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Sunday, 24 March 2019

Special, Sunday 24 Mar 2019, Prelim IIT(M) Crossie Open 2019


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

This crossword was set by Ramki Krishnan.

 Thanks to Kumaresh Ramakrishnan of IIT(M) for sharing this with us.


ACROSS
1   Supporting children to become footballers (8)
5   About to get defeated, runs to Dhoni perhaps (6)
9   Being drunk, signora leans against man (8)
10 Funny airs about America or its rival (6)
11 Animal in an ark at sea carrying 1000 eggs (8)
12 Wife with shoes and rings (6)
14 Acknowledged fashion designer controls firm (10)
18 Brave and polite knight finally makes way for a girl (10)
22 In ship near US city, Queen beams (6)
23 Smart to catch fish that could be lost (8)
24 A girl taken in by subterfuge, endlessly sad (6)
25 No film (8)
26 Protest again - second time in Chennai (6)
27 Gave excellent grades to perhaps Leo the journalist (8)

DOWN
1   Lots of fine hair (6)
2   King's old and angry (6)
3   Queen with a large temper (6)
4   "Spinner's bowling spell ultimately expensive" - Dravid observed (10)
6   Girl upset, hides an expression of disgust in sounding cheerful (8)
7   South American authors reportedly in tension (8)
8   Composed extremely hilarious parody or poem (8)
13 True novels about unselfish folks (10)
15 Blockbuster? (8)
16 They come once a week to play duets, say (8)
17 They help to make buns using Irish pan (8)
19 Loud cheerful greeting in US state (6)
20 Sight Virat Kohli on vacation near Mumbai suburb (6)
21 Yes, it's a sin (6)

Across Lite version can be accessed at IIT(M) OPEN PRELIM 2019

Enjoy.

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53 comments:

  1. Ramani24 March 2019 at 10:33

    20D V I SION
    17D HAIRPINS*
    16D TUESDAYS*

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  2. P. Venkatesan24 March 2019 at 10:37

    18a: cour(-t)(+a)(+g)ous

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  3. Vasant24 March 2019 at 10:41

    1A FOR WARDS
    2D R AGING
    3D ANNE A L

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  4. P. Venkatesan24 March 2019 at 10:41

    8d: RHAPSODY (H..S+PARODY)* = POEM

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  5. P. Venkatesan24 March 2019 at 10:47

    14a: RECOGNISED (DESIGNER+CO)* = ACKNOWLEDGED

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  6. Jayalakshmi arumugam24 March 2019 at 10:49

    10ac Russia (airs)* around us
    17dn hairpins (Irish pan)*

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  7. raju umamaheswar24 March 2019 at 10:53

    13 down: VOLUNTEERS = UNSELFISH- anagram of true novels

    21 DOWN: A GREED_ cardinal sin-- YES= agreed

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  8. raju umamaheswar24 March 2019 at 10:56

    27 across: ASSIGNED= gave-- AI= excellent= SIGN= LEO + ED = editor

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  9. Padmanabhan24 March 2019 at 10:58

    27A- assigned- gave
    A S Sign ed. Leo - sign

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  10. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 March 2019 at 10:59

    25A NEGATIVE
    27A As SIGN ED
    7D S US PENSE ~pens

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  11. Jayalakshmi arumugam24 March 2019 at 11:02

    20dn vision v(rat kohl)i+sion

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  12. Padmanabhan24 March 2019 at 11:03

    18A- Courageous-Brave
    Courteous-T+AG

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  13. Jacob Brahmakulam24 March 2019 at 11:03

    22A LASERS; beams {LA}{S{ER}S}

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  14. Prasanna Rao24 March 2019 at 11:07

    16 d.....duets + day = TUESDAY

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  15. Jayalakshmi arumugam24 March 2019 at 11:09

    4dn discovered
    Spinner-disc
    Bowling spell-over
    Expensiv (e)
    Dravi (d)

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  16. Jacob Brahmakulam24 March 2019 at 11:13

    24A TRAGIC: sad; {TR{A}{G}ICk}

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  17. Padmanabhan24 March 2019 at 11:15

    11A- Kangaroo- Animal
    (AN ARK) G OO
    G- Thousand, Eggs- OO

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  18. Jacob Brahmakulam24 March 2019 at 11:16

    15D SCULPTOR (CD)

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  19. Padmanabhan24 March 2019 at 11:17

    Rather,
    (AN ARK G OO)*

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  20. Padmanabhan24 March 2019 at 11:24

    Thank you Vasant.

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  21. Padmanabhan24 March 2019 at 11:34

    Making up for repeats-
    5A- C LOSE R- Dhoni perhaps is the def. ( He is said to be a good closer)
    R from Runs.

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  22. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 March 2019 at 11:35

    15D SCULPTOR block=stone slab buster=one who breaks

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  23. Padmanabhan24 March 2019 at 11:36

    Good enjoyable time.
    Thank you IIT'ians & Col.

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  24. Padmanabhan24 March 2019 at 11:38

    Oh! Just saw Col.'s preamble.
    Thank you Ramki.

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  25. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 March 2019 at 11:50

    9A : ORGANISM {Signora}*{M} Definition: Being

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  26. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 March 2019 at 11:55

    1D : FLOCKS {F}{LOCKS} Den. Lots

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  27. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 March 2019 at 12:01

    23A : STRAYING {ST{RAY}ING}

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  28. sree_sree24 March 2019 at 12:12

    thanks to kumaresh an col for sharing. both my CODs are still standing.
    if wife has one of those shoes then we better be behind one of those rings and grinding hard the others!!!

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  29. Deepak Gopinath24 March 2019 at 12:22

    Two from me

    12A - WHEELS {W}{HEELS}
    6D - LAUGHING {UGH}{IN} in {GAL<=}

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  30. sree_sree24 March 2019 at 12:24

    12a w (heels)
    26a (re)(s)(ist)
    6d la(ugh)(in)g gal<=

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  31. Deepak Gopinath24 March 2019 at 12:29

    19D last one for someone who is yet to comment

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  32. Mukundala Balasubramanyam24 March 2019 at 12:44

    Loved the grid, Kumaresh! Thanks Ramki.

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  33. Kolluru Koteswara Rao24 March 2019 at 13:21

    +1

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  34. Argo24 March 2019 at 13:29

    19 D HAWAII ?
    Loud Greeting = HII
    Don't know how to annotate for awa

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  35. Argo24 March 2019 at 13:29

    Hawaii = US State

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    1. Deepak Gopinath24 March 2019 at 13:36

      I think it is Loud cheerful greeting = HI and HI is the abbreviation for HAWAII

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    2. Ramki Krishnan24 March 2019 at 14:54

      I think this is the clue most people found a bit difficult to anno. What I had in mind was a hp of "How are ye" (in an American accent :) ) to get Hawaii. With "loudly" as the hp indicator. Not a clue that I was very happy with!

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    3. raju umamaheswar24 March 2019 at 17:35

      Thanks for a clean grid, Ramki, except for HAWAII . I got the answer but couldn't figure out the parsing, except that HI was taken by me as a greeting in the US but then I also thought that State could be a country whose name ended with HI. It is indeed a bit outre and far-fetched to presume that How are ye or loudly could be the phonetic indicator. But for your annotation, this five letter word could be Hawaii or Malawi or some such. The decoy didn't work with many, I suppose ! Instead of loud, cheerful US state, you could have at least used a upper case for State/ Well tried, though ! How many amongst the contestants got it right ? that could be the indicator for your ingenuity !

      Myriad are the miracles played by compilers to beguile the solvers !!

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  36. Deepak Gopinath24 March 2019 at 13:36

    Thanks to WGC IIT(M), Kumaresh and Ramki for the special today

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  37. Argo24 March 2019 at 13:40

    Or is it that
    Hawaii is known as 'Aloha State', Aloha = loud greeting

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  38. Prasanna Rao24 March 2019 at 14:22

    nice to experience with IITian cross word. Thanks to colonel for bringing significant puzzles. have a nice sunday.

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  39. Ramki Krishnan24 March 2019 at 14:55

    Thanks Col for posting the grid and thanks to IITM Word Games Club for allowing me to host the contest.

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  40. Sreeni24 March 2019 at 16:32

    Excellent puzzle Ramki though a tad difficult for a prelim

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    1. Ramki Krishnan24 March 2019 at 16:36

      Probably true Sreeni. Time given was 45 min. Of the 6 finalists, 2 teams got 100% right,3 got 1 wrong and 1 got 2 wrong in the prelim grid.

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  41. Mona Sogal24 March 2019 at 16:55

    Excellent grid. Thanks Ramki and Kumaresh!

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