Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Thursday, 12 July 2018

No 12367, Thursday 12 Jul 2018, Skulldugger


ACROSS
5   Bookmaker's clerk (6) WRITER [DD]
6   Morning songs by birds leaving riverside (6) MATINS MArTINS
9   Exist permanently in this world (6) INHERE {IN}{HERE}
10 Mountie or centaur! (8) HORSEMAN [DD]
11 Battle of titans to add up to nothing (4) SUMO {SUM}{O}
12 Spooner's big boozer gets the bird (10) SANDGROUSE (-gr+s)SAND(-s+gr)GROUSE
13 Disregard for Dobby by Lucius ultimately manifests as carelessness about own well-being (4-7) SELF-NEGLECT {l...uS}{ELF}-{NEGLECT}
18 Communities going after automobile plants (10) CARNATIONS {CAR}{NATIONS}
21 Ingredients in crank looked up by DEA agent (4) NARC [T<=]
22 Bob's erotic shenanigans outside clubhouse (8) RICOCHET {RICO{CH}ET*}
23 Narrow escape from treacherous quakes (6) SQUEAK*
24 Desire to shadow partner till we meet again (2,4) SO LONG {SO} {LONG} So from? See comments
25 Conjunctivitis from cheap whiskey! (6) REDEYE [DD]

DOWN
1   Guide once used regularly by Roman statesman (8) CICERONE {CICERO}{oNcE}
2  Holiday depression (6) RECESS [DD]
3   The King and I described by livid lady in poem (8) MADRIGAL {MAD}{R}{I}{GAL}
4   Eat risotto without stuffing, dough (6) DINERO {DINE}{Ri...tO}
5   Terminate in anger (4,2) WIND UP [DD]
7   Slight leads to flight with Sudanese outsiders (6) SPARSE {SPAR}{Su...sE} Flight or Fight?
8   From that point forward, was sassy to the French (11) THENCEFORTH*
14 Attractive, makes fine impression (8) FETCHING {F}{ETCHING}
15 Mistakes Tesla for Faraday due to injuries (8) CONTUSES CON(-f+t)TUSES
16 Are they found on lazy rivers? On the contrary! (6) RAPIDS [CD]
17 Cultivated primitive poison (6) URBANE {UR}{BANE}
19 Simpleton on dole, sadly (6) NOODLE*
20 Group of six performing part of poem (6) SESTET [DD]

GRID
Bhargav's Talepiece

The bouncer and the dancer - Part 86

Uncle Sam told Clement, "SO LONG it was different but now there is  no need for two clubs IN HERE! " 

THENCEFORTH it was decided to WIND UP Apollo.

Without SELF NEGLECT Shangri-la began FETCHING much more income.

One of the SUMOS was made a CICERONE.

Clement frequently was found singing

Yo quiero, quiero dinero (ay)
Yo quiero, quiero DINERO (ay) [ Jennifer Lopez]


What happened next?

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25 comments:

  1. sree_sree12 July 2018 at 08:35

    24a Partner significant other

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  2. Vasant12 July 2018 at 08:35

    24A SO is sognificant other, Partner

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  3. Vasant12 July 2018 at 08:39

    7D: Certainly looks like a printing error..the extra L made the NE corner longer to solve

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  4. Vasant12 July 2018 at 08:41

    Loved the surface of 13A..as too 18A(conjuribg up menories of Nano plant in W. Bengal)

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  5. Kolluru Koteswara Rao12 July 2018 at 08:42

    7DN could be typo?

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  6. Vasant12 July 2018 at 08:49

    Solved the puzzle at Bhubneshwar Airport..

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  7. Vasant12 July 2018 at 09:07

    A short tale today. What's the logo?

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    1. sree_sree12 July 2018 at 09:13

      One that enables photo shop

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao12 July 2018 at 09:30

      I see speed on her head

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    3. raju umamaheswar12 July 2018 at 10:14

      CV had made some comments late yesterday and I had responded. Request commens from others .

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  8. KARTHIK12 July 2018 at 10:12

    Visibly more black squares in the grid today; Is there any limit on black squares for THC setters?

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    1. Vasant12 July 2018 at 11:18

      This can best be answered by a setter but I dont think so..the grid in THC is setter's creation unlike the London Times where the CW editor decides the grid

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  9. N. Sridhar12 July 2018 at 12:28

    9A- Inhere-Does it mean exist permanently; what's the expansion for "DD" and "CD" please

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    1. Col_Gopinath12 July 2018 at 12:33

      See the link over INHERE in the main post. For DD and CD see the panel on the left

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  10. Chaturvasi12 July 2018 at 15:49

    Re the illustration
    CGB: Are the strings to the inverted triangle at the back?

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  11. C.G. BHARGAV12 July 2018 at 16:14

    Sartorial?
    Usual place and tucked in as a safety measure.

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  12. Chaturvasi12 July 2018 at 16:21

    The paper has given the freedom to setters to have their own grids - but with certain specifications.
    They may have been just taken from some published source or created by the setter concerned.
    As far as Gridman is concerned -
    These are all created by me and are in use since 2001.
    Grid 1 has 69 blocks and 156 letters. - percentage of blocked cells - 30.67 p.c.
    Grid 2 - 71 b - 154 l - - percentage of blocked cells - 31.56
    Grid 3 - 71 b - 154 l - - percentage of blocked cells - 31.56
    Grid 4 - 63 b - 152 l - - percentage of blocked cells - 28.00
    Grid 5 - 65 b - 160 l - - percentage of blocked cells - 28.89
    Grid 6 - 59 b - 166 l - -percentage of blocked cells - 26.22
    The impression that todays grid has more blocks may be due to the fact that there are only 26 clue slots.
    Gridman's grids 2 to 6 have 30 clue slots while Grid 1 has 34. Yet the pattern is such that the solver may not get the feeling that there are far too many blanks to fill.

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    1. raju umamaheswar12 July 2018 at 20:38

      My My ! what an analysis ! Very meticulous compiler, I should say !

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    2. KARTHIK12 July 2018 at 23:53

      Thank you sir. I found today 39% black squares, as compared to a max of 32% black square.

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  13. C.G. BHARGAV12 July 2018 at 16:22

    Logo is ADOBE.

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    1. Vasant12 July 2018 at 18:56

      Nicely done and hidden..hard to guess though we see it everyday.

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    2. sree_sree12 July 2018 at 18:59

      adobe photoshop!!!

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao12 July 2018 at 20:58

      The logo on Adobe Reader is quite different. It is somewhat like a triangle. So couldn't guess.

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    4. C.G. BHARGAV12 July 2018 at 21:17

      I was not aware until Prasad pointed out that this logo pertains to Adobe Photoshop. But in all logo apps I have only seen the A logo...
      Thanks for pointing out!

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