Thursday, 20 October 2016

No 11830, Thursday 20 Oct 2016, Afterdark


ACROSS
9   Style is a right, declared European officer (3,4) ART DECO {A}{RT} {D}{E}{CO}
10 Advice to abandon west and get east on return (7) EARNING (-w+e)EARNING
11 Criticizing application received by association (7) RAPPING {R{APP}ING}
12 Batter and a chutney for festival (7) RAMADAN {RAM}{AND+A}*
13 Terribly stupid to light fire inside by the yard (9) DIREFULLY {D{FIRE*}ULL}{Y}
15 Thinks of time to join fight at school (5) TROWS {T}{ROW}{S}
16 Initially, almost certain to stay within limits on stands (7) ENDURES {sURE} in {ENDS} What's the role of initially?
19 Horror outside boat, one lost colour (4,3) DARK RED {DREaD} over {ARK}
20 Dramatist spotted at stock exchange in India (5) IBSEN {I{BSE}N}
21 Paid leave arranged for festival (9) DEEPAVALI*
25 Man! he was shattered by loud laughs (3-4) HEE-HAWS {HE}{HE+WAS}*
26 Rounded by police officer, that woman took a left (7) SPHERAL {SP}{HER}{A}{L}
28 Neat arrangement; admitted ARR–- Report (7) NARRATE {ARR} in {NEAT}*
29 Calories burnt, order issued for pastries (7) ECLAIRS CALoRIES*

DOWN
1   Bird slaughtered without a bit of kindness for festival (6) BAKRID {A}{Ki...s} in {BIRD}*
2   Puts up with old Russian leader in trance (6) STUPOR {PUTS<=}{O}{Ru...n}
3   Half time speech contains upset (4) SEMI [T<=]
4   Friend hosted one girl; primarily eating out on festival (6) PONGAL {P{ONe}{G}AL}
5   Trumpeted about stranger getting deceived (8) BETRAYED {B{ET}RAYED}
6   In my opinion, rat race potentially leads to funeral homes (10) CREMATORIA {IMO+RAT+RACE}*
7   Almost bodily harm in battle for animal (4,4) WILD BOAR {BODILy}* in {WAR}
8   A girl, about one, small, holding teddy's oddly worried (8) AGONISED {A}{G}{ON}{1}{S}{tEdDy}
14 Female collecting money beats one; at a distance by a huge margin (3,3,4) FAR AND AWAY {F}{A}{R AND} {AWAY}
16 Engineer happy in dancing festival (8) EPIPHANY {E}{HAPPY+IN}*
17 Crackers shared outside America for festival (8) DUSSEHRA {SHARED}* around {US}
18 Avoid 15th of March, manoeuvre around (8) SIDESTEP {S{IDES}TEP}
22 Ecstasy on a road, essentially clergy announced a festival (6) EASTER {E}{A}{ST}{clERgy}
23 Scared of a loud rifle (6) AFRAID {A}{F}{RAID}
24 Some overchill establishment makes most sick (6) ILLEST [T]
27 Greeting, hugging old/first lover at festival (4) HOLI {O}{Lo..r} in {HI}

GRID

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20 comments:

  1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao20 October 2016 at 08:41

    Festive season for AD

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  2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao20 October 2016 at 08:42

    16AC Same doubt here too

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  3. Raghunath20 October 2016 at 08:58

    16 Initially, almost certain to stay within limits on stands (7) ENDURES {sURE} in {ENDS} What's the role of initially?

    I think 'initially almost' means to remove s from SURE when generally 'almost' means to remove the last letter. 'to stay within' is the container ind.

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    1. Chaturvasi20 October 2016 at 09:03

      I did notice that it is not SURe but sURE.
      But it never occurred to me that it has been taken care of by wording in the clue - as you say.
      Does it work, I wonder.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao20 October 2016 at 09:10

      Frankly, reading with 'initially almost' gave me a feeling that the initial letter is definitely there!

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    3. Raghunath20 October 2016 at 09:13

      Cannot think of any other explanation

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    4. Deepak Gopinath20 October 2016 at 09:50

      Not initially, certain to stay within limits on stands
      would have been better

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    5. Kolluru Koteswara Rao20 October 2016 at 10:05

      I too have the same idea. "Initially not certain"

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    6. sree_sree20 October 2016 at 10:24

      almost: not far off. Initially (not far) off.

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  4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam20 October 2016 at 09:32

    A festive solve! Enjoyable. Thanks AD.

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  5. Padmanabhan20 October 2016 at 09:58

    Enjoyed festive solving on paper. Missed out on wild boar & trows. Happy I was able to get all the rest without any outside help. Trows was new to me.
    I too had put a ? for initially. I feel almost can work for removal of either end. 'Initially' is very confusing, though the explanation given is best under the circumstances.

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  6. Kolluru Koteswara Rao20 October 2016 at 10:18

    Have a doubt in 13AC:
    Will it not be OK, even without "by the"?

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  7. Padmanabhan20 October 2016 at 10:35

    In any case, 'the' has to be there. Probably, he meant it to get the first letter in yard.

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  8. Vinayak20 October 2016 at 11:04

    8D: Shouldn't it be 'evenly' instead of 'oddly' or does oddly mean alternate letters?

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    1. Suresh20 October 2016 at 11:37

      Others may not agree. But, personally I do not like the use of oddly, when even letters are intended

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    2. Raghunath20 October 2016 at 12:06

      Same here. 'Often' works both ways.

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    3. Padmanabhan20 October 2016 at 12:37

      +1.
      I was stumped for a while. Agree with 'often', if the setter does not want to reveal odd/ even.

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  9. Srividya21 October 2016 at 06:23

    Rather Nice theme .. :)

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