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Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Special, Wednesday 16 Jan 2019, IXL-18 Final Crossword 1


TWO answers per commenter as this is a 13x13, till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide both your answers in one comment.


ACROSS
1   Fail to notice mountain route alongside (4,2)
4   Small snake slithers around weapons (6)
9   Commendations will come, once I am settled (7)
10 Rule out more substantial drink (5)
11 Endlessly overlooked essentially fit immigrant (5)
12 Writing includes liberal hint (7)
13 It keeps on talking to get one tug (7,6)
17 Fear over middlemen's lading (7)
19 Just about fifty have aptitude (5)
21 Bug loses right part of body (5)
22 Old vessel held by staff is stout (7)
23 Home for boxer, maybe (6)
24 Sacred section of temple sees negligence of duty in morning (6)

DOWN
1   Player's first critique of teaser (7)
2   'Aw, gee!' Ousting husband is terrible! (5)
3   Disney film raises popular issue in Italy (7)
5   Karakul leaves central farm crazily to find rich farmer (5)
6   Manoeuvring wife away for fishing (7)
7   Released no new timber prop (5)
8   Diversity that is brought into fixed navigator (11)
14 That woman’s relative follows girl in a pickle (7)
15 Ohio females drove, we hear, in domain for 4x4s (3-4)
16 A primarily righteous model developed royal estate (7)
17 Request to obtain fluid early in this container? (5)
18 My incomplete collection of birds (5)
20 A grown-up (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at IXL Finals 1

Enjoy.

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29 comments:

  1. Ramani16 January 2019 at 07:02

    14d G HER KIN

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  2. P. Venkatesan16 January 2019 at 07:02

    19a: flair (f(l)air) = attitude

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  3. Ramani16 January 2019 at 07:05

    1D P REVIEW

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  4. P. Venkatesan16 January 2019 at 07:11

    12a: inkling (ink(l)ing) = hint

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  5. Vasant16 January 2019 at 07:21

    2D: SUCKS S(-h)UCKS; Aw, gee=Shucks
    3D: BAMBINI BAMBI+IN<

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  6. Mukundala Balasubramanyam16 January 2019 at 07:26

    9A : Commendations will come, once I am settled (7) ENCOMIA {ONCE I AM}*
    8D : Diversity that is brought into fixed navigator (11) That is = i.e in [navigator]*

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  7. Srinidhi16 January 2019 at 07:34

    13A It keeps on talking to get one tug (7,6)
    Wagging Tongue would describe "It keeps on talking"
    Reverse Anagram of One Tug that is Wagging tongue would give you one tug

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  8. Srinidhi16 January 2019 at 07:36

    15D Ohio females drove, we hear, in domain for 4x4s (3-4)
    Off Road would cryptically describe "domain for 4x4s"
    O is Ohio
    FF Females
    Road is homophone of rode(drove)

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  9. Satyen Nabar16 January 2019 at 09:09

    12A INK{L}ING

    22A O+RO{TUN}D

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  10. Unknown16 January 2019 at 09:13

    1D P REVIEW
    11A ISSEI mISSEd +I

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  11. KARTHIK16 January 2019 at 09:14

    22A) Defn: stout; Soln: OROTUND; Anno: {O}{RO{TUN}D};
    O from old; ROD from staff; TUN from vessel
    5D) Defn: rich farmer; Soln: KULAK; Anno: {K(-AR)AKUL}* ; AR from central farm

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  12. KARTHIK16 January 2019 at 09:18

    Repacement for 22A
    24A) Defn: sacred section of temple; Soln: ADYTUM; Anno: {A{DUTY}*M}
    AM from morning; anind=negligence

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  13. sree_sree16 January 2019 at 09:27

    16d EARLDOM (A R MODEL)*
    17d FL ASK

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  14. Deepak Gopinath16 January 2019 at 10:03

    4A - SKEANS {S}{SNAKES*}
    17A - FREIGHT {FR{(-m)E(-n)}IGHT}

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  15. Kolluru Koteswara Rao16 January 2019 at 10:20

    1AC PASS BY mountain route=PASS; alongside=BY
    17DN FL ASK fluid=FL;request=ASK

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  16. Crimsonking16 January 2019 at 10:20

    1a Pass by: pass - mountain route
    By - alongside

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  17. Kolluru Koteswara Rao16 January 2019 at 10:21

    20DN ADULT
    compensating for repeat

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  18. Vasant16 January 2019 at 12:00

    The six finalists who went onstage were Venkat(VS), Ramki, Abhay Phadnis, Narayan Mandayam, Shashwat Sinai Salgaonkar and Devraj S.
    The finals were played in a quiz format. The across clues were taken first one at a time. After solving all across clues, the across clues were erased from the solved grid which was projected on the screen and then down clues were taken.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao16 January 2019 at 12:42

      Thanks Vasant for the brief. Yes, all the clues are good.
      On-stage rounds, 11AC, 13AC like clues could delay and even go to the audience.

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    2. Vasant16 January 2019 at 12:48

      In fact in this puzzle, no clues went to the audience.. I remember 13A was solved by Narayan Mandayam in a jiffy.

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    3. Vasant16 January 2019 at 12:51

      Also 11A and 5D were defined by the participants after solving!

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    4. Vasant16 January 2019 at 12:55

      24A a not so common word was solved by Shashwat and elicited a huge round of applause from all present.

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  19. Nadathur Rajan16 January 2019 at 13:53

    10A Rule out / more substantial // drink (5) LA[-r]GER
    6D Manoeuvring // wife away / for fishing (7) [-w]ANGLING

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  20. Unknown16 January 2019 at 16:30

    23A.Kennel.....CD (boxer is a dog breed)
    7D Sprag....sprang-n

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  21. Deepak Gopinath16 January 2019 at 17:17

    Last one left 18D. Anyone can wrap up

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