Sunday 28 April 2019

Special, Sunday 28 Apr 2019, K Koteswar Rao


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


ACROSS
7   Half the street is free from fog (6)
8   Number of spots in butterfish (4-4)
9   48? No, Henry is in confusion! Drop the subject (6,2)
10 Irritable, bad-tempered and so on in your old practice (6)
11 Wait until dark (5)
12 Expression of acceptance. Amen!(6)
14 It’s very stupid to think salsa, a pack dance (2,5,2,1,5)
17 Dismiss final championship games endlessly (3-3)
18 A counterfeit rejected by wet-nurses (5)
22 Custodian’s wife left for good to a pleasant spot (6) 
23 Bone container stops vessel for minute recording of a death (8)
24 Many, many, many – He has many tongues with him (8) 
25 Blueprint of authentically Asian Group name (6)

DOWN
1   Support group recalled in exact powerless spot (9)
2   Antelope has nothing to add to short way of walking (6)
3   Express surprise without hands (5)
4   Topless hat takes the detested person (8)
5   Support rests entirely on the wagon (8)
6   Engineering colleges brainwash heartlessly on Sunday (5)
8   Interior exterior – It was in power in 1989? (8,5)
13 Duty imposed on article of silver embedded in piece of work (9)
15  Laid off in flatboats and leaves (8)
16 Admit defeat and burst into tears before pawnbroker (3,5)
19 Dessert spoon first taken in second help (6)
20 Disturbance to have a stock to stake out (5)
21 Language prominently spoken from British-India days (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at KKR 22

Enjoy.

51 comments:

  1. 14A As THICK AS A PLANK (Think Salsa A Pack)*
    15D HO(LIDA)*YS
    16D CRY UNCLE

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  2. 21d SH IND (T)
    4D (-P) ANA {THE} MA
    3D STA(-R)T(L)E

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    1. KKR,
      I think it should be Sindh and that is what you meant,but T gives SHIND.
      Or, 'spoken'takes care of that? Yes.

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    2. Pl see Nagendra Prasad's post @ 10:54 am

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  3. 25 across; POLYGLOT-- person who can speak in many languages Cryptic

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  4. 5 down: TEETOTAL-- support= tee(golf) entirely= total= means on the wagon

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  5. 24A: POLYGLOT from (POLY)(G)(LOT)
    2D : NILGAI from NIL(GAI-T)
    21D: HINDI (T)

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  6. 22a: GARDEN {(-W)+(G)ARDEN}
    3D: STATE {STA(-R)T(-L)E}
    4D: ANATHEMA {(-P)ANA{THE}MA}

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  7. My third

    20D HAVOC {Have a stock - stake}

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  8. My third: 10 across: TETCHY--irritable, bad-tempered-- your=thy (OLD) and so on+ etc

    This brain-teaser may cause tetchiness for many solvers!

    Thanks KKR gaaru

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  9. 8D- National Front
    Exterior- Front
    Interior- Just national? Or is there anything more?
    NF Govt. that was in power in India during 1989

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  10. 1ST REPLACEMENT
    11A: UNLIT (UNTIL)*

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  11. 9A 48? No, Henry is in confusion! Drop the subject (6,2)
    Forget It -Drop the subject
    48 to be written as Forty Eight anagram it(in Confusion), remove Hy(Henry)
    8A Number of spots in butterfish (4-4)
    Nine-Eyes-Butterfish
    Nine is number and eyes is spots
    23A Bone container stops vessel for minute recording of a death (8)
    Obituary-Recording of a death
    Ossuary is bone container
    put Bit(minute) for SS (vessel)

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  12. MY 2ND REPLACEMENT:
    18A: AMAHS {A}{SHAM<--}

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  13. 18A- Ayahs- Wet nurses
    A- A
    Counterfeit- sham Or could it also be shabby?
    Anyway,reversal gives SHAY=<

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  14. 24A- Polyglot- Man of many tongues
    Many- Poly
    Mant- G
    Many- Lot
    How many?!!

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  15. My comment in Sunday CW blog went unnoticed. Hence repeating it here-
    Long since we had one from Doppleganger. Time to remind him.

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    1. He is busy in one place. He is busier in another place. And when once you hurtle away from the springboard, you land elsewhere

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    2. Shall give him a nudge 😆

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  16. Wait until dark (5)

    until - anag fodder OK
    dark - def ok
    Surface is the title of a great film.
    What is the anag ind, if I may ask.

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    1. Wait=hold-up=hitch/difficulty=anagrind

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    2. Far-fetched. Also, anag ind preceding fodder cannot be a noun.

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    3. I agree with you CV Sir!
      I am a bit fancied to write this clue on the movie.

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  17. MY LAST REPLACEMENT:
    13D: ANCHORAGE {AN}{CHOR{AG}E}

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  18. My 3

    25A - DESIGN {DESI}{G}{N}
    6D - TECHS {TE(-s)CH}{S}
    19D - MOUSSE {MO}{US{S}E}

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  19. 7A DEMIST DEMI + ST

    1D RECOGNISE (-p)RECISE around NGO <--


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  20. Is 12A SOBEIT? Amen= So Be It. Not sure.

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    1. Yes Doc, you are right. The def is the expression of acceptance

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    2. Ok. Did not know that! Thanks for the entertainment KKR :)

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  21. That brings it to the end.
    Thanks all for your participation.
    Thanks Col!

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