Friday 22 June 2018

No 12350, Friday 22 Jun 2018, Arden

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ACROSS
6   Department cut out for a minister (5) PADRE {PA{D}RE}
7   Maybe coincident, not in the west (8) OCCIDENT COinCIDENT*
10 They get hit, and get treatment (7) THERAPY {THE{RAP}Y}
11 One is at sixes and sevens here in Europe (7) ESTONIA*
12 It's cool as they say, for girl to be with her family (7) GHERKIN {G}{HER}{KIN}
13 Many in police department retired, it's ongoing (7) DYNAMIC {CI{MANY}D}<=
14 Spot check, a feature of smart phones (5,6) TOUCH SCREEN {TOUCH} {SCREEN}
19 Scientists are off checking dumps (7) BOFFINS {B{OFF}INS}
21 Genuine fish, could be poisonous (7) REALGAR {REAL}{GAR}
23 Taxing one rupee on open shelter (7) ONEROUS {ONE}{R}{hOUSe}
25 Argue with Turkish leader and you will be jailed for it (7) TREASON {Tu...h}{REASON}
26 Wretched old bird (8) FLAMINGO {FLAMING}{O}
27 Doctor assumes another name in the capital (5) DAKAR {D{AKA}R}

DOWN
1   She lands in a pit, he follows (8) ADHERENT {A}{D{HER}ENT}
2   Unused boat in American city (6) NEWARK {NEW}{ARK}
3   Play on characters, so is 'primrose' (10) POLYANTHUS {PLAY+ON}*{THUS}
4   Top came off (4) ACME*
5   Immediately setter's come up with a fictitious name... (6) ANONYM {ANON}{MY<=}
6   ...and writer's name is in soup (6) POTAGE {PO{TAG}E}
8   It's pitched in a river, helps to remove bad blood (7) DETENTE {DE{TENT}E}
9   Missile caught in the way (5) LANCE {LAN{C}E}
13 Choose half of them and talk of colours (10) DECORATION {DECide}{ORATION}
15 Caftan essentially will constitute a dress (7) UNIFORM {tUNIc}{FORM}
16 City transport? Ask again (8) NAGASAKI*
17 Monk and a bishop reach half way down there (5) ABBOT {A}{B}{BOTtom}
18 Money exchanged, nosy parker pays out (6) KRONER {NOsy+paRKER}*
20 Said to be weekly payment made by admitted student (6) FEEBLY {FEE}{B{L}Y}
22 Programme for mature politicians (6) AGENDA {AGE}{NDA}
24 To pass an exam one has to be in right frame of mind (4) SANE [T]

GRID
Bhargav's Talepiece

The bouncer and the dancer - Part 69

For Linda with the thought of TREASON always on the back of her mind, it was difficult to remain SANE.

The upcoming ANNIVERSARY of Shangri-la proved to be a welcome change for her.

She took up the ONEROUS task of arranging the DECORATION and drawing up an AGENDA. Her thought went: What bEST ON I April can I do?

She had the whole place cleaned up being fastidious in house-keeping (Like the ABBOT of Canterbury). As an ADHERENT to discipline she had white UNIFORMS stitched for the staff.

Far from being DYNAMIC, the dancers were asked to give a TRADITIONAL performance.

What happened next?


36 comments:

  1. 13A) Defn: continuous; police department = CID; reversal indicator = retired;
    Soln: {CI(MANY)D<=} = DYNAMIC

    19A) Defn: scientists; dumps = bins;
    Soln: OFF in BINS = BOFFINS

    3D) Defn: primrose; anind=characters; so=thus;
    Soln: {PLAYON*+THUS} = POLYANTHUS

    13D) Defn: colours; choose = decide; talk = ORATION; choose half of them = DEC;
    Sol: DECORATION

    15D) Defn: dress; caftan = tunic; caftan essentially = UNI; constitute = FORM;
    Sol: UNIFORM

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  2. 2D: Unused boat in American city (6)
    Newark
    Boat is Ark. If it is unused it is New. So Newark is unused boat.
    Nice One!
    3D: Play on characters, so is 'primrose' (10)
    Polyanthus
    Polyan: Anagram(characters) of Play On
    So is Thus
    14A: Spot check, a feature of smart phones (5,6)
    Touch Screen
    Spot is Touch
    Check is screen
    Touch screen is a feature of smartphones
    8D: It's pitched in a river, helps to remove bad blood (7)
    Détente
    River in Crossword is almost always Dee
    Tent is something you pitch
    Tent inside Dee.
    Détente is a relaxing of tension, as per dictionary, between countries so it would help to remove bad blood. Nice definition!
    13A: Many in police department retired, it's ongoing (7)
    Dynamic
    Many inside CID (Police Department); both reversed(retired)

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  3. Two more for repeats:
    1D: She lands in a pit, he follows (8)
    Adherent
    She is Her(!) inside A Dent( A Pit)
    Adherent is someone who follows.
    12A: It's cool as they say, for girl to be with her family (7)
    Gherkin
    G is girl
    with Her and Kin is family
    Gherkin is cool!

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  4. 10ac: therapy {the[rap(=hit)]y} = treatment
    11ac: Estonia {one+is+at}* = European country ('sixes and sevens' is the anagrind)
    25ac: treason {t(Turkish leader)}{reason(=argue)} = one will be jailed for it
    21ac: realgar {real(=genuine)}{gar(=fish)} = poisonous mineral
    23ac: onerous {one}{r(=rupee)}{(-h)ous(-e)} = taxing

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  5. Next week onwards Karthikeyan and Venkatesan are requested to wait for sometime (maybe till 9 AM) before posting comments as both of you are no longer Silent followers/Rookie commenters.
    I am not restricting Srinidhi even though she too is not a silent or rookie, I am doing so because she has to get to school.

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  6. 4dn acme (came)
    7ac Occident (coincident -in)
    16dn Nagasaki (ask again)
    18dn kroner (nosy Parker - pays)

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    1. Anagram indicator * to be shown as under
      {CAME}*
      {ASK+AGAIN}*
      {COINCIDENT-in}*
      {NOSY+PARKER-pays}*

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  7. 25ac treason
    T(turkish leader) reason (argue)

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  8. 27A DAKAR is capital of Senegal ( DR from doctor, AKA ( also known as ) another name; aka in Dr

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  9. 17DN ABBOT is a monk ( A from a , B from bishop , down = BOTtom ,half is BOT ) ; A B BOT

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  10. 20D FEEBLY is weakly homophone of weekly ( FEE from payment ; L is student- Learner, BY is by ) , w

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  11. 22d agenda
    Mature age
    Politicians nda

    5d. Anonym
    Anon immediately
    Setters come up my becomes ym

    17d. Abbot monk

    27a. Dakar
    Doctor. Dr
    Assumes another name a. K. A
    Also known as

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  12. 26a. Flamingo
    Wretched. Flaming
    Old o

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  13. 6A:PA(D)RE
    D from Department
    Pare :cut
    6D:PO(TAG)E
    9D:LAN(C)E
    24D:SANE hidden in pasS AN Exam

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    1. May I know who this unknown person is?

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    2. I am Pritesh from Ujjain

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    3. Welcome Pritesh, nice to see someone from Central India

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    4. Though I logged in from my google account, I am shown as Unknown.
      I have been solving puzzles for a couple of years and have been silently following this blog. This is the first time I have posted here

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    5. Thanks for the welcome Sir. Shall try to post more here.

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  14. 6A. {Depar}*tment cut out for a MINISTER.
    9D. Missile caught in the way. LAN(c)E.

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  15. 6D POTAGE (soup) POE is writer; TAG is name
    24D SANE (right frame of mind) Telescopic- pass an ex--
    9D LANCE (projectile) C (caught) in LANE-way

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  16. 7a: occident(the west) - (coincident-in)*
    14a: touch screen(dd)
    2d: Newark - new+ark
    6d: potage - po(tag)e
    20d: feebly - fee+b(l)y

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  17. Nice enjoyable start to the Arden series. Several good clues to enjoy & savour. Thank you Arden. Sixes and sevens- I was so until I found it was an anind.

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    1. Agreed. Very good puzzle.

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    2. +2
      Another clue in the Guardian cryptic today, on lines of 6DN
      Writer has time for another (4)

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  18. Clue in the Globe and Mail cryptic today (11 across above)

    Numbers out of order (5,3,6)

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    1. Sixes and Sevens..nice one too..looks like a Fraser Simpson clue

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  19. TOUCH SCREEN : nice clue. Arden always puts in one new age word or phrase.May ur glossary get expanded !

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