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Sunday, 28 October 2018

The Sunday Crossword No 3019, Sunday 28 Oct 2018


ACROSS
1   Justification given by one interrupting singer (5) BASIS {BAS{1}S}
4   Listless learner, I gather, suffering with cold (9) LETHARGIC {L}{I+GATHER}*{C}
9   Accidentally popular number, latest from vocalist in association with partner (15) UNINTENTIONALLY {UN{IN}{TEN}{v...sT}ION}{ALLY}
10 Revolutionary book that is full of verse arousing intense feeling (7) EMOTIVE {TOME<=}{I{V}E}
11 Face religious group, ignoring singular form of language (7) DIALECT {DIAL}{sECT}
12 Cross after anarchic act in capital leads to disappointment (10) ANTICLIMAX {ACT+IN}*{LIMA}{X}
14 Completion of filming western followed by strike (4) WRAP {W}{RAP}
17 Proper time for performance by two (4) DUET {DUE}{T}
18 Fly down by trunk keeping dry (10) BLUEBOTTLE {BLUE}{BO{TT}LE}
20 Difficulty with bishop in part contained by head of government (7) PROBLEM {P{RO{B}LE}M}
21 Get around parking strip (7) DEPRIVE {DE{P}RIVE}
22 Are young viewers prepared for film star? (9,6) SIGOURNEY WEAVER*
23 Without fixed limits, start over (4-5) OPEN-ENDED {OPEN}{ENDED}
24 Scrap with Romeo dividing cast (5) SHRED {SH{R}ED}

DOWN
1   Composer, upper-class, turned up in person in street (9) BOULEVARD {RAVEL}{U}<= in {BOD}
2   Insolence in smooth and villainous tone, huge error in speech (4,2,3,6) SLIP OF THE TONGUE {S{LIP}OFT}{HUGE+TONE}*
3   Solid part in rehearsed manoeuvre (3,5) SET PIECE {SET}{PIECE}
4   Weapon, look, no good (5) LANCE gLANCE
5   Inferior article about one on road with informer (5-4) THIRD-RATE {TH{1}{RD}{RAT}E}
6   Awning usable at regular intervals yearly (6) ANNUAL {AwNiNg}{UsAbLe}
7   Dog, familiar in type, leapt finally with energy into stream (6,9) GOLDEN RETRIEVER {G{OLD}ENRE}{l...pT}{RI{E}VER}
8   Exclamation over platinum in vault (5) CRYPT {CRY}{PT}
13 Unlucky guys taken in by silly old lie (3-6) ILL-OMENED {MEN} in {OLD+LIE}*
15 Favoured arbiter made a mistake under pressure (9) PREFERRED {P}{REF}{ERRED}
16 Politician breaking hearts with start of spending squeeze (8) COMPRESS {CO{MP}RES}{Sp...g}
19 Reason to accept large part of contract (6) CLAUSE {C{L}AUSE}
20 Sauce essential to recipe stockpiled (5) PESTO [T]
21 Nymph not interesting flier? (5) DRYAD {DRY}{AD}

GRID

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14 comments:

  1. Padmanabhan28 October 2018 at 09:36

    Found it tough going.

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  2. Padmanabhan28 October 2018 at 10:08

    Leader board is up. Great going Ramki!
    KKR & Vasant- you are in it. Keep moving up.

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  3. Vasant28 October 2018 at 12:21

    IXL Round 5: Another toughie!

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  4. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 October 2018 at 12:24

    It took me 84 solid minutes!

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  5. Padmanabhan28 October 2018 at 12:50

    Just started. I am going to take my own sweet time and do it in installments.
    Bar is set def. higher this time.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 October 2018 at 13:24

      Thanks Paddy for the encouragement.
      Yes, it is tough one today and bar is high! But keep your bar within reach!

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  6. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan28 October 2018 at 13:45

    Took 50 minutes . Submitted at around 12.50 .

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  7. raju umamaheswar29 October 2018 at 05:40

    IXL_ Round 5

    After seeing the comments of the other solvers here, I braced myself for a cerebral ordeal.

    PFOOOF ! What a brain-fogger ! I made so many silly entries and got sent on a wild-goose chase ! So many annotations undesirably convoluted ! who could be the ''SADIST'' compiler ? I managed to crack it in less than two hours, mainly because of a few red herrings to be corrected. Finally, felt good for myself to look and re-look at the grid and now get, set, ready and SUBMIT ! Which I am doing now. Good luck to all those who struggled like me .

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