Monday, 19 June 2017

No 12037, Monday 19 Jun 2017, Sunnet


ACROSS
1   Mould elsewhere expire in large numbers (3,3) DIE OFF {DIE} {OFF}
4   Drew attention to sister's plait and head regularly (8) STRESSED {S}{TRESS}{hEaD}
10 Reversal of measure to obliterate without force (5-4) VOLTE-FACE {VOLT}{EfFACE}
11 Chew a bit of camel's shoulder (5) CHUMP {Ca..l}{HUMP}
12 Half-hearted note to decline is sent back (5) TEPID {TE}{DIP<=}
13 Awareness of knight present on ridge (9) KNOWLEDGE {K}{NOW}{LEDGE}
14 Dropped boy at the end of old university (7) OMITTED {O}{MIT}{TED}
16 Tax responsibility (4) DUTY [DD]
19 Book of giving it away (4) GITA [T]
21 Reportedly swallows small fruits (7) BERRIES (~buries)
24 Special treatment for Carmine's rug (3-6) RED-CARPET {RED}-{CARPET}
25 Lake duck stops generating heat (5) TAHOE {O} in {HEAT}*
26 Join cell and point (5) UNITE {UNIT}{E}
27 Fancy revelries with attendants (9) RELIEVERS*
28 A smart use of opening (8) APERTURE {A}{PERT}{URE}
29 Strategic road builder takes New Zealand's low grade alloy (6) BRONZE {BRO}{NZ}{E}

DOWN
1   Commitment to back one inside county (8) DEVOTION {DEV{TO<=}{1}ON}
2   Measure police cadre's measurement system retrospectively... (8) ELLIPSIS {ELL}{IPS}{SI<=}
3   Pick up land (5) FIELD [DD]
5   Minimum support to initially establish control (7) TOEHOLD {TO}{Es...h}{HOLD}
6   Coal rates made one easier to take instead of a flight (9) ESCALATOR*
7   Muscle into ship's teams (6) SQUADS {S{QUAD}S}
8   Double cross after fall guy's left (6) DUPLEX {DUP{L}E}{X}
9   Journalist chasing money is evident (6) MARKED {MARK}{ED}
15 Al's one opponent in camp (9) TRIVALENT {T{RIVAL}ENT} Three Ones A,I,1 See comments
17 A film can be watched by you if you are past this (8) EIGHTEEN [CD]
18 Fool's an engineer and tax payer (8) ASSESSEE {ASSES}{SE}E Anno pending (Addendum - {ASS}{ESS}{EE} - See comments)
20 One who dreams of a steeple run (7) ASPIRER {A}{SPIRE}{R}
21 Daring answer for old fight (6) BATTLE B(-o+a)ATTLE
22 A host on radio — one with a warrior (6) ARJUNA {A}{RJ}{UN}{A}
23 Notice wrong recommendation (6) ADVICE {AD}{VICE}
25 It indicates possession by the Indian Railways (5) THEIR {THE}{IR}

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28 comments:

  1. Raghunath19 June 2017 at 08:35

    15 Al's one opponent in camp (9) TRIVALENT {T{RIVAL}ENT} Three Ones A,I,1

    I felt the def referred to Aluminium's valency that's 3.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath19 June 2017 at 08:38

      l and 1 are always confusing in the blog font

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    2. Raghunath19 June 2017 at 08:43

      yes

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    3. Suresh19 June 2017 at 09:58

      No confusion in the print edition

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    4. Vasant19 June 2017 at 10:20

      Came across this clue in CCS by Manish Jhaveri
      Element represented in periodic table (9)

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    5. Vasant19 June 2017 at 20:03

      Aluminium from periodic tAbLe

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  2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao19 June 2017 at 08:53

    All is well except 18DN.

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  3. Vasant19 June 2017 at 08:57

    Sunnet expounding on Gita.
    Loved 2D. Definition nicely done.
    17D again was a beautiful clue.
    Thanks Sunnet.

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  4. Padmanabhan19 June 2017 at 09:03

    Yes, loved the simple def. of 17D.
    a doubt about 21D- How do we get bottle- from 'Daring'?

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  5. Padmanabhan19 June 2017 at 09:05

    Is 'eigheen' (18 day war) also part of the theme?

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  6. Ramani19 June 2017 at 09:15

    Pangram

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    1. Padmanabhan19 June 2017 at 09:18

      Well spotted. Expected from Sunnet, but did not notice.

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    2. Padmanabhan19 June 2017 at 11:25

      Yes, Eighteen is part of the theme since Gita has 18 chapters.

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  7. Suresh19 June 2017 at 10:01

    18d. If assess can mean a female ass and EE would be executive engineer

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  8. vdsprasad49@gmail.com19 June 2017 at 10:09

    Thank you, Sunnet, for the Mahabharata touch.

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  9. Mukundala Balasubramanyam19 June 2017 at 10:36

    Nice crossie. Thank you Sunnet. :-)

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    1. Padmanabhan19 June 2017 at 11:14

      If it is 'Engineers' in stead of singular, it can be 2 SE's!

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  10. raju umamaheswar19 June 2017 at 12:37

    COL; I forgot to ask: In yesterday's Alpha-puzzle, when you gave the Acrosslite grid, alongside where numbers like !:!, 2:2 , 3:3, etc.What do they signify and where was the nee, to repeat the numbers, side by side? I wondered.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath19 June 2017 at 13:05

      They signify nothing. I just put in the clue number there as clues could not be left blank while preparing the Across Lite text file

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    2. Chaturvasi19 June 2017 at 15:38

      While preparing an Across Lite file (not for solving by any other person but just for a need of mine) I too have often cheated by putting in 'Rama' or some such word in every clue field to fulfil the requirement, instead of typing all the text involving a lot of keystrokes.That would finish the task that I wanted to do.

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    3. raju umamaheswar19 June 2017 at 16:48

      If they merely signified clue numbers , why not 1,2,3, etc instead of 1:! 2:" 3:£ etc ? It foxed me and I wondered they formed any additional instructions !

      CV: HA HA ! I'm reminded of a colleague of mine in Bombay, who used to annoy me by doing this in my blank grids with pen ( only erasers those days !) and even spilling outside the grid by letters as for him cryptic crosswords were arcane and it took me away from keeping company for his drinking sessions. He is alas no more !God bless his soul !

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  11. Ramki Krishnan19 June 2017 at 12:56

    Nice theme from Sunnet today! Even "STRESSED" an ASPIRER (what Arjuna was in the beginning and what he became!) DIE OFF (the carnage in the war) can be part of the overall Mahabharatha theme :)
    For TRIVALENT, I think the def is "Al's one" (i.e. Aluminium is one - def by example)

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  12. Col_Gopinath19 June 2017 at 14:28

    The CBSE Cryptic Crossword Competition finals which was held in Dec last year is going to be telecast as a series for a week from today at 3 PM on DD National. Please watch.

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  13. RameshJ19 June 2017 at 14:46

    Thanks for all the feedback folks
    For 18D, this is the anno I had in mind
    18 Fool's an engineer and tax payer (8) ASSESSEE
    Fool=Ass
    S=Ess
    An engineer EE
    And = Link Word
    Tax payer = Defn

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  14. raju umamaheswar19 June 2017 at 17:15

    I just completed this Sunnet and found a bit tough going. I liked 17 down - and 22 down immensely. Use of the letter A for an Adult certification and eighteen being the answer is rather clever cluing. Similarly, ARJUNA as a warrior is a typical Indian cryptic compiler's imaginative cluing. Hence , my contention that Indian compilers are leagues ahead of their counterparts elsewhere. Well done SUNNET

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