Tuesday 11 April 2017

No 11978, Tuesday 11 Apr 2017, Sunnet


ACROSS
1   Improvises using present day progressive party members (2-4) AD-LIBS {AD}-{LIBS}
4   A police department near Kashmir town initially compromises by tolerating a highly sour environment (8) ACIDURIC {A}{CID}{URI}{Co...s}
10 Sprinkle salt over a cut suitable for dry heating (4,5) VEAL ROAST*
11 Cheap pleasure's symbol of sin (5) APPLE [T]
12 Sweet Fire at the beginning and end of day (5) CANDY {CAN}{DaY}
13 Tom poured claret for stock mover (6,3) CATTLE CAR {CAT}{CLARET*}
14 Raisin is popular reportedly (7) CURRANT (~current)
16 Got up when saint stopped deer (4) ROSE {RO{S}E}
19 Heard hum of port (4) WINE (~whine)
21 He's taking a boy back to get geometric design representing the universe (7) MANDALA {MAN}{A LAD<=}
24 Winner against Queens' men (9) CONQUEROR {CON}{QU}{ER}{OR}
25 Look into person's lineage (5) BLOOD {B{LO}OD}
26 Black/green colour (5) BLUSH {B}{LUSH}
27 Close by for team's match (9) PROXIMATE {PRO}{XI}{TEAM*} (Correction - {PRO}{XI}{MATE} - See comments)
28 Mischief makers confused girls with men (8) GREMLINS*
29 Finally no article to split Kentucky's editor-approved (6) OKAYED {nO}{K{A}Y}{ED}

DOWN
1   Notice Tamil freedom fighter's account has a bit of your support (8) ADVOCACY {AD}{VOC}{AC}{Your}
2   Apprentices angle to get to breadwinners (8) LEARNERS {L}{EARNERS}
3   Say, hide this fleshy fruit (5) BERRY (~bury)
5   Citizen turned over list for legal publication (7) CITATOR {CIT}{ROTA<=}
6   Working lady dines with pride (6,3) DEADLY SIN*
7   Rearrange to leap over knight (6) REPACK {CAPER<=}{K}
8   Scream about woman's fruit (6) CHERRY {C{HER}RY}
9   Tap note to cute cast (6) FAUCET {FA}{CUTE*}
15 State's message to Union Territory: Stop detailed mapping method (9) AZIMUTHAL {AZ}{IM}{UT}{HALt}
17 Scholar to sow every tree (8) MAHOGANY {MA}{HOG}{ANY}
18 Worker arrested for PDA (4-4) HAND-HELD {HAND}-{HELD}
20 Money to find fault with artificial language (7) EUROPAN {EURO}{PAN} ? Couldn't find this on the net See the link
21 Setter has right quantity of 19 (6) MERLOT {ME}{R}{LOT}
22 In case of emergency take pain killer (3,3) ICE BAG {I C E} {BAG}
23 Wound judge in temper (6) INJURE {IN{J}URE}
25 Non-working mobile phone for a reliable person (5) BRICK [DD]

GRID

18 comments:

  1. Theme:colour? Rose,Cherry,Mahogany,Berry,etc

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    1. Specifically variant of Red..cherry red...blood red..brick red..rose red...berry red...apple red...blush?

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    2. Like in the Dhoni-Prateik ad for Lava phone :)

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    1. Wow!That is quiet innovative

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    2. Was not specifically targeting lipstick colours, but the overlap should be significant. I got my choice of red from
      https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/color-thesaurus-correct-names-of-shades/

      Currant is also a theme word

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  3. Nice puzzle, Did not know that I C E was for In case of emergency

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    1. Normally you are advised to save one number in your phone as ICE which can be contaced when such a situation arises

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  4. Interactive version playing truant again like yesterday

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  5. Here is the link for the debut CW by Samurai Pony! Please do try & give your feedback. Instructions are given in the blog :)
    http://www.1across.org/2017/04/11/2s-company/#comment-230

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  6. For 27A, the Anno I had in mind was {PRO}{XI}{MATE} where Mate is derived from Match

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    1. I was wondering about 'teams' following closely behind 'queens'. Now it is cleared.

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    2. That's fine. I also was wondering how the anno worked with team anagrammed. Overlooked the mate = match.

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  7. Why no mention of Pangram? I sit because it is taken for granted in all Sunnet puzzles?!

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    1. See next to "labels" at the bottom of the clues

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    2. Just saw. Thank you. Yet to come to terms with the new format.

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