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Sunday, 19 August 2018

Special, Sunday 19 Aug 2018, Karthikeyan


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



ACROSS
1   Peak influence involving husband and letters (8)
5   Seducement traps New Delhi fugitive (6)
10 Restrained office assistant capturing intelligence agency's a sycophant (7)
11 Alumnus dined after six to disappoint (7)
12 Fifty-one kilo energy not supplied initially shows some resemblance (6)
13 Across hundred initially with backward ratio to move cargo (8)
15 Metallic concerning unknown journalist aboard (5)
17 Flag leads to violent exchanges at the end of every year  (4)
18 Gawk at belvedere without unpleasant smell (4)
19 Carry kit straight into tennis court (4)
20 Leave as there is no love in South American capital (4)
21 Massive leap lacks finish, though by order initially (5)
23 Conversion theorem about mass shows resistance (8)
24 Being worthwhile, buys self-built in regular instalments (6)
27 Spherule permitted by medico before operation (7)
28 Endless egress with fish and renegading (7)
29 Unwanted ones not right? Expels (6)
30 Etymologist not on a closed plane figure but with fortune (8)

DOWN
1&9D  9.80665 m/s2  (12,3)
2   Frolic with sides changed leading to timber (5)
3   Penalty shot is more than enough (7)
4   The colour shown up by half-cut French cheese (4)
6   Onset amidst calamity (6)
7   Servant in lift carrying complex graph, an acoustic transducer (9)
8   Half theory troubles the fops glide at the fastest rate (3,5,2,5)
9   See 1 dn (2,7)
14 Desparate plea tutee makes clothing ornament (9)
16 Spontaneous helper invested in old mineral (9)
21 Fair if play ends in merit (7)
22 Fanatic craze a lot of people have (6)
25 Father sick of unnecessary feature (5)
26 Show from retro comedy (4)

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Enjoy.

48 comments:

  1. 1&9D ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY GK

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  3. 8D THE SPEED OF LIGHT
    THE(-ory){THE FOPS GLIDE}*

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  4. 11A : OBVIATE {OB}{VI}{ATE}
    23A : OHMMETER [M in Theorem*]
    14D : EAPULETTE [Plea tutee]*

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  5. 28ac exiting exi(t)+ ling(fish)
    11ac obviate ob(alumnus)vi(six) ate (dined)
    23ac useful bUyS sElF bUiLt

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  6. 12a: likens (li)(k)(e)(n)(n) = shows some resemblance
    15a: reedy (re)(ed)(y) = metalic
    16d: extempore (ex)(temp)(ore) = spontaneous

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  7. Posted from mobile and the autofill played

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  8. 6D Onset amidst calamity (6)
    ADVENT meaning Onset
    misADVENTure is calamity- ADVENT is amidst the letters of misADVENTure
    7D Servant in lift carrying complex graph, an acoustic transducer (9)
    DIAPHRAGM-an acoustic transducer
    MAID reversed carrying anagram of GRAPH
    13A Across hundred initially with backward ratio to move cargo (8)
    TRANSHIP- to move cargo
    TRANS meaning Across
    H- Hundred initially
    PI ratio reversed

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  9. A lot of words from my Physics book. g,c,ohmmeter,diaphragm.

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  10. Pending
    Across 1,5,10,17,18,19,20,21,27,29,30
    Down 2,4,21,22

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  11. 1a (ALP) H (ABET)
    5A BA (ND) IT
    10A CL (RAW) ER -k

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  12. Very nice puzzle!Liked the Physics lessons with some cracking wordplay.Only gripe the longest answer could have been cryptic.
    Thanks Karthikeyan. Keep them coming.

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    1. Initially tried cluing it as cryptic, but the clue was flowing into multiple lines and kept it simple.

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    2. I had no difficulty. I used it in my recent grid as the final question, if you recall.

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    3. the constant speeding up in free fall

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    4. Didn't realise it can be so simple; should have spend more time on this clue while cluing

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  13. 30AC POLYG[-on]LOT
    2DN P[-r+L]ANK
    21DN JUST IF Y

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  14. Across
    27 Spherule // permitted / by medico / before operation (7) DR/OP/LET
    29 Unwanted ones / not right?// Expels (6) [-r]EJECTS
    Down
    22 Fanatic craze a lot of people have (6) ZEALOT (T)

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  15. 19 A =>TOTE (Carry kit ) straight inTO TEnnis court .

    21 A JUMBO = (Massive ) leap (JUMP) lacks finish( - P) though by order (BO) initially

    27 DROPLET = (Spherule) permitted (LET)by medico(DR) before operation(OP)

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  16. Pending
    Across 17,18 and 20
    Down 4

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  17. 18A GAZE[-bo}
    20A QUIT[-o]
    4D ECRU[-oahc]<= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaource_cheese

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  18. 17a: pave - {(wave-wi̷l̷d̷)+(l̷e̷a̷p)}

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    1. I think it is PA(Per Annum-each year)+ VE(first letters of Violent Exchanges)

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  19. May be it is “the end of every leap year”?

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  20. Nice grid Karthikeyan! Plus a pangram to boot :)
    In fact almost a double pangram but for a few letters.

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  21. Good grid, Karthikeyan. You have managed to fit in ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY very deftly, if it is a GK clue. Cleve because of the use fo a formula, that could have foxed many. A panggram too ! Loved the idea !

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  22. Good ones uncle! Savvy sent me the link- very interesting!!
    Pavithra Kesav

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