Sunday 27 January 2019

Special,Sunday 27 Jan 2019, Amrita


Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory).
Please provide all your answers in one comment.


ACROSS
4   Even the greatest ultimately involved in speculation (6)
6   One group within found divided (8)
9   Take away outlet behind Modern Centre (6)
10 Couple of nitwits, edges away, baits maniac gunman (8)
11 Rip in ill-fitting corset on the side showed fat (11)
15 Seduced by Edward getting nearly bare (7)
17 Nuisance receiving rubbish object (7)
18 Most colourless one from the subcontinent got diamond stolen by the Arab (11)
22 Ian for one, has bed sore marks initially in hospital (8)
23 Oft-repeated words in human tragedies (6)
24 Totally engrossed, son caught in playing Abbey Road without a last bit of worry (8)
25 Avoiding extremes of heat in polluted Delhi, I left to get cured (6)

DOWN
1   Group of novel cricketers on the rise (6)
2   No! Large slippers isn't worn with suits! (10)
3   Al Gore is unfortunately found in women's quarters (8)
4   At the first signs of absolute bedlam, upstanding detective had to step down (8)
5   Dream locations on retirement? (8)
7   Say, losing side gets small commission (4)
8   Depression in daughter losing weight fast (4)
12 Tsunami devastated Latvia and 2/3 of Sweden (5,5)
13 Harry later crosses Tim heading North with payment (8)
14 Basic colours (8)
16 Go after a pest ruining a decorative rug (8)
19 Ideas of one devising games (6)
20 Borders of Saudi Arabia formed here? (4)
21 Boat's first officer's introduction on board to the captain (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at AMRITA 6

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69 comments:

  1. Ramani27 January 2019 at 10:30

    21 B O SS

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  2. Ramani27 January 2019 at 10:31

    21d it is

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  3. Ramani27 January 2019 at 10:33

    19D I MAGES*

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  4. Ramani27 January 2019 at 10:35

    16D T (A PEST) RY

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  5. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 10:37

    23A- Mantra-T
    Def.- Oft repeated words

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  6. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 10:45

    24A- Absorbed- totally engrossed
    {(abbey-ay)s(road)} or (BBE S ROAD)*

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    1. sree_sree27 January 2019 at 11:40

      i think the clue might be better with an "and" to indicate a&y

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  7. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 10:47

    Col.
    Ram & me are in the same boat- trying to put in our answers before they are taken away by other entries. In any case we make sure we don't put in more than 3. Request permission.

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  8. Vasant27 January 2019 at 10:50

    1D A B DIC< ATE
    11A CHOLESTEROL HOLE inside CORSET*+L
    17A P(ROT)EST

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  9. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 10:52

    My 3rd and last-
    20D- Asia- SaudI ArabiA- (SIAA)*,formed is Anind. 'Here' is the def.

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  10. Jayalakshmi arumugam27 January 2019 at 10:58

    12dn tidal waves (latvia+swed)*
    23ac mantra (T)
    25ac healed (EA+DELH)*

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  11. N Sridhar27 January 2019 at 11:04

    9 A-Delete Modern centre -DE Out LET

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  12. Jayalakshmi arumugam27 January 2019 at 11:06

    1dn circle (reverse T)

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  13. Srinidhi27 January 2019 at 11:08

    18A Most colourless one from the subcontinent got diamond stolen by the Arab (11)
    Palestinian gives Arab as definition
    Palest is Most colourless
    Indian is one from the subcontinent
    Remove D (got diamond stolen)
    13D Harry later crosses Tim heading North with payment (8)
    Remittal meaning payment
    Annagram(Harry) Later crossing Tim reversed(heading North)
    22A Ian for one, has bed sore marks initially in hospital (8)
    Scotsman is Ian for one
    Cot is bed
    S M is Sore Marks Initially
    Put all these in San (hospital)

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  14. Mukundala Balasubramanyam27 January 2019 at 11:13

    14D STANDARD {DD}
    19D IMAGES {I}{GAMES*}

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    1. sree_sree27 January 2019 at 11:57

      14d colour/flag/standard as noun is singular. Colours as noun is plural. Am I missing something.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao27 January 2019 at 12:37

      I too felt so.
      See the link:
      https://www.thefreedictionary.com/colours

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    3. sree_sree27 January 2019 at 12:55

      chambers.co.uk has it under "plural noun" while standard/flag is "singular noun.

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  15. N Sridhar27 January 2019 at 11:14

    3D- SERAGLIO Al Gore is - scrambled

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  16. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 11:14

    Images have been taken away,MB.

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  17. Fraser Simpson27 January 2019 at 11:21

    4A  Even the greatest ultimately involved in speculation (6) AL BE(I)T (last letter of ALI is inside BET)
    2D  No! Large slipper isn't worn with suits! (10) PINSTRIPES (slipper isn’t – L anagram...note that “slippers” should read “slipper”)
    7D  Say, losing side gets small commission (4) TASK (L-to-S in TALK)

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  18. N Sridhar27 January 2019 at 11:27

    9A DEDUCT Centre of modern is DE; outlet is DUCT

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  19. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 11:32

    7D- task- is nice.

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  20. sree_sree27 January 2019 at 11:35

    thanks Amrita and Col for a nice sunday.

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  21. Kolluru Koteswara Rao27 January 2019 at 12:05

    6AC B[I SECT]ED
    5DN BEDROOMS CD
    15DN T[EMPT[-y]ED

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  22. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 12:15

    Thank you KKR for 15D. I was struggling, having taken ED for Edward. Ted makes seducing simple!

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao27 January 2019 at 12:25

      Thanks Paddy!
      I thought you all left it because it is easier

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  23. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 12:16

    Thank you Amritha & Col.

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  24. Ramki Krishnan27 January 2019 at 12:22

    Thanks for a nice grid Amrita!

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  25. Mukundala Balasubramanyam27 January 2019 at 12:27

    22A SCOTSMAN {S{COT}{S-ore}{M-arks}AN}

    In place of 19D, my third

    8D DENT {D}{(-L)lENT} Weight = Pound = L
    Fast = Lent. Def : Depression.

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  26. Mukundala Balasubramanyam27 January 2019 at 12:28

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  27. Mukundala Balasubramanyam27 January 2019 at 12:49

    Lovely grid. Enjoyed solving it. Thanks Amrita.

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  28. Mukundala Balasubramanyam27 January 2019 at 13:22

    Yet to be solved. Last one.

    10A : Couple of nitwits, edges away, baits maniac gunman (8)

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  29. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 13:52

    I take the liberty since it is the last one-
    Assassin
    Couple of nitwits- ass ass
    'edges away maniac' leads to 'ni' & I suppose baits is the anind or reversal indicator.
    Ass ass in

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    1. sree_sree27 January 2019 at 14:43

      i took baits=feints and def as "maniac gunman"

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    2. amrita majumdar27 January 2019 at 22:44

      Couple of nitwits= ASS ASS, Edges away from ba(I)ts ma(N)ic =IN

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao28 January 2019 at 07:14

      Thanks Amrita.
      But there seems to be a typo in the original clue. It was MANIAC. So, we were into kite flying on annotation.

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  30. Nadathur Rajan27 January 2019 at 15:58

    ? seINes
    SEINES are fishing nets which hang vertically in the water with floats at the top and weights at the bottom edge, the ends being drawn together to encircle the fish (= baits)

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    1. Vasant27 January 2019 at 19:22

      That's a fantastic anno, NR. Let us wait for AM to clarify.

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  31. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 17:12

    Col.,
    Setter's solution & anno?

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  32. Kolluru Koteswara Rao27 January 2019 at 18:08

    Surprisingly, I find full stop mark in the clues in today's Everyman grid. Did anyone notice this? I am not sure if I saw such thing in earlier weeks.

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    1. Ramki Krishnan27 January 2019 at 18:12

      It is a new setter who seems to be drawing a lot of flak. I also found the standard of clues to be much lower than the regular Everyman.

      https://www.facebook.com/groups/172141099634385/permalink/1141660736015745/

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    2. Vasant27 January 2019 at 19:20

      I tried today's Everyman and could solve in a jiffy, an unprecedented thing for me. Yes the full stop was quite distracting

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    3. Chaturvasi28 January 2019 at 09:20

      I am yet to see it. I think the compiler who was setting until recently passed away and so we now have a new setter. But When it is a prize puzzle that is live, how can it be discussed in FB? Did the comments refrain from giving answers but spoke in general terms?

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    4. Deepak Gopinath28 January 2019 at 10:33

      I have plenty of questions also, as you will see when it comes out in the blog on Sunday 31 Mar

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    5. Chaturvasi28 January 2019 at 10:41

      I have done it now. The full stop at the end of each clue did not bother me. The Times used to publish clues this way. THC, which followed the venerable UK newspaper, followed the practice for some years. Later setters started using punctuation mark as part of clue and so the period annoys present-day solvers.
      The easiness of the puzzles doesn't matter. But the style does. I will upload my review when the puzzle appears here.

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    6. Ramki Krishnan28 January 2019 at 10:42

      Chaturvasi sir, the comments did not disclose any of the answers - they were generally about the quality of the clues. IMHO I found a couple of the clues to be even incorrect wrt wordplay.

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    7. Chaturvasi28 January 2019 at 11:27

      Please see my Comment here
      http://www.fifteensquared.net/2019/01/27/everyman-3771/

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  33. Deepak Gopinath27 January 2019 at 18:18

    Thanks for the special Amrita

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  34. Padmanabhan27 January 2019 at 20:43

    Message from Col. says that he has not received annos from Amrita and so he is himself not clear about it.

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