Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Thursday, 3 August 2017

No 12076, Thursday 03 Aug 2017, Incognito


... and Incognito's touring Singapore!

 ACROSS
7   Take tea with model and talk (4) CHAT {CHA}{T}
8   Medico with a master's degree is hugged by non-drinker and playwright (9) DRAMATIST {DR}{MA}{T{IS}T}
10 Couples from India dislike golden colour (6) INDIGO {INdia}{DIs...e}{GOl..n}
11 Reconstructed landing field after cancelling winding lane? That's no big deal! (8) FIDDLING {lanDING+FIeLD}*
12 Zero probability? Certainly not! (2,6) NO CHANCE {NO} {CHANCE}
14 Alter perm or dress (6) ROMPER*
16 Despatched ring to South American island (7) SENTOSA {SENT}{O}{SA}
18 West Germanic language travelling earthlings use artlessly (7) ENGLISH EartHLINGS*
21 Maybe lost by European native initially or taken illegally (6) STOLEN {LOST*}{Eu...n}{Na...e}
23 A dash to burial places results in scrambles (8) ENCRYPTS {EN}{CRYPTS}
25 Majestic e-mail rip-off (8) IMPERIAL*
27 Skilful old partner's saucy (6) EXPERT {EX}{PERT}
29 Lewd louse excitedly hugs tutor after rejecting tea (9) LECHEROUS {teaCHER} in {LOUSE}*
30 The Greatest kind of soil (4) CLAY [DD]

DOWN
1   Skeletal part radiated light around Irish nurse's body initially (8) SHINBONE {SH{Ir..h}{Nu..e}{Body}ONE}
2   Case existing in perpetuity (4) ETUI [T]
3   Be next to announcement and enlist (6) ADJOIN {AD}{JOIN}
4   Royal Air Force flies dropping setter's lotteries (7) RAFFLES {RAF}{FLiES}
5   Male takes damaged dinar for orange (8) MANDARIN {MAN}{DINAR*}
6   Woman with one lira left testament (4) WILL {W}{1}{L}{L}
9   Worried about dancing teens (5) TENSE*
13 Popular Semitic god's place of residence for tourists (5) HOTEL {HOT}{EL}
15 Before June — including the French language (5) MALAY {MA{LA}Y}
17 Guard posted silly line (8) SENTINEL {SENT}{LINE*}
19 Doctor Sara’s duty does not include opening of surgery on weekend (8) SATURDAY {SARAs+DUTY}*
20 Mythical creature's egg is possessed by magician (7) MERLION {MERLI{O}N}
22 South Indian language used by junta/military (5) TAMIL [T]
24 Stop around right line at court (6) CREASE {C{R}EASE}
26 Draw fish without head (4) ETCH ?ETCH Anno pending See comments
28 Our little neighbour has cold compress (4) PACK {PA{C}K}

GRID

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47 comments:

  1. Chaturvasi3 August 2017 at 08:35

    Off topic but not off the forum
    Yesterday after I saw LAEVULOSE as a grid entry, I threw in PORIVILANGAI URUNDAI as a 'word' to clue.
    I thank the members who accepted the challenge.
    While foreign (e.g., French) terms may be somewhat pliable in wordplay, most Indian terms will be hard nuts to crack. The components derived by beaking up may not yield themselves for fair treatment.
    To get a meaningful surface reading might be a big problem.
    Added to this is the fact that in India there are so many languages that the same word may have different inflections in different languages.
    For example, today, alongside the crossword there is the word 'kripa' screaming at you in the 'Faith' column. This is Sanskrit. In Tamil, we would say 'kripai'.
    Of the submissions, Satyen Nabar's clue
    One very pure A-one grain ladoo with primarily unknown nutritious ingredients! Fantastic, oddly not over-sweet (12, 7)

    (I + V + PURE + A + I + GRAIN LADOO + U + N + I)* - OE; Defn = sweet.

    is a runaway success.
    He has managed to gel into wordplay the ingredients and the shape of the sweet, with a glance at the implied meaning of the name mentioned by Shrikanth.
    The clue is indeed long but here we don't have a word-limit. Besides, nothing in the clue is extraneous.
    Congrats, Satyen.
    I wanted to try a clue myself but I don't think I can better Satyen's effort.
    Now I am going in search of the sweet. I may have eaten it - or perhaps tried to eat the difficult-to-break sweet - when I was a boy when in our grandmothers' days such things were home-made. Now it has to be 'store-bought'.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath3 August 2017 at 08:40

      Unfortunately we don't get it in stores in Bangalore. Even the ones we get in my hometown in Kerala nowadays, are not as hard as the ones that my grandmother used to make. I remember as kids at times I used to break it with a hammer.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath3 August 2017 at 08:41

      ... and I forgot. Congrats Doc. You need to eat one of them now

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    3. Satyen Nabar3 August 2017 at 08:52

      Thanks Chaturvasi Sir and Col! It was great fun! Thanks for the challenge Sir... Definitely want to taste the sweet. I can bring my surgical hammer:)

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  2. Deepak Gopinath3 August 2017 at 08:36

    Another OT

    Msg from Bhavan

    We have some company for Nina. Mum and newbie both doing well.

    His name is about right. New invention, on reflection (4)

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    1. Deepak Gopinath3 August 2017 at 08:51

      Unfortunately I cannot add the photo, in the comments section, that came with the above msg.

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    2. Vasant3 August 2017 at 09:11

      Congrats Bhavan! God bless the new arrival

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao3 August 2017 at 09:14

      Congrats Bhavan!

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    4. Satyen Nabar3 August 2017 at 09:17

      Congrats Bhavan Sir! Wren?

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    5. Deepak Gopinath3 August 2017 at 09:33

      I forgot to add the date which was Monday 31 July

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    6. Satyen Nabar3 August 2017 at 09:46

      Tx Col.

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    7. Kishore3 August 2017 at 10:37

      Congratulations, Bhavan, Amudha and Nina!

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    8. Bhavan3 August 2017 at 14:02

      Thanks all for the wishes.

      Satyen that name clue has one def but two wordplays, so might have thrown you off.

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    9. Satyen Nabar3 August 2017 at 14:16

      NEIL?

      N + LIE rev

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    10. Vasant3 August 2017 at 14:20

      NIEL. Your hint gave it away.

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    11. Vasant3 August 2017 at 14:20

      Should be NEIL

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    12. Vasant3 August 2017 at 14:24

      Ah!Dr. beating me to it..the second wp is reversal of lien

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    13. Vasant3 August 2017 at 14:25

      So Nina & Neil..two four letter words starting from N for the juniors. Great!

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    14. Padmanabhan3 August 2017 at 18:39

      So we have an explorer- Neil Armstrong!

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  3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao3 August 2017 at 08:54

    26DN I think fish here meant to be fetch.

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  4. Chaturvasi3 August 2017 at 08:55

    26d If we behead PERCH, ROACH, TENCH, WITCH (all of which come under 'fish'), we still don't get ETCH.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath3 August 2017 at 09:02

      The closest fish I found was HECHT which would then need an Anagram Indicator after deleting the head

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  5. Chaturvasi3 August 2017 at 08:57

    KRK: How do you get the deletion fodder FETCH?

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao3 August 2017 at 08:58

      If the answer is to be taken as FETCH without head should give ETCH, right?

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  6. sree_sree3 August 2017 at 09:19

    Ketch is a fishing vessel derived from "to catch". http://www.morewords.com/word/ketch/

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  7. Kishore3 August 2017 at 09:22

    Apologies! In my notes, I have Ketch, which is certainly not a fish!

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  8. Deepak Gopinath3 August 2017 at 09:31

    Msg from Incognito who is literally so as he has no net

    Quote

    Apologies! In my notes. I find kETCH, which is certainly not a fish!

    Unquote

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  9. Chaturvasi3 August 2017 at 09:36

    If it is nonet, he will sing along with eight others.

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  10. Deepak Gopinath3 August 2017 at 10:00

    Again OT

    Just watched the movie PSYCHO again. Saw it sometime in 65. The first murder scene still gives me the heebie-jeebies at times when I am in a bathroom which has a shower curtain.

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    1. Vasant3 August 2017 at 10:11

      +1 Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates still gives the shivers

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  11. Mona Sogal3 August 2017 at 10:18

    Awesome grid Incognito:)

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    1. Kishore3 August 2017 at 10:40

      Thanks, Mona. There are some other theme words too, but that's based on information not in public domain, so cannot disclose here

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  12. vdsprasad49@gmail.com3 August 2017 at 10:37

    17D. It is a DD clue? Just curious to know if the clue would work this way too: Zero probability? Yes!

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  13. Padmanabhan3 August 2017 at 11:06

    Congrats and Best Wishesto Mrs. & Mr. Bhavan.

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  14. Padmanabhan3 August 2017 at 11:07

    Col.,
    Why don't you put up the picture in the family section? She is now part of the family.

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  15. Padmanabhan3 August 2017 at 11:10

    Thank you Kishore. Had to go out. was able to solve quickly on line before that. I was wondering if the theme might be languages.
    Dr. Satyan,
    Congratulations. News may be sweeter than Porivilangai urundai ( I found it difficult even to spell it, I hope I am right.)

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  16. raju umamaheswar3 August 2017 at 12:12

    I still feel that the spelling is PORU-L--VILANGA_URUNDAI. Unfortunately, none of the granmas who can make this cannon ball are alive today. Will any Tamil Pulavar clarify? What does the Google grandma say ? or the Pedia thatha ?

    Incognito's clues are as simple as his anonymity is complicated.

    Congrats to Mr & Mes Bhavan.

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    1. sree_sree3 August 2017 at 13:27

      http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/How-to-make...Porivilangai-urundai/article15921129.ece

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  17. raju umamaheswar3 August 2017 at 13:59

    Thanks. I'm still curious to know the etymology of this word please. CV: You've set the BALL rolling !!

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