Sunday, 2 September 2018

Special, Sunday 02 Sep 2018, Karthikeyan


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

ACROSS
1   More pressing matters from a larger angle to grill (6,4,2,3)
7   Reuse regularly later on mounted weapon snoozes (7)
8A & 8D Phlegmatic when a couple of coppers drag medico into jail (4,2,1) (8)
9   Mercurial and nimble-footed squadron (5)
10 Beetles among Volvo's car absent-mindedly (7)
14 Peepers look for bears without fear (4)
16 Letter sent from Athens as servicemen return degree (5)
17 Knowing first advanced reconnaissance compression hardware (4)
18 Even bedlamps lighting is enough for shady trees (4)
19 See 4 Down (5)
20 Ruler reflected from agora story film (4)
22 Bituminous substance is a NACL compound carrying alkalinity measure (7)
23 See 4 Down (3,2)
27 See 11 Down (3,4)
29 Expert to seat ROM in circuit (7)
30 Introvert mixes gin, I love it finally after shake (9,6)

DOWN
1   Comfortable place for free beers and foods (3,2,5)
2D & 15D Pimply skin produced by cold fare some pubs supply (5)
3   Caged panthers at zoo is spurious (6)
4D,23A&19A Stranded, I yell on board flights of fantasy above ocean (4)
5   Duo to score over X (3)
6   Long endless length of time (4)
8   See 8 Across (8)
11D & 27A I'd be very wise for a change with this panorama (5)
12 To refuse, I'd turn yellowish (8)
13 Bodice first to ram into a player's chest and flatten (10)
15 See 2 Down (5)
21 Trunk tip endlessly, is it a mushroom? (6)
24 Sum on trainer's head, a lot problematic (5)
25 Stomachs oddly keep gas (4)
26 Bad air leads to sulphur, magnesium or germanium (4)
28 for e.g.  OH- or H+ (3)

Across Lite version can be accessed at KARTHIK 3

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54 comments:

  1. sree_sree2 September 2018 at 10:31

    acrosslite version is different

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  2. ramani2 September 2018 at 10:31

    26d S M O G (ACROSTIC)

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  3. ramani2 September 2018 at 10:33

    24d T (OTAL)*

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  4. Nadathur Rajan2 September 2018 at 10:35

    Grid to be added in blog

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  5. ramani2 September 2018 at 10:36

    20A TSAR <-T

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  6. Vasant2 September 2018 at 10:37

    10A SCARABS T
    17A ARCH Acrostic
    18A ELMS even letter of bEdLaMpS

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  7. P. Venkatesan2 September 2018 at 10:38

    3d: ersatz (T)
    18a: elms (bEdLaMpS)
    20a: tsar (T)

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  8. Nadathur Rajan2 September 2018 at 10:45

    10A SCARABS(T)
    29A MAESTRO*

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  9. Jayalakshmi arumugam2 September 2018 at 10:47

    6 dn year year(n)

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  10. sree_sree2 September 2018 at 10:55

    1d bed of roses (beers+foods)*
    2d goose bumps go+(some+pubs)*

    does it make 3 or 2 for me!!

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  11. Deepak Gopinath2 September 2018 at 10:56

    Correct version of Cross Lite file now uploaded. Sorry about the error

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  12. Nadathur Rajan2 September 2018 at 11:02

    1 More pressing matters // from a larger / angle / to / grill (6,4,2,3) (BIGGER) (FISH) (TO) (FRY)

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  13. Nadathur Rajan2 September 2018 at 11:14

    Replacement for 10A
    11D/27A BIRDS EYE VIEW (Anagram of 'I'd be very wise')

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  14. Venkatesh2 September 2018 at 11:32

    30ac (SHRINK)(ING VIOLET*)
    12dn (DI<=)(SALLOW)
    22ac A/S(PH)ALT

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  15. sree_sree2 September 2018 at 11:38

    just done. nice one karthik.

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  16. Srinidhi2 September 2018 at 11:40

    8A & 8D Phlegmatic when a couple of coppers drag medico into jail (4,2,1) (8)
    Cool as a cucumber
    as=when
    a=a
    cu cu couple of coppers
    MB medico
    all put inside cooler=jail

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    1. KARTHIK2 September 2018 at 11:44

      Nice solve Srinidhi.

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    2. Srinidhi2 September 2018 at 11:50

      Thanks Sir. Liked the long clues spread across different clue sets.

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  17. P. Venkatesan2 September 2018 at 11:47

    Replacements for repeats
    28d: Ion (CD)
    21d: boleti {bole(=trunk)}{ti(-p)}

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  18. Srinidhi2 September 2018 at 11:48

    4D,23A&19A Stranded, I yell on board flights of fantasy above ocean (4)
    Fish out of water meaning stranded
    I Shout= I yell
    inside FOF Flights of Fancy
    above Water=Ocean

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  19. Mukundala Balasubramanyam2 September 2018 at 11:58

    9A : Mercurial and nimble-footed squadron (5) FLEET [DD]

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  20. Mukundala Balasubramanyam2 September 2018 at 12:03

    16A : Letter sent from Athens as servicemen return degree (5) SIGMA [SIG <= MA]

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  21. Mukundala Balasubramanyam2 September 2018 at 12:09

    7A : Reuse regularly later on mounted weapon snoozes (7) DROWSES [SWORD<=][rEuSe]

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  22. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 September 2018 at 12:09

    Unable to make early presence. But happy to take smaller ones in this nice puzzle:
    14AC: O R B S
    17AC: A R CH
    25DN: K E G S

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  23. Mukundala Balasubramanyam2 September 2018 at 12:12

    Me too late to join. Nice grid, Karthikeyan. Thank you.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 September 2018 at 12:15

      MB, I didn't notice 7A and 13DN were not yet solved.

      Anyway, well done PSK!

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    2. Vasant2 September 2018 at 12:19

      You can still take 13D for your repeat of 17A

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    3. KARTHIK2 September 2018 at 12:25

      Thanks MB and KRK.
      Pending 5 and 13 Down.

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  24. Sharan2 September 2018 at 14:02

    5D. Duo to score over X: TWO (means duo, also score=20/X=10)

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    1. sree_sree2 September 2018 at 14:43

      Score over x =20/10=2. Just clarifying typo.

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  25. KARTHIK2 September 2018 at 14:33

    Pending 13D

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    1. sree_sree2 September 2018 at 14:46

      Can I take it as my 3rf!!!

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    2. KARTHIK2 September 2018 at 14:57

      Given the nature of this clue set, you can. However Col. should decide.

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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam2 September 2018 at 15:19

      It's a tough one. I gave up. Annotation part.

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    4. sree_sree2 September 2018 at 15:26

      men vs women confusion?

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    5. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 September 2018 at 16:04

      My take is: 13D SHIRT FRONT
      Bodice=SHIRT
      Player's chest=FRONT
      DEF: is FLATTEN
      Shirtfront is defined as:
      (of a cricket pitch) very smooth and even;

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    6. sree_sree2 September 2018 at 16:30

      bodice: shirt
      first: front
      shirtfron australia football term where you run into opposition players.
      https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ShallowWhisperedDrever-mobile.mp4

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    7. KARTHIK2 September 2018 at 16:40

      Nice solve Sree.
      Defn: ram into a player's chest and flatten
      Shirtfront (single word), a sports term, is used in the verbal sense means
      " to violently knock into someone's chest and bring them down"
      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shirtfront

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    8. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 September 2018 at 16:58

      Good clue. It was indeed beyond perception.

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  26. Deepak Gopinath2 September 2018 at 17:05

    Thanks for the Special Karthikeyan.
    However do look into the grid pattern in future. Avoid using Grids where there are consecutive unches. In this grid There are consecutive unches in 1(twice), 8, 10, 22, 27 and 30(twice) Across

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    1. KARTHIK2 September 2018 at 17:32

      Thanks for publishing Col.
      Will avoid this in the future.

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  27. Chaturvasi2 September 2018 at 17:19

    I wrote an article on crossword grid construction for crosswordunclued of Shuchi. For instance,
    http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2009/10/make-your-own-crossword-grid.html
    The site has other useful articles too.

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