Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Tuesday, 5 February 2019

No 12541, Tuesday 05 Feb 2019, Aspartame


ACROSS
6   Picture of stable auctioned (7) TABLEAU [T]
7   Today, masses took chief east to find minerals (7) ANYMORE {(-m)ANY(+m)M}{ORE} Today? Minerals would give Ores?
9   Pay attention to strengthening exercise (3,2) SIT UP [DD]
10 A nobleman said country national will leave for training (9) EDUCATION (~ a duke){EDUC}{nATION}
11 Males of unions, without doubt, will get ornaments (7) E?G?L?S (Addendum - ENGILDS {mEN}{GuILDS - See comments)
13 Insurance agent is cut open by doctor at one part of the head (6) LIMBIC {LI{MB}{1}C}
15 When my noodle is done, add oriental fruit (8,5)  HONEYDEW MELON {WHEN+MY+NOODLE}* over {E}

19 Disprove of demolishing reef around Andaman and Nicobar, say (6) REFUTE {REF{UT}E*}
20 Solar energy generation requires circular sprinkler (7) AEROSOL {SOLAR+E}* over {O}
23 Very old diamonds kept with the French sons who cannot speak (9) VOICELESS {V}{O}{ICE}{LE}{S}{S}
24 Gain information from nuclear nations (5) LEARN [T]
26 Linguist links electronic equipment together (7) ADAPTOR [DD]
27 Top exposed as fake (7) O???L?Y {Addendum - OUTPLAY {OUT}{PLAY} - See comments)

DOWN
1   Goes around selling king's death notice (4) OBIT OrBIT
2   Friend from Nepal writes about people on top (3,3) PEN PAL {PEN{Pe...e}AL*}
3   Remove every single leather covering (9) SUPERSEDE {SU{PER}{S}EDE}
4   Bestiary is maintained by playboy (8) SYBARITE*
5   Kid in charge of organizing mobs drank mainly alcohol and made loud noises (5,5) SONIC BOOMS {SON}{IC} and {alcOhol} in {MOBS}*
6   Clothing to be worn by saint has red smudge which he needs to inspect (6) TESTER {TE{ST}E}{Red}
7   A spirit plant (4) ARUM {A}{RUM}

8   Political group gets letter against church attendant (6) EUNUCH {EU}{NU}{CH} NU/Greek letter?
12 Festival to fairy god is being conducted — do get back in (4,6) GOOD FRIDAY {FAIRY+GOD}* over {DO<=}
14 Factory panics over function (9) SWEATSHOP {SWEATS}{HOP} Hop/Function? See comments
16 Attempt to measure pleasure of youth (8) ENTREATY {EN}{TREAT}{Y}
17 Details about antivirus university got deleted (6) TRIVIA AnTIVIRus*
18 To go around ten stones is enough (6) PLENTY {PL{TEN*}Y} Stones as Anind?
21 Cover list (6) R?L??? (Addendum - RELATE [DD] - See comments)
22 Read properly, loved one (4) DEAR*
25 Friend to lay around with leftist leader (4) ALLY {LAY+Le...t}*

GRID
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26 comments:

  1. sree_sree5 February 2019 at 08:31

    11a men guilds -um

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  2. sree_sree5 February 2019 at 08:41

    21d relate Dd

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  3. sree_sree5 February 2019 at 08:44

    27a exposed:out fake:play top:outplay

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  4. sree_sree5 February 2019 at 08:54

    Hop:informal community dance party

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  5. Chaturvasi5 February 2019 at 08:55

    11 Males of unions, without doubt, will get ornaments (7)
    Here 'of' has no place.
    If we take "Males of unions" as a whole phrase, it might give GUILD MEN but will it give "men guild"?
    The component UM to be deleted is not in the same order in the fodder. Does it need an anag ind?
    "Will get" seems to be the anag signal. Is it enough?
    A clue that raises several questions.

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  6. Chaturvasi5 February 2019 at 08:58

    sree_sree
    Thanks for your answer for 21d. How do you explain it? Are the two defs aptest for the given word?

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    1. sree_sree5 February 2019 at 09:15

      I actually took it the way you explained at 855 CV Sir. Guilds men -UM and then anag (will get).

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    2. sree_sree5 February 2019 at 09:18

      But then it looked prasad way. I am not yet on the level to comment on the grammar of cluing. Just happy if I get the crux.

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  7. Chaturvasi5 February 2019 at 09:01

    Nu (/njuː/; uppercase Ν lowercase ν; Greek: νι ni [ni]) or ny is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. (Wikipedia)

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  8. Chaturvasi5 February 2019 at 09:06

    Any explanation for 27a? Even sree_sree seems to be still thinking.

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  9. Chaturvasi5 February 2019 at 09:09

    In 7 how is today = ANYMORE? How is masses = MANY?

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  10. Padmanabhan5 February 2019 at 09:33

    Lots of comments late last night about 10th anniversary for those of you who are interested.

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    1. Mukundala Balasubramanyam5 February 2019 at 10:50

      Thanks Paddy. Read all those interesting late comments.

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  11. Kolluru Koteswara Rao5 February 2019 at 10:26

    1DN Goes round= Orbits
    King's = R's
    OBIT [ORBITS-RS]

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  12. sree_sree5 February 2019 at 10:49

    7d an ORE is a deposit of one or more minerals. Ores is gen used to indicate multiple location of such deposits.
    Masses is colloq for a lot. (Chambers.co.uk)

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  13. Vasant5 February 2019 at 10:49

    A tpsy turvy solve for me. Could get 80% easily but had to struggle for the remaining. Thanks to the blog and the commenters for the anno.

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  14. Padmanabhan5 February 2019 at 11:32

    21D as a DD- List is probably as list out. But cover- give coverage?

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