Sunday 14 April 2019

Special, Sunday 14 Apr 2019, K Koteswar Rao


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



ACROSS
8   Fruit slaughter but not about right! (6)
9   Withstood war of devolution? No, no! (8)
10 Cool talcum powder line of business (8)
11 Sudden power of politician surrounded by corruption (6)
12 Promotion in daily spread (6)
13 16DN is at sea and fit for navigation (8)
15 Family name goes up due to motion (7)
17 End-to-end Walt Disney creation (7)
20 American state American shade American act (8)
22 We sit to-do nothing knowing (4,2)
23 Password that works like magic oil! (6)
25 Encountered a pro reportedly in figure of speech (8)
26 Broad-based Tom is a heavy drinker, burning out coal (8)
27 Setter put forward with half of them in the same book (6)

DOWN
1   Take away someone by force to China. (8)
2   Drug zone or otherwise the very beginning? (6,4)
3   A secretive person’s head sacrificed for unknown surgical instrument (6)
4   Sacred remains for spiritual protection? (4,3)
5   Clean sweep. It’s one thing at a time (8)
6   See you later in Chicago frequently (4)
7   This partner may not see eye to eye (3,3)
14 Germ-free insect decapitated on time in long story (10)
16 She is a young woman reportedly, American (8)
18 Fool and scoundrel without heart of sum and substance (8)
19 Mantra in reach is more than necessary (3,4)
21 Old and new? Yes. Disconnected! (3-3)
22 Badly hit in success, not over (6)
24 Long private seal of authority without limits (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at KKR 21

Enjoy.

68 comments:

  1. 19d TO OM UCH
    6d C I A O
    2D GROUND ZERO*

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  2. 1D SHANGHAI DD
    2D GROUND ZERO (DRUG ZONE OR)*
    12A CH(AD)AR

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  3. Making up for 2D
    15A KIN +ETIC<

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  4. Well done Ram and Vasant! That was very fast

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  5. 2D: GROUND ZERO (DRUG+ZONE+OR)* = THE VERY BEGINNING
    5D: STEPWISE (SWEEP+ITS)* = ONE THING AT A TIME
    22D: WITHIN (WI(HIT)N) = NOT OVER

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  6. REPLACEMENT FOR 2D
    METAPHOR (MET)(A)(FOR~) = a figure of speech

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  7. 25A- Metaphor- Figure of speech
    (MET)A (PHOR). 'Pro reportedly giving 'Phor'?
    22D- Within-Not over
    W(ith)*in
    14D- Antiseptic- Germ free

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  8. 11A Sudden power of politician surrounded by corruption (6) P + RO(MP)T
    14D Germ-free insect decapitated on time in long story (10) (m)ANTIS + EP(T)IC
    24D Long private seal of authority without limits (4) (c)ACHE(t)

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  9. Sorry. Anno for 14D-
    (ANT(IS)EP(T)IC
    Ant- insect
    Time in long story- EP(T)IC
    IS from? Did I miss something?

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    1. Oh! I took the easy way out- ant for mantis. My mistake. sorry.

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    2. Cheer up, Paddy! You can start afresh, I think, with the repeats.

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  10. 23 across; SESAME -- password= open sesame! also refers to sesame oil

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  11. 27 across: IBIDEM= Setter= I+ Put forward= BID = half of them= EM = in the same

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  12. 16 down: ISABELLE== Female name IS A BELLE= american lass

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  13. She is a young woman reportedly, American (8)
    Isabella-She
    Is A to be put as it as add Bell a homophone of Belle( a young woman) add A (American)
    13A 16DN is at sea and fit for navigation (8)
    Sailable (fit for navigation)
    Anagram of Isabella(16D)
    9A Withstood war of devolution? No, no! (8)
    Outlived(Withstood)
    Anagram of Devolution without N(No, No)

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    1. 9a- Typo-I think it should be without 'No'.(No no)

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    2. KKR In KRACKLING heat- while cluing 10 across. I loved the annotation !

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  14. Replacement-
    7D- Pen pal- CD. They do not see eye to eye- read,meet.
    Good one.

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  15. My third

    17A : DESTINY {-Wal(T)} i.e T in {Disney*}

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  16. 4D- Holy ash- Sacred remains
    Gives spiritual protection.

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  17. 26A CATHOLIC cat+(-alco)* holic

    10A IN+DUST+RY

    18D NIT+ROG(-u)E+N

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  18. KKR in Kracking summer heat mood! I loved the annotation of 10 across

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  19. Remaining clues:
    ACROSS 8 AND 22
    DOWN 3 AND 21

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  20. Dr Nabar: Youmust be certainly familiar with 3 down ? well clued, KKR gaaru !

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  21. Super grid KKR! My COD is 18Dn NITROGEN.
    Clever use of 'and' for N as in Rock-n-Roll.

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  22. 8a cherry slaughter: butchery -but about R
    3d XYSTER X(-o)yster
    22A wise to (we sit)*O

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  23. Raju, can you take the remaining Down 21?

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    1. sorry ! I finished the grid and went away. 21 down is indeed ONE WAY--- OLD=O +NEW +AY for yes ?

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  24. 21D One way o=old,New=new,Ay=yes

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  25. Thank you KKR.
    21D- I have a little doubt, but I will still take it.
    One way.
    O NEW Y(ES). A from 'and'?
    Happy Tamil New Year's Day to everyone. I seem to be in a minority in this!
    We call it Vihari year.

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    1. Puthandu greetings Paddy!
      It is VIKARI in Telugu-speaking states. I think you made a type?

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    2. In Tamil 'ka' is sometimes pronounces as 'ha'. It is written with the Tamil alphabet 'ka'.

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    3. Yes, Paddy. I remember that. But it is mentioned as விகாரி in google.

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    4. Happy New Year Paddy and all Tamilians!

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  26. 6D......C I A O FROM......CHICAGO. MR.KKR. FANTASTIC PUZZLE. HAVE A NICE DAY. I AM IN UTTARAKHAND FOR HOLY TRIP.

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  27. Manu's anno clears my doubt.Yes is Aye as well as Ay?

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  28. Thank you KKR for some nice clues. Had a good time.

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

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  30. Puthandu greetings to all Tamil-speaking friends!

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  31. Just reached Coimbatore from Masinagudi.

    Thanks for the special KKR.

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