Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Saturday, 22 September 2018

No 12428, Saturday 22 Sep 2018, Incognito

Any more theme words from the movie 'Come September'?
Back to using the dreaded 'extraneous' indicator after abandoning it for a few weeks. Setters/solvers let me know if this is ok or if I should permanently abandon using it

Across

7. 2/3 of 27 arrive (4) COME {COMEdy} 27a is COMEDY
8. Beep terms out in “Ninth Month” (9) SEPTEMBER {BEEP+TERMS*}

10. Kirk's got a child at each side of old town (6) CHURCH {CH}{UR}{CH}
11. Young lady purloins metal and pulls wool over the eyes (8) MISLEADS {MIS{LEAD}S}
12. Interrogate poser (8) QUESTION (DD)
14. Hounds ran away to river (6) HUDSON {HOUNDS*}
16. USA mint is destroyed — it may cause flooding (7) TSUNAMI {USA+MINT*}
18. One musical group's on leave (7) ABANDON {A}{BAND}{ON}
21. Ex-student saw and followed instruction (6) OBEYED {OB}{EYED}
23. Got back from uncle's shop and planted grass around river before commencement of monsoon (8) REDEEMED {RE{DEE}{Monsoon}ED}
25. Abraham has non-drinking or primarily sober criminal assistants (8) ABETTORS {ABE}{TT}{OR}{Sober}
27. Beautiful lass is initially dropped for douchebag at first! Funny business! (6) COMEDY {COME(-l+D)Y}
29. Rod's following Metropolitan Police HQ's standard? (9) YARDSTICK {YARD}{STICK}
30. Mona left famous painting for Elizabeth, perhaps (4) LISA {monaLISA}

Down

1. Mughal queen loses a broken spur and pants (8) JODHPURS {JODHa}{SPUR*}
2. Look closely // for a person doing his job at a convenience (4) PEER (DD)
3. I'm confused about this badly! Necks of lands? (6) ISTHMI {THIS*}{I'M*}
4. Superintendent of Police at university has old crockery with froth on top (7) SPUMING {SP}{U}{MING}
5. Raj's mistress has returned ball after one, following setter's memorandum at first (8) MEMSAHIB {ME}{Memorandum}{HAS<=}{I}{B}
6. Ex-student's old English instrument (4) OBOE {OB}{O}{E}
9. Wireless “Advertisement's in the river in Spain” (5) RADIO {R{AD}IO}
13. Yellowish-beige, for example, seen around New Delhi initially (5) SANDY {SA{N}{Delhi|Y}
15. Move to music and cavort in front of church (5) DANCE {AND*}{CE}
17. Mouse had run helter-skelter in lodging for nutcases (8) MADHOUSE {MOUSE+HAD*}
19. Dove rose awkwardly — too much of drug, perhaps (8) OVERDOSE {DOVE+ROSE}
20. Harsh detectives return carrying mutilated rats! (7) DRASTIC {CID<=} around {RATS*}
22. Lad hugs a couple of boys for a copper (5)  BOBBY {BO{B}{B}Y}
24. Fine after last month starting of engine to remove carbon (6) DECOKE {DEC}{OK}{Engine}
26. Rent not returned around end of December (4) TORN {NOT<=} around {decembeR}
28. Military officer follows mummy for a drink (4) MALT {MA}{LT}

Reference List
Child=Ch, Old town=Ur, One=A, Ex-student=OB, River=Dee, Abraham=Abe, Non-Drinking=TT
Superintendent of Police=SP, University=U, Ball=B, One=I, Setter=Me, Old=O, English=E, Advertisement=Ad, New=N, Church=CE, Detectives=CID, Boys=B, Fine=OK, Last Month=Dec, Military Officer=Lt, Mummy=Ma


Colour/Font Scheme

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32 comments:

  1. Padmanabhan22 September 2018 at 08:35

    September has come!!
    Jodhpurs was the ;ast to fall. Otherwise a walk through.
    Thank you Incognito for the enjoyable tune.

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  2. Deepak Gopinath22 September 2018 at 08:39

    It's almost 'Gone September'

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao22 September 2018 at 08:41

      Ha ha!
      3DN I thought the wp leads to I[anagram of THIS]M

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    2. Padmanabhan22 September 2018 at 08:43

      Would you rather have "I'm confused AFTER this badly"?

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao22 September 2018 at 08:50

      something like that would have been better for me

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    4. sree_sree22 September 2018 at 09:21

      I read confused as taken back. About as reversal indicator.

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  3. Padmanabhan22 September 2018 at 08:41

    Incognito had hinted last month- "See you in September"!

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  4. Kolluru Koteswara Rao22 September 2018 at 08:47

    Extraneous indicator helps the upcoming setters to understand how to draft clues in a better manner. I feel you can continue with the indicator.

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    1. sree_sree22 September 2018 at 09:24

      Probably the only debating point in Incognito clues. But I agree with KKR. Pls continue unless of course the setters object.

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    2. Vasant22 September 2018 at 09:56

      +1 for extraneous indicator

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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 September 2018 at 11:51

      +2

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  5. P. Venkatesan22 September 2018 at 09:08

    Eight of the solution words are yellow-shaded while others are not. What does such shading denote?

    As per the prescribed colour scheme, "cavort" at 15 down should have the anagram indicator colour, whereas Letter Pick colour has been applied.

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    1. Deepak Gopinath22 September 2018 at 09:13

      The highlighted solutions are part of the theme 'Come September'

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    2. RameshJ22 September 2018 at 09:26

      Thanks. Fixed 15D. Added a new entry to 'Colour/Font Scheme' to indicate theme words

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    3. P. Venkatesan22 September 2018 at 09:30

      Thanks.

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    4. Padmanabhan22 September 2018 at 12:02

      Thank you Ramesh.
      happy colour indicators are getting added in stead of being removed. More the merrier for us, although more work for you.

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  6. Vasant22 September 2018 at 09:59

    Nice puzzle! The lame IA version didn't have much role to play today.
    Having never seen the movie, didn't guess the theme.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao22 September 2018 at 10:10

      Strangely since yesterday [or the day before], the IA version, is not displaying the particular clue when I selected the clue number AC/DN. I have to go all the way down to see what the clue is. Is it the same with you all?

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    2. Vasant22 September 2018 at 10:16

      Yes. That is why I used the term "Lame" IA version

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    3. KARTHIK22 September 2018 at 10:28

      Also auto-movement of cursor is erratic; for some clues the yellow highlight doesn't appear

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    4. Deepak Gopinath22 September 2018 at 10:37

      The yellow highlight will appear only if the cursor is placed in the square containing the first letter of the word

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    5. Deepak Gopinath22 September 2018 at 10:41

      Further to the above the highlight will appear only for the Across solution if there is a Down solution also starting at the same square

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    6. KARTHIK22 September 2018 at 11:23

      Thanks Col. for the clarification. I was placing the cursor in the middle of the word and looking for a yellow highlight.

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    7. Mukundala Balasubramanyam22 September 2018 at 11:49

      This IA version is irritating now-a-days. :(

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    8. Padmanabhan22 September 2018 at 11:59

      Thank God. I did it on paper today and the pleasure of solving Incognito CW was not spoiled.

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    9. sree_sree22 September 2018 at 12:31

      i have found my little solution. 2 min additional job everyday but the convenience returns. copied old crossword page source to an html editor. Now i just replace only crossword part in the code.

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  7. raju umamaheswar22 September 2018 at 22:22

    Col: Now that many are complaining , joining me, about the IA version, which is , to say the least, the worst ever software to use for an online version, can you PLEASE convert the grid to Acrosslite, like you do for the Sunday specials and have it posted as GRID? Last three days, I haven't been able to solve online and hence , the complaint of all can thus be easily solved. As it is, I miss the Sunday regular, ever since the Special was introduced and by accepting my suggestion several problems can be thus solved. I think, the Hindu is using the crossword segment to boost their revenue by adding so many ad- boxes and to worsen , a distracting moving image keeps dancing on the right of the grid ! Looks like they want the solver to do only on paper and if one chooses online version, bear the nuisance of the ads and distractions ! The cursor also starts fluttering and then after one has completed 90 % of the grid the most annoying AW SNAP ! pops out frustrating the solver to fill in all over again , after reloading !

    i may add that we do not have such problems in any other online girds like the Guardian, 1 Across group, SParthasarathy 's etc .


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    1. sree_sree22 September 2018 at 22:45

      I can mail you the Browser IA version in the old model, most of the days by 12:30. i go to sleep solving the crossword. i dont know if its legal to post an online link.

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    2. raju umamaheswar23 September 2018 at 01:40

      Sure , that'll be great. Please send it to sapraj2711@gmail.com. At least, I can make do until a solution is found . Thanks, sree_sree.

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  8. Chaturvasi23 September 2018 at 08:16

    sree_sree
    I would appreciate if you can send me a mail to
    chaturvasi@yahoo.com
    giving brief notes on how to copy "old crossword page source to an html editor. Now i just replace only crossword part in the code."
    I have html editor in text editor.
    I am fairly advanced in playing around with d/l'd freeware.
    I just need step-by-step guidance in this.
    BTW, I can work around the problem Raju mentions (if I want to do a THC interatively) and I am asking this just to get to know what you are doing.

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  9. Deepak Gopinath23 September 2018 at 09:35

    Ref Raju's comment above. See my remarks in the blog for the Sunday CW

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