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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.

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65 comments:

  1. ramani9 September 2018 at 10:31

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

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  2. P. Venkatesan9 September 2018 at 10:32

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

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  3. ramani9 September 2018 at 10:33

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

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  4. P. Venkatesan9 September 2018 at 10:34

    21d: active (T)

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  5. ramani9 September 2018 at 10:34

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

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  6. P. Venkatesan9 September 2018 at 10:36

    26d: herb (he)(br<-)

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  7. Vasant9 September 2018 at 10:36

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

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  8. Chaturvasi9 September 2018 at 10:37

    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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  9. P. Venkatesan9 September 2018 at 10:38

    Replacement for repeat
    16a: apse (T)

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  10. Chaturvasi9 September 2018 at 10:38

    I won't be compensating for dupes.

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  11. ramani9 September 2018 at 10:38

    17D SKULLCAP (PULLSACK)* DUPLICATE FOR 21D

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  12. Jayalakshmi arumugam9 September 2018 at 10:40

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

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  13. R Nagendra Prasad9 September 2018 at 10:41

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

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  14. R Nagendra Prasad9 September 2018 at 10:43

    23A: LYRICIST from CYRIL IS T*

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  15. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 September 2018 at 10:45

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

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  16. sree_sree9 September 2018 at 10:48

    28a typo? girl?

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  17. Vasant9 September 2018 at 10:50

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

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  18. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 September 2018 at 10:52

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

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  19. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 September 2018 at 10:55

    Replacement for 5A Signs up

    30A : BONE DRY [EBONY + RoaD]8

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  20. Murali9 September 2018 at 10:57

    5D SWAMPLANDS : (damp lawns +S)*

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  21. Jayalakshmi arumugam9 September 2018 at 10:57

    27ac centipede (dd)

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  22. Srinidhi9 September 2018 at 10:59

    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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  23. Vasant9 September 2018 at 11:00

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

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  24. Jayalakshmi arumugam9 September 2018 at 11:02

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

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  25. Chaturvasi9 September 2018 at 11:02

    Re
    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. Vasant9 September 2018 at 11:09

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

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    2. sree_sree9 September 2018 at 11:17

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

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    3. Chaturvasi9 September 2018 at 11:18

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

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    4. Deepak Gopinath9 September 2018 at 11:19

      Questions are always welcome for improvement

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  26. sree_sree9 September 2018 at 11:09

    done. nice one saral.

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  27. Murali9 September 2018 at 11:11

    9 ISLET. ( its +le)* =landmass

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  28. Murali9 September 2018 at 11:17

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

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  29. Deepak Gopinath9 September 2018 at 11:20

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

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  30. Satyen Nabar9 September 2018 at 11:26

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

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  31. Mukundala Balasubramanyam9 September 2018 at 11:40

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

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  32. KARTHIK9 September 2018 at 11:58

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

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  33. Kolluru Koteswara Rao9 September 2018 at 12:04

    Simply smart LV!

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  34. sree_sree9 September 2018 at 12:07

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

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  35. Dr. Krishnamoorthy. A, Vellore9 September 2018 at 13:02

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

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  36. KARTHIK9 September 2018 at 13:22

    19A) Soln: KEEN
    DD: Sharp / cry

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  37. Ramki Krishnan9 September 2018 at 14:04

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

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  38. Deepak Gopinath9 September 2018 at 14:20

    Thank you LV. Look into the brickbats for future

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  39. Deepak Gopinath9 September 2018 at 14:22

    2D - VILLI {VILL(-a)}{1}

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  40. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan9 September 2018 at 14:36

    Thanks all for solving & feedback :)

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  41. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan9 September 2018 at 14:39

    @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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  42. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan9 September 2018 at 14:40

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

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  43. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan9 September 2018 at 14:48

    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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  44. Padmanabhan9 September 2018 at 19:40

    Thank you LV. Did it late, enjoyed nevertheless.

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  45. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan9 September 2018 at 21:00

    Thank you Paddy sir :)

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  46. raju umamaheswar10 September 2018 at 04:52

    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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  47. raju umamaheswar10 September 2018 at 04:57

    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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  48. raju umamaheswar10 September 2018 at 04:59

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

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  49. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan10 September 2018 at 12:06

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

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