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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.

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62 comments:

  1. R Nagendra Prasad10 March 2019 at 10:33

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

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  2. Ramani10 March 2019 at 10:34

    13 d PROVOKING*

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  3. Ramani10 March 2019 at 10:36

    8d DISSERTATIONS*

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  4. Ramani10 March 2019 at 10:38

    24d MIDYEARS

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  5. Ramani10 March 2019 at 10:39

    24d raisedmy*

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  6. Ramani10 March 2019 at 10:39

    On travel - posted from mobile. Kindly excuse

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  7. R Nagendra Prasad10 March 2019 at 10:41

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

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  8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam10 March 2019 at 10:41

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

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 10:42

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

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  9. Vasant10 March 2019 at 10:42

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

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  10. Vasant10 March 2019 at 10:43

    Replacing Prank
    4D OFF SHORE RA of Horse

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  11. R Nagendra Prasad10 March 2019 at 10:45

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

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  12. Jacob Brahmakulam10 March 2019 at 10:51

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

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  13. Jacob Brahmakulam10 March 2019 at 10:54

    20D POLIO disease; 1 in POOL*

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  14. Jacob Brahmakulam10 March 2019 at 11:02

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

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  15. Jayalakshmi arumugam10 March 2019 at 11:04

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

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  16. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 11:04

    Superb Jacob!

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  17. Srinidhi10 March 2019 at 11:10

    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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  18. Srinidhi10 March 2019 at 11:11

    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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  19. Mukundala Balasubramanyam10 March 2019 at 11:12

    My third in place of 7A

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

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  20. Srinidhi10 March 2019 at 11:13

    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. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 11:15

      Good show Srinidhi, despite your busy studies.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 11:18

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

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    3. Srinidhi10 March 2019 at 11:20

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

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    4. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 11:22

      Bad again. Try another

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    5. Srinidhi10 March 2019 at 11:27

      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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    6. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 11:29

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

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    7. Srinidhi10 March 2019 at 11:31

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

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    8. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 11:33

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

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  21. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 11:37

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

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  22. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 11:49

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

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  23. Satyen Nabar10 March 2019 at 11:53

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

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 11:54

      Thanks Doc for your appearance, though belated.

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    2. Satyen Nabar10 March 2019 at 11:56

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

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  24. Mukundala Balasubramanyam10 March 2019 at 11:54

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

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  25. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 12:09

    Still to go:
    ACROSS: 17,25
    DOWN: 2

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  26. Dr. Krishnamoorthy. A, Vellore10 March 2019 at 12:14

    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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  27. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 12:15

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

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  28. Dr. Krishnamoorthy. A, Vellore10 March 2019 at 12:16

    17a:legato(nonstop music) - (a leg to)*

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  29. Dr. Krishnamoorthy. A, Vellore10 March 2019 at 12:22

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

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  30. sree_sree10 March 2019 at 12:22

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

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  31. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 12:23

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

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  32. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 12:26

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

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  33. Vasant10 March 2019 at 12:28

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

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  34. raju umamaheswar10 March 2019 at 12:43

    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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  35. Murali10 March 2019 at 13:13

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  36. Murali10 March 2019 at 13:22

    All done and dusted and hence removed my solve.

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  37. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 13:24

    Sorry about that.

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  38. Col_Gopinath10 March 2019 at 14:43

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

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  39. Kolluru Koteswara Rao10 March 2019 at 15:00

    Great to see you back online, Col!

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  40. Prasanna Rao10 March 2019 at 19:41

    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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