Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Tuesday, 3 October 2017

No 12127, Tuesday 03 Oct 2017, Anon


ACROSS
1   Agree with firm politician to play regularly (6) COMPLY {CO}{MP{pLaY}
4   Skip play on the radio (6) GAMBOL (~gamble)
9   Devise change (4) COIN [DD]
10 Campaigns to introduce balance into unresolved accounts finally (10) OPERATIONS {O{PE}RATIONS} Anno not clear (Addendum - {OPE{RATIO}N}{a...tS} - See comments)
11 Region in South Africa city (6) SPARTA {S{PART}A}
12 Administers power initially from where he stays (8) PRESIDES {P}{RESIDES}
13 Air bridge destroyed by officer (9) BRIGADIER*
15 Laughing at one caught in storm (5) ?I?N? (Addendum - RIANT {R{1}ANT} - See comments)
16 Poverty struck right at the end (5) DEATH DEArTH
18 Exposing peacekeepers who hide gin cocktail (9) UNMASKING {UN}{MASK}{GIN*}
22 Criminal to dance on postponement of payment (8) CONTANGO {CON}{TANGO}
23 Snacked on return to outhouse (6) NOSHED {ON<=}{SHED}
25 Tethers cub, irritates with catapult (10) TREBUCHETS*
26 Troubles captain from beginning to end (4) AILS (-s)AIL(+s)S
27 Will product head hire? (6) PLEASE {Pr...t}{LEASE} Will?
28 Wild nag fed at last (3,3) FAG END*

DOWN
1   Policeman encircles hospital entrance on helicopter (7) CHOPPER {C{Ho...l}OPPER}
2   Overheard child labourer (5) MINER (~minor)
3   Tear old, odd looking body suit (7) LEOTARD*
5   Humiliated a principal, started dissing (6) ABASED {A}{BASE}{Di...g}
6   Subject to guarantee one evil editor’s removal (9) BAILIWICK {BAIL}{1}{WICKed} Subject? See comments
7   Light almost entire property for gull (7) LANTERN {LANd}{TERN}
8   Ruling class settle at home, right? (6,2,5) PEOPLE IN POWER Anno pending (Addendum - {PEOPLE} {IN} {POWER} - See comments)
14 Buy a bench that can be acquired (3-2-4) GET-A-TABLE {A} in {GETTABLE} A from? (Addendum - GET-AT-ABLE - {GET A TABLE} - See comments)
17 Doctor to gripe about self-aggrandisement (3,4) EGO TRIP*
19 Confused men in Asia have memory loss (7) AMNESIA {A{MEN*}SIA}
20 Provoked by shortage of metal, we hear (7) NEEDLED {NEED}(~ lead) Incorrect homophone
21 Finds fault with boxes (6) KNOCKS [DD]
24 Bunch of mixed tapes (5) SPATE*

GRID

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34 comments:

  1. sree_sree3 October 2017 at 08:34

    10a ope(raatio)n(s)

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    1. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 08:36

      Introduce= open & balance= ratio?

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    2. Satyen Nabar3 October 2017 at 08:42

      Hi Paddy Unresolved= open, balance= ratio. Ratio in open + s(accounts finally)

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    3. sree_sree3 October 2017 at 08:42

      Unresolved:open

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    4. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 08:44

      Thank you Prasad & doc.

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  2. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 08:34

    20D-Lead (Pb) is pronounced 'led', isn't it?

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  3. Satyen Nabar3 October 2017 at 08:35

    15A RIANT I in RANT

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  4. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 08:39

    14D- Enu should be (3,1,5) But it is given as (3,2,4) at least in the print edition. yes, in the on line edition also.

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    1. sree_sree3 October 2017 at 08:54

      https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/get-at-able

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    2. sree_sree3 October 2017 at 08:57

      My understanding def: can be acquired->accessible

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    3. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 08:57

      Thank you. Something new.

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    4. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 09:06

      Then it could be a DD or CD.

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    5. sree_sree3 October 2017 at 09:13

      Buy:get
      A:a
      Bench:table

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  5. sree_sree3 October 2017 at 08:39

    8d
    settle:people
    at home:in
    right : power (constitutional right)

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    1. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 08:47

      Then 'ruling class' is the def. and not as marked.
      But is settle= people? Or class= people?

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    2. sree_sree3 October 2017 at 09:03

      People
      WITH OBJECT]
      1(of a particular group of people) inhabit (an area or place)
      ‘an arid mountain region peopled by warring clans’

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  6. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 08:41

    26A- Sail as a captain was new.
    A few new words- contango, trebuchet

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  7. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 08:42

    6D- 2. a person's special field of interest, authority, or skill- from Free dic. Did not know this.

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  8. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 08:53

    Kicking myself for having missed 'Trebuchet' after having seen this in person at Warwick castle in U.K.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Castle#/media/File:Trebuchet_at_Warwick_Castle,_2009.jpg

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  9. Vasant3 October 2017 at 09:32

    Surprising toughie from Anon...remembered his puzzles as Ku Klux Klan..thanks all for the annos above...

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  10. Deepak Gopinath3 October 2017 at 09:46

    Thanks for all the annotations

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  11. Suresh3 October 2017 at 09:55

    12a something wrong here. Or too many unwanted words. Resides is stays. Where he really screws it up imo

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    1. Deepak Gopinath3 October 2017 at 10:01

      It is needed for the surface to make sense

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    2. Chaturvasi3 October 2017 at 10:10

      I am with Suresh - RESIDES is not properly derived from clue wording.

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  12. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 10:21

    He must have meant 'where he stays' to give 'resides', but it may very well lead to residence.

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    1. sree_sree3 October 2017 at 10:45

      he might refer to presiding officer who administers power only from where he presides. (semi&lit?)

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  13. raju umamaheswar3 October 2017 at 13:41

    At first , I thought , tody's crossies was ANON-starter ! But as I filled along, it was smooth like a knife through butter ! Good one !

    Yesterday's shoot out at Las Vegas gave us some anxious monments as my son had just arrived there a fe minutes before from Tokyo on business ! He was 5 kms aay from the tragic site and has confirmed that he is safe ! May God keep the souls of the departed in eternal peace ! I can't fathom the depth of the agony of those affected ! Why this evil carnage and inhuman acts ?!!

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao3 October 2017 at 15:12

      Thank God!
      It's time America seriously looks at its liberal gun culture.

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    2. raju umamaheswar3 October 2017 at 17:31

      The guy had planned in advance and had entered the Gallry with so many rifles , lenses and the lot ! So much for security. Thanks KRK sir .

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  14. Padmanabhan3 October 2017 at 14:11

    You must have had anxious moments. Thank God he is safe.

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  15. maradnusro3 October 2017 at 15:14

    Raju Good to hear that your son is safe.

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