric puzzle!
    Being a holiday..did the puzzle at a leisurely pace..

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    1. Thanks Ramesh for the link. Btw did anyone notice that the links to Terms of service and Privacy Policy lead to a 404 link :) I tried registering with my Singapore number - is that not possible? Coz i have not yet received sms with login details.. :(

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    2. Hi Ramesh,
      I tried to log in. But my password seemed to be unrecognized. Sent a mail seeking new password.
      Incidentally, IXL2016 seems unbelievable. There is already a link with IXL2016 in the website, which leads us to the leaderboard statistics in which we all participated last.
      Do you feel the same?

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    3. KKR,
      Did you make sure you put in your mobile no? They send a new password by sms. I got it that way only.

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    4. I logged in with my mobile no. only. When I askrequested for password, it asked me to give my mail id. Then refused saying invalid email. I tried with all my mail ids. No chance

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    5. KKR,
      It seems you you chose "Already registered? Login to play" option to get your password. Choose the option "Register to participate" and fill-in the columns and am sure you will get the password immediately.

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    6. Thanks Padmanabhan and MB,
      In fact, I got a mail two days ago that the IXL2016 will be opening today.
      Since I was already registered with them, I thought the website will allow me to log-in with the credentials available. I registered afresh just now and got sms on my mobile with the new password. I am logged in now.

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  6. As usual, the registration takes us in cirlcles, but done now .

    Looking forward to solving it on 11th Sept, 2016, en-route to New York that very same day !

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