Thursday, 20 July 2017

No 12064, Thursday 20 Jun 2017, Sunnet


Plenty of Parsis around.

ACROSS
1   Trace of shower on road (6) STRAIN {ST}{RAIN}
4   Perhaps Bond girls can be spotted from a distance using this (8) SPYGLASS {SPY}{G}{LASS}
10 Old religious person gets a conservative's purgative (9) EXPIATORY {EX}{PI}{A}{TORY}
11 Principal officer (5) MAJOR [DD]
12 Average is raised by Indian community (5) PARSI {PAR}{IS<=}
13 Shrink the criminal (9) THERAPIST {THE}{RAPIST}
14 Expression of dismay on finding catholic queen is more violent (7) FIERCER {FIE}{RC}{ER}
16 Goodbye and thanks once again (2-2) TA-TA {TA}{TA}
19 Trickle from bore (4) DRIP [DD]
21 Indian unit to almost question Japan (7) LACQUER {LAC}{QUERy}
24 Boiled red banana for food (4,5) NAAN BREAD*
25 Laugh hides desire of scavenger (5) HYENA {H{YEN}A}
26 Lower with potassium inside lawyer (5) VAKIL {VA{K}IL} That should have been an Indian lawyer
27 Ah! Sam knew to galvanize a soldier (9) MANEKSHAW * &lit
28 Litigates to protect individual's right over family identities (8) SURNAMES {MAN}{R}<= in {SUES}
29 Aim to absorb university's forge (6) SMITHY {S{MIT}HY}

DOWN
1   Rest to get rid of rotten strips around in front (5,3) SLEEP OFF {PEELS<=} {OFF} What's the role of 'rotten'? Anno for OFF not clear See comments
2   Hack note bearer (8) REPORTER {RE}{PORTER}
3   Managed to stop two persons from Persia (5) IRANI {RAN} in {II}
5   Settlement of salary's expected disregarding the Centre (7) PAYMENT {PAY}{MEaNT}
6   Agile of me to get back into machined casting (9) GYMNASTIC {MY<=} in {CASTING}*
7   Touch Bill's tie (6) ADJOIN {AD}{JOIN}
8   Spray without any issue near luxurious accommodation (6) SPRITZ {SP}{RITZ} Anno for SP pending. Got this because it had to be a Pangram! See comments
9   Change medical practitioner (6) DOCTOR [DD]
15 This French beer damaged and completely upset portions of the brain (9) CEREBELLA {CE}{BEER*}{ALL<=}
17 Very successful president left dinner bash (8) SUPERHIT {SUpPER}{HIT}
18 Open style amusement destination in New York (8) BROADWAY {BROAD}{WAY}
20 An abnormally early arrival? (7) PREEMIE [CD]
21 Nick is after city's cargo (6) LADING {LA}{DING}
22 Rascals evenly skin birds (6) KNAVES {sKiN}{AVES}
23 Rely on king's financier (6) BANKER {BANK}{ER}
25 9 thousand and one cut meat (5) HAKIM {K}{1} in {HAM}

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25 comments:

  1. Raghunath20 July 2017 at 08:34

    8 Spray without any issue near luxurious accommodation (6) SPRITZ SP{RITZ}
    SP: sp
    abbreviation for
    (Law) without issue

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  2. Raghunath20 July 2017 at 08:39

    1D: Rest to get rid of rotten strips around in front (5,3) SLEEP OFF

    I think "Rest to get rid of" is the def & Rotten is OFF

    Dispel the effects of or recover from something by going to sleep.(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/sleep_something_off%2Faway)

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  3. Raghunath20 July 2017 at 08:42

    Add VAKIL & DOCTOR to the Parsee surname list

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  4. Vasant20 July 2017 at 09:26

    Lovely puzzle. With many Parsis around.
    Manekshaw, Sam Bahadur, what a beautiful clue! With Hakim across it making it an awesome puzzle.
    Thanks Sunnet

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  5. Firdaus20 July 2017 at 09:38

    Apart from 8d, enjoyed the Parsi theme. Easy for me, as I am one.

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  6. Padmanabhan20 July 2017 at 09:50

    No mention of Pangram? Has it become the normal std. for Sunnet CW's?

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    1. RameshJ20 July 2017 at 11:22

      Col. in 8d mentions that it is the knowledge that it would be a pangram that helped him get to the solution.

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    2. Padmanabhan20 July 2017 at 13:40

      Oh!
      I missed that. I needed it for getting 'Lacquer'. BTW, Japan for lacquer is something new I learned today.

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  7. Padmanabhan20 July 2017 at 09:52

    Vakil for an advocate is very familiar to me since my father was called one in my native place.Supposed to be Tamil, though I think it is derived from Hindi (apart from being a parsi surname)

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  8. RameshJ20 July 2017 at 10:37

    Thanks for the feedback
    There are some more Parsi surnames in the grid
    For 26A I did think about using the 'Indian' indicator, but dropped it keeping the audience in mind. Vakil is found in a few English dictionaries including OED, so I treated it as a proper English word

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  9. Ramki Krishnan20 July 2017 at 10:39

    Enjoyed the grid - thanks Ramesh!
    BANKER is also another Parsi surname right?

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    1. Raghunath20 July 2017 at 10:56

      Yes and Hakim

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    2. RameshJ20 July 2017 at 11:23

      Yes. That completes the list I had in mind

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    3. lsghss1988gang20 July 2017 at 12:20

      Pls add Irani and Major also in the list.

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    4. Raghunath20 July 2017 at 13:01

      You have not seen the highlighted answers in yellow probably? They are already shown.

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  10. raju umamaheswar20 July 2017 at 13:42

    Clue of my day : CEREBELLA. Very Balle Balle !!

    Naan Bread is another variety of bread or is it merely Naan ?

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    1. Vasant20 July 2017 at 13:58

      Naan sapt solere!

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    2. sree_sree20 July 2017 at 16:34

      even APPAM is considered bread!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_breads

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  11. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan20 July 2017 at 16:59

    There is a VAKIL NEW STREET near Simakkal in Madurai, where I grew up. Only lawyers lived in that street till 1970 s- as told by my grandmother, whose father was a lawyer & lived there .

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