Saturday 30 September 2017

Special, Saturday 30 Sep 2017, Dr Satyen Nabar


HAPPY DUSSEHRA

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


ACROSS
1   Associate kissed without consent! Essentially molested (6)
5   No longer effective but cleaned the dishes? (6-2)
9   Shortly get divorced from a man wanting hot time with secret lover (8)
10 Student yearning to get one fruit (6)
11 Damn fraud beginning to ensnare princess (8, 2)
12 Shape of eggs laid initially (4)
13 Shy men! Lot perhaps wanting maiden under cover (2, 3, 3)
16 President is in charge of appeals (6)
17 Business has improved? Become more stable (4, 2)
19 What Saurav Ganguly could do perfectly to be on good terms (3, 2, 3)
21 Shoot husband in error (4)
22 Bouncer -- Peril to man batting (10)
25 Blue deer drinks water finally (6)
26 Get rid of betrothed perhaps to show opposition (8)
27 What's seen on a football field? Bad-tempered obstruction (8)
28 Become very angry about boring issue (3, 3)

DOWN
2   Hired assassin? Well done! (5)
3   Club for employees (5)
4   Parachutes starting to drop villains (7)
5   Sophisticated material (7)
6   Poor supplicant cannot divorce (5, 2)
7   Valuable discovery largely in use -- Mixer (9)
8   Found criminal arresting judge? That's unprecedented (7, 2)
14 One next door girl in hot robe for all to see! Fantastic (9)
15 Extremely large drone about to leave America (9)
18 Soft broth prepared having taste ultimately of culinary plant (7)
19 Duck caught by stronger magpie (7)
20 Prompts fights around post office (3-4)
23 Abandon holiday (5)
24 Fastidious about husband calling (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at Dr SN 16

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65 comments:

  1. Padmanabhan30 September 2017 at 08:24

    12a- oVAL- (ova)l
    20d- TIP OFFS- TI(PO)FFS. Def.-Prompts

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  2. Padmanabhan30 September 2017 at 08:25

    3D- Staff-DD

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  3. Chaturvasi30 September 2017 at 08:30

    17 Business has improved? Become more stable (4, 2) FIRM UP
    23 Abandon holiday (5) LEAVE
    18 Soft broth prepared having taste ultimately of culinary plant (7) POTHERB
    (all solved cold)

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  4. Chaturvasi30 September 2017 at 08:34

    Can guess in what mood our setter was in when he composed this puzzle. In fact, two moods, I would say!

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  5. Ramani30 September 2017 at 08:55

    2d Hired assassin? Well done! (5)BRAVO (DD)

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  6. Ramani30 September 2017 at 08:57

    3D Club for employees (5)STAFF(DD)

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  7. Ramani30 September 2017 at 09:04

    10a Student yearning to get one fruit (6)L ITCH I

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  8. Padmanabhan30 September 2017 at 09:11

    Doc,
    Enjoyed the book- with a few reservations! More later.

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    1. Satyen Nabar30 September 2017 at 10:36

      Look forward to your comments.. bouquets and brickbats both! :)

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  9. sree_sree30 September 2017 at 09:12

    1a A BUS(-s)ED
    4d D Rouges

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  10. Padmanabhan30 September 2017 at 09:14

    Completed the CW as well. Thank you for filling up (enjoyably) the morning without papers & CW's.

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  11. Satyen Nabar30 September 2017 at 09:19

    That was quite fast Paddy!

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  12. Padmanabhan30 September 2017 at 09:21

    Started early. Mine was the first entry here.

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  13. Padmanabhan30 September 2017 at 09:24

    Happy Dussehra, Navarathri, Holidays to all.

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  14. Unknown30 September 2017 at 09:29

    25A Morose
    Mo(r)ose

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  15. Vasant30 September 2017 at 09:49

    5A: WASHED UP DD
    6D: SPLIT UP {SUPPLICANT(-can)}*
    16A: P LEADS

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  16. Vasant30 September 2017 at 09:50

    Happy Dusshera to all!

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  17. Unknown30 September 2017 at 09:56

    14D NEIGHBOUR
    (G IN H Robe U)*

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  18. Unknown30 September 2017 at 10:05

    26A DEFIANCE

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  19. Ramani30 September 2017 at 10:08

    22d Bouncer -- Peril to man batting (10)TAMPOLINE* (in the place of staff solved by Paddy already)

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  20. Ramani30 September 2017 at 10:08

    Please read TRAMPOLINE*

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  21. Kolluru Koteswara Rao30 September 2017 at 10:19

    13AC ON THE SLY[-m] ANAGRAM
    19AC HIT IT OFF CD
    15D HUM ON GO US

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  22. Kolluru Koteswara Rao30 September 2017 at 10:23

    Happy Dusshera to alL friends here!

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  23. Unknown30 September 2017 at 10:26

    De fiance

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  24. Vasant30 September 2017 at 10:33

    Lovely Puzzle on a holiday! Thanks Dr. for the holiday bonanza.

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    1. Satyen Nabar30 September 2017 at 10:37

      Tx Vasant! Happy Dussehra to you and all here :)

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  25. raju umamaheswar30 September 2017 at 11:07

    21 A: S(H)IN= shoot

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  26. Ramki Krishnan30 September 2017 at 11:08

    9A: PARAMOUR - PAR(-t) A M (-h)OUR
    11A: CONFOUND IT - CON FOUN(DI)T
    7D: EXTROVERT - TROV(-e) in EXERT

    Thanks for the enjoyable grid Doc! Liked 3D, 19D and 22A a lot.

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  27. raju umamaheswar30 September 2017 at 11:11

    5 down: WORDLY= Spohisticated = worldly (material?)

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    1. Satyen Nabar30 September 2017 at 11:16

      Hi Raju... Material (OED)

      denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit.
      "the material world"
      synonyms: physical, corporeal, tangible, non-spiritual, mundane, worldly, earthly, temporal, concrete, real, solid, substantial, secular, lay; rare sublunary

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  28. raju umamaheswar30 September 2017 at 11:16

    11 Across:CONFOUND IT-- fraud=CON +beginning = font+ Di for princess

    Excellent grid Doc !!

    sorry, I was alate latif today as I expected the post at 10 30 and hence took it easy.

    Happy Dusehera to all and you, Doc, stay safe in Bombay that is a dead carcass today !

    My heart bleeds for all those families affected in yesterday's tragedy.

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    1. Satyen Nabar30 September 2017 at 11:41

      Yes it was truly horrific! More importantly, completely avoidable tragedy. Basic infrastructure and amenities are in short supply, but what can be done...there are much more important things to address, I guess such as constructing multi-crore statues, bullet trains, renaming stations and dictating what we eat/wear

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  29. Deepak Gopinath30 September 2017 at 11:17

    Yet to be solved

    Across - 27, 28

    Down - 8, 19

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  30. Padmanabhan30 September 2017 at 11:34

    KKR,
    Loved your des(S)erts yesterday. Nice one.

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  31. Suresh30 September 2017 at 12:07

    27a TRAMPOLINE Anagram

    28A {SEE{RE}D}

    8d UNHEARD OF (Hear in anagram of found)

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  32. Satyen Nabar30 September 2017 at 12:32

    Yet to be solved...

    27A, 19D

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  33. raju umamaheswar30 September 2017 at 12:42

    Who's taking 19 down. the only one last left?

    Doc: we are wasting money on the dead, buried or cremated ( with all due respects to those good souls !) butinstead , send some more living to their graves. I agree, we must move with the times and modernise with bullet trains etc but get the same japanese folks to come and improve our existing structures . Tokyo & Japan deal with the same number of crowds but it is a good sight to behold thier disciplined and obedient traffic systems. Isn't it great to hear that not ONE accident has taken place in the Japanese bullet train network, ever since it was built decades ago? Alas, Indians have to live in a catch as catch can system of Jugaad !

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  34. Padmanabhan30 September 2017 at 12:56

    Raju,
    We are good in building... anything. But when it comes to maintenence, well ,the less said the better. Probably it has to with our mindset of scant disregard to rules- railway,roadway or any other way.

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  35. Deepak Gopinath30 September 2017 at 13:02

    27A - CROSSBAR {CROSS}{BAR}
    19D - HOARDER {H{O}ARDER}

    Thanks for the special Dr Satyen

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    1. Satyen Nabar30 September 2017 at 13:07

      Thanks Colonel as always :)

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    2. raju umamaheswar30 September 2017 at 13:15

      How many of us are magpies here ? I'm one, in more ways of the meaning !!!

      How many of you are throwers rather than hoarders ? I'm not one. I have a use to be discovered for every item that I hoard ! Is it a Compulsive Obsessive Disorder ? My wife says I'm an inveterate COD patient !

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    3. sree_sree30 September 2017 at 13:16

      Doc, would "pass court" work in place of "bad tempered obstruction" in the context of the clue.

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    4. sree_sree30 September 2017 at 13:17

      Raju ji, I have a friend who claims he has COD. I keep saying you can't have one unless he calls it CDO.

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    5. Vasant30 September 2017 at 13:30

      We all have COD here:Cryptic Crosswords!

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    6. Satyen Nabar30 September 2017 at 13:32

      Hi Sree, I think Cross would be Pass over (more appropriate than pass). Court = Bar would be fine. I felt bad-tempered obstruction made for a more natural surface as to what's actually seen on a football field.

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  36. Padmanabhan30 September 2017 at 13:40

    I am okay with the clue as it is. Surface is just fine and apt.
    Thank you Doc. for a lively morning.
    I saw your mail ID in the setters' page. Will write to you with my boquets... and a couple of brickbats as well since you asked for it!

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  37. raju umamaheswar30 September 2017 at 13:50

    Vasantm & Sree_sree: That's my only COD- solving cryptic crossies !

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  38. Padmanabhan30 September 2017 at 14:01

    ....and keep saving all the solved ones!

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