Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

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Monday, 8 April 2019

No 12594, Monday 08 Apr 2019, Hypatia


ACROSS
9   Soldiers in civilian clothing can cause agitation? (4,2,4,5) ANTS IN YOUR PANTS {ANTS} {IN} {YOUR PANTS} Anno pending See comments
10 Leave the French Navy's party held in boat (7) GONDOLA {GO}{N}{DO}{LA}
11 Reconcile tentatively upon leaving or abandon (7) LICENCE rECoNCILE*
12 Spot of excitement heard in Spooner's rabbit call (5,4) FUNNY BONE Spoonerism from bunny phone
14 Took a dip in water with one holy man (5) SWAMI {SWAM}{1}
17 One bored by author's never ending exchange with independent liberal? (3,4) OIL WELL O(-r+i+l)ILWELL
19 Dull about small break ending on Wednesday, say (7) MIDWEEK {DIM<=}{WEE}{b..aK}
21 Prison cells smelt bad, from second shift to the last (5) TANKS (-s)TANK(+s)S
23 Say, fair maiden by players had no hit wickets taken (4-5) SNOW-WHITE {NO}{HIT} in {S}{E} over {WW}
25 Multiply the inverse of 22? (7) ENLARGE [DD]
27 Former scheme to preserve dairy (essentially milk) (7) EXPLOIT {EX}{PLO{daIry}T}
30 After mass exodus, more volunteering transformed agricultural movement (5,10) GREEN REVOLUTION {mORE+VOLUNTEERING}*

DOWN
1   Notes swapped by dynasty for tusk (4) FANG (-mi+fa)FANG
2   Resist under hand lobs to bowl over (4) STUN [T]
3   Like to break up and swallow close to 1000 bits (8) KILOBYTE {LIKE+TO}* over {BY}
4   Live wire act got several people turning up (6) DYNAMO {D{MANY<=}O}
5   What light travellers can be seen reducing? (4,4) FULL BEAM [CD]
6   Moles burrow in cold seasons (6) SPICES {SPI{C}ES}
7   Article about denial did not take too long (4) ANON {AN}{NO<=} (Addendum - {A{NO}N} - See comments)
8   Man, perhaps from hell, essentially recalled afterlives (4) ISLE {IS}{hELl<=}
12 Defy parade after a Nationalist is killed for nothing (5) FLOUT {FLAUNT-a-n+o} There is a U in between the deletion letters
13 Stocking material in new building only (5) NYLON {N}{ONLY*}
15 Comprehensive guide on being raised by one ethnic tribe (5) AZERI {A-Z}{RE<=}{1}
16 Think legends camouflage yarn (5) INKLE [T]
18 Unusually silent engineer is pulled up, one hears (8) LISTENER {SILENT*}{RE<=}
20 Now, power outage in severe flood (8) DOWNPOUR {NOW+P}* in {DOUR}
22 She advices anxious patients to lose weight? (6) SHRINK [DD]
24 Spotted animal duck in front of Church's parking area (6) OCELOT {0}{CE}{LOT}
25 Border's advantage (4) EDGE [DD]
26 Went ahead with Indian import that's fabricated (4) LIED {L{I}ED}
28 Drop homeless man at one time? (4) OMIT {0}{M}{1}{T} (Addendum - {hOMe}{I}{T} - See comments)
29 Sound character (4) TONE [CD] [DD] See domments

GRID

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30 comments:

  1. VMA Nair8 April 2019 at 08:38

    {A(no)N}
    -h(OM)e I T

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    1. Deepak Gopinath8 April 2019 at 08:42

      Tanks Ajeesh

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao8 April 2019 at 08:43

      +1
      However, Col's anno on ANON is also possible if about is taken as reversal indicator

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    3. Sowmya8 April 2019 at 12:15

      +1 - Ajeesh's Annos are in line with what I had intended.

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  2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao8 April 2019 at 08:40

    9ac The idiom is "Have ants in your pants"

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  3. Padmanabhan8 April 2019 at 08:47

    adding to 9A-
    Soldiers- Ants
    Civilian clothing- pants

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    1. VMA Nair8 April 2019 at 08:52

      I think Hypatia didn't mean Col. So civilian clothing= Our pants or for her your pants :)

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    2. sree_sree8 April 2019 at 09:07

      Civilian: a person who is not a member of a particular profession or group, as viewed by a member of that group

      So for a setter, the solver becomes you.

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  4. sree_sree8 April 2019 at 08:59

    3d is the ennu part of def? Otherwise kilobyte is 8000 bits!

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    1. Deepak Gopinath8 April 2019 at 09:07

      I suppose Hypatia meant to write bytes which got auto-corrected to bits!!

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    2. Sowmya8 April 2019 at 12:24

      I did put in bits, rather than bytes which would have been the correct definition. It is more like 8,192 bits than 1000. The Enum is certainly not intended to part of the definition:) Sorry for the error.

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    3. sree_sree8 April 2019 at 12:41

      The ICE standard : kilo bytes is 8000 bits. Lot of confusion by windows or MS convention to equate kilo with 2^10.

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  5. Padmanabhan8 April 2019 at 09:04

    No.
    'Close to' is By as indicated by Col. It is swallowed by (like to)*

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    1. Deepak Gopinath8 April 2019 at 09:07

      Prasad is referring to the definition of Kilobyte

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    2. Padmanabhan8 April 2019 at 09:49

      Kilobit also seems to be right as per wiki-
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit

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    3. sree_sree8 April 2019 at 10:34

      The anno is for kilobyte and not kilobit!

      Delete
  6. vdsprasad49@gmail.com8 April 2019 at 10:54

    10A. Gondola. Is it not an anagram of GO, LA, N, DO?

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  7. Padmanabhan8 April 2019 at 11:40

    It is not jumbled as in an anagram and there is no anind.
    'held' is a containment indicator for holding DO(party) between GO N(avy) & LA (the French)

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    1. Sowmya8 April 2019 at 12:25

      Thanks Paddy. Almost - N(avy) Do, between GO and LA, is the intended Anno.

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  8. Vasant8 April 2019 at 11:59

    This was challenging and most enjoyable. Did this on my cell phone sitting in a meeting:-). So lot of biffing. Came here to verify many annos. Thanks Hypatia.

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    1. Sowmya8 April 2019 at 12:27

      Thanks for your feedback Vasant Gkad you enjoyed it. Hadn't intended it to be harder but nice to know that you got all the answers.

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  9. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 April 2019 at 12:45

    29D : I think it is DD. Sound=Tone=Character.

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    1. Sowmya8 April 2019 at 12:53

      Absolutely what I intended MB:) Just a regular DD not a CD.

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  10. Mukundala Balasubramanyam8 April 2019 at 12:58

    20D : Definition needs a small correction Sir.

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  11. Srivathsan8 April 2019 at 16:03

    Loved the surface story in 14A and the construction for DYNAMO in 4D.

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    1. Sowmya8 April 2019 at 23:08

      Thanks for your feedback Srivathsan. Happy to know which ones you liked:)

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  12. Sowmya8 April 2019 at 23:09

    Thanks for the blog Colonel and to all the solvers who took time to leave your feedback.

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  13. Amita Baviskar9 April 2019 at 00:41

    I enjoyed this!

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