Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Sunday, 6 May 2018

Special, Sunday 06 May 2018, K Koteswar Rao


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


ACROSS
6   Listening attentively, liberals took over liabilities discharging rights (3,4)
7   Fit out piquet play without initial tricks (5)
9   Indian courthouse bore fruit (9)
10 Photocopies of applied mathematics (5)
12 Previous translation is receptive (8)
14 This rabbit brings gifts to children (6)
16 Mammal in the mainline (4)
18 Soldier follows delicious mushrooms, say (5)
19 Red game no good to play (4)
20 Megastar loses bit of vegetable (6)
21 And what have you is unsteady tee in broken crate (2,6) 
24 H2O solution gives the instructions for doing? (3-2)
26 Window for chatting on facebook covers nothing good, yak! (6,3)
29 Bad weather, we leave the world (5)
30 A negative back-ends make one senseless (7)

DOWN
1   Location advantage a digit enjoys! (5,5)
2   Look, man,  at the summerhouse (6)
3   One who took liberties outswears regularly (4)
4   28+This+U= Stately home (3)
5   New wine is an essential thing (4)
6   Alphabets floating on river at Euphrates first shade (5)
8   Different in lead plant in kitchen garden (7)
11 Consignment missing very meaty shop (4)
13 Scorch despairingly upset, rapidly taking off (5)
15 Magistrates have no interest in development schemes (10)
17 Reportedly looks at paddle - something one doesn’t want to look at. (3,4)
18 Sprites in far-off brawls (4)
22 Inexperienced animal eats everything (6)
23 Wine from port of Jamaica (5)
25 Reportedly shed finished in short (4)
27 Self-administered country (4)
28 This+4+U= Stately home (3)

Across Lite version can be accessed at KKR 14

Enjoy

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68 comments:

  1. Ramani6 May 2018 at 10:31

    27d Self-administered country (4)I RAN

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  2. Ramani6 May 2018 at 10:32

    22d Inexperienced animal eats everything (6)C(ALL)OW

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  3. Ramani6 May 2018 at 10:34

    15D Magistrates have no interest in development schemes (10) STRATAGEMS (MAGISTRATES-I)*

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  4. Padmanabhan6 May 2018 at 10:34

    1D- Place value- E or is it classified as & lit?

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  5. Padmanabhan6 May 2018 at 10:36

    13 D- Singe- (Despairingly- rapidly)*
    Def.- Scorch

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  6. Padmanabhan6 May 2018 at 10:38

    21 A- et cetera-(tea+ crate)*
    Def.- what have you

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  7. Kolluru Koteswara Rao6 May 2018 at 10:40

    Thanks Ram and Paddy!

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  8. Jayalakshmi arumugam6 May 2018 at 10:41

    7ac equip piquet-T(ricks))
    21ac Et cetera tee+crate
    3dn user. oUtSwEaRs

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  9. Chaturvasi6 May 2018 at 10:44

    4d 28+This+U= Stately home (3) TEA
    28d This+4+U= Stately home (3) CHA

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    1. Padmanabhan6 May 2018 at 11:05

      Excellent connected clues. A little different, enjoyable all the same.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao6 May 2018 at 13:12

      Thanks Vasi Sir. I missed as I was expecting your third one!!!

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    3. Chaturvasi6 May 2018 at 15:35

      No prob, KKR. The pair of clues piqued my interest and I grabbed them.

      Delete
  10. Vasant6 May 2018 at 10:46

    16A SEAL Minline to be separated and read as Main Line
    17D EYESORE (~EYES OAR)
    29A EARTH (-we)ATHER*

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  11. raju umamaheswar6 May 2018 at 10:50

    2 down: GAZEBO= Look- Gaze+BO= Summerhouse

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  12. raju umamaheswar6 May 2018 at 10:53

    8 doown: POTHERB-- lead+PB+ different+ OTHER + from kitchen garden

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  13. P. Venkatesan6 May 2018 at 10:57

    30a: anosmia {a}{no}{aims(=ends)<-} = senseless

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  14. P. Venkatesan6 May 2018 at 11:00

    29a: ruby {ru(-g)by} = red

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  15. Jayalakshmi arumugam6 May 2018 at 11:02

    19ac Ruby. Rugby-g

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  16. Satyen Nabar6 May 2018 at 11:04

    23D RIOJA RIO + JA

    20A CELERY CELEBRITY - BIT

    12A PERVIOUS (PREVIOUS)*

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  17. P. Venkatesan6 May 2018 at 11:04

    12a: pervious {previous}* = receptive

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  18. Srinidhi6 May 2018 at 11:09

    11 Down Consignment missing very meaty shop (4)
    Deli
    Consignment is Delivery
    Take out very to get a meaty shop.

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  19. raju umamaheswar6 May 2018 at 11:10

    7 across; EQUIP+ fit out - PIQUET-T

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  20. Srinidhi6 May 2018 at 11:12

    6 Across 6 Listening attentively, liberals took over liabilities discharging rights (3,4)
    All Ears
    Liabilities are ARREARS
    Remove RR(Discharging Rights)
    Add LL(Liberals took over)
    meaning Listening attentively

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  21. Kolluru Koteswara Rao6 May 2018 at 11:12

    Mr. Raju, Mr. Venkatesan and Mrs. Jayalakshmi,

    You still have one chance, after deleting repeats

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  22. P. Venkatesan6 May 2018 at 11:15

    18a: fungi {fun}{gi} = mushroom

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  23. Srinidhi6 May 2018 at 11:18

    1 Down Location advantage a digit enjoys! (5,5)
    Place Value
    Location is Place
    Advantage is Value
    A digit might cryptically enjoy a place value!

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  24. Mukundala Balasubramanyam6 May 2018 at 11:22

    13Dn : SINGE (DESPAIRINGLY - Rapidly)*

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  25. Mukundala Balasubramanyam6 May 2018 at 11:27

    5Dn : MUST [DD]
    10A : STATS [DD]

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  26. Kolluru Koteswara Rao6 May 2018 at 11:30

    MB, you can take one more

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  27. Mukundala Balasubramanyam6 May 2018 at 11:32

    18Dn : FAYS [AFFRAYS - FAR*]

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam6 May 2018 at 11:34

      Or is it simply [Affrays - Far]?

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao6 May 2018 at 11:37

      Your original answer is what I have in mind, with OFF on double-duty as deletion/anagram indicator

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao6 May 2018 at 11:38

      Thanks MB for your quota!

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    4. Mukundala Balasubramanyam6 May 2018 at 11:38

      Thanks KKR :)

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  28. R Nagendra Prasad6 May 2018 at 11:37

    9 AC CUTCHERRY CUT(=BORE)CHERRY
    14 AC EASTER FROM EASTER BUNNY(=RABBIT)

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  29. Fraser Simpson6 May 2018 at 11:44

    24A HOW-TO (H-TWO-O*)
    25D THRU (threw hom.)

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  30. Vasant6 May 2018 at 11:45

    Very enjoyable crossie KKR!Loved the trick of 24A, 9A was difficult but all clues entertaining. Thanks KKR.

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  31. Fraser Simpson6 May 2018 at 11:47

    26A Window for chatting on facebook covers nothing good, yak! (6,3) DIAL(O + G) + B + OX (dial = face)

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  32. Fraser Simpson6 May 2018 at 11:49

    Thanks for the puzzle, KKR I too liked 24A, and the 4D/28D pair.

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  33. Srinidhi6 May 2018 at 11:50

    Replacement for 1 Down
    6Down: Alphabets floating on river at Euphrates first shade (5)
    Azure which is a shade
    AZ are alphabets ( to be read as A to Z)]
    Ur is river
    E from first letter of Euphrates

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  34. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan6 May 2018 at 11:52

    26 A DIALOG BOX ( Face- DIAL, Book- B , around nothing-O, Good- G, yak- OX )

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao6 May 2018 at 11:56

      Thanks LV!
      But it was already solved by Fraz.

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    2. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan6 May 2018 at 14:49

      I was late for the show 😊 Thanks for a nice cw 👍

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  35. sree_sree6 May 2018 at 11:57

    6a SMALL DOUBT ABOUT RIGHT->rr and not the third r.

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  36. sree_sree6 May 2018 at 11:58

    Thanks KKR for enjoyable Sunday.

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  37. raju umamaheswar6 May 2018 at 12:02

    6 don:lET ME TAKE IT. iT IS MY FAVOURITE COLOUR. AZURE= A-Z +R+ E from Euphrates.

    Unusually pithy clues from KKR. Short words but tricky construction ! Where do we place answers like CHA+ TEA_ U for stately home? I have come across such connected clues very rarely ! Good variation in clue forming !

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  38. Padmanabhan6 May 2018 at 12:03

    Thank you KKR for an enjoyable solve. Sunday morning well spent.
    Comparatively easier than your usual ones?

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  39. Satyen Nabar6 May 2018 at 12:11

    Thanks for the entertainment KKR! :)

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  40. Deepak Gopinath6 May 2018 at 12:18

    Thank you KKR

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  41. Chaturvasi6 May 2018 at 15:37

    KKR, The pair of clues piqued my interest and I grabbed them.

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    1. raju umamaheswar6 May 2018 at 18:28

      I had asked which categpory wuill this pair of cluing fall in ? CV_ over to you !

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  42. Chaturvasi6 May 2018 at 22:24

    Special, Other, Occasional

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