Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

No 12228, Wednesday 31 Jan 2018, Arden


Answer and annotation for 20D left for a rookie commenter till 10 AM

ACROSS
6   Keep Pound in Switzerland (5) BASEL {BASE}{L}
7   Poor long suffering creature (8) PANGOLIN {PA{LONG*}IN}
10 Late prospect, showing no response (7) DEADPAN {DEAD}{PAN}
11 Father of three, Turkish leader died for his country (7) PATRIOT {PA}{TRIO}{Tu...h}
12 General way to make it bigger (7) ENLARGE*
13 Plant material by one in Germany (7) MULLEIN {MULL}{EIN}
14 Chronic type, worried about fireworks (11) PYROTECHNIC*
19 Can hit the sea in France (7) SLAMMER {SLAM}{MER}
21 A newspaper takes on a system of rules (7) ORGANON {ORGAN}{ON}
23 Not only noisy, in fact led on (7) DELUDED {DE{LoUD}ED}
25 Free trial allowed, provided it's an emergency rescue act (7) AIRLIFT {AIRL{IF}T*}
26 Making a mark and entering land (8) BRANDING {BR{AND}ING}
27 Ability to express oneself only makes it piquant (5) ORACY {O}{RACY}

DOWN
1   "Sit up and take a call on meet", you're told (8) ESCALLOP {ES{CALL}OP<=} (~ meat)
2   He took to his heels on European upraising (6) ELOPER {RE}{POLE}<=
3   Nothing confidential in such a missive (4,6) OPEN LETTER [CD]
4   Break up vessels (4) SNAP<=
5   The German drinks French wine, I guess (6) DIVINE {DI{VIN}E}
6   Harry's an animal (6) BADGER [DD]
8   Algerian port has many hoisting bunting (7) ORTOLAN {OR{LOT<=}AN}
9   Way to store wine in a cask, it's a gimmick (5) STUNT {S{TUN}T}
13 Make fun of one under shade of shrub (4,6) MOCK ORANGE {MOCK} ORANGE Anno pending (Addendum - {MOCK} {ORANGE} - See comments)
15 Month in Spain — nothing for a month, return (7) RAMADAN {NADA}{MAR}<= Why "in Spain"? See comments
16 Group takes over, bar a man-eater (8) CANNIBAL {CA{INN<=}BAL}
17 Ideas to get away (5) ASIDE* &lit
18 Not among the pigs, too big for one's breeches (6) SNOTTY {S{NOT}TY}
20 Attraction, boy turns out to be Royal blue (6) A?L?R? (Addendum - ALLURE {RoyAL+bLUE}* [CA] - See comments)
22 No booze, get high monster! (6) GORGON {NO}{GROG}<=
24 Drop or push up a tit, say (4) DRIB<=

GRID

26 comments:

  1. 13DN Make fun of = mock
    Shade=colour=orange

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  2. 15d: Simple, 'nada' is the Spanish word for 'nothing'

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  3. 7AC Containment indicator for long in pain missing? Or is it OK CV Sir?

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  4. ...or can we take it as (long pain)* with poor as anind?

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    1. Poor = Anagram indicator
      long = Anagram fodder
      suffering = in pain
      creature = PANGOLIN {PA{LONG*}IN}

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    2. Thank you Col. I took the easy way out- without going into it fully.

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  5. Organon & Ortolan were new to me.

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  6. 20D ALLURE = Attraction, Boy =AL, Royal = R, blue - b (boy turns out)= LUE, AL LU R E , (boy on double duty)

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  7. 20D ALLURE (azure - z + ll) (azure blue, boys ll, attraction allure)

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  8. Above is wrong. I think it is ROYAL BLUE - BOY = RALLUE (anagram) don't know where the angrind is

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    1. It is a composite Anagram ( In a composite anagram, you need to find the answer to the question: what can I mix with a given word or phrase, to get another given word or phrase?)

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    2. Thanks Col. Learning one bit at a time.

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  9. Could get to solving the puzzle now only. Found it tough all the way. Pangolin, Mullein,Oragnon, Oracy,Ortalon,Divine, Snotty & Gorgon were especially challenging.

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  10. By now, we know Arden or (H)arden as Raju would like to call him. Not that I differ!

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