Sunday 3 June 2018

Special, Sunday 03 Jun 2018, Amrita


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


ACROSS
1   Odd, off colour banter without turning coarse essentially (8)
5   Africa via road provides a kind of rich pleasure (6)
9   Could be sticky when thousand leave to get chief's wisdom (8)
10 Stuck on plastic boards (6)
12 Treats crime case differently (9)
13 Oddly cool outside ambience of a place (5)
14 Finally sending message in Morse code (4)
16 On a diet one tends to perhaps steal, tucking into bites of egg sandwiches (3,4)
19 Study a wild tiger eating the gut of an antelope, not the head of a goat (7)
21 Yield from Monsanto's product announced (4)
24 Game mascot to lift displays on the counter (5)
25 Visitors stumped by fancy dress one wore (9)
27 One hundred playing, one hundred celebrated (6)
28 H&M advertisement - 'Final Sale on DIY stuff' (8)
29 Secret service receives underworld cases (6)
30 Bill has translated detailed stories on celestial body (8)

DOWN
1   Erstwhile British corporation, an unforgettable symbol that invokes nostalgia for starters (6)
2   Band formed by Snoopy and his siblings, without a lead (6)
3   Champion in an automobile (5)
4   Lunatic will get rid of denials, according to the Reverend (7)
6   Detective, going back in, slowed down and resigned (9)
7   Venerated setter, sadly old with a bent side (8)
8   I rob stars stealthily of a dish of beef (3-5)
11 Man, for instance, is a part of this lesson (4)
15 Newspaper article on crude oil trade around India (9)
17 Bias told differently, by the Sun or the Star perhaps (8)
18 Looked down upon the highest path, reportedly (8)
20 Swindle layman? (4)
21 Weapon used by pirates to attack the French ship (7)
22 Upcoming story: Quit eating icecream (6)
23 Get high and dance wildly without shorts at first (6)
26 Fashionable model leaves a regime to form a pop group (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at AMRITA 4

Enjoy.

59 comments:

  1. 12a: icecreams {crimecase}* = treats

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  2. 14A:GENE End letter Acrostic
    15D:EDOTORIAL (OIL TRADE)* around I
    24A LOTTO T<

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  3. 15a: editorial {oil+trade}* around {i} = NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

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  4. 5A: CAVIAR Telescopic
    13A: CAIRO - place Odd COOL > CO outside AIR=Ambience

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  5. 11down: ISLE - THisleSSON - Isle of Man

    16 across: EAT LESS = on a diet- anagram of steal + E+SS = bite of Eats * SandwicheS

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  7. 14A: GENE = Code all final letters from sendinG messagE iN morsE

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  8. Compensating for 14A
    27A : ICONIC from (I)(C)(ON)(I)(C)

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  9. 9a SAGACITY STIC(-k)Y over AGA
    1D AUSTIN Acrostic
    12A ICECREAMS (crime+case)*

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  10. 1d: AUSTIN (aronym) = erstwhile British corporation

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  11. 17. across: ICONIC -- 1+C +ON(playing) _i+C

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  12. 29ac SHELLS
    Hell (underworld) in ss(secret service)

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  13. 30A ASTEROID
    AD containing (storie)

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  14. 6D AB{DIC<--}ATED

    7D IDOLISED I + DOL* + SIDE*

    8D RIB-ROAST (IROBSTARS)* - A

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  15. 4D.NUTCASE
    CUT NAYS spoonerism

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    1. Sree_sree@11:08 No, spoonerism of NUT CASE would be CUT NAYS as mentioned above

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    2. isnt it "cut nase" pronounced "nut case" nays to nase also spoonerism?

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    3. My understanding - the Spoonerism can be a nonsensical phrase for the original phrase (which of course has to be meaningful, and is also the def for the clue). So in this case it is clearly NUTCASE which is the def (on the left) and cut nays is the spoonerism

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  16. 21A:Yield from Monsanto's product announced (4)
    Cede
    Homophone of Seed(Monsanto's Product announced)
    21D:Weapon used by pirates to attack the French ship (7)
    Cutlass which is a weapon used by Pirates
    Cut is to attack
    La is The French
    SS is ship
    28A:H&M advertisement - 'Final Sale on DIY stuff' (8)
    Handmade which is a Do It Yourself stuff
    H&M is H And M
    Ad is advertisement
    E is Final salE

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  17. 1A : ABERRANT {ABER[RA<=]NT}* BANTER* coARse
    17A : TABLOIDS {BIAS TOLD}* SUN & STAR being Newspapers
    3D : RACER {R{ACE}R} DD

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  18. 30A- Asteroid- Celestial body
    Bill- AD
    Detailed stories-Storie
    Translated- Anind
    A(STEROI)D

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  19. 22D- Gelato- Ice cream- G(elat=<)O
    Upcoming story- Tale=<

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  20. My last (replacement)
    22a: gelato {tale(=story)<-} inside {go(=quit)} = icecream

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  21. 18a took sometime to fall in place. have a doubt of deletion of 8d. an enjoyable sunday offering. thanks Amrita.

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  22. 18D: BESTRODE (BEST + hp of ROAD)
    19A: ATELIER (A + (TIGER -G)* around ant(EL)ope)
    25A: OUTSIDERS (OUT (stumped) + I in DRESS*)

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    1. You beat me Ramki!
      Just came to finish the last ones.

      Amrita, sorry for being late to the show. Lovely puzzle. Liked 25AC

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    2. 19A- Is atelier a study? I thought it was an artist's studio.

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    3. Study [noun]is defined in Chambers as:
      A room devoted to study, actually or ostensibly

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    4. https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=STUDY&title=21st
      6 a private room where quiet work or study is carried out.

      So a studio is a study!!!

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  23. Very nice clues Amrita! 3D, 28A and 29A were favs. Thanks :)

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  24. My third-
    17D- Tabloids- Sun or Star- (Bias told)*

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  25. Lovely puzzle AM. But had a feeling of deja vu in a few clues: perhaps had come actoss them in your earlier puzzle or might have seen them in 1A or CCS. Neverthless fully entertaining.

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  26. 20DN ROOK DD
    26DN IN DIE[-t] fashionable=IN; regime=DIEt

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  27. Lovely enjoyable CW. Thank you Amrita. Had an enjoyable Sunday morning.
    Ride in the Rolls Royce was good!

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  28. Amrita is in Germany at present so I suppose we will get a delayed response to the queries.

    Notwithstanding, thanks to Amrita for the entertainment

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  29. Thanks for the entertainment Amrita!

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  30. Sorry about the goof up. Vasant is right. This CW was made by Amrita and Arun and I had featured it on the blog on 27 Nov 16. My apologies to all of you and to Amrita.
    The goof up took place because of my recent laptop crash due to which I had to recover files from my back up and I seem to have picked up the wrong file from the back up.
    The correct CW will now be published next week.

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    1. As a corollary to the above we need to appreciate Vasant's memory 👏👏

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    2. Yes, I too had the deja vu feeling when I saw the H&M clue. But I thought it might have appeared in 1across.
      Nevertheless, it is good to solve again!

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  31. 12a: icecreams - (crime case)*
    14a: gene: s̷e̷n̷d̷i̷n̷g+m̷e̷s̷s̷a̷g̷e+I̷n+m̷o̷r̷s̷e - gene
    27a: iconic - ic(on)ic

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