Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Tuesday, 2 April 2019

No 12589, Tuesday 02 Apr 2019, Scintillator


ACROSS
1   Silence is so valuable (6) GOLDEN [DD]
4   Save government, harp about informative statistical chart (3,5) BAR GRAPH {BAR}{G}{HARP*}
9 Letter from doctor boy's about to receive (6) LAMBDA {LAD}{A} over {MB}
10 Blank cheque for a fettered being? (4,4) FREE REIN [CD]
12 Cast lacking in talent for Doctor Strange? (8) WONDROUS Anno pending (Addendum - {WO}{N{DR}OUS} - See comments)
13 Pressure maintained along this is excluding old punctures (6) ISOBAR {O} in {IS}{BAR}
15 Food burning? Maid gives out a chime (4) RING charRING
16 Peace organizations overseeing onset of peace — one cast away going scot-free (10) UNPUNISHED {UN}{Pe..e}{UN}{1}{SHED}
19 From being in good spirits, fell off with hue and cry (10) CHEERFULLY {FELL+HUE+CRY}*
20 Incognito, a colleague of mine (4) ANON [DD]
23 Forsaken woman with a weapon advanced near husband (6) AGUNAH {A}{GUN}{A}{H}
25 Remarkable scenery surrounding river in county (8) SOMERSET {SOME SET} over {R}
27 Behind bars; June eighth: he escaped mysteriously (2,3,3) IN THE JUG {JUNE+eIGHTh}*
28 Indian brain and heart suffering outside India? That's not new (6) BIHARI {BRAIn+H}* over {I}
29 In concert — on time, got here after a struggle (8) TOGETHER {T}{GOT+HERE}*
30 One is terrible, not just at making omelette (3,3) BAD EGG [CD]

DOWN
1   Trouble in the Middle East to overwhelm intelligence agency, in retrospect (4,3) GULF WAR {GULF}{RAW<=}
2   I'm unclean, getting cleaned gives brightness (9) LUMINANCE*
3   Last? Last, definitely not first! (6) ENDURE {END}{sURE}
5   Milieu in the interior of the restaurant (4) AURA [T]
6   Northbound engineer is somewhat mortified like a rock (8) GNEISSIC {ENG<=}{IS}{SICk} Mortified/Sick?
7   Reporters can find Djokovic possibly bitter (5) ACERB (~ a serb)
8   Under extremely hard conditions, for ten decades (7) HUNDRED {UNDER+HarD}*
11 Expel from assembly (7) TURNOUT [DD]
14 First person transferred to second, it's said, thousands in valuable metal (7) BULLION B(-i+u)ULLION
17 Nod hard to get along with vocal Dubai leader (9) HANDSHAKE {H}{AND}{SHAKE}(~sheikh)
18 Trinket of gold — quote a bid (8) ORNAMENT {OR}{NAME}{NT}
19 Burn up paper during Yatra ride (7) CHARIOT {CHAR}{TOI<=}
21 Getting trimmer? Cannot hinge on squat (7) NOTHING [T] Definition not clear See comments
22 It signals on seeing faulty train blocking terminal in Pune (6) RETINA {TRAIN}* over {punE}
24 Take the label off junta government (5) UNTAG [T] 'Off' on double duty? "Remove label from junta government" would have been better.
26 Dash for control (4) RULE [DD?]

GRID

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27 comments:

  1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2019 at 08:52

    I gave up on 6DN

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    1. Vasant2 April 2019 at 09:45

      I did too. This was a DNF(did not finish) for me. Also didn't get Wondrous

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    2. sree_sree2 April 2019 at 13:23

      Sick:
      INFORMAL
      disappointed, mortified, or miserable.
      "he looked pretty sick at that, but he eventually agreed"

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  2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2019 at 08:55

    12AC LACKING=WITHOUT=WO
    TALENT=NOUS; DOCTOR=DR
    WO N[DR]OUS

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    1. Padmanabhan2 April 2019 at 09:39

      Wondrous solve!

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    2. Vasant2 April 2019 at 09:48

      What is the role of cast?

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    3. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2019 at 09:49

      Throw in, I guess

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    4. Vasant2 April 2019 at 10:02

      If Dr has to be thrown in then I guess cast has to be near Dr. There seems to be something else going on in the clue.

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  3. Ramani2 April 2019 at 09:04

    Today's Gaurdian criptic has many aha moments....

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2019 at 09:19

      While cryptic is becoming easier, Everyman is getting harder every week. I am yet to solve five clues in last Sunday grid

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    2. Deepak Gopinath2 April 2019 at 10:09

      Which ones?

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    3. Ramani2 April 2019 at 10:09

      I solved only three!May soon join MB in not doing Everyman

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    4. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2019 at 10:53

      ACROSS: 15 AND 26
      DOWN: 8,9, 21

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    5. Deepak Gopinath2 April 2019 at 11:28

      KKR, I have sent you a WHatsApp message

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  4. Suresh2 April 2019 at 11:38

    21D Definition is Squat. Not sure how getting trimmer can be a containment indicator. Or does trimmer mean cane somehow?

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    1. sree_sree2 April 2019 at 12:17

      +1 cropper would have been better both trimmer and cane (the plant) are croppers.

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    2. Deepak Gopinath2 April 2019 at 12:43

      What's the relation between Squat and Nothing?

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    3. Amita Baviskar2 April 2019 at 13:17

      Squat means nothing.

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    4. sree_sree2 April 2019 at 13:19

      Squat, us slang (shortened form of didly-squat), lest bit/anything at all, very little.

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    5. sree_sree2 April 2019 at 13:20

      Least bit.

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    6. Col_Gopinath2 April 2019 at 17:41

      So it is a small worthless amount and not nothing

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    7. sree_sree2 April 2019 at 19:05

      https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=Nothing&title=21st

      Nothing:"3 a very little;
      b something of no importance or not very impressive; c no difficulty or trouble. 4 an absence of anything"

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    8. Kolluru Koteswara Rao2 April 2019 at 19:47

      Oxford Dictionary says: NOTHING AT ALL

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  5. Samvid K2 April 2019 at 15:12

    Hi all,
    Could anyone explain how 'quote a bid' is NT?

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  6. raju umamaheswar2 April 2019 at 17:41

    SCINTILLATOR : One of his kind and unique. I tried to do an anagram of his name and what did it throw up ? SCINTILLATOR !

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