Thursday, 16 November 2017

No 12164, Thursday 16 Nov 2017, Sunnet


Leaving it to the others to identify the theme.

ACROSS
1   Infected one approximately after a month (6) SEPTIC {SEPT}{1}{C}
4   Nearly climb up a swing to get a rascal (8) SCALAWAG {SCALe}{A}{WAG}
10 Pager worn by almost every keen honey collector (9) BEEKEEPER {BEE{KEEn}PER}
11 Without a barely polished gem (5) BERYL BaRELY*
12 Identical in some quality (5) EQUAL [T]
13 One racing to be cured of blindness (9) IGNORANCE*
14 Disgrace to look at pulse (7) SCANDAL {SCAN}{DAL}
16 Lean nurse (4) TEND [DD]
19 Reportedly puffed like an aristocrat (4) BLUE (~blew)
21 Bismuth found outside dilapidated home near a historical region (7) BOHEMIA {B{HOME*}I}{A}
24 Cold nurse's cracked heel (9) SCOUNDREL*
25 Good man or criminal? (5) MORAL {M}{OR}{AL}
26 More wide perhaps (5) EXTRA [DD]
27 Stone chariot placed by boy's relative (9) CARBUNCLE {CAR}{B}{UNCLE}
28 Eye device to fix and turn around Buddhist school near city (5-3) PINCE-NEZ {PIN}{EC<=}{ZEN<=}
29 Jumper in Garden State (6) JERSEY [DD]

DOWN
1   Again let subordinate trainee rest (8) SUBLEASE {SUB}{L}{EASE}
2   A hemp urn used by neanderthals perhaps (8) PREHUMAN*
3   Best one at hand (5) IDEAL {1}{DEAL}
5   Once, rot damaged the crown (7) CORONET*
6   Bar thinly manufactured coil (9) LABYRINTH*
7   Extract current inside circuit (6) WIRING {W{I}RING}
8   Promising to go to corner and study (6) GOLDEN {GO}{L}{DEN}
9   Difficult to increase pile (6) UPHILL {UP}{HILL}
15 Trace of French rope's consumed (9) DELINEATE {DE}{LINE}{ATE}
17 Measures around couple of holds (8) EMBRACES {EM{BRACE}S}
18 Chaff obtained from train on the French railway (8) RAILLERY {RAIL}{LE}{RY}
20 Notice a revolutionary's pain (7) EARACHE {EAR}{A}{CHE}
21 Build 11 foot toll tower (6) BELFRY {BERYL+F}*
22 Dormant as outer layer is brought up (6) ASLEEP {AS}{PEEL<=}
23 House fashionable fibre (6) COTTON {COT}{TON}
25 West has Ray's colour (5) MAUVE {MA{UV}E}

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34 comments:

  1. sree_sree16 November 2017 at 08:33

    10a role of every?

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  2. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 08:38

    =1

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  3. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 08:39

    28A- EC from?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath16 November 2017 at 09:03

      EC - London

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam16 November 2017 at 09:05

      It is the postcode area for most of the 'city' of London.

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    3. sree_sree16 November 2017 at 09:18

      its a postal district code of parts of London. is district and city synonymous.

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    4. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 09:48

      Thank you all. City=> London"> EC? Too much for me.
      EC- East Central. I know only SW- for Wimbledon.

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    5. sree_sree16 November 2017 at 09:56

      I took electronic city.

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  4. sree_sree16 November 2017 at 08:40

    29a garden state,new jersey? Or is there anotherone.

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    1. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 08:44

      Yes, NJ is called a garden state. In fact their main highway is called a garden state highway.

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  5. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 08:41

    8D- L (Left?) from corner?
    20D- Notice is hera or ear?

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    1. sree_sree16 November 2017 at 09:15

      L (shape corner).2-d representation.
      Notice-observe(sense)-eye/ear

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    2. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 09:45

      Thank you Prasad.

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  6. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 08:41

    typo- hear

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  7. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 08:45

    Last doubt- 23D- TON from fashionable?

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  8. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 08:46

    Theme- colours or stones?

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  9. Anonymous16 November 2017 at 09:18

    Theme sherlock holmes

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  10. Vasant16 November 2017 at 09:22

    I thought it was name of Sherlock Holmes Adventures: Blue Carbuncle, Scandal in Bohemia, some Beryl?

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  11. Vasant16 November 2017 at 09:26

    Didnt see Eeswaran's comments and Prasad's +1 reply

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  12. C.G. BHARGAV16 November 2017 at 09:32

    He was no IDEAL son. Wanted to be Mr. India. After returning from the Gym having put in that EXTRA effort he thought soon none would be his EQUAL.
    It was 8 AM and he was still ASLEEP with his JERSEY shirt on. IGNORANCE is bliss.
    But in the back of his mind he knew that he might soon get that EARACHE.

    His father thought himself to be an Oxford BLUE.

    " You SCOUNDREL! Waking you is an UPHILL task. You think your father wears a GOLDEN CORONET or what? You cannot COTTON what is in my mind. You have to study, get a job, get married and take care of the family and be responsible. You SCALAWAG. " The RAILLERY continued.
    Like bats in the BELFRY the son got up. (He was in fact in his final semester in IIM Bengaluru).
    What is the MORAL of the story?
    One would TEND to say: BOYS WILL BE BOYS.

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    1. sree_sree16 November 2017 at 09:37

      Briiliant sir. Moral is more like "kabhi fathers bhi boys tha"

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    2. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 09:44

      ... then grandfathers were fathers?!

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  13. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 09:51

    Sherlock Holmes- Bats in my Belfry.

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  14. raju umamaheswar16 November 2017 at 12:29

    Sunnet embraces colourful (MAUVE & GOLDEN & BLUE & BERYL) SCOUNDRELS and SCALAWAGS in a LABYRINTHINE way leading us to a school for SCANDALS.Or is it mere RAILLERY on my part ? or am I ASLEEP with my PINCE-NEZ on in a BOHEMIAN way??

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  15. Padmanabhan16 November 2017 at 12:54

    We have improved from one to two- CGB & Raju. Something to look forward to. Thank you.

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  16. Ramki Krishnan16 November 2017 at 19:28

    Nice crossword - did not get the anno for COTTON and BELFRY till I saw the blog.
    Not familiar with this spelling of scalawag, I used to think it was scallywag :)

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