Saturday, 13 October 2018

No 12446, Saturday 13 Oct 2018, Gridman

Gridman takes a trip to broadway

Across

1. Three thoroughfares lead you to New York theatre centre (8) BROADWAY {B}{ROAD}{WAY}
5. Hand actor's text (6) SCRIPT (DD)
9. More punctual offstage helper (8) PROMPTER (DD)
10. Work into the other one's headgear (3,3) TOP HAT {T{OP} HAT}
12. Church area's phase spelt out without a trace of haziness (4) APSE {PhASE*}
13. Star's aim England quashed (7,3) LEADING MAN {AIM+ENGLAND*}
15. Go round part of theatre, maybe (6) CIRCLE (DD)
17. Non-fussed, refined Sen’s left cheesy dish (5) FONDU {NONFUSSED-SENS*}
20. Reportedly watched part of drama (5) SCENE {~SEEN}
21. Protect man and more (6) MOTHER {M}{OTHER}
24. Man of accounts with single hesitation in hall (10) AUDITORIUM {AUDITOR}{I}{UM}
27. Part to play? Get going, I say! (4) ROLE {~ROLL}
29. Address small leak by child (6) SPEECH {S}{PEE}{CH}
30. Part of theatre where there's restriction on throng? Not exactly (5,3) CRUSH BAR {CRUSH}{BAR} Anno ok?
31. Write scores for number mentioned no end (6) NOTATE {NO}{sTATEd}
32. Officially certify trace CID put out (8) ACCREDIT {TRACE+CID*}

Down

1. Incidental activity through adopting dirty play (6) BYPLAY {B{PLAY*}Y}
2. Instrument player that old boy lifts no end (6) OBOIST {OB}{hOISTs}
3. Tool of the French exercise (4) DUPE {DU}{PE}
4. Girl makes deal with head of entertainment (5) ADELE {DEAL*}{Entertainment}
6. Jester changes side for cap (5) CROWN {C(-l+R)OWN}
7. Stupid adaptation of song is cruel (8) INHUMANE {IN{HUM}ANE}
8. Metal giant I endlessly bump into (8) TITANIUM {TITAN}{I}{bUMp}
11. A day's beginning with opening coming up (6) ADVENT {A}{Day}{VENT}
14. Right now, not dead! (4) LIVE (DD)
16. I left America in a rush! What equipment did I bring? (6) CAMERA {AMERiCA*}
17. Charges of women driving scholar and learner out (4) FEES {FEmalES}
18. Doubly fool one new killer (8) ASSASSIN {ASS}{ASS}{IN}
19. Nonpayer's bushed and defeated (8) DEADBEAT {DEAD}{BEAT}
22. Patient man on cot did piece work (6) JOBBED {JOB}{BED}
23. Worry about engineer in search (6) FERRET {F{RE<=}RET}
25. One in diplomacy is silent (5) TACIT {TAC{I}T}
26. Endlessly hugs limited trick in Hungarian language (5) UGRIC {hUGs}{tRICk}
28. Exploiting type's ruse exposed (4) USER {RUSE*}

Reference List

Thoroughfare=B, Work=Op, Man=M, Single=I, Hesitation=Um, Small=S, Child=Ch, Number=No
Old boy=OB, Of the French=Du, Exercise=PE, Scholar=MA, Learner=L, One=I, New=N, Engineer=RE


Colour/Font Scheme

DefinitionSolutionComponent lettersEmbedded linksTheme word Anagram IndicatorC/C indicatorReversal IndicatorHidden word IndicatorLetter Pick indicatorDeletion IndicatorHomophone IndicatorMovement IndicatorPositional IndicatorSubstitution, IndicatorLink/Connector, Extraneous

53 comments:

  1. 30a bar on crush becomes crush on bar. How to anno?

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  2. Nicely and simply done Col. Just precise.

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  3. Happy to have completed.Had to look up the cheese dish and a proper synonym for the non payer. Could not get a few annos and as usual blog (read Ramesh) to the rescue. Nice blog Ramesh.

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  4. IXL round 2 solutions are up.
    Got all correct this time. No typos.:-)

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  5. Great job To get 100% on such a tough crossie.!

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  6. Bloodbath in my solution page on an oilbath day 😣

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  7. All correct. I submitted only on Monday .

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  8. As per IXL 18 FB page the following have got all correct
    Ramki, Lahar, Sowmya, Mona, LV , Neelima and myself. Waiting for others to chip in.

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    1. I got it right too, although I wasn't sure of a couple of words when I submitted it. This was perhaps the toughest of all the IXL puzzles I have done across the years - including the ones used for the finals!

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    2. Nice to see you after a long time here.
      Nice to know you got it all right too.

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    3. Congrats indeed! A few of my colleagues Ashit, Mukund and Jyotsna have got all correct as well.

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    4. Great going from the doctor trio. They are in 6th, 7th & 8th positions!

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    5. Yes they are in 7th heaven! :)

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    6. 7th,8th and 9th positions rather

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    7. Ramesh in 6th position.
      Ramesh was a prolific commenter once here..with his ABCD clues(a bonus clue of the day)...now he hardly comments..except for the Saturday blog.
      Request him to come here often.

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  10. Congrtas LV, Vasant,Ramki and others. Something to be proud of.

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  11. Congratulations Vasant, LV, Ramki and others. Fantastic efforts! Keep it up.

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  12. After a long gap I could complete thanks to expedient clues.29A,21A & 23D much appealing.Thanks GM.

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  13. After a long gap I could complete the puzzle thanks to expedient clues.21,29A & 23D were much appealing.Thanks GM.

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  14. Congrats to Ramki for topping the leaderboard once again!

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    1. how do we read it. is it cumulative of first and second or just second round.

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    2. 2nd round is given as separate and cumulative appears separately

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    3. To spell you out correctly Sreeram from Rajamundry

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    4. So lots of names Prasad as most of us call you, sree_sree as you appear, Sreeram as you appear.
      What art thou?

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    5. i already gave full introduction.
      katakam sreerama chandra vara prasad preferred name sreeram. col like formal name so Prasad here.

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  15. Congrats to all those who completed correctly. I fell short by two mistakes; more by negligence to revise before sending due to sheer mental fatigue for three hours + . Lesson learnt. We should all revisit and recheck clue by clue before hitting SUBMIT ! The IXL appears to have raised the bar but I should also add , the cluing is getting trickier and trickier !

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