Wednesday 5 December 2018

No 12489, Wednesday 05 Dec 2018, Sunnet


ACROSS
1   Announced stoppage of payment method (6) CHEQUE (~check)
4   Accepted notice to centre about railway officer (8) ADMITTED {AD}{MI{TTE}D}
10 Reveals heart's beats (9) OUTSCORES {OUTS}{CORES}
11 Give a ring back (5) ALLOT {A}{TOLL<=}
12 Incorrectly rated deal (5) TRADE*
13 Flung blood on us for some money (9) DOUBLOONS*
14 Bill's story (7) ACCOUNT [DD]
16 Side row (4) BANK [DD]
19 Copyright on gray money (4) CASH {C}{ASH}
21 Support from graduate's weapon (7) BALANCE {BA}{LANCE}
24 Accuracy of abstract on charged particle (9) PRECISION {PRECIS}{ION}
25 Liability of fresh girl's appeal (5) DEBIT {DEB}{IT}
26 Stretch material from two cities (5) NYLON {NY}{LON}
27 Relating to outside union in old Goa organised by American doctor who's moved a couple of steps ahead (9) EXOGAMOUS {EX}{GOA*}{US<=>MO}
28 Paragraph on new side that's ruined Eden (8) PARADISE {PARA}{SIDE*}
29 Spread of western but not eastern brew (6) STREWN WESTeRN*

DOWN
1   National animal's right to love Scot (8) CROATIAN {C{R}{O}AT}{IAN}
2   Capture an opening (8) ENTRANCE [DD]
3   Lender of carbuncles (5) UNCLE [T]
5   Trouble is Pluto's dry from the bottom (7) DISTURB {DIS}{BRUT<=}
6   Tennis champion's vehicle loan in Illinois (4,5) IVAN LENDL {I{VAN}{LEND}L}
7   Fat and big cow lost its head (6) TALLOW {TALL}{cOW}
8   Hate Germany's trial (6) DETEST {DE}{TEST}
9   Rely on honour (6) CREDIT [DD]
15 Neutral UN leading deftly (9) UNALIGNED {UN}{LEADING*}
17 11 separately? (3,2,3) ONE BY ONE Definition by example
18 Dump black note on boy (8) JETTISON {JET}{TI}{SON}
20 She has great expectations from Nazi leader capturing Ireland (7) HEIRESS {HE{IRE}SS}
21 Fuel obtained from crushing bone having unknown length (6) BENZOL {BEN{Z}O*}{L}
22 To speak freely writer is introduced to publisher (6) OPENUP {O{PEN}UP}
23 Cashier a narrator (6) TELLER [DD]
25 Enlist in hard RAF training (5) DRAFT [T]

GRID

21 comments:

  1. Expected pangram neatly done-enjoyable.
    Uncle and trade could also part of the theme? Uncle is a lender,after all.

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  2. I could not parse 'disturb'. Thank you for the links Col.

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  3. It is a marvel that Sunnet keeps coming up with themed pangrams for more than 3 years now. Amazing effort.

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  4. Really that long?! Never realised.

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  5. 28a is new anagram indicator! What's the role of ruined,pls.

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  6. Pangrams I understand. Where has the setter used them- in full sentences or in words?

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  7. Pangram with ref to a Crossword means that all 26 letters of the alphabet from A to Z appear at least once in the grid after we gave fully and correctly solved the puzzle.

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    1. Thanks a lot. Shall now carry out the exercise spotting them in today's Xword!

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  8. In the UK crosswords we have seen triple and quadrupule pangram in crossword. I think we have had a double pangram here but I don't remember exactly.

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    1. After Dark set a quadruple pangram once.

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  9. Sorry AD I didn't remember that you had done quad pangram. The UK one I remembered because of wider exposure that their crosswords get.

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    1. Never mind Sir. There was a time I was keen on those fancy gridfills. Have done double, triple and quadraple. Also pangrams with words strating in all alphabets and words ending in all alphabets. If I recall right, in a UK grid type , mine was the first ever.

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    2. Of course I dabbled with Lipograms too. Entire puzzle (both grid and clues) not having a specific letter. One was without A, another without E and another missing T. Doubt whether I can find the same energy now

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  10. 25a - fresh girl =deb why?
    27a - lon is a city?
    28a - role of ruined?
    1d - to is extraneous.
    7d - big=tall?
    8d - germany = d not de?

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    1. 25A Deb short for debutante used frequently in CW
      You mean26A:NY LON word comes from these two cities of New York & London
      28A can't say
      1D perhaps
      7d big=tall seems fair
      8d D & De can be Germany

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  11. Smooth set of clues, thanks Sunnet! With the broader theme of money, can include ALLOT, TRADE, DOUBLOONS, UNCLE, HEIRESS also :)

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