Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Tuesday, 18 September 2018

No 12424, Tuesday 18 Sep 2018, Arden


ACROSS
1   Settle before paper's out, amount unknown (6) PREPAY {PAPER*}{Y}
4   Oddly, redfin caught in Venetian waterway lands up in Rome (8) CARDINAL {CA{ReDfIn}NAL}
9   It enables purchase at the lowest level (6) ANCHOR [CD]
10 A workover, say for a renegade (8) APOSTATE {A}{OP<=}{STATE}
12 A planet has to have constant source of methane (5,3) MARSH GAS {MARS}{H{G}AS}
13 Cling on to him in the middle (6) COHERE {CO{HE}RE}
15 Diner's fine over the cape (12) DELICATESSEN {DELICATE}{NESS<=}
18 Bet Hank will clean up the casino (5,3,4) BREAK THE BANK {BET+HANK}* [RA]
21 Idiots, second rate (6) ASSESS {ASSES}{S}
22 British capital picks a tory leader — it's a gamble (8) BACCARAT {B}{ACC{A}RA}{Tory}
24 Approximate time to get fibre content (8) ROUGHAGE {ROUGH AGE}
25 Arab men stop you entering inside initially (6) YEMENI {YE}{MEN}{In...e}
26 Jump into castle wharf when sea gets rougher (8) CHOPPIER {C}{HOP}{PIER}
27 Draw second boat (6) SKETCH {S}{KETCH}

DOWN
1   Sadly mop ground singing hymns (8) PSALMODY*
2   Red case, part is green (8) ESCAROLE {CASE*}{ROLE}
3   Doctor they approach regularly stops at the pharmacy (11,4) APOTHECARYS SHOP {THEY+APPROACH+StOpS}*
5   Starts again, lofty peaks evacuated in Europe (4) ALPS {Ag..n}{Lo..y}{PeakS}
6   Found Count posing danger to the king (10,5) DISCOVERED CHECK {DISCOVERED} {CHECK}
7   Tidy up, initially not to be consumed (6) NEATEN {Not}{EATEN}
8   No truth in the German song (6) LIEDER {LIE}{DER}
11 Dish — it's repeated quietly (7) MANTRAP {MANTRA}{P}
14 A silent river overruns, what's left here are coffin nails (7) ASHTRAY {A}{SH}{T{R}AY}
16 Tries art design, it's extremely sticky (8) TARRIEST*
17 Lampoon — it's funny Henry should get nervous (8) SKITTISH {SKIT}{ITS*}{H}
19 Nothing at all to it, crib about the material (6) FABRIC {FA}{CRIB*} Anno for FA pending See comments
20 Mock up when they're outstanding in work (6) PSEUDO {O{DUES}P}<=
23 Fit, not very dim (4) AGUE vAGUE

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32 comments:

  1. sree_sree18 September 2018 at 08:32

    19d nothing at all:fanny Adams, fa

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  2. sree_sree18 September 2018 at 08:40

    25a men in y.e.i, my understanding

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  3. sree_sree18 September 2018 at 08:41

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    1. sree_sree18 September 2018 at 08:50

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  4. KARTHIK18 September 2018 at 09:00

    Is Venetian extraneous in 4A)

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  5. vdsprasad49@gmail.com18 September 2018 at 11:32

    8D. Lieder (~leader) in German is songs, singular being lied.

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  6. Padmanabhan18 September 2018 at 12:07

    Lieder is not in German.
    'The German' is DER. No truth is Lie.
    About Lieder refer to the link given by Col.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao18 September 2018 at 12:25

      Paddy, Prasad is correct. He is not airing about anno.
      LIEDER is plural of songs. The def. is in singular form.

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    2. sree_sree18 September 2018 at 12:39

      There is a song (single) "lieder" by adil tawil, the German pop singer.

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    3. vdsprasad49@gmail.com18 September 2018 at 14:01

      The link also confirms what I say. Thank you, KRK.

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  7. sree_sree18 September 2018 at 12:35

    Anyone tried this one? Any feedback.
    https://beebom.com/oneplus-crackables-challenging-cryptic-puzzles/

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao18 September 2018 at 12:42

      Not my cup of tea!
      My close relative [by name Krishna from IIT Madras] used to create such puzzles.

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    2. Prasanna Rao18 September 2018 at 15:10

      SREE SREE........SEEMS TO BE GOOD. BUT I HAVE TO TRY WITH MOBILE.....POOR NET WORK IN BORDERS......I AM NEAR TO WAGHA BORDER @ AMRITSAR

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    3. sree_sree18 September 2018 at 16:13

      Great. I am in Amritsar on 8th Oct. Wagha border on iternary.

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    4. Prasanna Rao19 September 2018 at 14:12

      oh.....you are most welcome any time if you re-visit here...

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  8. Vasant18 September 2018 at 14:46

    Struggled in SW corner before good old Fanny Adams showed the way. I could get to the puzzle only now. While the two long ones gave a good starting point, the whole puzzle was a delight to solve.
    Thank you Arden.

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  9. maradnusro18 September 2018 at 15:28

    Thanks ARDEN for teaching me nothing at all today.

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  10. Unknown18 September 2018 at 19:19

    in 25A , what does 'stop' indicate ?

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  11. raju umamaheswar18 September 2018 at 21:27

    ARDEN introducing new words to all. eg: PSALMODY , ESCAROLE . DELICATESSEN sounds very delicate, leading one to think that it sells only delicacies ! One finds lots of DELIs here in the US. DISCOVERED CHECK should be an eye 'opener 'for many chess players .

    What;s the need for Dish in MANTRAP?

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao18 September 2018 at 21:49

      DISH: A good-looking or attractive person of either sex
      MANTRAP: A woman who takes a mischievous pleasure in attracting and acquiring men

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    2. raju umamaheswar19 September 2018 at 07:31

      Thanks, KKR. I see the connection but then what type of clues these become ? I agree that a DISH is a feminist term for a good looking girl , thus commodifying the gender, MANTRAP is again, a patriarchal term not very complimentary to the gender--- terms that ME TOO activists may not approve ?

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