Tuesday 4 December 2018

No 12488. Tuesday 04 Dec 2018, Skuldugger


Plenty of questions today

ACROSS
5   Cool musical accompaniment described by Brown (6) FROSTY {FR{OST}Y} Ost/Musical accompaniment? See comments
6   Being pockmarked, gets depressed (6) PITTED [CD]
9   Tiny bit of positivity in revolutionary statement rejecting fancy speech! (6) PROTON {Po...y}ROTON Anno pending (Addendum - {NO}{TO}{RP}<= - See comments)
10 Scribe's tools here in cocktail booth (8) INKSTAND {IN}{cocK}{STAND}
11 Framework fitted into bracket (4) RACK [T]
12 A world full of noodle soup for anti-colonialist! (10) ANGLOPHOBE {AN}{GLO{PHO}BE}
13 Interventionism: is it ruining our surroundings (11) ENVIRONMENT iNtERVENTIONisM*
18 Shock as king enters stand-off with son (10) DREADLOCKS {D{R}EADLOCK}{S}
21 Anaemic bone deficiency (4) WANT {WAN}{T}
22 Verify a relative's eligibility to drink a bit of masala chai (8) CARDAMOM CARD{A}{MOM} Card/Verify? See comments
23 Difficult to get ahead when short of money (4,2) HARD UP {HARD}{UP}
24 Pour out wine, say, for British TV presenters (6) DECANT [DD?] Anno not clear (Addendum - {DEC}{ANT} - See comments)
25 Walk in the park in light wind (6) BREEZE [DD]

DOWN
1   Kid gloves made of this for nanny! (8) GOATSKIN {GOATS}{KIN}
2   Tarzan's not feral at heart, can create a few lines of poetry (6) STANZA TArZANS*
3   Invalids in this vomitorium! (8) SICKROOM [CD]
4   Darn cramp! (6) STITCH [DD]
5   Official event for students (6) FORMAL {FOR}MA{L} MA from? See comments
7   German flower bed vandalised, Indian woman arrested (6) DANUBE {D{ANU}BE*}
8   Rex’s realm to get closer to the world beyond (7,4) KINGDOM COME {KINGDOM} {COME} Come/get closer?
14 Setter to ponder over half broken engine light (8) ILLUMINE {I}{MULL<=}{engINE}
15 Adapts, renews the Spanish film with items of topical interest (8) NEWSREEL {RENEWS}*{EL}
16 Her grand entrances ignored by Commission (6) ERRAND {hER}{gRAND}
17 Initiate time off before key occasion (6) INDUCE {INDUCt}{E}
19 Snowbird ensnared by mad dictator (6) ADDICT [T]
20 Circle inspector's boss present (6) SPHERE {SP}{HERE}

GRID

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33 comments:

  1. Ramki Krishnan4 December 2018 at 08:30

    OST = Original Sound Track

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  2. Ramki Krishnan4 December 2018 at 08:33

    5D: I guess the anno could be MA and L both being students

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  3. Padmanabhan4 December 2018 at 09:10

    9A- It looks to be (oration-IA) Can 'fancy' lead to it?
    P(ORATION_IA)*

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  4. sree_sree4 December 2018 at 09:11

    24a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_%26_Dec

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  5. Padmanabhan4 December 2018 at 09:15

    22A- Would eligibility lead to card? (a pass or a ticket,say)

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    1. sree_sree4 December 2018 at 09:25

      Card is n.american slang for identity.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao4 December 2018 at 09:49

      Dictionary shows card as transitive verb too:
      "Demand identification from (a person), esp. as evidence of legal drinking age."

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  6. Kolluru Koteswara Rao4 December 2018 at 09:50

    I agree with Col on all the points raised by him!
    These clues are beyond imagination to my little brain.

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  7. Vasant4 December 2018 at 10:05

    Cheated my way to completion😉

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  8. Padmanabhan4 December 2018 at 10:09

    +1

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  9. D.Chandrasekhar4 December 2018 at 11:15

    9A Can NOTORISED or NOTORY be a statement removing ised ( some form of speech . IMU

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  10. Mukundala Balasubramanyam4 December 2018 at 11:45

    Left midway through! Tough going you see. -(

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao4 December 2018 at 11:53

      Toughness is felt in annotating. Not in getting the answers

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  11. Ramani4 December 2018 at 12:39

    MB/Paddy - I tried the 1AC crossie yesternight. On the tougher side - yet crackable.If you find time please have a go. I did not address KKR/Vasant as they would have already submitted.

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam4 December 2018 at 13:19

      Already submitted. Thanks for the reminder, Ram.

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    2. Vasant4 December 2018 at 13:21

      Not yet submitted.. Of late the submissions are last minute ones.. as I am quite busy at work.. (usually I do the 1AC crosses pen on paper at work.. A clue here, a clue there and usually complete in 1 working day)

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    3. Padmanabhan4 December 2018 at 16:18

      Thank you Ram. Will do it.

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    4. Vasant4 December 2018 at 17:22

      Completed on pen and paper now. Shall submit it late night.

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    5. Vasant4 December 2018 at 17:23

      Some super clues!

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  12. Unknown4 December 2018 at 13:29

    Sir
    I have very little vocabulary & analytical thinking.but I was a huge fan of Hindu crossword in 80's.used to solve at the most 5 or 6 for the day.somehow I stopped from then.now I am got enthralled by this blog.
    Thoroughly enjoying.thanks a lot.
    PL treat me as your kid.
    Regards
    Srinivasa rao

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  13. Mukundala Balasubramanyam4 December 2018 at 14:06

    Copy paste of Raju's post found In yesterday's blog!


    raju umamaheswar4 December 2018 at 06:36
    SKulldugger : Snowbird is the lingo of addicts of drugs ? Where did you pick it from ? Any experience in your younger days ?

    I liked all the long words used in the frame and the spine of the grid ! Thanks for a deadlock-free gridlock with dreadlocks (again a trade-mark of hippies !)

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  14. Bhavan4 December 2018 at 14:50

    >> 9 Tiny bit of positivity in revolutionary statement rejecting fancy speech! (6) PROTON {Po...y}ROTON Anno pending

    Tiny bit of positivity = proton
    statement rejecting fancy speech = NO TO RP <-

    RP = Received Pronunciation

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  15. Amita Baviskar4 December 2018 at 15:02

    Bhavan's explanation makes sense. Thank you. This clue and 24A were a bit too British for my taste. Seem to have been copied from an Angrez crossword. Otherwise, an enjoyable puzzle.

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  16. Padmanabhan4 December 2018 at 15:04

    So much to it!
    Thank you Bhavan, but RP is almost impossible to get.Our imagination was running wild,trying to get a way to reach the given answer.

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