Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Saturday, 4 November 2017

No 12154, Saturday 04 Nov 2017, Dr. X

Across
1. Common trouble when wife’s ignored — Overwhelming outcry ending in melodrama (8) ORDINARY {wOR{DIN}{melodramA}RY}
5. Classified // description of emotionally well-balanced person (6) SORTED (DD)
10. Roves around Russian town (5) SEROV {ROVES*}
11. One who harasses chaps in hills (9) TORMENTOR {TOR}{MEN}{TOR}
12. Please // take into consideration (9) ENTERTAIN (DD)
13. Struggling from envy in group (5) VYING (T)
14. Ruffian outside toilet perhaps revealing a lot? (3-3) LOW-CUT {LO{W-C}UT}
15. Wants mother to cook hot aromatic French bean (7) HARICOT {H+AROmaTIC}*
18. Moving towards land, schooner sinks! Many killed (7) ONSHORE {ScHOONER}*
20. Soldiers thrash one at island (6) TAHITI {TA}{HIT}{I}
22. Curiously loves small rodents (5) VOLES {LOVES*}
24. Performer who likes his meals very hot? (4-5 ) FIRE-EATER (D&CD)
25. Break down? Hurry to confer with top doctor (3,2,4) RUN TO SEED {RUN} {TO} {SEE}{Doctor}
26. Pain of fractured finger! Needs splinting essentially (5) GRIEF {FInGER}*
27. On reflection, setter stops and rewrites (6) EMENDS {ME<=}{ENDS}
28. In a way, sweater perhaps protects one (2,2,4) AS IT WERE {SWEATER*} around {I}

Down
1. Eviction of suspicious outsider lacking identification (6) OUSTER {OUTSidER*}
2. Dreadful dinosaur gobbles bone and stretches (9) DURATIONS {DINOSAUR*} around {T}
3. No disagreements? Hardly the motto of those solving this! (5,1,5,4) NEVER A CROSS WORD {NEVER} {A} {CROSSWORD}
4. Cancel religious education sermon (7) RETRACT {RE}{TRACT}
6. Fractionally drunk? (3,4,3,5) ONE OVER THE EIGHT (CD)
7. Expression of disapproval is rejected by African people (5) TUTSI {TUT}{IS<=}
8. Disparage and slaughter revolutionary in meeting (8) DEROGATE {D{GORE<=}ATE}
9. One twisting with promiscuous woman around castle (6) WRENCH {W{R}ENCH}
16. Leave no margin for error! // Use the shredder? (3,2,4) CUT IT FINE (DD)
17. Gossip — Film features bit of nudity with extremes of sleaze (8) CONVERSE {CO{Nudity}VER}{SleazE}
19. Towering personality from France? (6) EIFFEL (CD)
20. Abuses one breaking traffic signal primarily (7) TIRADES {T{I}RADE}{Signal}
21. Nothing // to treat frivolously (6) TRIFLE (DD)
23. Caught in alley with sharp weapon (5) LANCE {LAN{C}E}

Reference List
Wife=W, Hot=H, Many=C, Soldiers=TA, One=I, Setter=Me
Identification=Id, Bone=T, Religious Education=RE, Castle=R, Caught=C

Colour/Font Scheme
Definition, Solution, Component letters, Embedded links, Anagram Indicator, C/C indicator, Reversal Indicator, Hidden word Indicator, Letter Pick indicator, Deletion Indicator, Homophone Indicator, Movement Indicator, Positional Indicator, Substitution, Indicator, Link/Connector, Extraneous


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47 comments:

  1. Padmanabhan4 November 2017 at 08:55

    Nice enjoyable CW with an equally nice blog by Ramesh. Thank you to both.
    tut- tut after a long tme. Where is PP?

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  2. Padmanabhan4 November 2017 at 08:57

    2D- Does bone give T? I could not directly connect, though T- bone is a staek (with a piece of bone) Doc. should know better,anyway. Just wanted clarification on that.

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  3. sree_sree4 November 2017 at 09:13

    http://nosetotailapp.com/blog/anatomy-t-bone

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    1. Padmanabhan4 November 2017 at 09:16

      That is where I wanted clarification. It refers to a steak rather than a bone.

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    2. Satyen Nabar4 November 2017 at 10:30

      Yes Bone=T

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  4. C.G. BHARGAV4 November 2017 at 09:28

    LANCE Naik Rahul who went to TAHITI by SAIL
    Seeing a woman dressed in LOW CUT,
    With a man ON SHORE coming out of a hut
    Would've sent a picture postcard by ORDINARY mail.

    A guy sending one of EIFFEL tower
    And all such post would get SORTED
    To distant destinations transported
    AS IT WERE that's what happened that day and hour.

    But these days people are VYING about things TRIFLE
    They ENTERTAIN themselves with a smart phone
    Even a thing of GRIEF gets a passing comment

    All they want is dazzling beauty eyeful
    Whether what they see is true is unknown
    What else can you and I do but LAMENT?

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  5. Kolluru Koteswara Rao4 November 2017 at 09:28

    Good one. Thanks Doc

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  6. vdsprasad49@gmail.com4 November 2017 at 09:36

    9D. WENCH around R. R for castle?

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  7. Ramani4 November 2017 at 09:46

    In Chess R(ook) is also called castle

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  8. Ramki Krishnan4 November 2017 at 10:11

    Enjoyable crossie Doc!
    Liked 24A, 27A and 6D a lot.

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  9. Bhalchandra Pasupathy4 November 2017 at 10:32

    Very engaging puzzle, innovative cluing

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  10. Satyen Nabar4 November 2017 at 10:34

    Thanks Bhala indeed, coming from you! Look forward to meeting you on 3rd Dec :)

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    1. Bhalchandra Pasupathy4 November 2017 at 10:37

      Have been enjoying your puzzles Satyen, also following your successes in CCCWC. Really glad to see you setting for THC. Yes, await the S&B meet

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  11. Ramani4 November 2017 at 13:06

    1 mistake in 7th round.:(

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  12. Padmanabhan4 November 2017 at 13:25

    Thank you Ram for the timely info. I got 100%- a rarity.

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  13. Ramani4 November 2017 at 13:55

    Congrats Paddy! Keep it up.

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  14. Mukundala Balasubramanyam4 November 2017 at 14:16

    Congrats Paddy!

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  15. Soumya4 November 2017 at 14:20

    For the first time, I could complete a puzzle by Dr.X. Easy puzzle, or was I clever today?!

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    1. Satyen Nabar4 November 2017 at 14:32

      Truly glad you completed Soumya. The setter always wants the solver to eventually prevail!

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    2. sree_sree4 November 2017 at 19:24

      prevail eventually/eventually prevail

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  16. Mona Sogal4 November 2017 at 14:29

    Amazing grid! Loved 1. Never a cross word 2. As it were 3. Fire eater. :)

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  17. Unknown4 November 2017 at 17:41

    A very intriguing puzzle,Thank you.
    I have a looong way to go to prevail though!
    Need help to understand 11A and 20D .

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    1. Unknown4 November 2017 at 17:46

      Sorry that was meant to be 4D and 11A.

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    2. Vasant4 November 2017 at 17:52

      11A:Tor=hill hence hills=tor + tor
      Chaps=men
      Men in tor & tor
      Tor(men)tor=definition=one who harasses
      20D
      Traffic=trade
      One=I(Roman letter for one)
      Signal primarily : to pick the first letter of Signal=S
      Hence I in trade+ S=T(I)RADE S

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    3. Vasant4 November 2017 at 17:55

      4D Relegious Education=RE
      Sermon=Tract
      Retract=cancel=definition

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    4. Unknown4 November 2017 at 21:33

      Thank you
      Guessed it was tormentor,didn't know tor meant hill.

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    5. Satyen Nabar4 November 2017 at 21:39

      Thanks Usha! You will prevail:)... and Vasant thanks for the detailed explanation. You truly are always helpful! Hope you can make it on 3rd...

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    6. Vasant4 November 2017 at 22:24

      Thanks Dr. I am trying to manage my holidays with our meeting

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  18. raju umamaheswar4 November 2017 at 22:01

    Dr. Satyen Nabar: Logged in late night here. Enjoyed immensely. I found NEVER A CROSS WORD in a new avatar. I have done the same phrase as a solver should never have a Cross word with the compiler like you !

    I thought where the personality in EIFFEL came from; Then I realized that he was one of the personality who helped in the engineering of it ! Very clever and misleading personality you are !

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    1. Satyen Nabar4 November 2017 at 22:40

      Thanks Raju:) Can you not make it on the 3rd? Would love to meet you! You are a towering personality from India! :)

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  19. raju umamaheswar4 November 2017 at 22:03

    delete one of above.

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  20. raju umamaheswar4 November 2017 at 22:07

    Round 7 again without any red in my solutions. Anyway, it was the simplest setting ever in the current season.

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  21. raju umamaheswar5 November 2017 at 12:57

    Dr. Satyen Nabar: Ah ah ! If wishes were donkeys ! I would love to meet all our friends and this time, quite a number of them, including you. However, I don't like Madras at all as I have acquired very bad memories of the place and especially now, with the rains doing havoc, my decision is more emboldened in terms of opting out. I also do not like train journeys, even this be short. I have been requesting for a MEET in Coimbatore and I don't know when this is to be !.I had held a successful exhibition for a whole day in Nairobi 2008, which was well attended and covered by the media, displaying my memorabilia. I plan to hold one in Coimbatore but I don't have many enthusiasts here. It will have to be only in 2018 after the holidays of this year. Until then , I am to stay content with only one-on-one meets with friends like the Col and CV sir. No doubt, I have a base in Bombay and I will make sure to call on you when I visit next, though Bombay of yore is a far cry from its current moribund rotting carcass ! This comes from a Bombayite !

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    1. Satyen Nabar5 November 2017 at 13:04

      Oh ok! Yes, Bombay has changed drastically indeed! And not for the good...Still let me know when you are in Bombay next Raju!

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    2. raju umamaheswar5 November 2017 at 13:51

      Sure Doc. I will.

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