Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Monday, 17 September 2018

No 12423, Monday 17 Sep 2018, Arden


ACROSS
1   Endangered? Holler and head off to save your skin (9,5) VANISHING CREAM {VANISHING} {sCREAM}
10 Left with a river bird (5) OUSEL {OUSE}{L}
11 Put in menu, placed it on table periodically (9) NEPTUNIUM*
12 Man in America protects only criminal (7) HEINOUS {HE}{IN}{US} over {O}
13 Block blocks to block bird? On the contrary (3,2,2) LET IT GO {LE{TIT}GO}
14 Man's drowning in booze, discharge (5) RHEUM {R{HE}UM}
16 Nursemaid gets a fee, one is deeply religious (9) AYATOLLAH {AY{A}{TOLL}AH}
19 Cocoon them endlessly, keep recovering (2,3,4) ON THE MEND [T]
20 Refuse ballet, evenly missing the count perhaps (5) NOBLE {NO}{BaLlEt}
22 They are sung by sycophants (7) PRAISES [CD]
25 Herb loves to bottle anger, somehow (7) OREGANO {O}ANGER*}{O}
27 Gets around in a small function, feeling gloomy (9) SATURNINE {TURN} in {A}{SINE}
28 Bloodsucker stalks a girl (5) ALICE {A}{LICE}
29 In tandem Carbon becomes genetically engineered (11,1,1,1) RECOMBINANT DNA*

DOWN
2   Wanting to save money, is off booze (9) ABSTINENT {ABS{TIN}ENT}
3   One left covered in sticky stuff, it's freezing in here! (5) IGLOO {1}{G{L}OO}
4   Greeting as men fish (9) HANDSHAKE {HANDS}{HAKE}
5   Friend trailing by two points on land... (5) NEPAL {N}{E}{PAL}
6   ...nobility's pensive, it's before the race (9) COUNTDOWN {COUNT}{DOWN}
7   Fatwa — finally the grand mufti appeared before court (5) EDICT {thE}{g..nD}{m..tI}{CT}
8   Big man faces bullets — starts the hunt (7) MAMMOTH {M}{AMMO}{The}{Hunt}
9   Harry's book choice (6) BOTHER {B}{OTHER}
15 Eddy recreated Moslem art (9) MAELSTROM*
17 Stars found in Paris and Rome daily (9) ANDROMEDA [T]
18 House republican in a fix, he has to handle huge volumes (9) LIBRARIAN {LIBRA}{R}{IN+A}*
19 Is he against work? That's the question (7) OPPOSER {OP}{POSER}
21 Short boy had to run, ran away (6) ELOPED {E{LOPE}D}
23 Heard old joke (5) ANTIC (~antique)
24 "Bizarre Sacrifice" — don't care for such movies (3-2) SCI-FI SaCrIFIce*
26 Beat up? Time to make a law (5) ENACT {CANE<=}{T}

GRID

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21 comments:

  1. sree_sree17 September 2018 at 08:45

    27a anno, pls.

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  2. Chaturvasi17 September 2018 at 08:50

    sree_sree
    Get around IN a small function
    Do you want to see it as
    A TURN (from a round) in SINE (a small function)

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    1. sree_sree17 September 2018 at 09:00

      That's how I read it. A round.

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    2. KARTHIK17 September 2018 at 09:04

      +1

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 September 2018 at 10:49

      +2
      However, doubt remains whether SINE is a small function!

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    4. sree_sree17 September 2018 at 11:30

      the function is actually sinusoidal function.

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    5. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 September 2018 at 12:10

      Let me elaborate my doubt:
      I remembered my school days now. We use SIN, COS,TAN,COSEC in our mathematics, right? So, small function should be SIN.

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    6. KARTHIK17 September 2018 at 14:59

      Sine, Cosine are full forms for Sin, Cos.
      The reference to small IMU is that sinusoidal function (also Cos) values range from -1 to +1, whereas other trigonometric functions such as tan, cot, cosec, sec value ranges from -infinity to +infinity.

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  3. Padmanabhan17 September 2018 at 09:23

    Fairly straight forward except that I was not able to parse a few and as usual blog to the rescue.

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  4. Ramani17 September 2018 at 17:07

    IXL18 - Registration starts on 22.09.18. First round on 30th September 18

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  5. Vasant17 September 2018 at 19:49

    Early morning solve for me(late night yesterday). But was away from internet. Nice puzzle as usual from Arden.

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  6. raju umamaheswar17 September 2018 at 21:11

    I'd like to shake hands with him for HANDSHAKE ! I mean, look at the simplicity of the clue !

    Sinister and SATURNINE , HEINOUS AYATOLLAH has been resurrected .

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  7. Mysteryblogger1217 September 2018 at 21:50

    Although I got all the answers I couldn't anno 2d,3d,& 21d. & then it was actually so simple.:). Thx.
    Gowri.

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  8. Unknown18 September 2018 at 05:13

    can someone please explain how we got 'o' from only in 12A
    Thanks

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