Saturday, 9 June 2018

No 12339, Saturday 09 June 2018, Scintillator


Across

1. Gone girl? (2-4) EX-WIFE (CD)
4. One vents out through these outlets (8) CHIMNEYS (CD)
9. Addict with a hot pipe (6) HOOKAH {HOOK}{A}{H}
10. Confident using a new style, ditching Western (8) SANGUINE {USING+A+NEw*}
12. Fixing venue only, fail over without regularity (8) UNEVENLY {VENUE+oNLY*}
13. Asians touring Suez back after vacation (6)  UZBEKS {SUEZ+BacK*}
15. Indeed, your health could be going south (2,1,1) TO A T {TO A sT
16. To quit narcotic abuse — little information on harmful substance (10) CARCINOGEN {NARCotIC*}{O}{GEN} O from?
19. Still and eerie around some plants (4,6) TREE LILIES {STILL+EERIE*}
20. Scent's not a rage (4) FUME {perFUME}
23. One boring job to regulate user experience with jewellery (6) BIJOUX {I} in {JOB*}+ {UX}
25. Roaming the interiors of Charminar with a female boss (8) MAHARANI {cHARMINAr+A*}
27. "Quit rice", to paraphrase careful analysis (8) CRITIQUE {QUIT+RICE*}
28. Cop has cotton strip supporting broken bone (6) SPLINT {SP}{LINT}
29. Lie more or expose lies? (8) OUTBLUFF {OUT}{BLUFF}
30. Newton used oil to cook hoops for pal (6) FRIEND {FRIE{N}D}

Down

1. Empty tire (7) EXHAUST (DD)
2. Extensive beer with pickles at the start (9)  WHOLESALE {W}{HOLES}{ALE}
3. Case of friends supporting weak lovers (6) FLAMES {Friend{LAME}S}
5. Stir up a race (4) HEAT (DD)
6. Outlook, possibly of Arsenal? (8) MAGAZINE (DD)
7. Top-class marble tiles, skirting to some extent (5) ELITE (T<=)
8. Takes a part in rank bad act (5,2) STEPS IN {STEP}{SIN}
11. Plastic ball I damaged during sports class (7) PLIABLE {P{BALL+I*}E}
14. Mum, playing chess, sketches clear plans (7) SCHEMAS {CHESS*} around {MA}
17. Organic compound made from one gunmetal alloy (9) GLUTAMINE {I+GUNMETAL*}
18. Whole uranium bottle containing rich sediment (8) ALLUVIAL {ALL}{U}{VIAL}
19. Unfulfilled support to company hoarding snuff (7) TOBACCO {TO}{BACk}CO}
21. With hand tied, English editor gave a release (7) EMITTED {E}{MITT}{ED}
22. One can struggle to breathe in poor smoke (6) GASPER (DD)
24. Perhaps, hip meeting place (5) JOINT (DD)
26. Comfort pant (4) PUFF(DD)

Reference List
Hot=H, Western=W, Over=O, South=S, A=Per, One=I, Cop=SP, Newton=N
With=W, Sports class=PE, Mum=Ma, Uranium=U, Company=Co, Hand=Mitt, English=E, Editor=Ed


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

GRID
Bhargav's Talepiece

The bouncer and the dancer - Part 58

Turns out that Rita is the younger sister of Oscar's EX-WIFE.

Linda STEPS IN with the two into a room filled with TOBACCO smoke
EMITTED by constant PUFFING of Clement who is morose.

Having seen Rita in many a magazine Clement knew her as an ELITE
dancer.

JOINT discussions are held and the duo of  Clement and Linda OUT BLUFF
one another and convince Rita to resign from Gemini.

SS is not aware of the development and is found blissfully in conversation
with FRIENDS enjoying smoking the HOOKAH.

Are his dreams shattered by a Hookah?

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40 comments:

  1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 June 2018 at 08:37

    16AC +1 on missing O

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  2. Vasant9 June 2018 at 08:44

    Smoking Pangrammatic puzzle!

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  3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 June 2018 at 09:08

    On second thoughts
    16AC little information=GEN and on=O [as in five o'clock] harmful=anind
    Def: SUBSTANCE
    Any takers?

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    1. Vasant9 June 2018 at 09:11

      Plausible. Sounds logical.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 June 2018 at 09:24

      Only doubt is whether GEN would qualify for indirect anagram!

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    3. Vasant9 June 2018 at 09:39

      Nothing indirect.
      As given in the blog
      {NARC(-ot)IC}*{O}{GEN}

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    4. sree_sree9 June 2018 at 09:52

      I took little gen to mean GE(n) and ON with harmful as ananind.

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    5. Vasant9 June 2018 at 09:55

      Carcinogen has to be harmful substance and just not substance, I think.

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    6. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 June 2018 at 10:00

      Dictionary defines it as substance only. The adjective is added as a precaution perhaps

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    7. Deepak Gopinath9 June 2018 at 10:09

      KKR if O is from ON then the answer as per wordplay becomes {NARC(-ot)IC*}{GEN}{O}

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    8. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 June 2018 at 10:19

      I also mentioned harmful as another anind in the clue (besides abuse). That may help

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    9. Vasant9 June 2018 at 14:06

      Shyam:Where are you?

      Delete
  4. Chaturvasi9 June 2018 at 09:41

    Smoking is injurious to health.

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    1. Vasant9 June 2018 at 22:08

      Tell it to the Marlboro man!

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    2. Vasant9 June 2018 at 22:12

      I remember having smoked a lot during my college days. It was a fad and I puffed continuously. And every brand and every type..cigar..cigarettes..pipes..bidis(!)..
      Once college was over..the habit dropped and now I wonder whyever I smoked..but then those were the days.

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    3. Vasant9 June 2018 at 22:14

      Oh yes even hookas at Bhopal! In typical Nawabi style..

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  5. Padmanabhan9 June 2018 at 09:41

    Passive smoking!

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  6. Padmanabhan9 June 2018 at 09:44

    23A- Is Bijoux a brand name?
    My newly acquired Chambers lists only Bijou.

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    1. Vasant9 June 2018 at 09:48

      Bijoux is singular of Bijou. French.

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    2. vdsprasad49@gmail.com9 June 2018 at 10:03

      I find it is the other way, bijou is s. and bijoux, pl.

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    3. Vasant9 June 2018 at 10:22

      Yes. You are right Sir.

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    4. Chaturvasi9 June 2018 at 10:23

      Exactly. bijoux is plural. Cf. chou - cabbage choux - cabbages

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  7. raju umamaheswar9 June 2018 at 15:09

    20 across: Scent is not a rage (4)- Fume . Annotation given is (- PER) Fume. where is the deletion indicator for PER ? Is it A ? Instead, in my opinion, Scent==fume (as in smoke fume ) and FUME= Scent= Fume also is to fume in rage ? Rage with many meanings ? CD ? I stand to get corrected.

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    1. Vasant9 June 2018 at 15:43

      Yes Raju. Per=A

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    2. Chaturvasi9 June 2018 at 15:54

      'Not' is deletion indicator. Please sit and cool down, Raju.

      Delete
  8. raju umamaheswar9 June 2018 at 16:11

    CV: I did yesterday and today's crossies only today. I'm a pretty chilled out guy !

    Thanks Vasant.

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  9. C.G. BHARGAV9 June 2018 at 21:00

    1 Across: Gone Girl.

    On seeing this clue I was reminded of a local Tamil lingo: POOTA CASE.

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    1. Vasant9 June 2018 at 21:18

      😀😀

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    2. Padmanabhan9 June 2018 at 21:44

      :-)

      You remind me of my late elder brother who used to say this.

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  10. Padmanabhan9 June 2018 at 21:51

    i am not sure if anybody has seen Bhavan's late comment in yesterday's blog. He has mentioned that solutions to all Across clues in his CW are in alphabetical order!

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 June 2018 at 22:01

      Thanks Paddy.
      I just saw it. Really very intelligent. Great Bhavan!

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    2. Vasant9 June 2018 at 22:03

      +1.Extraordinary!

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  11. C.G. BHARGAV9 June 2018 at 22:19

    +2. Very imaginative. a la Afterdark who likes to do such novelties.

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    1. Vasant9 June 2018 at 22:50

      AD did a quadruple pangram once!

      Delete
    2. Vasant9 June 2018 at 22:52

      But Buzzer's puzzles are replete with quality clues!

      Delete

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