Sunday, 5 February 2017

Special, Sunday 05 Feb 2017, Dr Satyen Nabar


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


ACROSS
8 and 11A Palmist's instruction-- Reveal intentions (4, 4, 4)
9   Reserves to practise during intervals (10)
10 Throws out failures? Not right (6)
11 See 8
12 Opposed to a drink (4)
13 Employing disheartened amateur winsomely (10)
17 Briefly luxurious asset (4)
18 Leader ignored safe approach (5)
19 Discard the actors (4)
20 Instructs one to delete documents with changes (10)
22 Pretentious talk of market optimist (4)
23 Dressing laggards with best clothes (4, 4)
27 Working with urgency to make career (6)
28 Extremely unemotional in uniform? That's a doctor (10)
29 Long in the water with evasive people (4)

DOWN
1   See 14
2   Unsolicited opinion of very little value (3, 5)
3   Runs in to have sex? Dismisses curtly (7, 3)
4   Some aficionados lounging at city (4)
5   Time to regret being faithful (4)
6   Transfer is rejected with brief call (6)
7   Pugilist under pressure contributes to knock one senseless (4)
14 and 1D Attack fiercely and advance towards pitcher who’s breaking a rule cunningly (2, 3, 3, 7)
15 Lass searches for young women’s organisation (4, 6)
16 Lacking agenda, lackey content to leave unenthusiastically (10)
19 Obscurely perverse lacking soul perhaps, intimacy can be a net attraction (8)
21 Practice of abandoning habits? (6)
24 Spoils machine in retrospect (4)
25 Colleague lawfully removes member (4)
26 Speak roughly to break zest (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at Dr SN 11

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43 comments:

  1. Vasant5 February 2017 at 10:43

    19A:CAST DD
    16D:LISTLESSLY (LIST LESS)(L(-acke)Y)
    25D:ALLY (-leg)(ALLY)

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  2. raju umamaheswar5 February 2017 at 10:43

    8&11 ACROSS: SHOW ONE'S HAND - A palmist is shown one's hand for palm reading - one also show one's hand when one' intentions are revealed

    7 down: STUN- pugiliST UNder hidden clue

    5 down: TRUE- Time _ Rue= regret. TRUE

    Too sleepy ; past midnight . will complete the rest tomorrow morning.

    Thanks Truly, Dr Naber !

    I always give 2 down in this blog, some feel ?
    Hahah

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  3. Ramani5 February 2017 at 10:43

    25d Colleague lawfully removes member (4)(leg)ALLY
    23a Dressing laggards with best clothes (4, 4)GLAD RAGS*
    19a Discard the actors (4)CAST (DD)

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  4. Ramani5 February 2017 at 10:49

    6d Transfer is rejected with brief call (6)SI <- PHON (-E)
    5D Time to regret being faithful (4)T RUE

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  5. VMA Nair5 February 2017 at 10:53

    17) PLUS(-H)
    28) CONS(ULTANT
    4D) OSLO (T)

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  6. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan5 February 2017 at 11:19

    13 A ENGAGINGLY ( employing - ENGAGING ,disheartened Amateur- LaY , def: Winsomely)
    22 A BULL (DD)
    24 D LOOT ( <-TOOL , def:spoils )

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  7. Rengaswamy5 February 2017 at 11:39

    12a Opposed to a drink (4) A GIN
    14A and 1D Attack fiercely and advance towards pitcher who’s breaking a rule cunningly (2, 3, 3, 7)GO FOR THE JUG (ULAR)* {RULE does not form ULAR, is there a mistake in the clue or mistake in my parsing?)
    2d Unsolicited opinion of very little value (3, 5) TWO CENTS (CD)

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  8. Vinayak5 February 2017 at 11:57

    10A: EJECTS ; (-r)EJECTS, defn: Throws out
    18A: OFFER ; (-c)OFFER ; Defn: approach
    15D: GIRL SCOUTS ; {GIRL}{SCOUTS} ; Defn: Women's organisation

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  9. Padmanabhan5 February 2017 at 12:10

    9A- Res(train)ts- Reserves
    Interval- rest

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  10. Padmanabhan5 February 2017 at 12:15

    27A- Onrush-Working with urgency /Career- DD
    Took me a while to get the second meaning of career

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    1. Vasant5 February 2017 at 12:16

      I took it as(ON)(RUSH); On=working; Urgency=Rush

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    2. Padmanabhan5 February 2017 at 12:19

      Yes, that is right for the first meaning. But career also means 'move forward at high speed'.

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    3. Vasant5 February 2017 at 12:31

      Career meaning move forward at high speed is the definition=onrush

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  11. Vasant5 February 2017 at 12:15

    Lovely puzzle,Dr.Loved Go For The Jugular,Listlessly,Show One's Hands,Two Cents,Girl Scout, et al.
    Keep 'em coming!

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  12. Padmanabhan5 February 2017 at 12:16

    My third-
    29A- Eels
    Long fishes in the water/ evasive- DD

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  13. Padmanabhan5 February 2017 at 12:18

    Good engaging one, Doctor. thank you.
    Because of my delay 'eels' slipped away! Glad I was able to complete my quota.

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  14. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2017 at 12:21

    20A - TRANSFORMS {TRA(-i)NS}{FORMS}
    3D - BRUSHES OFF {RUSHES} in {BOFF}
    21D - NUDISM [CD]

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  15. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2017 at 12:23

    Last one for anyone

    19D

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  16. Padmanabhan5 February 2017 at 12:29

    19D-Cybernet
    Perverse net dealing by Cybernet Engineering.
    But I am not able to 'lacking soul' part of it.

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  17. Padmanabhan5 February 2017 at 12:30

    Oh!

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  18. Padmanabhan5 February 2017 at 12:32

    That does it! had a good time.

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  19. Mukundala Balasubramanyam5 February 2017 at 12:42

    The show is not yet over, Sir!

    The last one still hanging around unsolved is....

    26Dn : Speak roughly to break zest (4)

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  20. Padmanabhan5 February 2017 at 13:05

    One more Wow! Both for the clue and the solution.

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  21. Deepak Gopinath5 February 2017 at 13:43

    Thank you Dr Satyen

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  22. Srividya5 February 2017 at 13:46

    Ah am late 😀 enjoyed solving this one Dr

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  23. Kolluru Koteswara Rao5 February 2017 at 20:54

    Sorry Doctor. My laptop had critical breakdown!
    Got discharged from service station just now.
    I felt I missed all the fun.

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