Sunday, 17 February 2019

Special, Sunday 17 Feb 2019, K Koteswar Rao


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

ACROSS
1   Not a second in the middle of tension (5)
4   Disturbing instrument sound (9)
9   British change takes money back in Euro as remorse for past conduct (9)
10 Stick to machine with cutting edge incisor (5)
11 Part of church is submerged in beer (5)
12 Cry out in forty seconds! Variety bullet that expands on strike (4-5)
13 Asian time in comfort to midwife (7)
15 Must aid remedy the stage of disease? (7)
18 Nonconformist decrees settled (7)
20 Subcontinent Courthouse sounds like sliced fruit (7)
21 Touch with obstruction, type of growth on you, say (9)
23 Old unaltered watering-hole (5)
25 Revolutionary wrongful act will absorb a card by fortune-teller (5)
26 Ceramic articles with sharp feature first (9)
27 Secret spy master has no due recovery under false name (9)
28 Soldier's uprising in the return boat (5)

DOWN
1   Mountain high supports def, say! (9)
2   Star for example going around in group (5)
3   Instrument deleted strangely in the reversed Morse code (5,4)
4   Mindlessly connives leaving canine flesh (7)
5   The burden to contain the enemy from West lies on the exclusive member of the group (3,2,2)
6   Exhausted befriending without limits (3,2)
7   It is large or small time in 90s perhaps (9)
8   Languid perhaps not an organization (5)
14 Ill-treat a person who looks after patient (4,5)
16 Duty or a change down? (9)
17 Team up covering popular woman in shroud (9)
19 Boundary trouble, a rip-off! (7)
20 Exotic Karma is one practiced by a strict Jewish adherent (7)
21 Net practice. Success all the way! (3,2)
22 Reportedly plundered and played stringed instrument (5)
24 Bites back and oscillated (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at KKR 19

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85 comments:

  1. Vasant17 February 2019 at 10:42

    25A: T(A)ROT<
    27A: PS(EUDON*)Y*+M
    22D: LUTED ~LOOTED

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    1. Vasant17 February 2019 at 10:47

      27A might also be annotated as PS(EUDON<)*Y*+M

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 10:49

      Your anno is correct. The * inside is not required

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  2. sree_sree17 February 2019 at 10:42

    23a OASIS O (AS IS)
    16D ANCHORAGE (OR+A+CHANGE)*
    24D SWANG (gnaws<=)

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  3. Ramani17 February 2019 at 10:43

    27A PSEUDONYM (SPY DON-{MASTER} NO DUE)*
    26A CHIN AWARE
    18A SECEDER*

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  4. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 10:44

    Thanks for your time Vasant and Prasad!

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  5. Ramani17 February 2019 at 10:47

    11a A (IS) LE

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  6. raju umamaheswar17 February 2019 at 10:58

    11 across. AISLE. Ale= beer +IS

    4 down. VENISON. CONNIVES. (-C) = meat

    13 across. EASTERN. Comfort = EASE +T + RN = MIDWIFE = ROYAL NURSE





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  7. Satyen Nabar17 February 2019 at 10:59

    21A HANDLEBAR (type of moustache) HANDLE + BAR

    14D SICK + NURSE

    19D RUB + I + CON

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  8. raju umamaheswar17 February 2019 at 11:05

    Refreshingly unusual grid, KKR Garu. Will keep my morning mentally active. Will complete soon. In a hurrry to send my three - bit 😊

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  9. Srinidhi17 February 2019 at 11:12

    20A Subcontinent Courthouse sounds like sliced fruit (7)
    Kacheri or kucheri(Subcontinent courthouse) take your pick
    Sounds like Cut Cheery (sliced fruit)
    4A Disturbing instrument sound (9)
    Violating meaning disturbing
    Viola is instrument
    Ting is sound
    5D The burden to contain the enemy from West lies on the exclusive member of the group (3,2,2)
    One of us
    Onus(burden) contains Foe (enemy) reversed (from west)
    The reversal indicator in a down clue should have been from North and not west, isn't it?

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 11:26

      Thanks Srinidhi for your input.
      I agree with you. Mea culpa!

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  10. C.G. BHARGAV17 February 2019 at 11:35

    20 down KARAISM*

    28 across E(IG)HT <-

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  11. C.G. BHARGAV17 February 2019 at 11:38

    15 across STADIUM*

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  12. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 February 2019 at 11:51

    7D : It is large or small time in 90s perhaps (9) INTESTINE {T in NINETIES* = 90s}
    17D : Team up covering popular woman in shroud (9) MAINSHEET {MA{IN}{SHE}ET<=}

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  13. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 11:52

    9A- Penitence- def.is remorse for past conduct
    PE(NIT=<)E CE
    E for Euro & NIT for money back.
    Good one.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 11:56

      Thanks Paddy. But it needs little tweaking.

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    2. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 12:22

      I have left out N. It should be PE(NIT=<)NCE.Pence is small change.
      Thank you for the correction.

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 12:24

      PE[NIT< E]NCE
      is my intention

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  14. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 February 2019 at 12:05

    My third...

    6D : Exhausted befriending without limits (3,2) ALL IN {-pALLIN-g}

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  15. Jayalakshmi arumugam17 February 2019 at 12:06

    8dn guild (languid-an)*

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  16. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 12:07

    15A- I also got stadium, but def. is stage of disease?

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 12:09

      yes Paddy

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 February 2019 at 12:16

      Pl note point No.5. Source : Free Dict.

      sta·di·um (stā′dē-əm)
      n. pl. sta·di·ums or sta·di·a (-dē-ə)
      1. A large, usually open structure for sports events with tiered seating for spectators.
      2. A course on which foot races were held in ancient Greece, usually semicircular and having tiers of seats for spectators.
      3. An ancient Greek measure of distance, based on the length of such a course and equal to about 185 meters (607 feet).
      4. Medicine A stage or period in the course of a disease.
      5. Biology A stage in the development or life history of an organism.


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    3. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 February 2019 at 12:21

      To be precise it is point No.4, I think.

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    4. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 12:25

      Yes, I took Point 4

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    5. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 12:25

      Thank you MB & KKR. New to me.

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  17. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 12:31

    2d- Rings- DD?

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  18. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 12:36

    My third-
    3D- Title deed-Instrument (legal)
    'IT' (is reversed) and (deleted)*
    But in Morse Code? I am missing something.

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 12:41

      Apologies to all.
      Missed the count.
      D in Deleted is extraneous. DIT is the morse code.
      TI[TLE DEE*]D<=

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  19. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 February 2019 at 12:51

    Enjoyable grid, KKR. My COD is 12 Across with smooth surface reading. Nice mislead there!

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  20. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 13:25

    Good enjoyable exercise. I am still stuck for 1 & 2 D and I ac.
    Loved Chinaware. Thank you KKR.

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    1. sree_sree17 February 2019 at 16:38

      I still only have a vague definition for 1d. 2 down was straight. 1a took a light. Thanks KKR for wonderful Sunday.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 16:40

      The intention of giving def is D,E and F

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  21. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 13:32

    kachei/ kucheri is a Hindi word adopted in Tamil as well. My father was an advocate in a small town and the court there used to be referred to as kacheri.

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  22. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 13:36

    Thanks Paddy,
    I too remember its Tamil usage. We had a colleague in our Finance Dept those days who used to coordinate IT Dept issues and usually was out of office. Once I saw him going out of office, I asked him where he was going. He told me that he was going to kacheri (we used to call IT Dept so) and promised to be back soon.
    Later on, I came to know that he meant it literally. He went to Music Academy to attend a kacheri!

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  23. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 13:55

    Oh! I never thought of that- in this context. Yes, it is a nice pun. Even a session of cards is called 'seettu kacheri'!

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    1. Ramani17 February 2019 at 15:43

      எங்க வீட்டுக்காரரும் கச்சேரிக்குப் போறார்.

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    2. Ramani17 February 2019 at 15:44

      Means also ran here

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    3. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 15:59

      In jokes it used to be mentioned as 'Thenga moodi kachery' meaning all that the singer would get is half a coconut! (not even a full one)

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  24. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 15:00

    STILL REMAINING:
    ACROSS 1,10 AND 12
    DOWN 1,2,3 AND 21

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  25. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 15:51

    21D- Hit up
    This is def. a DD- net practice as well as success.

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  26. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 15:52

    3D has been done and discussed KKR- about Morse code.

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  27. raju umamaheswar17 February 2019 at 15:53

    12 across : LATHI(incisor)-E+ I --Lathe Machine Lathi is a stick used by Indian Police on rioters.


    This is my replacement entry for AISLE

    KKR garu: As I foresaw earlier, this is a refreshing grid , out of the box thinking grid. Enjoyed it thoroughly. I wonder why no takers for the above still !

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  28. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 15:54

    I haven't intended it as DD

    All the way=UP; success=HIT
    Net Practice=HIT UP

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  29. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 16:02

    Right. Success is only hit.
    Now it becomes a charade,rightfully.

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  30. Jacob Brahmakulam17 February 2019 at 16:24

    1D def perhaps; ALPHABETS {ALP}{H}{ABETS}

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  31. Jacob Brahmakulam17 February 2019 at 16:26

    2d group; GENUS SUN+EG <

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  32. Jacob Brahmakulam17 February 2019 at 16:31

    12A bullet that expands SOFT NOSED { FOcTy SEcONDS}*

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  33. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 February 2019 at 16:42

    Final one hanging around unsolved.... 1Across!

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 16:43

      I am expecting Dr. Krishnamoorthy to pick it up

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam17 February 2019 at 16:45

      Perhaps Dr. Krishna moorthy can have a go at it!

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    3. sree_sree17 February 2019 at 17:12

      Looks like its a tax. Is it valentine days lag or ppl were scared by opening batsmen today? Where are all the junta.

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  34. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 17:17

    Probably, the Sunday Special habit is forgotten due to IXL and its aftermath.
    Remember, the last special was in Sept, 18?
    Even I have lost some touch with setting crosswords!

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  35. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 17:38

    I have got 1 Ac.,but can't parse it.

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  36. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 17:39

    I think I have it,but not quite sure.

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  37. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 17:40

    It's almost 6PM. You can take it as I see no major contribution from others.

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  38. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 17:43

    Angst- tension.
    second in the middle- S
    but 'not a '?

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  39. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 17:43

    Alphabet was a very good. I was fooled by it. Good solve by jacob.

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  40. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 17:49

    Thank you MB. I thought and got it.
    Amongst- MO
    Deletion always lands me in a problem.

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  41. Padmanabhan17 February 2019 at 17:51

    Wait for 8 months is worth it.KKR very much in touch.

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  42. Kolluru Koteswara Rao17 February 2019 at 17:52

    Thank you all for showing interest in this.
    Thanks to Col and the blog.

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