Sunday, 15 July 2018

Special, Sunday 15 Jul 2018, Sri


Welcome to yet another new setter. Bouquets and brickbats welcome

Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)

Please provide all your answers in one comment


ACROSS
7   Stranger returns with hesitation, takes students to the banker (6)
8   Accept honour (6)
11 Ref's rants about shifts (9)
12 Manipulate/edit book entry that’s on the left side of ledger (5)
13 Skirt of girl, fashionable tee-shirt/tops shines (6)
14 Leaderless protestors are people having quivers (7)
16 Handle boss (4)
18 Sales - including drink (3)
19 Close small cabin (4)
23 Notice vehicle in front of church, move forward (7)
25 Father left at home, a material (6)
28 Question a model (5)
29 No more energy to crush (9)
30 Entices casual worker with timely salary initially (6)
31 Inspect, say a bill of payment (6)

DOWN
1   At first Rahul with great happiness formed alliance (8)
2   New clothes husband removed out of storage area (6)
3   Forces son to leave operators (5)
4   Slipping ace strikes short sportsman on rink (3,6)
5   Jury results against orders without a bit of reform (8)
6   Active doctor jumped into river (6)
9   Dais gates broken (5)
10 Hide belt worn by model (5)
15 Depot here was built around old university (9)
17 Punk brat badly ruined (8)
20 Peacekeepers locked the leader, a dreadful criminal (8)
21 Vehicles loaded with soft fish (5)
22 Partly open, trying an access (5)
24 Gives seller some craft (6)
26 Very large catch for hawk (6)
27 Violation! Right, get out of this volleyball venue (5)

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74 comments:

  1. Ramani15 July 2018 at 10:31

    26d Very large catch for hawk (6)OS PREY

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  2. Ramani15 July 2018 at 10:33

    24d Gives seller some craft (6)VESSEL (T)

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  3. Ramani15 July 2018 at 10:34

    22d Partly open, trying an access (5)ENTRY (T)

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  4. P. Venkatesan15 July 2018 at 10:37

    18a: ale (-s(ale)-s) = drink
    23a: advance {ad}{van}{ce} = move forward
    22d: entry {opEN TRYing}(T) = access

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  5. Vasant15 July 2018 at 10:38

    15D: WAREHOUSE (HEREWAS)* around OU
    25A:POP L IN
    18A:ALE T

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  6. Vanchinathan15 July 2018 at 10:40

    14 ac. (M)Archers; 28 ac. Poser; 17Dn. Bankrupt

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  7. Vasant15 July 2018 at 10:40

    Making up for 18A
    20D UN L AWFUL

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  8. P. Venkatesan15 July 2018 at 10:41

    17d: bankrupt (punk+brat)* = ruined

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  9. Unknown15 July 2018 at 10:43

    1A. TELLER
    ET<(LL)ER

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  10. Unknown15 July 2018 at 10:48

    2D CLOSET
    (CLOTHES-H)*

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  11. Satyen Nabar15 July 2018 at 10:54

    30A TEMP + T + S

    29A OVER+POWER

    21D CAR{P}S

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    1. Satyen Nabar15 July 2018 at 11:09

      Welcome Sri! Thanks for the entertainment. Hope to see many more..

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  12. Unknown15 July 2018 at 10:56

    1D. R+ELATION

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  13. Ramki Krishnan15 July 2018 at 10:57

    13A GLINTS (G-L = skirt of GirL, IN = fashionable + T-S (tee-shirt tops)
    16A KNOB dd
    31A CHEQUE (hp of check)

    Welcome Sri - very nice clues in your debut! Hope to see more :)

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  14. Srinidhi15 July 2018 at 11:02

    5d Jury results against orders without a bit of reform (8)
    Verdicts are jury results
    V is against
    R is a bit of Reform inside edicts= orders

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  15. P. Venkatesan15 July 2018 at 11:04

    Again replace nt for 17d
    9d: stage (gates)* = dais

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  16. Srinidhi15 July 2018 at 11:05

    27d Violation! Right, get out of this volleyball venue (5)
    Breach is violation
    R inside Beach=volleyball venue

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  17. Srinidhi15 July 2018 at 11:09

    10d Hide belt worn by model (5)
    Stash=belt
    Sash=belt
    T is almost always model in Crosswords inside sash

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  18. Vasant15 July 2018 at 11:10

    Lovely puzzle Sri. A great debut. With a banking theme to boot.
    Hope to see more puzzles from you

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    1. sree_sree15 July 2018 at 11:45

      +1 good to do onboard 22808. May be this Sri will inspire this sree someday.

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    2. Vasant15 July 2018 at 13:03

      And I thought Sri/Sree were same😀😀

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    3. Padmanabhan15 July 2018 at 17:48

      So did I.

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  19. Vasant15 July 2018 at 11:13

    Theme words: 7A, 8A, 11A, 23A, 31A, 17D(part)

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    1. Vasant15 July 2018 at 11:18

      Also 22d

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    2. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 11:20

      Yes, that's what they did in ledgers. Now maybe they do it in Excel sheets.

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    3. Vasant15 July 2018 at 11:25

      Also I think they use software for accounting..ERP they call it

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    4. sree_sree15 July 2018 at 11:33

      CBS, core banking

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  20. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 11:16

    But we can't conclude that the setter is a bank official.

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  21. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 11:18

    10d too is because that is what we do with money in Swiss banks.

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  22. raju umamaheswar15 July 2018 at 11:18

    2 down: CLOSET- CLOT(_H)ES =storage area

    25across: POPLIN- father POP+L+in= at home= material

    28across: POSER=question= model

    Good debut by Sri. Simple yet elegant clues.. Come again here- we need more of your kind !

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  23. Rakesh15 July 2018 at 11:21

    12a debit (edit + b from book)

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  24. Rakesh15 July 2018 at 11:24

    19a SHUT (s from small and hut for cabin)

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  25. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 11:29

    19ac SHUT - A theme word considering banks do that now on two Saturdays in a month and whenever the staff are on strike. LOL. Earlier when I saw S_U_, I thought it was STUB (in cheque books of the past).

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  26. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 11:36

    Dn 3 4 6
    Ac 8

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  27. Rakesh15 July 2018 at 11:37

    6d NIMBLE (river - Nile, doctor - MB)

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  28. Rakesh15 July 2018 at 11:41

    4d ICE SKATER (strikes short = strike, anagram of ace and strike)

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  29. Nadathur Rajan15 July 2018 at 11:44

    8A CREDIT [2]
    4D ICE SKATER*
    6D NI(MB)LE

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  30. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 11:49

    Last one to go (I think)
    3dn

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  31. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 11:53

    (Actually I haven't got the answer to it.)

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  32. Nadathur Rajan15 July 2018 at 11:58

    3d [-s]URGE[-on]S

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    1. sree_sree15 July 2018 at 12:00

      +1. Had urges and fought to fit in s before I had relook after a coffee.

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    2. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 12:11

      I had the word but was groping for anno because of the letter s for son.

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    3. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 12:21

      Nadathur, I am afraid you exceeded the stipulated quota and before I as host invited completion put in your fourth answer. Please follow rules in the future.

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    4. sree_sree15 July 2018 at 12:56

      He was replacing for 6d done by rajesh, probably.

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  33. Kishore15 July 2018 at 12:06

    Welcome Sri! Thanks for the nice puzzle. Hope to see more

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  34. Kishore15 July 2018 at 12:14

    Please solve my latest puzzle at

    http://www.1across.org/

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    1. sree_sree15 July 2018 at 12:54

      Just flowed to completion, no stress.

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    2. raju umamaheswar15 July 2018 at 13:01

      Kishore: Before I started solving , I knew from its simplicity, the puzzle was yours. Doesn't need an Oracle to hide behind as INCOGNITO !

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    3. Vasant15 July 2018 at 13:01

      Lovely puzzle as Oracle takes to predicting the World Cup Final.

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    4. sree_sree15 July 2018 at 14:18

      20a still trying to categorise. If I may be allowed to say 12a could have been better.

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  35. Kolluru Koteswara Rao15 July 2018 at 12:22

    Great debut, Sri!
    Unfortunately, I was busy with our residents' quarterly meeting
    I am sure you are either a banker or a finance guy.
    Keep your cash registers [or should I say, ledgers?] ringing!!

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    1. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 12:58

      I do not agree that if a setter has used financial terms he is necessarily a financier... if he is, perhaps the setter can lend me Rs 100 crores which I will try not to repay. Or maybe I can strike a deal with him to cheat the bank and both of us will decamp to the UK and buy a Scottish castle to live in.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao15 July 2018 at 13:53

      Vasi Sir,
      Don't forget that it is because of me you got introduced to this banker. In case you get Rs.100 cr. loan, you have to pay me 2.5% liaison fees.

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  36. sree_sree15 July 2018 at 12:33

    I dont find 11a in the solutions.

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  37. KARTHIK15 July 2018 at 12:38

    11A) Defn: Shifts; Soln=TRANSFERS; {REFS+RANTS}* anind=about

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  38. Dr. Krishnamoorthy. A, Vellore15 July 2018 at 12:43

    7a: teller - {(et<=)+(ll)+(er)}
    19a: - shut - s(hut)
    6d: nimble - ni(mb)le

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  39. Chaturvasi15 July 2018 at 13:00

    Thanks to Sri for his contribution. Thanks to solver.I am going out now and will be away for a long time.

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  40. Dr. Krishnamoorthy. A, Vellore15 July 2018 at 13:16

    14a: not solved yet. May I?
    14a: archers - (m̶archers)

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  41. Col_Gopinath15 July 2018 at 15:59

    Thank you Sri

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  42. Padmanabhan15 July 2018 at 17:56

    Did it all by myself after it had been done and dusted.
    Enjoyed solving a simple but interesting CW.
    Thank you Sri. I am joining others to request you for more.

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  43. Padmanabhan15 July 2018 at 17:56

    Identity of the setter?

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    1. Vasant15 July 2018 at 18:53

      Perhaps Sri Vidya..who is a super solver and had blogged for sometime here.

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  44. ranger15 July 2018 at 20:35

    Srinidhi, have you shortened your name by any chance?

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    1. Vasant15 July 2018 at 21:18

      No. I can vouch for that. She sets as Mystique.

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  45. Kishore16 July 2018 at 06:14

    It is for the setter to disclose her identity;)

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  46. Chaturvasi16 July 2018 at 08:27

    How can you say 'her'? It could be a 'he'. I have male friend by name Sri.
    Or, do you have any inside info?

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    1. Kishore16 July 2018 at 10:20

      The lady has trusted me for test solving ...

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    2. Vasant16 July 2018 at 19:23

      Now that's a "broad" hint.
      I standby my guess at 18:53

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