Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Thursday, 23 August 2018

No 12403, Thursday 23 Aug 2018, Neyartha


ACROSS
1   Put a circle around the date to get a promising container for a meat dish (5,7) BLOOD PUDDING {LOO{D}P} in {BUDDING}
8   Check serving as a painful reminder? (7) REALITY [CD]
9   Speaker's rising to provide permission (6) ASSENT (~ascent)
11 Dog breed from a Mexican state (9) CHIHUAHUA [DD]
12 Cover with liquid in a search for underground water (5) DOWSE [DD]
14 Buoyed up with strange delight after ingesting an inert gas (9) LIGHTENED {LIGHTE{NE}D*}
16 Gave one's word after commencement and became frayed (4) WORE sWORE
18 Money offered as a bribe for a cleansing agent (4) SOAP [DD]
19 Green site newly formed in an African national park (9) SERENGETI*
21 Reliable alloy with aluminium in the wrong place (5) LOYAL (-al)LOY(+al)AL
22 Great sage sends back an unskilled actor with a revolutionary male aristocrat to Hawaii (9) MAHARISHI  {HAM<=}{A}{SIR<=}{HI}
23 Humorous programme featuring some transit companies (6) SITCOM [T]
25 Neglected son sent out by the king in the evening time (3-4) RUN-DOWN (-s+r)RUNDOWN
26 Gaining height after a blow from the right in a sport involving a glider (12) PARASCENDING {RAP<=}{ASCENDING}

DOWN
2   Dad genially made up with the heroine (7,4) LEADING LADY*
3   Pointless videos cut after morphing parts of a reproductive system (8) OVIDUCTS {VIDeO+CUTS}*
4   One's happy tearing down some coin-operated communication devices (3-6) PAY-PHONES*
5   Queen prone to emotional displays? (5) DRAMA [CD]
6   Finish off the business executive with privileged information behind bars (6) INSIDE INSIDEr
7   Arabian spirit with supernatural powers caught with a strong alcoholic drink (3) GIN [DD] (Addendum - (~jinn) - See comments)
8   Sly clerks at sea trap Edward in a foolhardy manner (10) RECKLESSLY {SLY+CLERKS}* over {E}
10 One counters brief disturbance after a pet doctor goes up to collect the Spanish box with moving pictures (10) TELEVISION {1}{NOISe}<= after {T{EL}EV<=}
13 Obtained an envelope for the op-ed (soon to be rewritten) on a prize for being the last in a race (6,5) WOODEN SPOON {OP-ED+SOON}* in {WON}
15 Sad and barely able to speak without a candidate who might turn out to be a surprise winner (4,5) DARK HORSE {DARK} {HOaRSE}
17 Wrinkled Greek character turns up to press a journalist (8) UNIRONED {NU<=}{IRON}{ED}
20 Cheap lace rolled up to conceal a mineral deposit (6) PLACER [T]
22 Frenchman replacing the soft slip-on shoes gets a viral disease (5) MUMPS (-p+m)MUMPS
24 Mischievous fairy revealed in multiple endings of the Bengali film clip (3) IMP Tail Acrostic

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43 comments:

  1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao23 August 2018 at 08:39

    Liked this one with looong definitions!

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  2. sree_sree23 August 2018 at 08:39

    12a cover:do(does)+w)* liquid anag indicator, IMU.

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    1. KARTHIK23 August 2018 at 09:25

      "cover with water" is also one definition
      cover with water = soak = DOWSE

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    2. sree_sree23 August 2018 at 10:30

      Agree. To douse is Dowse.

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  3. P. Venkatesan23 August 2018 at 08:40

    20d: It is not reversal. 'Up' is misleading.

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    1. sree_sree23 August 2018 at 08:52

      Rolled-up is a phrase, to conceal is T indicator, any reversal would come after that.

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    2. P. Venkatesan23 August 2018 at 09:04

      Yes. I meant that reversal indicator is not required in the anno.

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    3. sree_sree23 August 2018 at 09:06

      Oh. Sorry. Its the typo in anno.

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    4. Deepak Gopinath23 August 2018 at 10:43

      Corrected

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  4. sree_sree23 August 2018 at 08:54

    7d is genie = (gin+we)*, imu

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    1. sree_sree23 August 2018 at 08:54

      Typo. Its ee.

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    2. KARTHIK23 August 2018 at 09:12

      thought as much; but cannot relate how we got EE and also cannot locate the anagram indicator;
      It looks like JINN got from the definition "arabian spirit with supernatural powers"
      and is a homophone of "GIN"; caught is the homophone indicator;
      however it should have been arabian spirits (in plural) in the clue
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn

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    3. sree_sree23 August 2018 at 10:29

      Power(s) EE. Super natural anagram indicator.

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  5. Satyen Nabar23 August 2018 at 09:12

    Hi 7D is GIN ~Jinn/Djinn. Homophone ind= caught.

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    1. Vasant23 August 2018 at 09:23

      +1

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    2. KARTHIK23 August 2018 at 09:35

      +2; however JINN/DJINN is the plural form of Jinni/Djinni and the clue should have been Arabian spirits

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    3. Satyen Nabar23 August 2018 at 09:49

      Oh wasn't aware of that! Yes, you are correct Karthikeyan thanks.

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  6. Chaturvasi23 August 2018 at 10:08

    I do not agree,
    There is enough dictionary support for jinn or any other sp var of it to be singular and jinns to be plural.
    Yes, jinn may be a class of spirits and you might consider it as a plural. That is a different matter.

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    1. KARTHIK23 August 2018 at 10:33

      Thanks Gridman for clarifying my doubt; wasn't aware of this

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    2. sree_sree23 August 2018 at 10:38

      Chambers differs. https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=Jinn&title=21st

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  7. Chaturvasi23 August 2018 at 10:14

    Incidentally, some decades ago there used to be a regular letter-writer in Madras papers, esp. The Mail bt also others, who went by the name Jinni Chari.
    Don't know if Jinni was a diminutive of a word.

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  8. Vasant23 August 2018 at 10:52

    3D:Coincidence that in the Guardian Cryptic today we have the same word albeit in singular clued as
    Old half of Victoria line starts to delay users getting Tube (7)

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  9. Satyen Nabar23 August 2018 at 11:49

    Purely for sake of discussion, wanted an opinion from solvers here about the use of articles(a, an, the) that play no role in the parsing. Consider this clue for example.

    1A Put a circle around the date to get a promising container for a meat dish (5,7)

    What do you solvers think?

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    1. KARTHIK23 August 2018 at 11:55

      "PUT A" may be extraneous in this clue

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    2. KARTHIK23 August 2018 at 12:02

      Another variation of the clue could be:
      Circle around the date in promising a meat dish

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    3. KARTHIK23 August 2018 at 12:04

      "the" also to be removed

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    4. sree_sree23 August 2018 at 12:15

      a cryptic cant be too straight too. starting "Circle around" is too direct give away. the second a is (required)part of def because blood pudding isn't the only meat dish. however the before date doesn't synch. any date/day is D. there is no definite/single date as D. i would like "circles date to get promising box for a meat dish"

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    5. KARTHIK23 August 2018 at 14:35

      Brilliant. First circle implies "loop" and second circle implies it goes around "D";
      May be a small modification "circles date to get promising box of meat dish"

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  10. Ramki Krishnan23 August 2018 at 13:37

    Happy birthday to Bhala (XChequer) today!

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  11. Vasant23 August 2018 at 14:05

    Many Happy Returns Of The Day, Bhala

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  12. Mukundala Balasubramanyam23 August 2018 at 14:13

    Happy Birthday, Bhala! 🎂 💐

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  13. Ramani23 August 2018 at 14:48

    Many more happy returns Bhala

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  14. C.G. BHARGAV23 August 2018 at 15:17

    Many more happy returns of the day Bhala!

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  15. Deepak Gopinath23 August 2018 at 16:12

    Happy Birthday Bhala

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  16. Padmanabhan23 August 2018 at 17:21

    Happy Birthday & Many Happy returns of the day,Bhala.

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  17. Bhalchandra Pasupathy23 August 2018 at 20:54

    Thanks everybody. I wish we could have a separate page for these wishes and messages that doesn’t crowd out the puzzle and setter

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  18. raju umamaheswar23 August 2018 at 21:20

    Many happy snruter of the dat , Bhala. May God bless you with good health and peace of mind in the coming years.

    Why not send these good wishes on happy events to the THCC family bloc? make a mention though to inform others to visit that bloc.

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  19. Padmanabhan23 August 2018 at 22:27

    I am with you all the way, Raju.

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