Sunday 10 March 2019

Special, Sunday 10 Mar 2019, K Koteswar Rao


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


ACROSS
7   Troubled Rhodesia is saving expression of shock (2,4)
8   It’s a challenge to discount victory for force in aberration (8)
9   Do they have the power to kill pain? Yes and no, maybe(8)
10 They write in short about saints having unique ascent (6)
11 Wife of Odysseus demolishes compound to run away (5)
12 Express – logic gate sunk in river (6)
14 Come safely at difficult time when mother earth wets badly (7,3,5)
17 Shake a leg to non-stop music. (6)
18 From the very beginning, honest and beardless (2,3)
22 Unruly mob is surrounded by tom in war (6)
23 OK, keyed nothing in order of acceptance (4,4)
24 Test intervals raised? My bad! (8)
25 Satellite company is without friends, without elevation (6)

DOWN
1   Get drone help to test the kidney function (6,3)
2   Take-off, but stop to get drink (4-2)
3   Soft line of practical joke (5)
4   Horse at sea (8)
5   It's legal right of each section to waste gas (8)
6   Atishoo – It’s not for cold (5)
8   Discussions cause stress to India (13)
13 It is infuriating to see poor King V in trouble (9)
15 Rigged ballot? Indeed heartless chests! (8)
16 Gate hid strangely hypothetical person not lasting for long time (5,3)
19 Corporal cover up owned by the kid (6)
20 One in swimming pool has disease (5)
21 Figure out, drop-dead, to be neck and neck (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at KKR 20

Enjoy.

62 comments:

  1. 1A : OH DEAR from (RHODESIA - IS)*

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  2. On travel - posted from mobile. Kindly excuse

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  3. 14A : WEATHER THE STORM from (Mother Earth Wets)*

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  4. 7A OH DEAR {Rhodesia -is}*
    9A ANODYNES {YES AND NO}*
    3D PRANK {P}{RANK}

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    1. MBgaru, I hope you will be taking one more for 7AC

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  5. 8A DE(-v+F)IANCE
    10A ST(ENO<)S
    3D P RANK

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  6. Replacing Prank
    4D OFF SHORE RA of Horse

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  7. 23A: OKEY-DOKE from (Ok keyed o)* ie another term for OK (Acceptence)

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  8. 15D TALLBOYS; shest; {BALLOT*}{YeS}

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  9. 18A AB OVO; from the beginning; {ABOVe bOard}

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  10. 11ac elope penelope-pen
    22ac combat (mob)* in cat

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  11. 14a Come safely at difficult time when mother earth wets badly (7,3,5)
    Weather the storm meaning Come safely at difficult time
    Anagram of(badly) Mother earth wets

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  12. 1D Get drone help to test the kidney function (6,3)
    Phenol red -to test the kindney function
    Anagram of Drone help

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  13. My third in place of 7A

    6D ACHOO {C in Studio - it's}

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  14. 16d Gate hid strangely hypothetical person not lasting for long time (5,3)
    Eight Day- not lasting for long time( as in the expression eight day wonder)
    Anagram of Gate hid and add Y any hypothetical person

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    1. Good show Srinidhi, despite your busy studies.

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    2. Neverthless, you can still take one more as the "storm" has already passed!

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    3. Has it? Then here is its replacement
      24A Test intervals raised? My bad! (8)
      Midyears
      Anagram of Raised My

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    4. Ok.
      21d Figure out, drop-dead, to be neck and neck (5)
      Deuce ( to be neck and neck, 40-40 in tennis)
      Deduce is figure out
      remove one d ( drop dead)

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    5. Great solve, Srinidhi. Keep up the same tempo in your exams. All the best.

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    6. Thank you Sir. Two gone and three more to go.

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    7. Ok, we are all sure that you will pass the exams with flying colours!

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  15. Still to go:
    ACROSS: 12,17,25
    DOWN: 2,5,19
    Will go for two

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  16. Mrs. Jayalakshmi Arumugam, you can still take one more.

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  17. 19D BO{DIL<--}Y
    12A DE{NOT}E
    5D EA + SE(-g)MENT

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    1. Thanks Doc for your appearance, though belated.

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    2. Had to go for some work. Thanks KKR for the entertainment :)

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  18. Lovely grid! My favourites 18A AB OVO, 15D TALLBOYS, 22D DEUCE. Thanks KKR for the entertainment.

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  19. 11a:elope(run away) - {(Penelope=wife of Odysseus)-(pen=compound)}
    22a:combat(war) - {c(mob*)at=Tom)}
    20d: polio: {po(i)ol*}

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  20. Thanks for your efforts Doctor.
    Unfortunately, all were picked up

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  21. 2d:send up(take off) - {s(end=stop)up=take drink}

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  22. 2d s(end)up
    25a co lon(-el)y def:satellite

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  23. Great Prasad and Doctor.
    That brings us to the end.
    Thanks

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  24. Thanks to you all for sparing time for my grid.
    Thanks to the blog and Col.

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  25. An extremely good puzzle. Favourites were:
    Elope, Defiance,Anodynes, colony and off shore.
    Thanks KKR.

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  26. A masterpiece grid, KKR Garu. Enjoyed solo solving despite the Apple pad getting oxidized !

    Could not join the race as a friend, a good friend in my complex, had dropped in to supplement my supply of crosswords collected during my absence by him for me. I lost the sense of time chatting him up and thanking him for his
    Kindness. Now I have almost a whole lot to work on. Noblesse oblige and all that .


    A few phrases learnt today. Ab Ovo, Phenol Red etc.

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  28. All done and dusted and hence removed my solve.

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  29. Thanks KKR, just finished with the wedding and lunch at Ernakulam

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  30. 1a and 20d was done at office. i.e OH DEAR & POLIO. NICE GRID MR KKR. . but could not participate due to official work.

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