Wednesday, 15 February 2017

No 11931, Wednesday 15 Feb 2017, Afterdark


ACROSS
9   Produce lousy serial, get some earnings (7) REALISE {SERIAL}*{Ea...s}
10 Mingle with criminal, join (7) CONFUSE {CON}{FUSE}
11 Setting nail head in bed, later removing nail head (7) CONTEXT {CO{Nail}T}{nEXT}
12 About to get into tub to gain energy or expire (7) BREATHE {B{RE}ATH}{E}
13 More certain to surround right border or to give up (9) SURRENDER {SUR{R}{END}ER}
15 Orders to hold imprisonment at the end, suspends (5) STAYS {S{i...nT}AYS}
16 Mysteries about ship bordering Crete vandalized (7) SECRETS {S{CRETE*}S}
19 Inclined to designate daughter to receive neighbour first (7) SLANTED {SLA{Ne...r}TE}{D}
20 50, a maiden, appeal and boundary (5) LIMIT {L}{1}{M}{IT}
21 These days, it’s cool to pull back after being in partnership with primarily shallow principles (9) STANDARDS {STAND}{DRAw}{Sh...w} Not sure of anno (Addendum - {STAN{RAD<=}D}{Sh...w} - See ccomments)
25 Fancy a mother getting fashionable in a period (7) IMAGINE {1}{M}{AG{IN}E}
26 Meeting at ship engulfed by noise in a frenzy (7) SESSION {SE{SS}ION*}
28 Watch out saying safety's first in playing equipment (7) SEESAWS {SEE}{SAW}{Sa...y}
29 Compass placed at the north and east vertices of triangle (7) SCALENE {SCALE}{North}{East}

DOWN
1   Vehicles gather around road leading South (6) TRUCKS {T{R}UCK}{So..h}
2   Approach say, island to get pearl frequently (6) MANNER {MANN}{pEaRl}
3   Reinsmen jump every second at tower (4) RISE {ReInSmEn}
4   Held Edward on waters (6) SEATED {SEA}{TED} Held/Seated?
5   Floating masses beg rice, dirty and smelly at the outset (8) ICEBERGS {BEG+RISE}*{Sm...y}
6   Realize that without leaders, nun's stranded badly (10) UNDERSTAND {nUN}{STRANDED}* Leaders or leader (Addendum - {nUNS+sTRANDED}* - See comments)
7   Withdraw from area after reversing vehicle (8) SUBTRACT {BUS<=}{TRACT}
8   Set free animal back outside grasslands (8) RELEASED {RE{LEAS}ED<=}
14 Choose opponent, impeach victor against some charge relating to power (10) ELECTRICAL {ELECT}{RI(-v+c)CAL}
16 Most foolish to include falsifications in deposit (8) SILLIEST {SIL{LIES}T}
17 Matched friend by moving daughter 2 positions up (8) COMPARED COMPA(-d)RE(+d)D
18 Uncertainty concerning the wisdom around unique selling proposition (8) SUSPENSE {S{USP}ENSE}
22 Class is thrilled to provide help (6) ASSIST [T]
23 Collect organic seed in equal intervals (6) RAISED {oRgAnIc+SeEd}D D from? It should have been collected
24 Star's schedule in evening... (6) SUNSET [CD]
27 ...stigma created by small car crash (4) SCAR {S}{CAR} The car hasn't crashed!

GRID

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22 comments:

  1. Chaturvasi15 February 2017 at 08:34

    24 Star's schedule in evening... (6) SUNSET
    Is this a charade SUN SET but 'schedule' should have been 'scheduled' in the clue text?

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  2. Chaturvasi15 February 2017 at 08:38

    Unusually four questions have been raised on clues.

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  3. sree_sree15 February 2017 at 08:44

    21a (STAN(DAR)D)S

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    1. Chaturvasi15 February 2017 at 08:55

      I am not able to follow the anno. Need explanation.

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    2. sree_sree15 February 2017 at 09:04

      RAD is a slang/internet (as indicated by these days) for cool.

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    3. Deepak Gopinath15 February 2017 at 09:45

      Thanks for that

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    4. Srividya15 February 2017 at 09:47

      Partnership is stand?? What about the these days bit??

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    5. Deepak Gopinath15 February 2017 at 09:57

      These days, it's cool = RAD - See the link I have put in the main post

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  4. sree_sree15 February 2017 at 09:08

    6d is it ok to take (-n)uns (-s)tranded

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  5. raju umamaheswar15 February 2017 at 10:19

    Could solve the grid by mere instinctive inferences and then look for the annotations !Light comes after darkness !

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    1. Padmanabhan15 February 2017 at 10:30

      Agree with Raju. Looks difficult to get annos. Sounds like solving a math problem after knowing the answer.

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  6. Padmanabhan15 February 2017 at 10:28

    2A- Mingle is mixing or combining. Is it confuse?
    28a- Should it not be 'playing equipments to get seesaws?
    7D- Withdraw=Subtract? Take away would have been better.

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  7. Chaturvasi15 February 2017 at 10:49

    "Equipment' may refer to a set of articles. The 's' is not required. Equipment may refer to seesae, slide, etc. Whether 'playing equipment' leads to 'seesaws' I am not sure.

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  8. Padmanabhan15 February 2017 at 12:38

    Thank you. I got the point about equipment.

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  9. VMA Nair15 February 2017 at 13:16

    A bland puzzle. Couldn't enjoy!

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  10. Kishore15 February 2017 at 19:15

    Lots of Ss are there in the answers ... not able to correlate whether it means anything

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    1. Kishore15 February 2017 at 19:17

      S for Shrikanth or Sasi?
      Secret, suspense, stay and surrender look quite topical...

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    2. Vasant15 February 2017 at 22:06

      😄

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  11. Padmanabhan15 February 2017 at 19:57

    ...and sensational too.

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  12. Vasant15 February 2017 at 22:09

    Did the puzzle quite early but somehow couldnt come here to comment..as mentioned by many above answers went in quite easily but annos were a huge problem..

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