Sunday 9 September 2018

Special, Sunday 09 Sep 2018, Saral


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


ACROSS
1   Challenge, confuse Ravi with two lines (7)
5   Pings us about volunteers (5,2)
9   Maybe it’s around the French landmass (5)
10 An attempt to take fight back to slaughterhouses (9)
11 Newspaper employee Edward with note returns the gold (6)
12 Special order accepting that man for ball (8)
14 Able to go around a river boat (9)
16 Some gap seen in a part church (4)
19 Sharp cry (4)
20 Vehicle on ship taking last load of carton material (9)
23 Song writer Cyril rewriting, is taking time (8)
24 Setter with book/guide (6)
27 It walks with many members? (9)
28 Incorrect article by girt (5)
29 Gift dispatched earlier, not later (7)
30 Ebony scattered around two sides of road towards West is parched (4,3)

DOWN
1   Attacked communist without help (6)
2   Large mansion incomplete, with one wall having hairlike projections (5)
3   Twisted trail to lake is next to the water (8)
4   Yes! right time (4)
5   Marshy ground, damp lawns with slippery top (10)
6   Collect paper from south containing article (6)
7   Umpire’s odd joke about winter sports persons (3,6)
8   Page reset wrongly, editor is annoyed (8)
13 People in street led by Sarah is rising trouble (10)
15 Lincoln managed to arrest leader of rioters in front of church, which is not normal(9)
17 Pull sack around bone atop (8)
18 Alert Warren of blunder (8)
21 Letters of pact I verify on the go (6)
22 Crunchy and spicy, stir after adding a bit of rice (6)
25 Made an attempt at first to rise in every division (5)
26 That man with brother climbing to get mint, say (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at SARAL 9

Enjoy.

65 comments:

  1. 26d HE RB (he-that man; br (other)<-

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  2. 1d: raided (aid)in (red) = attacked

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  3. 22d Crunchy and spicy, stir after adding a bit of rice (6)CRISPY (SPICY+R)*

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  4. 21D Letters of pact I verify on the go (6)ACTIVE (T)

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  5. 1A RIVALRY RAVI*+ L+RY
    3D LITTORAL TRAILTO*+L
    4D YEA R

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  6. 18 Alert Warren of blunder (8) forewarn (Warren of*) Can a nounal anag ind follow anag fodder?
    21 Letters of pact I verify on the go (6) ACTIVE (Tele.) from pACT I VErify)
    22 Crunchy and spicy, stir after adding a bit of rice (6) CRISPY (anag of spicy + r) Here again 'stir' after part anag fodder seems to be in inappropriate pos.

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  7. Replacement for repeat
    16a: apse (T)

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  8. I won't be compensating for dupes.

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  9. 17D SKULLCAP (PULLSACK)* DUPLICATE FOR 21D

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  10. 1dn raided aid in red
    21dn active (T)
    26 dn herb he+br(reversed)

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  11. 5A : SIGNS UP for Volunteers from Pings up*
    11A: EDITOR from ED TI<- OR

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  12. 20AC CAR D BOARD
    13DN HARAS<S[MEN]T
    15DN ABE R[RAN] CE

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  13. Is there a typo in the clue of 28A?
    Girl instead of girt?

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  14. 5A: SIGNS UP [Pings us]*
    12A : SPHERULE [SP][HE][RULE]
    7Dn : SKI JUMPER [Umpire's JoKe]*

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  15. Replacement for 5A Signs up

    30A : BONE DRY [EBONY + RoaD]8

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  16. 5D SWAMPLANDS : (damp lawns +S)*

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  17. 27A It walks with many members? (9)
    Centipede
    Cryptic Definition(Many-Hundred!)
    14A Able to go around a river boat (9)
    Catamaran
    A=a
    Tamar=river
    around Can=able
    10A An attempt to take fight back to slaughterhouses (9)
    Abattoirs
    A=a
    Riot=fight inside stab(attempt) both reversed.

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  18. Lovely puzzle Saral!Simple and beautifully constructed. Thanks LV.

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  19. 29ac present
    pre(not later) sent(despatched)

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    Newspaper employee Edward with note returns the gold (6)
    Sorry if I am raising too many questions. Does the cryptic operation come out unmistakably here? Let the solver or anyone else answer.

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    1. Perhaps not!What do you want to return note or gold?

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    2. the is also superF besides the return confusion. "edward returns note with gold"

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    3. Yes, that inexactness is there. I wonder if this CWD went thru a test solver.

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    4. Questions are always welcome for improvement

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  21. 9 ISLET. ( its +le)* =landmass

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  22. 8 PESTERED Page reset wrongly, editor is annoyed , P + (RESET)* + ED

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  23. To be solved
    Across - 24, 28
    Down - 2, 6, 25

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  24. 24A ME+NT+OR
    28A A+MISS
    2D VILL(-a)+I

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  25. Simple and elegant. Stress free solve! Thanks LV :)

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  26. 6D) THE in RAG<= Soln: GATHER Defn: Collect
    25D) TRIED; acrostic

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  27. col, seeing the no of visitors on sundays, may be its time to limit it two per person.

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  28. 23a: lyricist - {(cyril*)+(is)+(tI̷m̷e̷)}
    8d: pestered - (pa̷g̷r̷)+(reset*)+(edi̷t̷o̷r̷)
    13d: harassment - {(sarah*)+(s(men)t}

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  29. 19A) Soln: KEEN
    DD: Sharp / cry

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  30. Looks like I came late :) Nice grid, LV - thanks!

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  31. Thank you LV. Look into the brickbats for future

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  32. @CV sir, I missed that completely. Thanks for pointing it out. Will be more careful next time . Thanks for the feedback. And also EDITOR clue, a bit confused myself :) Sorry .

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  33. @ Sree _sree 28 A it is a typo - girl not girt

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  34. Thanks Vasant,sree_sree,Karthikeyan, Satyen, MB sir, KRK & Ramki :)
    @ Col Thanks a lot :) & haha yes I like brickbats. Next time while setting, all will come to my mind & warn me not to make mistakes:)
    (Not able to post replies under each comment,so have posted separately )

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  35. Thank you LV. Did it late, enjoyed nevertheless.

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  36. Thank you, LV. That was a simple and elegant gridpiece. sorry for my late appearance.
    I knew that was from you !

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  37. LV: VILLI is feminine Villain in Tamil films for vamps ? I have seen it being used ! On a serious note, it was new word added to my glossary.

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  38. LV: Will ya accept my thanks for VILLI ? or Vill-ya not ?

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  39. Haha of course I Vill accept :D
    Thanks a lot Raju sir for solving the cw !

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