Monday, 15 April 2019

No 12600, Monday 15 Apr 2019, Gridman


HAPPY VISHU TO ALL VISITORS TO THE BLOG

ACROSS
1   Quiet! Heartily thug pushes twice (4-4) HUSH-HUSH {tHUg}{puSHes}-{tHUg}{puSHes}
5   Preserve by treatment trembling lamb following typical measure (6) EMBALM {EM}{LAMB*}
10 Main, deviant, endless prejudice is from Angola’s neighbour (7) NAMIBIA {MAIN*}{BIAs}
11 Where in France chief of traders deposits productions (7) OUTPUTS {OU}{Tr...s}{PUTS}
12 Kee may emerge in this stretch (3,3) EKE OUT {KEE}* [RA]
13 A triad fallen in a mostly freezing sea (8) ADRIATIC {A}{TRIAD*}{ICy}
15 First of all, please secure entire part of church (4) APSE Acrostic
16 What you may do when leaving disappointed: drive (3,2,3,2) GET UP AND GO [CD]
18 Bowl in a terrible attack (6,4) DEADLY BLOW {BOWL}* [RA]
20 Fans fall back in daze (4) STUN<=
23 Drops Nair? (8) RAINFALL {NAIR}* [RA]
24 Russian man's drink taken back — it creates uproar (6) RUMPUS {RU}{M}{SUP<=} I put in {RED}{RUM}<= at first
26 They may wag in Tamil, Hindi or any other (7) TONGUES [CD]
27 Overhear conversation by one Officer Commanding on a pudding (7) TAPIOCA {TAP}{1}{OC}{A}
28 Insect makes Latin deputy stop short on street (6) LOCUST {LOCUm}{ST}
29 Daily helps forsake one party game (8) CHARADES {CHAR}{AiDES}

DOWN
1   Agnes enthralled unhappy fairy-tale children (6,3,6) HANSEL AND GRETEL*
2   Rises hurriedly as politician enters and smiles affectedly (7) SIMPERS {SI{MP}ERS*}
3   Tumult as top-class boy after boy enters centre (6) HUBBUB {H{U}{B}{B}UB}
4   Large part of small science room (4) SLAB {S}{LAB}
6   Goodness! Most of this unending peace is legendary (8) MYTHICAL {MY}{THIs}{CALm}
7   Touched, sailor said without hesitation (7) ABUTTED {AB}{UTTerED}
8   Ominous cares set to fly away: it's a delight (5,2,4,4) MUSIC TO ONES EARS*
9   Bishop's assistant's judo act — or something crazy (9) COADJUTOR*
14 Ah! Blister is treated with the remedy he offered (9) HERBALIST* &lit
17 2x2, 2x2, 2x2 . . . on which crawlers may be (3,5) ALL FOURS Definition by example
19 All but keen on one centre relating to flight technology (7) AVIONIC {AVId}{ON}{1}{C}
21 Hospital in error over one primarily deadly disease (7) TYPHOID {TYP{H}O}{1}{De...y}
22 Knitted garment for athlete (6) JUMPER [DD]
25 Deeply impress with some pre-set characters (4) ETCH [T]

GRID

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28 comments:

  1. Vasant15 April 2019 at 08:35

    Happy Vishu Col.and all.
    Lovely puzzle.

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  2. sree_sree15 April 2019 at 08:48

    16a isn't this a DD.

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    1. Padmanabhan15 April 2019 at 08:52

      I think so too.

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    2. Kolluru Koteswara Rao15 April 2019 at 09:28

      I didn't feel so. If you have to go, you have to invariably get up. Not necessarily when you are disappointed.
      Informally, get-up-and-go speaks of energy, initiative.
      Gridman might have something else in mind.

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  3. Padmanabhan15 April 2019 at 08:49

    Happy Vishu to everyone.
    You are right KKR. I made a mistake. It IS Vikari in Tamil also.

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  4. Padmanabhan15 April 2019 at 08:51

    8D was music to my ears (eyes?)
    Loved all twos of 17D.
    Bishop's assistant needed looking up and was the last to fall.
    Unusually quite a few RA's?

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  5. RayBright15 April 2019 at 09:04

    I am enjoying learning to solve this. Leaves me amazed at the way the experts crack this. Where can i find the expansion of the abbreviations you us such as RA, CD, DD etc. Thank you. And happy Vishu to all

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    1. Deepak Gopinath15 April 2019 at 09:08

      Look on the left hand side panel of this page under the heading Annotations

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    2. Chaturvasi15 April 2019 at 09:35

      If you are using mobile phone, you must of course go to the Web page version.

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    3. RayBright16 April 2019 at 07:22

      Thank you both for the tip.

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  6. Chaturvasi15 April 2019 at 09:40

    Paddy/KKR
    Let's say two are engaged in striking a deal. Arguments go on. A doesn't ike what B offers. A is disappointed, unhappy. He would GET UP AND GO, without a proper leave taking.
    Drive is in the sense of 'energy' as KKR points out. Get-up-and-go means energy, drive.
    In surface it is verb, as drive away in a car
    As def it is noun

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  7. Padmanabhan15 April 2019 at 10:03

    Thank you CV. That means 'Drive' is the def.

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  8. Avtaar15 April 2019 at 10:20

    Nice and smooth. 9D beat me. 3 RAs. Liked TYPHOID, RAINFALL.

    Question on 18A. Does not the cryptic reading lead to WP in Defintion ? Is

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  9. Chaturvasi15 April 2019 at 11:07

    I am unable to understand the question. But let me analyse a couple of clues and try to see if I get the drift.
    Kee may emerge in this stretch - stretch is def - eke out - RA gets Kee
    Drops Nair - drops is def - rainfall RA is Nair
    18 Bowl in a terrible attack
    terrible attack is def - interpret as deadly blow - Bowl is RA
    It seems same logic applies everywhere.
    Thus I it seems I don't understand the qn. What am I missing?

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    1. sree_sree15 April 2019 at 13:17

      I think the doubt is individually terrible:deadly & attack:blow lead to solution.

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    2. Sreeni15 April 2019 at 14:03

      My doubt was "Deadly blow" is in terrible attack would be how it would translate into. Should it not be Terrible attack is (found) in Deadly blow

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    3. Chaturvasi15 April 2019 at 15:17

      This clue is different from usual RA, I think. Don't know how my mind worked when I wrote the clue.

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    4. Padmanabhan15 April 2019 at 17:27

      Could it be that attack is the def. and deadly is anagram indicator?

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  10. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan15 April 2019 at 12:12

    Happy Vishu to all !

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  11. Amita Baviskar15 April 2019 at 12:20

    Good puzzle!

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  12. raju umamaheswar15 April 2019 at 14:35

    I wish Col & ye-all a very happy Vishnu . God bless with prosperity.

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  13. Mysteryblogger1215 April 2019 at 20:55

    3rd day in a row, i got 100% solutions. May not be a big deal for experts. But I feel great. Thank you gridman. Thank you members of the blog. Happy Vishu. 😂

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