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Sunday, 21 April 2019

Special, Sunday 21 Apr 2019, The Zodiac


As this is a 13x13, only TWO answers per commenter are permitted till 6 PM  (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide both your answers in one comment.


ACROSS
7   Dress of eskimo? Not! (6)
8   Notices a woman go back and forth (6)
9   Not without additional luck (4)
10 Screen teachers from one end to the other (8)
11 Fix current pattern (7)
13 Found in chest, or some trunk (5)
15 Online post: "Dwarf put inside bars" (5)
17 Perhaps Vladimir Lisin managed to take over most of revolutionary business (7)
20 Therefore, American boss fires one assistant cook (4-4)
21 Food sent back to the city (4)
22 Property of English government (6)
23 The French rave about butterflies, in the future (6)

DOWN
1   Soldier's tendency to surrender (4,2)
2   Timeless New Stone Ages (4)
3   Plant bed badly spoilt without oxygen (7)
4   Old kings were stars perhaps (5)
5   They get what's left? (8)
6   Harry, please spend some pounds and get square frames (6)
12 Rebellious hero immediately gets a way to control Resistance (8)
14 Animal enthusiast chased by a lion, oddly (7)
16 Sound of gushing water in rundown hotel? How so? (6)
18 Design Armani for a pilot (6)
19 One kidnapped by the female dacoit (5)
21 Gloomy, upset poet (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at THE ZODIAC 2

Enjoy.

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43 comments:

  1. Ramani21 April 2019 at 10:32

    19d THE (I) F
    18D AIRMAN*

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  2. P. Venkatesan21 April 2019 at 10:33

    13a: TORSO (T)
    22A: ESTATE (E)(STATE)

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  3. Vasant21 April 2019 at 10:36

    2D EONS {S(-t)ONE}*
    13A TORSO T

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  4. raju umamaheswar21 April 2019 at 10:38

    4 down: STARS-- anagram of stars-- Tsar a Russian king

    2 down:: EONS-- ages - eras- anagram from s(-T)one

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  5. Vasant21 April 2019 at 10:40

    Making up for 13 A
    20A (SO)(US){CH(-i)EF)

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  6. Padmanabhan21 April 2019 at 10:54

    8A- Seesaw- To go back and forth
    (SEES) A W. (W from woman)

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  7. Padmanabhan21 April 2019 at 10:57

    21A-Burg- Food- GRUB=<

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  8. Padmanabhan21 April 2019 at 10:59

    My third-
    21D- Bard- Poet- Gloomy upset (Drab=<)

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    1. sree_sree21 April 2019 at 11:22

      made the same mistake. only two.

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    2. Padmanabhan21 April 2019 at 11:43

      Oh!Oh!
      Apologies. One tends to assume the normal without reading.

      Delete
  9. Srinidhi21 April 2019 at 11:04

    10A Screen teachers from one end to the other (8)
    Strainer-Screen
    Trainers are teachers; shift T(One end of the word) from 1st to last.
    14D Animal enthusiast chased by a lion, oddly (7)
    Buffalo-Animal
    Buff-enthusiast
    a-a
    Lo-odd letters of LiOn

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    1. Srinidhi21 April 2019 at 11:06

      10A Rather shift S from last position to 1st

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  10. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 April 2019 at 11:09

    23A : LARVAE {LA}{RAVE*}
    3Dn : TOPSOIL O in Spoilt*

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  11. Srinidhi21 April 2019 at 11:13

    There is a message here:" Get The wrong End Of The Stick"
    Hope I have not jumped the gun and answered out of turn

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    1. Padmanabhan21 April 2019 at 12:24

      Nice what you have spotted. No mention of not exposing before all answers are in.
      Anyway, it helped me fixing up a few endings and clear my doubts. Thank you.
      Any chance Col. himself did not notice it?

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    2. Kumaresh K R21 April 2019 at 14:52

      Good job, Srinidhi :)
      Yeah I was hoping someone would spot the nina, but I think in SUnday special usually the nina isn't revealed in comments until all clues are solved.

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  12. Nadathur Rajan21 April 2019 at 11:32

    DOWN
    18 AIRMAN (ARMANI*)
    21 BARD <=

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  13. Kolluru Koteswara Rao21 April 2019 at 12:26

    7AC KIMONO T

    17AC R[(-e)USSI<=]AN

    16DN W HOOSH*

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  14. Ramani21 April 2019 at 12:30

    KKR You are the third person who has taken THREE in the place of TWO

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    1. Kolluru Koteswara Rao21 April 2019 at 12:38

      Oh, I am sorry!
      In fact, I was robotic when I came late and started hurriedly downloading the Acrosslite version. I didn't even notice that it is a 13X13 grid!
      Apologies Col and friends!

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  15. Padmanabhan21 April 2019 at 12:48

    I was the 2nd and you are the 3rd to enter 3 answers- take a look at Col.'s instructions!
    We tend to assume things.

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  16. Padmanabhan21 April 2019 at 12:51

    Whoosh!
    Let the 3rd answer be hidden.
    BTW- Is whoosh the sound of running water? Sounds more like a magician's catch phrase.

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  17. Padmanabhan21 April 2019 at 12:52

    Oh! I think 'Gushing water' gives W and just sound is the def.

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    1. Vasant21 April 2019 at 13:12

      Sound of gushing water is the definition
      WP is (H+HOW+SO)*; H from hotel

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    2. Padmanabhan21 April 2019 at 15:47

      Not happy about Whoosh as the sound of gushing water.

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    3. Kumaresh K R21 April 2019 at 18:14

      Yeah that was an iffy clue but no other word fit with those crossing letters and the nina

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  18. Murali21 April 2019 at 14:50

    6D Harry, please spend some pounds and get square frames: EASELS
    p(LEASE)*S

    12 Rebellious hero immediately gets a way to control Resistance:
    RHEOSTAT (HERO+A+ST+T)*

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    1. Kumaresh K R21 April 2019 at 15:00

      Anno for rheostat isn't right

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    2. Murali21 April 2019 at 15:23

      May not be what compiler intended. Took (hero a) (St)=street=way and (t) from to;Rebellious as anagram indicator; Control resistance as definition

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    3. Nadathur Rajan21 April 2019 at 15:50

      HERO* + STAT (immediately) = (rheo*)(stat)
      Definition: a way to control resistance

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  19. Deepak Gopinath21 April 2019 at 15:25

    1D - GIVE IN {GI}{VEIN}
    5D - HERITORS [CD]

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  20. Deepak Gopinath21 April 2019 at 15:26

    Yet to be solved

    Across - 9, 11, 15
    Correct annotation for 12D

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  21. amrita majumdar21 April 2019 at 16:53

    15 A - T WEE T

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  22. Kumaresh K R21 April 2019 at 17:19

    Only 9 and 11 AC remaining

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  23. Vasant21 April 2019 at 18:00

    9A (-ex)CESS
    11A (IN)(GRAIN)

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  24. Padmanabhan21 April 2019 at 18:01

    It's 6 pm-
    Ingrain- Fix- (IN)(GRAIN)

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  25. Kumaresh K R21 April 2019 at 18:13

    Yup, all done!
    Please give whatever feedback you have on the grid.

    Also it's a good thing Colonel posted this today... a grid with an Easter egg on Easter :P

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  26. Vasant21 April 2019 at 18:16

    Lovely Grid!Short and sweet with a Nina to boot!

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  27. Deepak Gopinath21 April 2019 at 18:31

    Thanks for the special Kumaresh.

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